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Adam Meyers, a senior vice president of the cybersecurity firm, testified in front of a House Homeland Security subcommittee about the July mishap.<\/p>\n

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Lawmakers on Tuesday grilled an executive from the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike about a widespread technology outage<\/a> this summer that crippled global travel, hobbled government agencies and sent major companies scrambling to get their operations back online.<\/p>\n

The outage was caused by a faulty update sent to CrowdStrike software running on Microsoft\u2019s Windows operating system. Devices went spiraling<\/a>, unable to properly restart unless someone removed the flawed file from their systems.<\/p>\n

Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike\u2019s senior vice president of counter adversary operations, told members of a House Homeland Security subcommittee that the company had instituted new safeguards to ensure that such a failure couldn\u2019t happen again.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers pushed Mr. Meyers to explain why the error had happened in the first place and how the company planned to answer for the outage\u2019s harm to consumers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI want to make sure that you all know what happened, can explain it, and then how you\u2019re making sure it\u2019s not going to happen again,\u201d said Representative Andrew Garbarino, Republican of New York.<\/p>\n

The July incident underscored how dependent modern commerce and communications have become on just a handful of large technology companies. Travelers were stranded as airlines canceled flights. Emergency services were disrupted as 911 operators found that their systems had failed. Hospitals paused some of their services.<\/p>\n

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Adam Meyers, a senior vice president of the cybersecurity firm, testified in front of a House Homeland Security subcommittee about the July mishap.Lawmakers on Tuesday grilled an executive from the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike about a widespread technology outage this summer that crippled global travel, hobbled government agencies and sent major companies scrambling to get their operations back online.The outage was caused by a faulty update sent to CrowdStrike software running on Microsoft\u2019s Windows operating system. Devices went spiraling, unable to properly restart unless someone removed the flawed file from their systems.Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike\u2019s senior vice president of counter adversary operations, told members of a House Homeland Security subcommittee that the company had instituted new safeguards to ensure that such a failure couldn\u2019t happen again.Lawmakers pushed Mr. Meyers to explain why the error had happened in the first place and how the company planned to answer for the outage\u2019s harm to consumers.\u201cI want to make sure that you all know what happened, can explain it, and then how you\u2019re making sure it\u2019s not going to happen again,\u201d said Representative Andrew Garbarino, Republican of New York.The July incident underscored how dependent modern commerce and communications have become on just a handful of large technology companies. Travelers were stranded as airlines canceled flights. Emergency services were disrupted as 911 operators found that their systems had failed. Hospitals paused some of their services.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13558,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13559,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions\/13559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}