The outage happened because the advanced platform contained a fault that forced computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system to crash and show the ...
George Kurtz , president CEO and Co-Founder at CrowdStrike speaks at the WSJTECH live conference in Laguna Beach, California
The company's Falcon platform sensor is a security agent installed on devices such as laptops and desktops that protects them from threats. Microsoft said on Saturday about 8.5 million Windows devices had been affected in the outage that had left flights grounded, forced broadcasters off air and left customers without access to services such as healthcare or banking."Our recovery efforts have been enhanced thanks to the development of automatic recovery techniques and by mobilizing all our resources to support our customers," Kurtz said in a post on LinkedIn.
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