CrowdStrike
Cybersecurity & Endpoint ProtectionGlobal cybersecurity leader delivering cloud-native endpoint security, threat intelligence, and AI-powered cloud workload defense.
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Quick Facts
- Headquarters
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Founded
- 2011
- Employees
- 7,900+
- Valuation
- Nasdaq Listed (CRWD) — ~$75B Cap
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is an American cybersecurity technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2011 by George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch, CrowdStrike pioneered cloud-native endpoint protection by replacing signature-based antivirus with behavioral AI and graph analytics on its single lightweight sensor.
The core of CrowdStrike's offering is the Falcon platform and the Threat Graph, which analyzes trillions of security events weekly across global endpoints. Beyond endpoint detection and response (EDR), CrowdStrike provides managed threat hunting (Falcon OverWatch), identity threat protection, cloud security (CNAPP), and next-generation SIEM.
What CrowdStrike Does
Falcon Endpoint Security & XDR
Next-gen antivirus, endpoint detection and response (EDR), device control, and automated remediation on a single lightweight sensor.
Cloud Security & Workload Defense
Cloud security posture management (CSPM), runtime container protection, and cloud native application protection (CNAPP).
Identity Protection & Next-Gen SIEM
Detecting credential theft, real-time Active Directory inspection, conditional access, and Falcon LogScale petabyte analytics.
Falcon OverWatch & Intelligence
24/7 human threat hunting, nation-state adversary attribution, dark web monitoring, and digital forensics services.
Career Areas
Types of professional roles found inside CrowdStrike.
- Endpoint Kernel & Systems Software
- Threat Hunting & Reverse Engineering
- Cloud Scale & Distributed Graph Databases
- Incident Response & Forensics Consulting
CrowdStrike's History
- 2011Founded by George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch
Founded to reinvent cybersecurity from the ground up using cloud architecture, real-time telemetry, and behavioral analytics.
- 2013CrowdStrike Falcon Platform Launch
Launches the Falcon platform, unifying next-generation antivirus, EDR, and 24/7 threat hunting into a single agent.
- 2019Nasdaq Initial Public Offering
Completes successful IPO on Nasdaq, quickly becoming one of the most valuable cybersecurity software companies in the world.
- 2023Charlotte AI & Falcon LogScale
Introduces generative AI security analyst Charlotte AI and integrates Falcon LogScale to disrupt legacy SIEM markets.
Purpose & Values
“We stop breaches”
