The president of CrowdStrike has accepted the award for ‘Most Epic Fail’ on the 2024 ‘Pwnie Awards’, hosted at this yr’s DefCon hacking convention.
Per TechCrunch, CrowdStrike was already in attendance on the cybersecurity gathering, manning one of many largest cubicles on the occasion, and dispatching free t-shirts and motion figures to attendees/
Followers have already been leaping to the defence of the corporate that put hundreds of thousands of Home windows machines out of motion pending a repair to be manually utilized in protected mode, calling them a “class act” after CrowdStrike president Michael Sentonas acknowledged that the ward was “undoubtedly not [one] to be pleased with receiving”.
CrowdStrike hanging by a thread
I’m fascinated by the concept by an organization in line for a lawsuit leveraged by the airline Delta and one other by its personal shareholders can rehabilitate itself.
Sentonas was, to be clear, fairly apologetic for thrusting a substantial amount of the world’s digital infrastructure, from transport to retail, into chaos, admitting that “[CrowdStrike] received this horribly mistaken […] and it’s tremendous vital to personal it if you do issues horribly mistaken.”
“Our objective is to guard individuals,” he went on, “and we received this mistaken, and I need to make certain all people understands [that] this stuff can’t occur.”
This can be a pretty sentiment from CrowdStrike, however it’s additionally one being expressed on digicam in entrance of a sympathetic viewers proud to host them. Actions converse louder than phrases, which is at the very least one thing that the corporate claims to grasp.
Final week, it was revealed that programs in place to really make it in order that ‘this stuff’ (a damaged replace to CrowdStrike’s Falcon software program) can’t occur did not work as supposed, permitting the issues that may’t occur to occur.
