August 03, 2024 How the real Olivia Pope would have handled the CrowdStrike outage Crisis manager Judy Smith, the inspiration for the TV show ‘Scandal,’ unpacks what the company got right and where it dropped the ball. BY Shalene Gupta Judy Smith is a crisis manager whose career was the inspiration for the TV show Scandal—specifically … Continue reading How the real Olivia Pope would have handled the CrowdStrike outage