Executive Viewpoint
CrowdStrike and Intel Research Collaborate to Advance Endpoint Security Through AI and NPU Acceleration
Your business is in a race against modern adversaries — and legacy approaches to security simply do not work in blocking their evolving attacks. Fragmented point products are too slow and complex to d[…]
CrowdStrike Teams with the MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defense to Develop ATT&CK Defense for IaaS
I’m thrilled to announce CrowdStrike’s agreement to acquire Flow Security, a pioneer in data security posture management (DSPM) and the industry’s first and only cloud data runtime security solution. […]
CrowdStrike ShellShock Scanner - New Community Tool
CrowdStrike is proud to announce its official sponsorship of the Mac Admins Community through its not-for-profit arm, the Mac Admins Foundation. CrowdStrike joins a distinguished list of sponsors at t[…]
CrowdStrike Launches Free Tool to Identify and Help Mitigate Risks in Azure Active Directory
Forrester has named CrowdStrike a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection And Response Services In Europe, Q4 2023, only a few months after naming CrowdStrike a Leader in The Forrester Wave™:[…]
CrowdStrike Partners with Box to Add Automated Protections Against Security Breaches and Data Loss
Cyber risks for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have never been higher. SMBs face a barrage of attacks, including ransomware, malware and variations of phishing/vishing. This is one reason wh[…]
CrowdStrike Heartbleed Scanner - Update
The endpoint is both the hub of modern productivity and the epicenter of organizational risk. As the endpoint emerged as the technology interface between humans and the digital world, it also became t[…]
CrowdStrike Scores 100% in SE Labs Q2 2023 Enterprise Advanced Security Detection Test, Wins AAA Award
The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform achieves 100% protection, 100% visibility and 100% analytic detection across all steps in the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations: Enterprise. CrowdStrike’s results de[…]
Coming Soon to Las Vegas: Fal.Con 2022 Event Highlights and Special Guests
Today, with more than 4,500 customers and partners joining us at Fal.Con, the industry’s premier cybersecurity event, I was excited to unveil a host of powerful innovations that will unlock the power […]
CrowdStrike to Acquire Reposify to Reduce Risk Across the External Attack Surface and Fortify Customer Security Postures
I’m excited to share that today at Fal.Con, CrowdStrike announced it has agreed to acquire Bionic, a pioneer of application security posture management (ASPM). This will give our customers the most se[…]
The Common Cloud Misconfigurations That Lead to Cloud Data Breaches
The cloud has become the new battleground for adversary activity: CrowdStrike observed a 95% increase in cloud exploitation from 2021 to 2022 and a 288% jump in cases involving threat actors directly […]
Meeting the Need for Speed in the SOC
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week voted to adopt new rules for how companies inform investors about cybersecurity concerns. The vote comes after years of gradually increasing[…]
CrowdStrike Enhances Falcon Discover to Reduce the Attack Surface, Streamline Operations and Lower Costs
Forrester has named CrowdStrike a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Q2 2023 which recognizes how CrowdStrike’s “exceptional” Falcon Complete MDR service “blends prod[…]
CrowdStrike and Cloud Security Alliance Collaborate to Enable Pervasive Zero Trust
Cybersecurity is often about making progress: Progress in the way organizations procure, deploy and manage software; in the new skills and techniques teams acquire to run their cybersecurity programs;[…]
CrowdStrike Named a Leader Again in Gartner 2021 Magic Quadrant for EPP; Placed Furthest on Completeness of Vision
We believe our recognition in the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms reinforces CrowdStrike’s position as a cybersecurity leader, innovator and visionary placing farthest to the rig[…]
2021 Global Threat Report: Analyzing a Year of Chaos and Courage
