American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is believed to be the likely culprit behind the global technical outage that affected Microsoft computers around the world on Friday.
Details of the incident:
These holidays have had a wide impact on many companies, government agencies, banks, universities and universities, airports around the world, where many computers have tried to reboot and a wrong message has appeared on a blue screen.
What is CrowdStrike?
CrowdStrike is an American cybersecurity company that helps companies manage their security in “IT environments,” which includes everything accessed over an Internet connection.
Its primary mission is to protect companies and prevent data breaches, ransomware and other cyber attacks.
CrowdStrike Products
One of the company’s main products is CrowdStrike Falcon, which is described on the company’s website as providing « real-time attack indicators, highly accurate detection, and automated protection » from potential cyber threats, and is one of the most used programs by thousands of companies around the world to protect data. It is believed that the “Falcon” server crash on Friday is the reason behind this global malfunction in Microsoft products.
Product update
Earlier this week, the American cybersecurity company announced an update to its “Falcon” product, stating that it would provide “unprecedented speed and accuracy” in detecting security breaches. In a statement published on its website after the incident, a company spokesperson said that the problem may have been caused by… About the product « Falcon ».
Who owns CrowdStrike?
The company was founded in 2012 by George Kurtz, a former McAfee employee. The company’s ownership structure is distributed between individual and institutional investors, and the largest share is owned by the American Investment Fund,The Vanguard Group » .
