George Kurtz (born October 14, 1970) is an American businessman. He is the CEO and founder of the cybersecurity technology company CrowdStrike, and the founder and former CEO of Foundstone, a worldwide security products and anti-virus software company.[2] He is also the author of the best-selling book of all time on cybersecurity, Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions.[3]
Kurtz served as executive vice president and chief technology officer of McAfee when that company released a patch that crashed many of its client's computers.[4][5]
In 2024, his company CrowdStrike crashed millions of Windows computers around the world, causing billions of dollars in economic losses in what has been called the largest outage in the history of information technology.[6]
In 2024, Fortune Magazine named Kurtz as the 76th most powerful person in business.[7]
After college, Kurtz began his career at Price Waterhouse as a CPA.[13] In 1993, the company made Kurtz one of its first employees in its new security group. Kurtz and his team were hired by corporations to do pen-testing and locate network risk.[14] Kurtz’ talent at this new concept - penetration testing - led to Price Waterhouse making him a founding employee in the new domain of cybersecurity.[15]
While at Price Waterhouse, and later, when he joined Ernst & Young, Kurtz developed a number of penetration testing and Internet security protocols still in use today.[15] After a few years at Ernst & Young, Kurtz left to start his first company, Foundstone [15]
In 1999, Kurtz co-wrote Hacking Exposed, a book about cybersecurity for network administrators, with Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray. The book sold more than 600,000 copies and was translated into more than 30 languages.[1]
In August 2004, Foundstone was acquired for $86 million by McAfee, which appointed Kurtz to be senior vice president and general manager of risk management.[16][18]
In October 2009, McAfee promoted him to chief technology officer and executive vice president.[19] Six months later, McAfee accidentally disrupted its customers' operations around the world when it pushed out a software update that deleted critical Windows XP system files and caused affected systems to bluescreen and enter a boot loop. "I'm not sure any virus writer has ever developed a piece of malware that shut down as many machines as quickly as McAfee did today," Ed Bott wrote at ZDNet.[5]
In 2010, Kurtz participated in Operation Aurora, the investigation of a series of cyber attacks against Google and several other companies.[20]
In 2011, he led McAfee's research around the emerging Night Dragon and Shady RAT threats, alongside Dmitri Alperovitch, who was then McAfee's vice president of threat research.[21][22]
Over time, Kurtz became frustrated that existing security technology functioned slowly and was not, as he perceived it, evolving at the pace of new threats.[23] On a flight, he watched the passenger seated next to him wait 15 minutes for McAfee software to load on his laptop, an incident he later cited as part of his inspiration for founding CrowdStrike.[24][1] He resigned from McAfee in October 2011.[22]
CrowdStrike
In November 2011, Kurtz joined private equity firm Warburg Pincus as an "entrepreneur-in-residence"[25][26] and began working on his next project, CrowdStrike. He, Gregg Marston (former chief financial officer at Foundstone), and Dmitri Alperovitch co-founded CrowdStrike in Irvine, California, formally announcing the company's launch in February 2012.[27][28] Kurtz pitched the idea for the company to Warburg Pincus and secured $25 million in funding.[11][29]
CrowdStrike shifted the focus from anti-malware and antivirus products (McAfee's approach to cybersecurity) to identifying the techniques used by hackers in order to spot threats.[30][31] The company also developed a "cloud-first" model in order to reduce the software load on customers' computers.[30] CrowdStrike, now headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, attracted public interest in June 2016 for its role in investigating the Democratic National Committee cyber attacks,[24] and in May 2017, the company exceeded a valuation of $1 billion.[32] In 2019, CrowdStrike's $612 million initial public offering on the Nasdaq brought the company to a $6.6 billion valuation under Kurtz's leadership.[33][34] In March 2020, when discussing company strategy at CrowdStrike, he said that "not one time have I regretted firing someone too fast."[35] In July 2020, an IDC report named CrowdStrike as the fastest-growing endpoint security software vendor.[36] He ranked on CRN's 2021 Top 100 Executives list.[37]
In 2023, Kurtz warned of cyber threats from China and criticized Microsoft’s response after Chinese hackers exploited a flaw in Microsoft's cloud email service to gain access to the email accounts of U.S. government employees.[38]
In 2024, CrowdStrike was added to the S&P 500. At just five years after going public, this was the fastest a cybersecurity company had ever been listed on the index.[14]
On July 19, 2024, CrowdStrike caused one of the largestinformation technology outages in history when it pushed out a software update that caused an estimated 8.5 million computers running Microsoft Windows to crash and left them unable to properly restart.[39] This disrupted industries and governmental operations around the world, causing economic losses estimated in the billions of dollars in what has been called the largest IT outage in history[40] and "historic in scale".[41] In a live interview on NBC's Today, CEO Kurtz apologized to the public. He said company leaders were "deeply sorry for the impact that we've caused to customers, to travelers, to anyone affected by this, including our companies".[42]
Forbes estimated his net worth to be $2.3 billion as of July 30, 2024.[43]
In 2021, Kurtz again raced in the GTWC America series but also in prototype cars, competing in a Ligier JS P320 in the IMSA SportsCar Championship'sLMP3 category.[51][52] In that series, he competed solely in the endurance events, winning at Sebring and scoring a class podium at Watkins Glen.[53] Three missed weekends in the former series dropped Kurtz and Braun to sixth in the drivers' standings, with two class wins.
In 2022, Kurtz remained in both championships, scoring two podiums in IMSA, including third place in class at the 24 Hours of Daytona. In GTWC America, he won ten of 16 races, earning the title in the SRO3 class.[54][55]
In 2023, Kurtz stepped up to the LMP2 category to compete full-time in the IMSA SCC, driving for his own Crowdstrike team supported by Algarve Pro Racing alongside Ben Hanley, with silver-ranked Nolan Siegel supporting the pair at the endurance rounds.[56] Kurtz and Hanley won at the season-ending Petit Le Mans and another race, but finished second in the standings, edged out by Paul-Loup Chatin and Ben Keating.[57] In the Michelin Endurance Trophy, which took into account placings solely within the four endurance races, the Kurtz-Hanley combo came out on top.[58] Kurtz also made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where he, Colin Braun, and James Allen won in the LMP2 Pro-Am subclass.[59][60] Finally, he returned to the GTWC America to defend his title, and although Kurtz only finished third in the SRO3 category he claimed Pro-Am honours, having partnered with Braun throughout the year.[61] During the 2023–24 winter, Kurtz and Braun raced in the Asian Le Mans Series, where they and young pro Malthe Jakobsen won two races on their way to the championship.[62]
† Points only counted towards the Michelin Endurance Cup, and not the overall LMP2 Championship.
† Points only counted towards the Michelin Endurance Cup, and not the overall LMP3 Championship.
^Westhoven, William. "Parsippany native leads charge against cyber attacks"Archived July 25, 2024, at the Wayback Machine, Asbury Park Press, December 29, 2014. Accessed February 22, 2018. "A Parsippany native on the front lines of the global cyber wars says if you thought 2014 was wild, wait until 2015.... Kurtz, who spent much of his time in Parsippany fly fishing or playing for the Parsippany High School football team, started out as an accountant after graduating from Seton Hall University, after which he worked for firms such as Price Waterhouse."
^Sorkin, Andrew Ross; Mattu, Ravi; Warner, Bernhard; Kessler, Sarah; Merced, Michael J. de la; Hirsch, Lauren; Livni, Ephrat; Gaffney, Austyn (July 19, 2024). "Counting the Costs of a Global IT Outage". The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Archived from the original on July 19, 2024. Retrieved July 20, 2024.
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