CrowdStrike exec to testify before Congress on IT outage

(Reuters) – A senior executive at CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:) will testify before a U.S House of Representatives subcommittee on Sept. 24 on the company’s faulty software update that caused a global IT outage.

Adam Meyers, senior vice president for counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, will testify before the House Homeland Security cybersecurity and infrastructure Protection subcommittee, the panel said Friday. The July 19 incident led to worldwide flight cancellations and impacted industries around the globe including banks, health care media companies and hotels chains.