What is CrowdStrike, the business linked to today’s outage? [Video]

“Today was not a security or cyber incident,” said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of the CrowdStrike, in a Friday X post. He was referring to a widespread outage that began Thursday night.

This outage impacted Microsoft 365 users and caused all sorts of havoc – from grounding planes to preventing major TV stations from operating and more. Many people with office jobs likely had at least one service acting wonky Friday due to it.

In fact, CNBC said it was the “largest IT outage in history.”

What does CrowdStrike have to do with all this? Well, even though the outage impacted Microsoft features, its cause actually stems from a CrowdStrike update.

What is CrowdStrike?

According to its website, the company is the “world’s most advanced cloud-native platform that protects and enables the people, processes and technologies that drive modern enterprise.”

It was founded in 2012 with $26 million in funding by Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch and Gregg Marston. At …