What is CrowdStrike, the company linked to the global outage?

What is CrowdStrike, the platform at the centre of the global system outage?

Here's what we know about CrowdStrike, the company at the centre of an outage that brought airports, banks and stores to a standstill.

What is CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity giant behind the global IT outage?

The company is known for building software defences for the cloud computing age and exposing Russian and North Korean threats.

CrowdStrike: cybersecurity giant behind global outage

WASHINGTON: CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company behind a massive global IT outage, is the leader in its sector, known for building software defenses for the cloud computing age and exposing Russian and North Korean threats. Based in Austin, Texas, the company was founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch and Gregg Marston. Both Kurtz and Alperovitch had extensive backgrounds in cybersecurity, working at companies like McAfee. Two…

What can we take away from the crippling Crowdstrike IT outage?

Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike said Friday morning’s failure was the result of a routine update gone wrong.

What is CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company behind the global Microsoft outages?

The outages Friday were connected to "a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts," CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said in a statement​​.

The CrowdStrike outage is a plot point in a rom-com

There’s a man in Florida right now who wants to propose to his girlfriend while they’re on a beach vacation. He couldn’t get the engagement ring before he