Yes, it is clearly a distraction. It is no secret CrowdStrike has a shady history as well as connections with powerful alphabet agencies and figures.I do wonder whether this was an attempt to hijack the news cycle away from Trump, especially given Crowdstrike's history of being involved in deep state subterfuge (the DNC/Russia hoax in 2016).
Trusted by governments
Founded by its CEO George Kurtz and former CTO Dmitri Alperovitch in 2011, Crowdstrike released its flagship Falcon platform two years later. Falcon monitors clients’ computers or servers for attacks, relays details of incoming threats to the company via a cloud-based monitoring service, and can then block or trace the attack.
Among the clients listed on Crowdstrike’s website are Amazon, Google, Visa, and Intel. More than 80% of US state governments use Crowdstrike, as do the national governments of Australia, Germany, Israel, and others.
![www.rt.com](https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2024.07/article/669a78f72030271ad86fce73.jpg)
Russiagate cheerleaders, spy agency links: what you need to know about CrowdStrike, the firm behind the global IT outage
A leading name in cybersecurity, Crowdstrike was deeply involved in the ‘Russiagate’ hoax
Alperovitch's background...
He is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank and was named in December 2013 as one of Foreign Policy's Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers, along with Angela Merkel, John Kerry, Ben Bernanke and Jeff Bezos.
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