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'Biggest epic fail': CrowdStrike CEO accepts award after global IT outage

'Biggest epic fail': CrowdStrike CEO accepts award after global IT outage

The president of Mass coup accepted the award for 'Most Epic Fail' at the 2024 Pwnie Awards, hosted at this year's DefCon hacking conference.

By TechnologyCrunchCrowdStrike was already present at the cybersecurity meeting, manning one of the largest booths at the event and sending out free t-shirts and action figures to attendees.

Fans have already come to the defense of the company that put Millions of Windows machines out of service Waiting for a solution to be applied manually in safe mode, calling them “class act” after CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas acknowledged that the neighborhood “was definitely not [one] be proud to receive.”

CrowdStrike hangs by a thread

I am fascinated by the idea of a company in the queue for A demand driven by Delta Airline and another by its own shareholders He can rehabilitate himself.

Sentonas, to be clear, was quite apologetic for throwing much of the world's digital infrastructure, from transportation to retail, into chaos, admitting that “[CrowdStrike] I was terribly wrong […] and it is very important to recognize it when you do things terribly wrong.”

“Our goal is to protect people,” he continued, “and we got this wrong, and I want to make sure everyone understands that.” [that] “These things cannot happen.”

This is a lovely sentiment from CrowdStrike, but it’s also one that is expressed on camera in front of a supportive and proudly hosting audience. Actions speak louder than words, which is at least something the company claims to understand.

Last week, it was revealed that there are systems that actually make “these things” (a broken update CrowdStrike's Falcon software failed to function as intended, allowing things to happen that can't happen.

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