CrowdStrike Offers Mea Culpa to House Committee
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CrowdStrike acknowledged that a faulty July 19 content configuration update for its Falcon Sensor caused a 'perfect storm' mismatch that crashed about 8.5 million Windows systems worldwide, prompting a House Homeland Security hearing; the company described fixes including improved validation, phased rollouts, customer control over updates, and treating content updates with the same scrutiny as code to prevent recurrence.
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