In a recent congressional hearing, CrowdStrike executives, including the company's boss, publicly apologized for a massive global IT outage that occurred in July, which has been described as a 'catastrophe' by lawmakers. The outage, which disrupted services worldwide and grounded flights, was attributed to a software update error and a confluence of factors. During their testimony, the executives expressed deep regret and promised to implement new safety measures and overhaul their testing and rollout procedures to prevent such incidents from recurring in the future. Lawmakers are pressing for more details on the vulnerabilities exposed by the outage and how CrowdStrike plans to mitigate the risks associated with its technology moving forward.