Adam Meyers, senior vice president of counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, is scheduled to appear at the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection meeting Sept. 24. The company sent out a faulty update in July that prevented millions of computers running on Microsoft Windows — including at many hospitals and health systems — from starting up.
“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,” subcommittee chair Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., said in an Aug. 30 statement. “The recent incident reinforces how growing reliance on interconnected IT systems has expanded the risk surface.”
The outage, which was largely corrected over the course of a weekend, led some health systems to delay elective surgeries and not open outpatient offices.
“We continue to actively and collaboratively work with relevant Congressional committees,” a CrowdStrike spokesperson told Bloomberg.
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