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George Kurtz

George Kurtz (born October 14, 1970) is an American businessman. He is a co-founder and chief executive officer of CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity technology company.

He founded Foundstone, a security products and anti-virus software company, and became chief technology officer of McAfee after it acquired Foundstone in 2004. Kurtz is co-author of ''Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions,'' which has shaped best practices in vulnerability assessment and penetration testing''''. He is noted for various contributions to cybersecurity, including creating the field of vulnerability management; defining terminology, workflows, and services that remain central to cybersecurity; and leading an industry shift toward cloud-based cybersecurity architectures. In 2024, ''Fortune'' magazine named Kurtz one of the "100 Most Powerful People in Business".

In 2024, CrowdStrike released a software update that disrupted millions of Microsoft Windows systems around the world, an event that has been called the largest outage in the history of information technology.

Kurtz owns and develops real estate projects in Scottsdale, Arizona, and elsewhere in the southwestern United States.

Kurtz is a FIA Bronze-rated race car driver who has won the Pro-Am class in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Spa. Provided by Wikipedia