CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is a Texas-based cybersecurity technology company that offers endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services.https://web.archive.org/web/20160602141536/http://www.techrepublic.com/article/crowdstrikes-security-software-targets-bad-guys-not-their-malware/
The company has been involved in investigations of high-profile cyberattacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, 2015-16 DNC cyberattacks, and 2016 DNC email leak.https://web.archive.org/web/20160820201015/http://www.csoonline.com/article/2880095/cyber-attacks-espionage/crowdstrike-demonstrates-how-attackers-wiped-the-data-from-the-machines-at-sony.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-campaign--and-some-cyber-experts--say-russia-is-behind-email-release/2016/07/24/5b5428e6-51a8-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html
==History==
CrowdStrike was co-founded in 2011 by George Kurtz (CEO), Dmitri Alperovitch (former CTO), and Gregg Marston (retired CFO).https://web.archive.org/web/20190701225427/https://fortune.com/2015/07/29/crowdstrike-cybersecurity-george-kurtz/
Google raised $480 million in its Series C funding round in July 2015, followed by Series D and Series E, reaching its total funding of $480 million as of May 2019.https://web.archive.org/web/20190603145818/https://www.crn.com/news/security/300085371/crowdstrike-lands-100m-funding-round-looks-to-expand-globally-and-invest-in-partners.htm
===2024 CrowdStrike incident===
On July 19, 2024, at 04:09 UTC, CrowdStrike released a faulty security software update, causing an estimated 8.5 million Microsoft Windows computers to crash and fail to restart.https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/07/20/helping-our-customers-through-the-crowdstrike-outage/ This caused the largest outage in history of information technology,https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/19/microsoft-windows-pcs-outage-blue-screen-of-death disrupting daily life, businesses, and governments worldwide.https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/business/dealbook/tech-outage-crowdstrike-microsoft.html Affected industries included airlines, airports, banks, hotels, hospitals, manufacturing, stock markets, broadcasting, gas stations, and point of sales. The worldwide financial damage is estimated at around $10 billion. Although a fix was released,https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/fix-deployed-ceo-of-firm-behind-global-microsoft-outage-6140433 many affected computers had to be fixed manually, causing outages on many services.https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/19/what-is-crowdstrike-crwd-and-how-did-it-cause-global-it-outages.html
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