CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage

Enlarge / Shares in SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks have risen since July’s IT outage while CrowdStrike has shed almost a quarter of its market value. (credit: Getty Images)

CrowdStrike’s president hit out at “shady” efforts by its cyber security rivals to scare its customers and steal market share in the month since its botched software update sparked a global IT outage.

Michael Sentonas told the Financial Times that attempts by competitors to use the July 19 disruption to promote their own products were “misguided.”

After criticism from rivals including SentinelOne and Trellix, the CrowdStrike executive said no vendor could “technically” guarantee that their own software would never cause a similar incident.