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CrowdStrike is set to appear before the US Congress to testify on the global IT outage that occurred as a result of a bad company software update.
The company’s senior vice president for counter adversary operations, Adam Meyers, will appear in Congress on 24 September to testify in front of the House Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection subcommittee.
“Considering the significant impact CrowdStrike’s faulty software update had on Americans and critical sectors of the economy – from aviation to medical services – we must restore confidence in the IT that underpins the services Americans depend on daily,” said subcommittee chairman Mark E. Green in a media release.
“The recent incident reinforces how growing reliance on interconnected IT systems has expanded the risk surface. While we can be thankful that this wasn’t a cyber attack, this incident demonstrates the urgency of promoting cyber hygiene and resiliency amid increased threats.”
The subcommittee had previously invited CrowdStrike’s CEO George Kurtz to testify on the incident through a letter in July.
“I look forward to hearing testimony from CrowdStrike’s senior vice president of counter-adversary operations. This hearing will be an important opportunity to learn more about what steps the company has taken in the aftermath of the outage to ensure it doesn’t happen again,” said subcommittee chairman Andrew Garbarino.
The 19 July global IT outage was the result of a faulty software update that CrowdStrike issued, resulting in outages on Microsoft systems and devices across the globe.
The issue stunted the operations of many industries, including healthcare, critical infrastructure, banks, government services and airlines, many of which were forced to issue paper boarding passes, if not grounding flights altogether.
While a fix was issued within hours, the issues continued to affect organisations for much longer, as devices needed to be repaired manually.
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