Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s senior vp of counter adversary operations, has agreed to look earlier than the panel on September twenty fourth at 2PM ET, the committee introduced. Committee leaders had beforehand referred to as on CEO George Kurtz to testify, however he’s not at the moment listed as a witness.
In an announcement, Committee Chair Mark Inexperienced (R-TN) mentioned that whereas he’d hoped Kurtz might attend, “I stay up for listening to testimony from Mr. Meyers, who CrowdStrike assured was the suitable witness to debate the small print of the outage. People need to know intimately how this incident occurred and the mitigation CrowdStrike is taking to keep away from the cascading impacts of outages like this throughout sectors.”
Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), who chairs the subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety, mentioned in an announcement that the listening to will likely be “an necessary alternative to be taught extra about what steps the corporate has taken within the aftermath of the outage to make sure it doesn’t occur once more.” Although the outage wasn’t the results of a cyberattack, Garbarino mentioned adversaries seemingly watched the occasion and “realized how a defective software program replace can set off cascading results on our crucial infrastructure.”
