On Friday, the cybersecurity firm experienced a major disruption following an issue with a software update.
CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity vendor that develops software to help companies detect and block hacks.
In the case of Friday's outage, machines running Microsoft's Windows operating system crashed due to a fault in the way a software update issued by CrowdStrike interacted with Windows.
We approximate impact started around 19:00 UTC on the 18th of July," Microsoft said in an update at 5:40 a.m.
Unless Microsoft and CrowdStrike (if they are involved) pull something miraculous out of the bag, this could be painful to recover from."
Persons:
George Kurtz, Patrick T, CrowdStrike, —, Kurtz, Andy Grayland, They'd
Organizations:
CrowdStrike Inc, Montgomery Summit, Fallon, Bloomberg, Getty, TV, CNBC, Fortune, Windows, Machines, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Linux
Locations:
Santa Monica , California, Texas, U.S