If you know anything about how MCAF was organized, or about what GK does at Crowdstrike, the idea that he was in some way involved with MCAF's AV or with the installers/updaters at either company is especially funny.
MCAF was a conglomerate of security products driven by sales of their AV suite, which might as well have been developed on a different planet for all that it mattered to the "security people". Same with SYMC.
People on HN have a very, very strange idea of what a "CTO" does. Kurtz was the CEO of Foundstone when MCAF bought him. Foundstone was not small. The most important skill most CTOs have is identifying themselves as "the CTO" on calls with customer prospects.
I'm trying to imagine anyone on the CrowdStrike board saying, "As a critical infrastructure single-point-of-failure, we gotta fortify ourselves with McAffe culture, from the top, down!"
In their defense, maybe they don't care about the service they claim to provide, and are just looking at it as a money machine black box.
What he said at the start of the cnbc interview sounded like an apology to me. The first thing that came to mind was that's great but at the same time might be a problem for a lawsuit IANAL.
MCAF was a conglomerate of security products driven by sales of their AV suite, which might as well have been developed on a different planet for all that it mattered to the "security people". Same with SYMC.