CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike is an AI-native cybersecurity company built around the Falcon platform, which unifies protection for endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, data, SaaS, and AI environments. Its cloud-native architecture combines a single lightweight sensor, real-time telemetry, adversary intelligence, and automation to help organizations detect, investigate, and stop breaches across a broad attack surface.

The company’s portfolio spans prevention, exposure reduction, detection and response, SIEM, data security, and managed operations. CrowdStrike also delivers expert-led services that extend customer teams with threat hunting, MDR, and response capabilities, giving organizations a way to consolidate tools, modernize security operations, and secure hybrid and multi-cloud environments from one platform.

Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations

CrowdStrike centers its offering on unified, cross-domain security operations. Its platform brings together endpoint, identity, cloud, data, SaaS, and AI signals so security teams can correlate activity faster, investigate with more context, and automate response from a common operating layer.

Its delivery model blends agent-based and agentless coverage, cloud-native analytics, AI-assisted triage, workflow automation, and expert-led services. CrowdStrike also supports broad ecosystem integration, including ingestion of third-party telemetry, connections to major identity providers, and integrations across AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud environments to fit into existing enterprise architectures without relying on fragmented point tools.

Products and Services

  • Falcon Insight XDR: Extended detection and response that unifies endpoint telemetry with broader Falcon platform context to detect, investigate, and respond to cross-domain attacks.
  • Falcon Cloud Security: Code-to-cloud security with unified agent and agentless protection for cloud workloads, posture management, and real-time cloud detection and response.
  • Falcon Identity Protection: Hybrid identity security for Active Directory and cloud identity providers, with real-time detections, integrated response, and risk-based protection.
  • Falcon Next-Gen SIEM: AI-native SIEM that combines search, detection, investigation, case management, and response across Falcon data and third-party telemetry.
  • Falcon Exposure Management: Exposure management platform that provides attack-surface visibility and risk-based prioritization across external assets, endpoints, cloud, network, OT/IoT, and shadow AI.
  • Falcon Data Protection: Data protection module that discovers sensitive data, monitors how it moves, and blocks risky data movement across endpoints, browsers, SaaS, cloud, and GenAI destinations.
  • Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR: 24/7 expert-led, AI-accelerated managed detection and response across endpoints, identities, cloud workloads, and third-party security data.
  • Charlotte AI: Agentic and generative AI capability for detection triage, investigation, workflow acceleration, and trusted security agent development within the Falcon platform.
  • Falcon Prevent: Next-generation antivirus and prevention that uses AI, behavioral analysis, and threat intelligence to stop malware, ransomware, fileless, and zero-day threats.
  • Falcon Adversary OverWatch: Managed threat hunting service that proactively hunts across Falcon and third-party data to uncover stealthy threats earlier.
  • Falcon for IT: Endpoint automation capability that helps IT and security teams query assets, validate posture, and execute policy-driven remediation from the Falcon platform.
  • Falcon Fusion SOAR: Security orchestration and automation capability for building workflows, automating playbooks, and coordinating response actions across tools and teams.
  • Falcon Onum: Telemetry pipeline and data control plane that structures, enriches, and routes data for Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and other security and IT destinations.

Target Customers

CrowdStrike serves organizations that need enterprise-grade security across complex, distributed environments. Its customer base spans large enterprises, cloud-first businesses, and hybrid organizations that want to consolidate endpoint, identity, cloud, data, and SOC operations on a single platform.

It also addresses the needs of midmarket and small businesses through packaged offerings, while maintaining a strong fit for regulated and mission-critical environments such as financial services, healthcare, retail, education, and public sector organizations. CrowdStrike is especially well suited to security and IT teams that want rapid deployment, broad visibility, and the option to augment internal resources with managed detection, threat hunting, and incident response expertise.

Cloud Integrations and Marketplace

  • AWS Marketplace: CrowdStrike has marketplace availability on AWS for the Falcon platform and supports AWS-focused integrations and deployment options spanning services such as CloudTrail, Security Hub, GuardDuty, and Systems Manager.
  • Google Cloud Marketplace: CrowdStrike maintains Google Cloud marketplace and partner presence with integrations for Google Cloud environments, including Chronicle, Security Command Center, OS Configuration Management, Pub/Sub, and Google Workspace-related telemetry flows.
  • Microsoft Marketplace: CrowdStrike offers the Falcon platform through Microsoft Marketplace and supports Microsoft integrations such as Entra ID access management and Azure-based sensor deployment for virtual machines.

Key People

  • George Kurtz: CEO & Founder
  • Michael Sentonas: President
  • Burt Podbere: Chief Finance Officer
  • Daniel Bernard: Chief Business Officer
  • Elia Zaitsev: Chief Technology Officer
  • Andy Duffett: Chief Commercial Officer
  • Jennifer Johnson: Chief Marketing Officer
  • Cathleen Anderson: Chief Legal Officer
  • J.C. Herrera: Chief Human Resources Officer
  • Thomas Etheridge: Chief Global Professional Services Officer
  • Justin Acquaro: Chief Information Officer

Key Facts

  • Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States
  • Employees: 10,698
  • Annual Revenue: US$4.81 billion
  • Parent Company: None
  • Subsidiaries: Approximately 13 subsidiaries, including CrowdStrike, Inc., CrowdStrike UK Limited, CrowdStrike Israel R&D Ltd., CrowdStrike India Private Limited, CrowdStrike GmbH, Onum Technology Inc., SGNL.AI, Inc., and Seraphic Algorithms Ltd.
  • Publicly Listed: NASDAQ: CRWD

Analyst Recognitions

  • Gartner: 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Managed Detection and Response — Customers’ Choice. 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for User Authentication — Customers’ Choice. 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms — Leader. 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management — Visionary.
  • Forrester: The Forrester Wave: Managed Detection and Response Services in Europe, Q3 2025 — Leader. The Forrester Wave: Managed Detection and Response Services, Q1 2025 — Leader.
  • IDC: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Incident Response Services 2025 Vendor Assessment — Leader. IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Exposure Management 2025 Vendor Assessment — Leader. IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform 2025 Vendor Assessment — Leader.
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