CrowdStrike President Accepts 'Most Epic Failure' Award After Software Update Meltdown
TapTechNews August 12th news, just a few weeks after a software update triggered a global IT meltdown, CrowdStrike didn't shy away from public attention. According to TechCrunch, on August 10 local time, Michael Sentonas, the president of CrowdStrike, stepped onto the stage of the PwnieAwards, known as the Security Oscars in the world, to receive the Most Epic Failure award.
The award ceremony was held at the DefCon hacker conference. Reports said that like those conference participants who were willing to give CrowdStrike a second chance, the award presenter sounded very enthusiastic and thanked Sentonas for being present to admit the company's mistakes.
The organizers even said that the Most Epic Failure award was a last-minute decision. How could CrowdStrike not win an award? When the trophy was brought onto the stage amid cheers, Michael Sentonas admitted that this was definitely not an award to be proud of.
I would immediately decide to accept this award myself. I think the team would be very surprised by this decision because we did very poorly. We have said many times that when you do well, it's important to admit it, and when you do very poorly, it's equally important to admit it.
Sentonas further stated that he will take this trophy back to the company headquarters and put it in a conspicuous place to remind employees. Our goal is to protect people, but this time we screwed up, and I want to make sure everyone understands that this kind of thing can't happen again.
According to TapTechNews' previous report, due to a CrowdStrike security update failure, more than 8.5 million computers using the Microsoft Windows system worldwide had a blue screen failure last month, resulting in a wide-ranging interruption of global Internet services, affecting all walks of life.
The cyber insurance company Parametrix said that this accident caused heavy losses to the global IT industry. At least a quarter of the Fortune 500 companies experienced service interruptions, and the total loss of these companies is expected to reach 5.4 billion US dollars (about 38.748 billion yuan currently), among which medical companies were hit the hardest, followed by airlines.