What is CrowdStrike, the company at the heart of the global Microsoft outage?

CrowdStrike Outage: Computer systems across the world were crippled on Friday due to a faulty software update to Windows system from CrowdStrike. A look at CrowdStrike, a US company that has carved a niche for itself in the cybersecurity space.

What is CrowdStrike? How did its update for Microsoft bring the world to a standstill?

The last 24 hours have seen the world’s biggest-ever IT outage cripple computer systems across the globe. Friday’s tech glitch led to chaos across sectors, with aviation bearing the brunt of inaccessible systems. The whole issue was due to a software update to Microsoft Azure from CrowdStrike that went horribly wrong. The faulty update led to a blue screen of death on thousands of PCs that had updated their software.