How CrowdStrike, the Company Behind the Global Tech Outage, Keeps the World Running

Earlier this month (July 19), a historic computer outage that crashed 8.5 million computer system worldwide made CrowdStrike, a Texas-based cybersecurity company, an overnight household name. The incident was caused by a software update on Crowdstrike’s Falcon platform, which, when used on a Windows device, resulted in “read-out-of-bounds” memory safety errors that forced the device to stop working. The $90 billion