The president of CrowdStrike, the company that caused blue screens all over the world, will attend the 'Most Spectacular Fail Award' ceremony and display the award trophy in his company to raise awareness.

CrowdStrike has won the Pwnie Awards, which recognizes security failures. Although it is customary for Pwnie Award winners to be absent from the awards ceremony, CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas attended the Pwnie Awards 2024 ceremony held on August 11, 2024, and received the trophy.

CrowdStrike President Shows Up to Accept 'Most Epic Fail' Award at DEF CON | Extremetech
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On Friday, July 19, 2024, Japan time, a large-scale outage occurred that caused systems around the world using CrowdStrike products to become inoperable at the same time. This large-scale outage caused approximately 8.5 million PCs to become inoperable, leading to the cancellation of thousands of flights , among other major impacts. CrowdStrike worked with Microsoft and others to respond to the outage immediately after it occurred, and succeeded in restoring 97% of systems within one week of the outage. Then, on Tuesday, August 6, 2024, the results of the analysis of the root cause were published.

CrowdStrike releases root cause analysis after causing global outage with Blue Screen of Death - GIGAZINE

Following the above-mentioned large-scale failure, CrowdStrike was selected as the winner of the 'Most Epic Fail' category of the 'Pwnie Awards,' which recognizes security failures. Pwnie Awards winners generally do not attend the awards ceremony, but CrowdStrike's President Michael Centonas attended the Pwnie Awards 2024 ceremony held on August 11, 2024, received the trophy and left a comment. You can see the scene where President Centonas receives the trophy in the following movie.

Pwnie Awards 2024 - Crowdstrike President Accepts “Epic Fail” Award - YouTube


The CrowdStrike logo appears on a screen at the awards ceremony, announcing that CrowdStrike has won the Most Epic Fail category.

President Sentonas steps onto the stage in response to the organizers' call.

A large trophy was carried from the back of the stage.

President Sentonas being presented with the trophy.

'We made a big mistake,' said Sentonas, adding that he plans to raise awareness and prevent the same mistake from happening again. 'We'll put the trophy on display at CrowdStrike's headquarters so our employees can see it.'