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CrowdStrike executive to apologize for global IT outage [Video]

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WASHINGTON –

A senior executive at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike will apologize at an appearance before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Tuesday for the company’s faulty software update that caused a global IT outage in July.

Adam Meyers, senior vice president for counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, will tell the House Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection subcommittee that CrowdStrike released a content configuration update for its Falcon Sensor security software that resulted in system crashes worldwide.

“We are deeply sorry this happened and are determined to prevent it from happening again,” Meyers’ testimony says. “We have undertaken a full review of our systems and begun implementing plans to bolster our content update procedures so that we emerge from this experience as a stronger company.”

The July 19 incident led to worldwide flight cancellations and impacted …

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