CYBERSECURITY specialist CrowdStrike Holdings on Wednesday estimated it absorbed a roughly $60 million blow to its sales pipeline last month after its botched handling of a software update triggered a technology meltdown that stranded thousands of people in airports in addition to other exasperating disruptions.
Although the massive outage spooked customers that had been expected to close deals totaling $60 million during the final few weeks of CrowdStrike's fiscal second quarter, executives running the Austin, Texas, company predicted it will still be able to cinch those contracts before its fiscal year ends in January 2025 because customers still have faith in its cybersecurity products despite the July 19 gaffe that froze up machines running on Windows software.
AP PHOTOKurtz's reassuring comments, coupled with quarterly earnings that exceeded analysts' projections, seemed to reassure investors who have been buying up CrowdStrike's stock in recent weeks after initially dumping the shares in the wake of the havoc that the company blamed on a computer bug. The shares rose slightly in Wednesday's extended trading, leaving the stock price 13 percent below its level before the tech outage — a loss of about $10 billion in market value.
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