Banking to healthcare operations: What caused the global cyber outage?

American cybersecurity firmCrowdStrike in an alert sentto its clients informed that its ‘Falcon Sensor’ softwarewas causing Microsoft Windows to crash anddisplay a blue screen,known informally as the‘blue screen of death’. With a market value of $83 billionand over 20,000 globalsubscribers, CrowdStrikequickly deployed a fix. CEOGeorge Kurtz assured thatthis was not a securityincident or “cyberattack”.