"A loss of X dollars is always the responsibility of an executive whose financial responsibility exceeds X dollars." - Weinberg’s 'First Principle of Financial

"A loss of X dollars is always the responsibility of an executive whose financial responsibility exceeds X dollars." - Weinberg’s 'First Principle of Financial Management' and 'Second Rule of Failure Prevention’ - 'First-Order Measurement', Quality Software Management, Volume 2, Gerald Weinberg, Dorset House Publishing, 1993 It seems to me that there's a need for the Crowdstrike CEO to take responsibility, e.g. for lax testing and for not doing canary rollouts. And it seems to me that there's a place for the [airline|bank|hospital] CEOs and CIOs to consider implementing canary 'roll-ins' where new software is tried on a small scale before being installed everywhere.