What is CrowdStrike and how is it linked to the global cyber meltdown?

ABC Investigations reporter Paul Farrell attributes the scale of the outage in part to the company’s success in dominating the cybersecurity sector. The company was linked to an unprecedented IT outage which grounded flights, interrupted broadcasts, and impacted emergency services. CrowdStrike, a US-based cybersecurity company, became a household name on Friday for all the wrong reasons. When George Kurtz announced the establishment of his new company CrowdStrike in 2012 on his blog, few outside the tech industry would have noticed. Kurtz, along with Dmitri Alperovitch (CTO) and Gregg Marston (CFO), wrote that he wanted to change the way the cybersecurity…