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CrowdStrike's offices in Sunnyvale, Calif. A senior company executive will testify before a congressional committee next month about an iil-fated software update that knocked global IT systems offline. CrowdStrike's offices in Sunnyvale, Calif. A senior company executive will testify before a congressional committee next month about an iil-fated software update that knocked global IT systems offline.

CrowdStrike exec to testify in September on last month’s global IT outage

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CrowdStrike exec to testify in September on last month’s global IT outage

CrowdStrike's offices in Sunnyvale, Calif. A senior company executive will testify before a congressional committee next month about an iil-fated software update that knocked global IT systems offline.

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