CrowdStrike CEO on global outage: Goal now is to make sure every customer is back up and running

In 2010 McAffe caused a global IT meltdown due to a faulty update. CTO at this time was George Kurtz.

I work IT for a large software dev operation in Australia... PCs started to blue screen at around 3pm... by 4pm every single PC was down in every office in Australia... within 1 hour our team determined it was crowdstrike. Although still silence from Crowdstrike... our 5 man team war roomed and found and tested the fix... rolled out the fix to every 500+ Windows PC, window servers and virtual windows machine... the worst part was fix could not be applied remotely as all workstations was bricked... we had to 1 PC at a time physically in person to apply the our fix... while ours phones was going nuts with people going nuts cuz they can't work... i walked out of office at 12am... no food no breaks as a broken IT Support.... thanks to crowdstrike...

Watershed moment for this CEO- how he handles this is huge for his career

I don't understand how all companies are pushing the updates to all systems without proper validation. No matter how reputed a company is there will always be some bad actor in the team. This is a total disaster

Crowdstrike's CEO is now the World economic Forum's poster child for digital currency.

This is what happens when you cut corners on hiring good programmers and you constantly chase them to rush their code.

Omg, Crowdstrike really pooped in everyone's pants this morning.

Great. Just lovely. A cybersecurity company that can’t debug its own files. Good job boys. Your stock bonus is on the way.

CrowdStrike Holdings' CEO is George Kurtz, appointed in Nov 2011, has a tenure of 12.67 years. total yearly compensation is $46.98M, comprised of 2% salary and 98% bonuses, including company stock and options. directly owns 3.25% of the company's shares, worth $3.06B.

The CTO of McAfee during the infamous 2010 update fiasco was George Kurtz. If there’s one thing he’s good at, it’s making his mistakes twice!

Today you are previewing how easily your freedom can be controlled.

Lawsuits coming...

Centralization for IT is DUMB

"This was not a code update. This was actually an update of content. And what that means is there is a single file that drives some additional logic on how we look for bad actors. And this logic was pushed out and caused an issue only on the Microsoft environment." So... it was a code update.

This guy thinks rebooting is "automation" lol. Goodluck figuring out how to automate a system that you bricked and doesnt have access to the internet to receive updates. Thousands of sysadmins and IT teams are having to boot their Windows machines in safemode and manually deleting a file. Furthermore IT has to be there IN PERSON to every machine in the organization affected by this to fix them. There is no automation here. He is lying to you.

Not many CEOs would go on air for live interview at at time like this . Most would just put out a statement screened by legal

How are customers supposed to load the patch to fix if they can’t get online 😂😂😂😂😂

I’m now retired, however, based on my 46 years of experience in IT systems and organizations, this is an inexcusable Change Management failure inside Crowdstrike, a 3rd party review and a complete overhaul of Crowdstrike’s internal processes are likely to be needed.

Very light on facts. Doesn’t explain why and how the catastrophic event happened.

I bet who ever shorted the stock also shorted djt 😂