The CrowdStrike 2023 Global Threat Report, among the most trusted and comprehensive research on the modern threat landscape, explores the most significant security events and trends of the previous ye[…]
CrowdStrike Pursues Higher Standards in Cloud Compliance To Better Protect Our Federal Customers
CrowdStrike maintains endpoint security market leadership with a #1 ranking in IDC’s 2021-2022 report, and has been awarded Best Endpoint Detection and Response and Best Product Development by SE Labs[…]
CrowdStrike Falcon® Spotlight Fuses Endpoint Data with CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
Resilient cybersecurity posture can only be achieved with a full understanding of your internal and external attack surface. CrowdStrike Falcon® Surface builds on our award-winning adversary intellige[…]
Managed Threat Hunting Meets the Challenge of the Tenacious Adversary
With the end of the year fast approaching, many of us are looking forward to a well-deserved break. However, security practitioners and security leaders worldwide are bracing themselves for what has b[…]
5 Partner Predictions for 2023 from CrowdStrike’s Channel Chief
As vice president of global alliances for CrowdStrike, I have the pleasure of meeting daily and weekly with our partners around the globe to ensure that CrowdStrike is addressing their needs and the n[…]
CrowdStrike Falcon Platform Achieves 100% Ransomware Prevention with Zero False Positives, Wins AAA Enterprise Advanced Security Award from SE Labs
CrowdStrike achieved 99% detection coverage by conclusively reporting 75 of the 76 adversary techniques during the MITRE ATT&CK evaluation. Leveraging the power of the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform wit[…]
When CrowdStrike Is #1, Our Customers Win
At CrowdStrike we’re proud to be a cybersecurity market leader. We don’t rest, we fight every day to be and stay #1 and I want to tell you why. You probably know that CrowdStrike is a passionate suppo[…]
eCriminals Share Ways to Impersonate School Staff to Steal Paychecks
Cyber threats to elections in the U.S. and abroad remain at an elevated level and continue to evolve. It’s appropriate and encouraging to see continued growth and investment in cybersecurity efforts w[…]
CrowdStrike to Acquire Flow Security, Sets the Standard for Modern Cloud Data Security
The digital footprint of the modern organization is expanding at an unprecedented rate. The move to the cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), digital transformation, connected supply chain partners and rel[…]
CrowdStrike “Dominates” in Endpoint Detection and Response
At CrowdStrike, we stop breaches. It’s a simple yet powerful promise to our customers, our partners and to the world. As thousands join us today in person at Fal.Con 2022 in Las Vegas, and thousands m[…]
CrowdStrike Announces Falcon LogScale and Falcon Complete LogScale
Every second, as your IT systems run every facet of your business, they are also creating data related to the health, performance and security of the systems themselves. This information, known as log[…]
CrowdStrike Announces 2022 Partners of the Year at Fal.Con
Each year, CrowdStrike continues to partner with leading organizations worldwide to help customers drive their business and stop breaches. During the Partner Summit at Fal.Con 2022, we announced the C[…]
Threat Actor Uses Fake CrowdStrike Recovery Manual to Deliver Unidentified Stealer
The countdown continues! As Fal.Con 2022 quickly approaches, we’re excited to share more information about the security industry visionaries and notable talks on the agenda for the sixth annual CrowdS[…]
Could you be a threat hunter? Humio and Corelight make it easy for customers to get started with threat hunting
The countdown has begun! In less than a month, we’ll gather in Las Vegas for Fal.Con 2022, the sixth annual CrowdStrike cybersecurity conference. We’re excited to bring you an event packed with produc[…]
CrowdStrike Expands XDR Ecosystem to Give Customers a Data Advantage
In the cybersecurity industry, understanding the value and impact of the critical technology we use to keep organizations safe can often become lost in translation. This is undoubtedly the case with e[…]
CrowdStrike’s Adversary Universe World Tour: Coming to a City Near You!
