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- A faulty update from CrowdStrike caused a global tech outage on Friday.
- CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has been down this road before.
- As CTO of McAfee in 2010, Kurtz was at the center of another similar tech debacle.
A good portion of the world stood still on Friday, resulting in one of the most widespread tech outages of all time.
The outage disrupted operations at major banks, airlines, retailers, and other industries after CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity giant used by Microsoft and others, pushed a faulty update.