{"id":16011,"date":"2024-09-24T18:37:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/24\/crowdstrike-to-apologize-for-global-it-outage-in-congressional-testimony\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T18:37:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:37:42","slug":"crowdstrike-to-apologize-for-global-it-outage-in-congressional-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/24\/crowdstrike-to-apologize-for-global-it-outage-in-congressional-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"CrowdStrike to apologize for global IT outage in congressional testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faulty update from cybersecurity company ground hospitals, airports and payment systems to halt in July <\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jul\/19\/what-is-crowdstrike-microsoft-windows-outage\">CrowdStrike<\/a> senior executive will apologize for causing a global software outage that ground the operations of hospitals, airports, payment systems and personal computers around the world to a halt in July.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Meyers, senior vice-president for counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, is slated to testify before Congress on Tuesday. Meyers will speak to the House homeland security cybersecurity and infrastructure protection subcommittee. In <a href=\"https:\/\/homeland.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024-09-24-HRG-CIP-Testimony-Meyers.pdf\">testimony<\/a> made available before the hearing, he wrote: \u201cI am here today because, just over two months ago, on July 19, we let our customers down \u2026 On behalf of everyone at CrowdStrike, I want to apologize.\u201d He will say the company has undertaken \u201ca full review of our systems\u201d to prevent the cascade of errors from occurring again.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/sep\/24\/crowdstrike-outage-microsoft-apology\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cc45811e6da2a4a0fa24de4425825e9d3de7f085\/0_42_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8d708cb657a09ce2897204a75a39d7fe\" title=\"CrowdStrike to apologize for global IT outage in congressional testimony\" \/>Faulty update from cybersecurity company ground hospitals, airports and payment systems to halt in July<br \/>\nA CrowdStrike senior executive will apologize for causing a global software outage that ground the operations of hospitals, airports, payment systems and personal computers around the world to a halt in July.<br \/>\nAdam Meyers, senior vice-president for counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, is slated to testify before Congress on Tuesday. Meyers will speak to the House homeland security cybersecurity and infrastructure protection subcommittee. In testimony made available before the hearing, he wrote: \u201cI am here today because, just over two months ago, on July 19, we let our customers down \u2026 On behalf of everyone at CrowdStrike, I want to apologize.\u201d He will say the company has undertaken \u201ca full review of our systems\u201d to prevent the cascade of errors from occurring again. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faulty update from cybersecurity company ground hospitals, airports and payment systems to halt in July A CrowdStrike senior executive will apologize for causing a global software outage that ground the operations of hospitals, airports, payment systems and personal computers around the world to a halt in July. Adam Meyers, senior vice-president for counter adversary operations &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/24\/crowdstrike-to-apologize-for-global-it-outage-in-congressional-testimony\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CrowdStrike to apologize for global IT outage in congressional testimony<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16011"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}