CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity leader renowned for its cloud-native Falcon platform, which delivers next-generation endpoint protection, threat intelligence, identity protection, and extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, CrowdStrike pioneered the use of artificial intelligence and behavioral analytics to stop breaches in real time across endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, and data.

The Falcon platform is the foundation of all CrowdStrike offerings. Delivered entirely from the cloud, Falcon uses a lightweight agent deployed on endpoints that collects telemetry and ships it to the CrowdStrike cloud for analysis. The AI-powered threat detection engine processes trillions of security events per day, correlating indicators of attack across the global customer base to identify novel threats, advanced persistent threats (APTs), and sophisticated attacker techniques that evade signature-based detection.

Falcon Prevent is the next-generation antivirus module that replaces traditional signature-based AV with AI-based malware prevention. By analyzing file attributes, behaviors, and execution patterns, Falcon Prevent stops known and unknown malware without relying on signature updates. Falcon Insight XDR extends this visibility to the entire attack surface, correlating endpoint telemetry with network, identity, cloud, and third-party security data to provide a unified view of threats across the organization.

The Threat Graph is CrowdStrike's proprietary cloud-scale database that stores and correlates all endpoint activity collected from millions of sensors worldwide. When an attacker technique is observed anywhere in the customer base, the intelligence is immediately applied to protect all other customers, creating a collective defense model. This shared intelligence is what makes CrowdStrike's AI models increasingly effective over time.

CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence provides automated threat intelligence reports, malware analysis, and adversary tracking. The adversary intelligence capability tracks over 200 named threat actors by their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), enabling security teams to understand not just what happened but who is responsible and what they are likely to do next.

Falcon Identity Protection addresses the growing threat of identity-based attacks, providing continuous risk assessment of Active Directory accounts, detecting credential theft, lateral movement, and privilege escalation in real time. Falcon Cloud Security protects workloads running on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes from misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and runtime threats.

The CrowdStrike Falcon Complete managed detection and response (MDR) service provides 24x7 threat monitoring, investigation, and remediation by CrowdStrike's elite security analysts, giving organizations the benefit of a world-class security operations center without the cost of building one internally. Falcon Overwatch is the proactive threat hunting service that continuously searches for sophisticated threats that automated systems might miss.