CrowdStrike executive will apologize for July global outage: report

An executive from CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) will apologize in front of Congress on Tuesday for the global IT outage in July that was caused by a faulty update from the cybersecurity company, Reuters reported.

“We are deeply sorry this happened and are determined to prevent it from happening again,” CrowdStrike executive Adam Meyers will say in his testimony, according to the news outlet. “We have undertaken a full review of our systems and begun implementing plans to bolster our content update procedures so that we emerge from this experience as a stronger company.”

CrowdStrike Chief Executive George Kurtz was called to testify in front of Congress in July after Congressmen Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) and Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) sent a letter to him to discuss the outage.

Wedbush Securities called the appearance “a key moment” for CrowdStrike.

A faulty update from CrowdStrike resulted in the “blue screen of death” for computers running Microsoft (MSFT) Windows and caused a number of airlines to be grounded, and impacted financial services, health care and several other industries.

Microsoft said in July that approximately 8.5M Windows devices were impacted.

CrowdStrike is currently locked in a legal battle with Delta Air Lines (DAL) over the outage after Delta sued CrowdStrike and the airline said it saw a $500M impact from the outage.