The committee is asking George Kurtz to appear on Capitol Hill before July 24 to discuss the July 19 global IT outage and what the company is doing to prevent a recurrence of the incident.
CrowdStrike creates software designed to detect and prevent cyberattacks. The company is used by numerous Fortune 500 companies including hospitals and health systems.
On July 19, Mr. Kurtz confirmed that a faulty content update the company released for Windows users prompted outages across various industries, including healthcare, banking and airlines.
Microsoft estimated that 8.5 million Windows devices were affected as a result of the incident.
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