And we’re off! The CrowdStrike Adversary Universe® World Tour (AUWT) kicked off with a standing-room-only event in Brisbane, Australia on July 12, 2022, followed by another full house in Melbourne on […]
Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study Shows 316% ROI for CrowdStrike Falcon®
The theme of RSA Conference 2022 succinctly captures the aftermath of the disruption we’ve all experienced over the last couple of years: Transform. Customers continue to transform and accelerate digi[…]
Falcon Complete for Service Providers: New Program Expands Access to Market-Leading MDR Service
It’s been several years since we’ve been at the RSA Conference in person and having face-to-face interaction is invaluable — the energy here is palpable. The theme for RSAC 2022 is “transform.” It's a[…]
Introducing AI-Powered Indicators of Attack: Predict and Stop Threats Faster Than Ever
Driven by all the new technologies being adopted and the move to the cloud, the number and types of assets an organization has to manage increased nearly fourfold over the last 10 years. As a result, […]
CrowdStrike Delivers Adversary-Focused, Platform Approach to CNAPP and Cloud Security
CrowdStrike Falcon® delivers comprehensive cloud security, combining agent-based and agentless protection in a single, unified platform experience Integrated threat intelligence delivers a powerful, a[…]
CrowdStrike Falcon® Awarded AV-Comparatives Approved Business Security Product for the Second Time in 2021
In this blog you will: Learn how to leverage the CrowdStrike Falcon® Spotlight™ integrated threat and vulnerability management module to fuse your endpoint telemetry with CISA's Known Exploited Vulner[…]
CrowdStrike on Dark Reading: Why “Breakout Time” Is Critical to Your Security Strategy
“CrowdStrike dominates in EDR while building its future in XDR and Zero Trust.” — The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Detection and Response Providers, Q2 2022 We are excited that Forrester has named CrowdS[…]
Who is EMBER BEAR?
4/4/22 Editor’s note: The hearing described below has been rescheduled for 10 a.m. EST on Tuesday, April 5. On Wednesday, March 30, 2022, Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike Senior Vice President of Intelligence[…]
CrowdStrike Named a Leader in Forrester Wave for Cloud Workload Security
CrowdStrike has been recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Cybersecurity Incident Response Services. When it comes to incident response (IR), time is of the essence. The longer it takes to[…]
Mergers and Acquisitions: Cybersecurity Due Diligence
CrowdStrike last week announced Michael Rogers was promoted to vice president of global business development, channel and alliances. His appointment comes after years of driving growth in CrowdStrike’[…]
CrowdStrike and AWS Expand Integrations to Provide Customers Multi-layered Protection Against Ransomware Attacks and Sophisticated Threats
The security problems that plague organizations today actually haven’t changed much in 30 years. Weak and shared passwords, misconfigurations and vulnerabilities are problems that have tormented the i[…]
CrowdStrike Identifies New Kiss-a-Dog Cryptojacking Campaign Targeting Vulnerable Docker and Kubernetes Infrastructure
The year 2022 is a transformational one for F1. It’s hard to overstate just how much has changed to the regulations that govern this sport — the fact that those regulations have doubled in size should[…]
2022 Global Threat Report: A Year of Adaptability and Perseverance
For security teams on the front lines and those of us in the business of stopping cyberattacks and breaches, 2021 provided no rest for the weary. In the face of massive disruption brought about by the[…]
Check for Vulnerability Exposure to CVE-2021-3156 (Baron Samedit) with Falcon Spotlight
This week we announced the general availability of CrowdStrike’s newest innovation, CROWDSTRIKE FALCON® XDR, and I couldn't be more excited. Using our same single, lightweight agent architecture, CROW[…]
Technical Details: Falcon Content Update for Windows Hosts
Since we founded CrowdStrike, one of the things I’m proudest of is our collective ability to work with customers to lead the industry forward. Leadership is more than just being the loudest voice or m[…]
Technical Analysis of the WhisperGate Malicious Bootloader
On Jan. 15, 2022, a set of malware dubbed WhisperGate was reported to have been deployed against Ukrainian targets. The incident is widely reported to contain three individual components deployed by t[…]
CrowdStrike CEO: Pandemic Fuels Digital and Security Transformation Trends
Since we founded CrowdStrike, we’ve paved the way as one of the most prominent remote-first companies. We’ve planted roots in communities around the world — from Sunnyvale to London and from Pune to T[…]
Trust Erodes Amid Ransomware Growth: 2021 CrowdStrike Global Security Attitude Survey
Customers of mainstream software providers continue to face a crisis of trust, say IT and security chiefs, while cyberattacks are more costly and anxieties around these attacks continue to grow — espe[…]
CrowdStrike to Acquire Bionic to Extend Cloud Security Leadership with Industry’s Most Complete Code-to-Runtime Cybersecurity Platform
