CrowdStrike Expands Partner Footprint and Alliances Globally on the Heels of Rapid Growth
Company increases investments and expands its partner, channel and alliances in critical regions due to global demand for its groundbreaking technology
Sunnyvale, CA — August 7, 2018 — CrowdStrike® Inc., the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, today announced the explosive growth of its channel operations and partner ecosystem. This news comes following record partner momentum and sales acceleration through the first half of 2018 and the company announcing a Series E round of $200 million.
Additionally, CrowdStrike announced an expansion of its relationship with Dragos, launching a joint Incident Response (IR) retainer offering. The service is designed to provide a one-stop shop solution allowing organizations to quickly and effectively respond to and prevent threats targeting both endpoints and industrial control systems. These new offerings have been created to specifically meet the needs of IT and operational teams who are responsible for protecting critical organizational systems and infrastructure.
CrowdStrike continues to evolve its Elevate Partner Program with new categories in MSSP, cloud-workload procurements, and OEM/Embedded partnerships. CrowdStrike works with its partners to enable a “whole-ecosystem” approach based on six paths to partner engagement and profitability. Those being:
- Channel: Reselling through a rich program that focuses on the product first.
- Technology Alliances: Providing out-of-the-box integrations between the CrowdStrike technology and other innovative technologies to create complete customer solutions.
- MSSPs: Delivering value added services to customers with CrowdStrike as an enabling technology.
- OEMs: Embedding CrowdStrike technology into third-party hardware, software, and service solutions.
- CrowdStrike Platform: Building applications that based on data from the Falcon platform deliver high-value insights to customer environments.
- Cloud Procurements: Leveraging CrowdStrike to empower security teams with improved visibility and control for cloud-based infrastructure and workloads.
- 375 percent growth in partner sourced business
- 387 active partners
- 370 percent increase in deal registrations
- 477 percent CAGR of partner-driven closed business