Crowdstrike has stayed in the news for the past month for the global IT outage that disrupted work worldwide and caused massive havoc. Many industries faced huge losses due to the Windows crashing down, especially the airline industry, and have been initiating legal pursuits against the company for being the reason behind the substantial financial cost borne. While the cybersecurity company has explained the reason behind the issue and steps taken to rectify it in extensive detail, it seems to be that the Def Con and Crowdstrike have taken a lighter note of this at a recent ceremony.
Crowdstrike recently received the 'Most Epic Fail' award at the Def Con annual ceremony
Crowdstrike has faced intense pressure globally amidst the IT outage, the impact of which still looms in the form of legal pursuits by the companies that suffered due to Windows crashing down. While it was a security update gone wrong, the company did have to explain in detail how the issue came about in the first place and how it was able to reach the masses. Stringent actions are also being taken to ensure such a mess does not happen again. Recently, this issue was approached in a lighthearted manner at an award ceremony.
Pwine Awards are annually held at Def Con to recognize the work of security researchers and their contribution to the community. While they tend to have a reward for the epic achievements, they also tend to highlight the epic failures by the security service providers, and this year, they included a 'Lamest Vendor Response' award as well.
As reported by The Verge, this year's 'Most Epic Fail' was awarded to Crowdstrike at the Las Vegas Def Con hacking conference for causing a global IT outage due to a faulty update. The company's president, Michael Sentonas, graciously accepted the award in an attempt to own the mistakes made and to improve on them. While taking the award, he highlighted how it is important to acknowledge mistakes first by saying:
Super important to own it when you do things horribly wrong, which we did in this case.
Sentonas, however, did mention how the award is not the category they want to be known for, as it is not something to receive proudly, but he would nonetheless place it in the headquarters for the employees to see when they come to the workplace and to learn from it. Crowdstrike, by taking things on the lighter side and owning their mistakes, is taking a positive and more transparent approach that other companies could also learn from.
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