Update: CrowdStrike Completes Acquisition of SecureCircle — read more here. In today’s enterprise, everything flows through the endpoint. Users and identities are authenticated through the endpoint, w[…]
Putting “Cybersecurity First” Is Enabling and Essential for Business, CrowdStrike Leaders Say
This is Part 4 in our four-part blog series for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3. For the longest time security has been about developing defenses around innovation that ha[…]
How Well Do You Know Your Attack Surface? Five Tips to Reduce the Risk of Exposure
This is Part 3 in our four-part blog series for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4. A career in cybersecurity is increasingly coveted, with more people seeking to enter an in[…]
Why Phishing Still Works (and What To Do About It)
This is Part 2 in our four-part blog series for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Read Part 1 | Part 3 | Part 4. This week's Cybersecurity Awareness Month's theme, “Fight the Phish,” is a very challengin[…]
CrowdStrike Strengthens Exploit Protection Using Intel CPU Telemetry
This announcement is part of the Fal.Con 2021 CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Conference, Oct. 12-14. Register now for free to learn all about our other exciting new products and partnerships! SecOps has a […]
Falcon Spotlight Is Changing the Game: Vulnerability Management With Ever-Adapting AI
This announcement is part of the Fal.Con 2021 CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Conference, Oct. 12-14. Register now for free to learn all about our other exciting new products and partnerships! Our mission a[…]
How to Mature Your Threat Intelligence Program
This announcement is part of the Fal.Con 2021 CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Conference, Oct. 12-14. Register now for free to learn all about our other exciting new products and partnerships! Security pros[…]
Introducing CrowdStrike Falcon Complete XDR: Solving the Cybersecurity Skills Gap with Managed XDR
This announcement is part of the Fal.Con 2021 CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Conference, Oct. 12-14. Register now for free to learn all about our other exciting new products and partnerships! When it comes[…]
On-Demand Webcast Discusses “Making 60-Minute Remediation a Reality”
This is the first blog post in our four-part series for 2021 Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Read Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4. Cybersecurity Awareness Month's Week 1 theme of “Be Cyber Smart” presents a g[…]
Humio Named a 2020 Gartner Cool Vendor
Humio delivers modern log management with streaming observability to enable customers to log everything and answer anything in real time. Today, Humio is proud to be recognized by Enterprise Managemen[…]
Vendor Hype Gives New Meaning to the Term “Zero Trust Security” (And Not in a Good Way)
If you’re a security professional, there’s a lot to keep you up at night, from crippling ransomware attacks to costly data breaches. That’s why you turn to trusted security solution providers, right? […]
RSA Conference 2021: Action Recap
We offer a sincere thank you to the many RSA Conference 2021 virtual attendees who visited our booth, watched one of our demos or sessions, or participated in one of our events. As you know, the confe[…]
CrowdStrike CTO Michael Sentonas Shares Insights on Humio
How do events such as the past year’s global pandemic, outcries for social justice and tumultuous elections affect cybersecurity? “These sorts of global events are the perfect storm for adversaries,” […]
The F1 “Pit Wall”: A Better Metaphor for Teamwork
In the split-second world of Formula One, what happens during a pit stop can make or break a race. Consider the precise choreography involved: The “wheel gunner” follows the car to its spot, removes t[…]
CrowdStrike Powers MXDR by Deloitte, Offering Customers Risk Mitigation with Powerful Customized and Managed Security Services
Looking back at RSA 2020, it truly seems like it occurred in a different world. Thousands of us ranged the halls of Moscone Center in San Francisco together, sat shoulder-to-shoulder in auditoriums, a[…]
New Cybersecurity Executive Order: What It Means for the Public Sector
I. Introduction The first half of 2021 has been one of the most eventful periods in memory for U.S. and Federal cybersecurity. High-profile supply chain attacks starting in late 2020 as well as this y[…]
Race to Register for RSA Conference 2021
RSA Conference 2021 is zooming closer! Our engines have been running at race speed preparing to deliver an action-packed virtual event. Be at the ready for our exciting announcements, including advanc[…]
CrowdStrike Positioned as a Magic Quadrant “Leader” and Furthest for “Completeness of Vision” in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for EPP
CrowdStrike’s position as a cybersecurity pioneer and innovator has we believe been reaffirmed in the Gartner 2021 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP), released today. This recognit[…]
Redefining the “We” in “We Stop Breaches”
We Stop Breaches. Each word in that statement is deliberate — and important. Stopping breaches is what CrowdStrike was created to do, and as a company, we’ve been delivering on that mission since Day […]
