CrowdStrike CSO blasts own failure as stock plummets: ‘The confidence we built in drips over the years was lost in buckets within hours, and it was a gut punch’

CrowdStrike founder and CEO George Kurtz (Credit: Michael Short—Bloomberg via Getty Images)

When your cybersecurity firm tasked with guarding against harmful malware unleashes the biggest global IT outage in history, there’s really nowhere to hide. So Shawn Henry cut straight to the chase. 

“On Friday we failed you, and for that I’m deeply sorry,” began the post, written by CrowdStrike’s chief security officer.