The IT Nerd

When the CrowdStrike snafu happened on Friday, I said this:

I’ll be watching this situation and posting updates when it warrants an update. But this situation is bad and likely won’t improve for a while. And when this is resolved, CrowdStrike will have a whole lot of explaining to do.

And later that day, I said this:

I wish every help desk globally well in dealing with this as this is going to be days if not a week or two of remediation. I also hope that CrowdStrike gets hauled in front of the relevant authorities globally to explain why this happened, and why corporate users should trust them again.

Well, it looks like I will get my wish based on this:

Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) and Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) sent a letter to CrowdStrike Chief Executive Officer George Kurtz, requesting his public testimony before the Committee regarding the global information technology (IT) outage that occurred last Friday. The outage was attributed to a “defect” in a CrowdStrike software update. The cascading effects impacted key functions of the global economy including aviation, healthcare, banking, media, and emergency services. 

It will be interesting to see if he actually show’s up, and what he says if he does. This company pretty much executed the most successful cyberattack in the history of the planet….. By accident. So I am not surprised that Congress wants to ask some questions about this. And what he’s going to ensure that this won’t happen again.

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