THE PRACTITIONER'S COMPANION
Thursday 10 October 2024

Jacob Shteyman

Jul 23, 2024

IT outage compensation talk inevitable: CrowdStrike

The Australian president of CrowdStrike has apologised for the cybersecurity company's role in causing an outage that crippled global IT systems. Friday's outage, which hit an estimated 8.5 million Windows devices worldwide, was caused by a logic flaw in a software update sent by cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike to its customers, the company's Australian president Michael Sentonas told Sky News.