CrowdStrike exec will testify to Congress about July’s international IT meltdown

Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s senior vice chairman of counter adversary operations, has agreed to look earlier than the panel on September twenty fourth at 2PM ET, the committee introduced. Committee leaders had beforehand known as on CEO George Kurtz to testify, however he’s not at present listed as a witness.

In an announcement, Committee Chair Mark Inexperienced (R-TN) mentioned that whereas he’d hoped Kurtz may attend, “I stay up for listening to testimony from Mr. Meyers, who CrowdStrike assured was the suitable witness to debate the main points of the outage. Individuals should know intimately how this incident occurred and the mitigation CrowdStrike is taking to keep away from the cascading impacts of outages like this throughout sectors.”

Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), who chairs the subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety, mentioned in an announcement that the listening to can be “an necessary alternative to be taught extra about what steps the corporate has taken within the aftermath of the outage to make sure it doesn’t occur once more.” Although the outage wasn’t the results of a cyberattack, Garbarino mentioned adversaries possible watched the occasion and “discovered how a defective software program replace can set off cascading results on our important infrastructure.”