Lawmakers dig into federal government's CrowdStrike (CRWD) use - Axios

September 13, 2024 1:30 PM EDT
(Updated - September 13, 2024 1:34 PM EDT)

Lawmakers dig into federal government's CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) use - Axios

  • A pair of Democratic senators are looking into how vulnerable the federal government's IT networks are to an outage similar to CrowdStrike outage.
  • Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) sent a letter to the General Services Administration asking for more details about how the global outage impacted the federal government.
  • The senators also said the incident laid bare the risks of relying on "too few contractors to operate such a large share of the federal government's IT systems."



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