CrowdStrike’s Approach Echoed in RSA 2020 Theme, “Human Element”
RSA Conference 2021 is right around the bend, and we’re revving our engines for an action-packed virtual event. We’ll be rolling out new capabilities and hitting on a range of hot topics, from Zero Tr[…]
CrowdStrike: Culture Can’t Be Copied
Culture affects organizational performance in ways that are hard to measure and predict. Changing a corporate culture is notoriously difficult to do and inevitably is never a quick fix. Yet, culture c[…]
CrowdStrike Delivers Protection for Critical Windows Certificate Spoofing Vulnerability
Please join me in welcoming a new addition to our CrowdStrike Racing and Formula One brand family: Starting today, CrowdStrike becomes the Official Mercedes Safety Car Partner, and the iconic Mercedes[…]
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Protecting Data in the Cloud Is a Shared Responsibility
In the era before cloud computing, enterprises could expect to be responsible for securing everything — the systems in the data center, their applications, everything. Today, cloud service providers a[…]
Beefing up the Sandbox (and More): Signature Chaining to Pinpoint More Malware Behaviors
Complacency kills competitive advantage. That’s true for every business I can think of. Calculated and inspired risk taking, coupled with an insatiable desire to succeed, is often the winning strategy[…]
The CrowdStrike 2020 Global Threat Report Reveals Troubling Advances in Cybercrime
Everyone reading this will likely remember the year 2020 for the rest of their lives. It was a year of hardship and grief for many, as well as tumultuous social and economic change on a global scale. […]
SUNSPOT: An Implant in the Build Process
In December 2020, the industry was rocked by the disclosure of a complex supply chain attack against SolarWinds, Inc., a leading provider of network performance monitoring tools used by organizations […]
CrowdStrike CEO Joins Power Panel Discussion with Zoom and Slack CEOs
Three business leaders whose companies have been technologically front and center since the outset of the global pandemic convened a “CEO Power Panel” at our Fal.Con 2020 cybersecurity conference. “If[…]
CrowdStrike Extends Identity Security Capabilities to Stop Attacks in the Cloud
The recent public disclosure regarding SolarWinds’ software being leveraged by advanced attackers, as well as FireEye’s disclosure of stolen red teaming tools, does not change the approach CrowdStrike[…]
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz in Forbes: Creating a Balanced Cybersecurity Portfolio
Acknowledging both the “staggering” changes security pros continue to face because of the pandemic, and their hard work during “exhausting, sometimes heartbreaking” times, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz[…]
New CrowdStrike Report Reveals Organizations’ Attitudes Toward Cybersecurity Readiness
Senior IT and security decision-makers around the world are concerned that the global pandemic and rapid adoption of a work-from-anywhere business model could negatively impact future growth, accordin[…]
Bird’s-Eye View of Fal.Con 2020
At CrowdStrike, we don’t take half measures. When we commit to something, we commit — whether it’s taking on the endpoint protection market with a bold new approach, pursuing our global mission of sto[…]
Key Findings from CrowdStrike’s 2024 State of Application Security Report
The unprecedented transformation that all organizations have undergone this year is reflected in the very nature of Fal.Con 2020, our 4th annual CrowdStrike® Cybersecurity Conference. This year, Fal.C[…]
CrowdStrike Advances the Use of AI to Predict Adversary Behavior and Significantly Improve Protection
In 2020, we saw a rapid shift to digital transformation, accelerating the adoption of cloud technologies across industries. This secular technology trend has increased the opportunities for targeted a[…]
CrowdStrike 2023 Global Threat Report: Resilient Businesses Fight Relentless Adversaries
Fal.Con 2020 is less than four weeks away, and we have lots of news to share about our 4th annual CrowdStrike® Cybersecurity Conference on October 15! Fal.Con 2020 has been completely reimagined to pr[…]
Build Your Cyber Resiliency at Fal.Con for Public Sector 2021
Nine years ago, we built CrowdStrike in the cloud, pioneering new technologies and rocketing our way to the forefront of cybersecurity — and this year, we’re leading the industry again with Fal.Con 20[…]
Securing Elections Globally: How CrowdStrike Is Helping
As a global leader in protecting elections, we want to explain our perspective on election security issues and share some resources with the elections community. Free and fair elections are the corner[…]
Fal.Con 2020: Why Cloud Security Innovation Is Critical
For almost every organization within the APJ region, the past four months have seen a fundamental shift in how they work, how employees interact with each other, and how they protect themselves agains[…]
CrowdStrike Named "Visionary" in Gartner Magic Quadrant
CrowdStrike, Netskope, Okta and Proofpoint are joining together to help better safeguard organizations by delivering an integrated, Zero Trust security strategy that is designed to protect today’s dyn[…]
We Stop. So You Can Go.
