July 23, 2024
On July 19, a flawed update associated with CrowdStrike Falcon, an EDR solution, caused widespread outages affecting numerous Windows systems worldwide, both servers and workstations. The outage led to major disruptions across various sectors, including airlines, payments, retail, healthcare and other industries. FTI Consulting Cybersecurity experts provided commentary surrounding the event across multiple global news outlets.
Head of Cybersecurity for the Americas Jordan Rae Kelly was interviewed on the CNN segment, “Global Tech Outage Disrupts Airlines, Banks, Hospitals, 911 Services.” Watch Now
Head of Cybersecurity for the Americas Jordan Rae Kelly was interviewed on the WMUR – ABC News New Hampshire segment, “Former NSC Cyber Director Urges Leaders to Take Action to Prevent Future System Failures.” Watch Now
Head of Cybersecurity for the Americas Jordan Rae Kelly was interviewed on the Sky News segment, “Global IT Outage Hits Companies Around the World.” Watch Now
Head of Cybersecurity for Australia Wouter Veugelen was interviewed on the CNBC segment, “Cybersecurity Analyst Explains What’s Behind the CrowdStrike Global Outage.” Watch Now
Senior Managing Director Mike Driscoll was interviewed on the WMUR – ABC News New Hampshire segment, “Cybersecurity Expert Talks About Software Issue that Caused CrowdStrike Outages.” Watch Now
Senior Managing Director Mike Driscoll was interviewed on the Fox5 News segment, “Global Tech Outage Latest.” Watch Now
Managing Director Adam Harrison provided commentary for The New York Times article, “What to Do if Your Computer is Affected by the Global Microsoft Outage.” Read More
Managing Director Adam Harrison provided commentary for the Forbes article, “CrowdStrike Windows Outage – What Happened and What to Do Next.” Read More
Managing Director Matt Chevraux was interviewed on the DC News Now segment, “Cybersecurity Expert Explains Global Microsoft Outage.” Watch Now
Strategic Communications Managing Director Brett Callow provided commentary for the Wired article, “Don’t Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams.” Read Now
Strategic Communications Managing Director Brett Callow was interviewed for the CNN article, “Hackers are Already Taking Advantage of the CrowdStrike Outage Chaos” Read Now
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