What is CrowdStrike, the company linked to the global tech outage?

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., the company linked to a global outage that affected airlines, emergency services and various businesses from banks to hospitals, is an American cybersecurity technology company based out of Austin, Texas.The company describes itself as a global cybersecurity leader that's "redefined security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform that protects and enables the people, processes and technologies that drive modern enterprise," according to its website.