In March 2020, at the beginning of the U.S. response to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, I expressed my gratitude for the healthcare workers and other first responders who put themselves at risk to en[…]
The Business Case for “Remote-First”
How a distributed workforce enables better performance, stronger results and a positive culture Imagine it’s 2 a.m. ET on July 4. A New York-based financial services company is being targeted by a cyb[…]
CrowdStrike Falcon® Continues Impressive Record with Highest AAA Rating in SE Labs Enterprise Endpoint Protection Report
This week marks the release of results from the second iteration of MITRE’s recurring ATT&CK Evaluation program, and I could not be prouder of how CrowdStrike Falcon® performed. MITRE’s results have o[…]
Online Learning: Staying Ahead of Cyber Threats Anytime and Anywhere
While COVID-19 is requiring many people to remain at home, cyber threats are continuing — and even escalating as adversaries seek to take advantage of the global upheaval resulting from the new corona[…]
Why You Should Self-Isolate but Your IT Infrastructure Should Not
The term “social distancing” has swept across the world. It is an incredibly important response measure during a pandemic. The term is not new; just over 100 years ago, cities across the U.S. introduc[…]
Industry Outlook: A Long-Range View of the Cybersecurity Landscape
It seems like a long time ago, but RSA 2020 was only at the end of February. Although we’re currently battling the COVID-19 pandemic and racing to address current challenges, it’s worthwhile to take a[…]
Gem State University Saves a Small Fortune on TCO With Humio
Let me start by expressing on behalf of the global CrowdStrike® team how grateful we are to the healthcare workers, law enforcement and first responders — and all individuals whose jobs require them t[…]
Cybersecurity in the Time of COVID-19: Keys to Embracing (and Securing) a Remote Workforce
Today's declaration of a global pandemic by the World Health Organization underscores what we are all coming to realize: that the COVID-19 disease, caused by a variation of the coronavirus, is going t[…]
CrowdStrike Store Partners: Committed to Securing Your Remote Workforce
This year at RSA 2020, I was excited to announce the launch of several new offerings for our growing global ecosystem of technology alliance partners, CrowdStrike® Store application partners and Manag[…]
Global Survey: The Cybersecurity Reality of the COVID-19 Remote Workforce
Those of us who have worked in cybersecurity for many years often start to think we’ve “seen it all.” We haven’t. This year’s CrowdStrike® Global Threat Report provides clear evidence of that. Conside[…]
Hiding in Plain Sight: Using the Office 365 Activities API to Investigate Business Email Compromises
RSA 2020 has proven to be another breakthrough event for CrowdStrike®, including highlights such as winning the SC Media 2020 Excellence Award for Best Security Company. This award was presented at a […]
CrowdStrike Unifies Threat Data and AI for Next-Gen Managed Detection and Response
It’s that time of the year, and the RSA 2020 conference is proving to be as ambitious and jam-packed as ever. We are proud to have so many new CrowdStrike® product and service announcements to share w[…]
CrowdStrike at Oktane22: Celebrating Our Best-in-Class Partnership and Empowering Customers to Secure Identities
Another year has raced by, and RSA 2020 is only weeks away. CrowdStrike® is gearing up for our best event ever after closing a banner year that saw exciting additions to the CrowdStrike Falcon®® platf[…]
CrowdStrike Services Releases AutoMacTC 1.2.0
The CrowdStrike Services team has issued their latest report: “CrowdStrike Services Cyber Front Lines Report: Observations From the Front Lines of Incident Response and Proactive Services in 2019 and […]
CrowdStrike VP of Technology Strategy Offers Four Cyber Threat Predictions for 2020
2019 has ended and as we look forward to the new year, one thing you are sure to see is a barrage of cybersecurity predictions. Undoubtedly, they will range from realistic estimations to “finger in th[…]
Falcon FileVantage: New CrowdStrike File Integrity Monitoring Solution Creates Total Efficiency for SecOps
