The President of CrowdStrike accepted the award for “Most Epic Fail” at the 2024 Pwnie Awards, held during this year’s DefCon hacking conference.
Per TechCrunchCrowdStrike was already present at the cybersecurity meeting, manning one of the largest booths at the event and sending out free t-shirts and action figures to attendees/
Fans have already jumped to the defense of the company that Millions of Windows machines out of service pending a fix that needs to be applied manually in safe mode, by giving them a “class act“after CrowdStrike president Michael Sentonas acknowledged that the neighborhood was “certainly not one to be proud of.”
CrowdStrike is hanging by a thread
I am fascinated by the idea of a company lining up for a lawsuit filed by the airline Delta and another one by its own shareholders can repair itself.
Sentonas, to drive home the point, apologized for throwing much of the world’s digital infrastructure, from transportation to retail, into chaos, admitting that “(CrowdStrike) got this horribly wrong (…) and it’s super important to admit that when you’re doing things horribly wrong.”
“Our goal is to protect people,” he continued, “and we got this wrong, and I want to make sure everyone understands that these things cannot happen.”
It’s a nice sentiment from CrowdStrike, but it’s also one that’s expressed on camera to a sympathetic audience that’s proud to have them. Actions speak louder than words, and that’s at least something the company claims to understand.
Last week it was revealed that there are systems that actually ensure that ‘these things’ (a broken update (to CrowdStrike’s Falcon software) couldn’t happen, didn’t work as intended, allowing the things that can’t happen to happen.