CrowdStrike executive to share lessons learned from major July outage, emerging threats to resiliency

Adam Meyers, senior vice president for counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, will outline at a House hearing today the impacts of a configuration update to its Falcon platform that led to a global software outage in July and lessons learned from the incident.

The July 19 incident was the result of “a content configuration update for the Windows sensor that resulted in system crashes for many of our customers,” Meyers will say according to his written testimony posted ahead...