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Adam Meyers, senior vice president for counter adversary
operations at CrowdStrike, will testify before the House
Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection
subcommittee, the panel said Friday.
"Considering the significant impact CrowdStrike’s faulty
software update had on Americans and critical sectors of the
economy -- from aviation to medical services -- we must restore
confidence in the IT that underpins the services Americans
depend on daily,” said Representative Mark Green, who chairs the
Homeland Security committee.
The committee had sent a letter in July to CrowdStrike CEO
George Kurtz asking him to testify on last week's global tech
outage. CrowdStrike did not immediately comment Friday.
The July 19 incident led to worldwide flight cancellations and
impacted industries around the globe including banks, health
care, media companies and hotels chains. The outage disrupted
internet services, affecting 8.5 million Microsoft Windows
devices.
Delta Air Lines has vowed to take legal action after it said the
outage forced it to cancel 7,000 flights impacting 1.3 million
passengers over five days and cost it $500 million. CrowdStrike
has rejected Delta's contention it should be blamed for massive
flight disruptions.
Earlier this week, CrowdStrike cut its revenue and profit
forecasts in the aftermath of the faulty software update, and
said the environment would remain challenging for about a year.
CrowdStrike disclosed this week it has received inquiries from
governmental authorities about the incident.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; editing by Aurora Ellis)
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