Today, at the CrowdStrike® annual cybersecurity conference, Fal.Con UNITE 2019, I was thrilled to announce CrowdStrike Falcon®® for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which tailors the powerful Falcon endpoin[…]
CrowdStrike Launch
This year’s launch of The CrowdStrike® Store, a marketplace for third-party apps that expand the capabilities of the CrowdStrike Falcon®® platform, was an important milestone in reaching CrowdStrike’s[…]
CrowdStrike Brings Extended Detection and Response to New z16 and LinuxONE 4 Single Frame and Rack Mount Models
I’m proud to announce that as of today, CrowdStrike® is a publicly traded company on The Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol "CRWD.” This marks a new chapter in our company’s journey and sign[…]
CrowdStrike 2019 Fall Platform Release: New Falcon Firewall Management Module and More
Today’s endpoint security solutions have been designed primarily to look at the local operating system (OS) and the applications that reside on top of it, remaining blind to computing layers below the[…]
CrowdStrike Named a Leader in the 2019 Forrester Wave for Endpoint Security Suites
"CrowdStrike is a global company built on three pillars: threat intelligence, endpoint protection, and incident response. Each of these capabilities not only informs the others but is buttressed by co[…]
At RSA, SC Magazine Names CrowdStrike Falcon® Intelligence Best Threat Intelligence Technology
CrowdStrike’s incredible success at this year’s RSA event included winning the SC Magazine 2019 Trust Award for Best Threat Intelligence Technology for CROWDSTRIKE FALCON® INTELLIGENCE™, our automated[…]
CrowdStrike Invests in and Partners with Prelude Security to Drive Continuous Security Testing and Validation for Our Customers
I am thrilled to announce the first endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution for mobile devices: CrowdStrike Falcon® for Mobile™. It is the only comprehensive tool that enables proactive threat […]
2019 Global Threat Report Shows It Takes Innovation and Speed to Win Against Adversaries
Update: CrowdStrike's 2020 Global Threat Report is now available. Download the report to stay ahead of today's adversaries. This year’s Global Threat Report: “Adversary Tradecraft and the Importance o[…]
Golang Malware Is More than a Fad: Financial Motivation Drives Adoption
The most essential concept in cybersecurity today is speed. Whether you are a defender or an attacker, you have to be faster than your opponent, or get inside of their OODA Loop, as the military strat[…]
Why the CrowdStrike Partnership With Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport is Passionately Driven
Last week, we announced our partnership with Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport to protect the Formula1® team. In a world where high-profile brands and global sporting events are in the sights of cybera[…]
Still Alive: Updates for Well-Known Latin America eCrime Malware Identified in 2023
A few months ago, the VP of security for a CrowdStrike® customer was considering adding another security tool at his company, which required installation of an endpoint agent. However, he was concerne[…]
Historic Partnership Between CrowdStrike, Dell and Secureworks Delivers True Next-Gen Security Without Complexity
Our exciting new partnership with Dell combines CrowdStrike® CrowdStrike Falcon® next-gen endpoint protection with Secureworks managed services to offer what Dell is calling, “the industry’s most secu[…]
CrowdStrike Falcon® Platform Identifies Supply Chain Attack via a Trojanized Comm100 Chat Installer
Partners are a core part of CrowdStrike’s business that allow us to reach more customers and meet the global demand for our technology. In our efforts to further these objectives, we are pleased to an[…]
Forrester Names CrowdStrike a Leader in the 2018 Wave for Endpoint Detection And Response
I am proud to announce that CrowdStrike® is positioned as a leader in the IDC MarketScape: U.S. Incident Readiness, Response, and Resiliency 2018 Vendor Assessment – Beyond the Big 5 Consultancies (do[…]
Podcast Features George Kurtz on What it Takes to Build a Unicorn
