Elon Musk bans CrowdStrike from his companies

Last week saw the biggest IT system outage ever - and it had dramatic consequences: Operations in hospitals could not take place, airplanes were grounded and some emergency numbers could not be reached. An update to the CrowdStrike security software was responsible for this.

CrowdStrike counts almost 60 percent of all Fortune 500 companies among its customers, which explains the serious consequences. Microsoft estimates that over 8.5 million Windows devices worldwide were affected. CrowdStrike quickly provided a solution. However, Elon Musk, whose companies Tesla and SpaceX were also affected by the glitch, cannot seem to overlook this error.

As we have come to expect from the entrepreneur, his response was short and sweet. On the same day as the outage, Musk announced on X (formerly Twitter) that CrowdStrike had been removed from all systems. Whether this really applies to all of Elon Musk's companies - including the start-ups Neuralink and xAI - is currently unknown.