It’s fair to say that before it caused the biggest technology outage ever, CrowdStrike was not exactly a household name. Even in technology circles, despite its $90 billion valuation (€82.58 billion), the Texan company was not that well known outside of the information security sector. But grounding flights, shutting down public services, and locking bankers out of systems will generally catapult you into the mainstream consciousness in a way that shareholders won’t thank you for. (CrowdStrike’s market cap is now about $65 billion.)  In a massive irony, an update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon software, which is used by large organisations to…

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