A lot has been written about why startups fail — a 2017 report from The Harvard Business Review puts the failure rate at 50 percent within the first five years. However, not as much information is ava[…]
CrowdStrike Expands Falcon Data Replicator Capabilities to Boost SOC Performance
As part of our ongoing initiative to expand CrowdStrike® operations in the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, I’m excited to tell you about the new CrowdStrike Innovation and Development Center in P[…]
How CrowdStrike Hunts, Identifies and Defeats Cloud-Focused Threats
I’m excited to tell you about CrowdStrike’s 2018 Summer Release, in particular, how we’ve expanded our automated threat intelligence solution, CrowdStrike Falcon® Intelligence™, adding more contextual[…]
CrowdStrike Falcon®: First Endpoint Protection to Integrate Firmware Attack Detection Capability
What is The CrowdStrike Foundation? Cybersecurity is not just a job, it’s a calling, a passion and most importantly, a necessity. It is also an exciting field with numerous disciplines encountering a […]
Why Cybersecurity Should be a Board-Level Discussion
The idea that cybersecurity is a board-level concern is not new. Private sector companies and their computer networks have been the target of cyberattacks for decades. This is because they generate th[…]
Why Australia Shouldn’t Ignore North Korea’s Cyber Regime
This article was originally published on The Australian Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) cyber adversaries represent some of the world’s most disruptive threat groups. They continue to gro[…]
CrowdStrike Changes Designation of Principal Executive Office to Austin, Texas
I am very pleased to announce CrowdStrike’s Series E financing round of $200 million, led by General Atlantic, Accel, and IVP with participation from March Capital and CapitalG. After this round, the […]
Taking Protection to a New Level: CrowdStrike Announces its $1 Million Breach Prevention Warranty
Although many industries have long offered product warranties to assure customers the products they purchase will function as advertised, this has not been true for cybersecurity. When a security prod[…]
Trying to Dance the Samba: An Exercise in Weaponizing Vulnerabilities
Introduction This blog tells the story of a failed Samba exploitation attempt. The goal was to assess what it would take for an adversary to weaponize publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Samba. The […]
CrowdStrike CEO and Co-founder George Kurtz Wins Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Security
A recent article in Entrepreneur Magazine titled, “I've Gone From Entrepreneur to the Corporate World and Back Again. This Is What It Takes to Lead a Company,” offers insights from CrowdStrike® CEO Ge[…]
CrowdStrike Delivers a Trifecta of New Products and Features: CrowdStrike Falcon® Intelligence, EPP Complete and Major Enhancements to Falcon Insight
I’m proud to announce that CrowdStrike® continues its mission to deliver the most powerful endpoint protection in the industry with our spring platform release — a trifecta of new security solutions d[…]
Operators of SamSam Continue to Receive Significant Ransom Payments
On March 22, the city of Atlanta, Georgia, was crippled by a ransomware attack that has since been identified as a SamSam (aka Samas and SamSa) ransomware variant — the work of a threat actor tracked […]
Noise Is the Problem — CrowdScore Is the Solution
It's been another banner year for bad actors. Not only did the volume and intensity of cyberattacks hit new highs, the overall level of sophistication across the global threat landscape experienced a […]
Lumma Stealer Packed with CypherIt Distributed Using Falcon Sensor Update Phishing Lure
“Vision without execution is hallucination.” – Thomas Edison In just our second year of inclusion in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms(EPP), I’m thrilled to announce that Cr[…]
RSAC 2022: Introducing CrowdStrike Asset Graph — the Path to Proactive Security Posture Management
Prior to co-founding CrowdStrike®, I was probably best known in the business world as one of the founders and CEO of Foundstone, a company that pioneered the vulnerability management space. In fact, I[…]
Meet the Protectors: New Video Series Spotlights Cybersecurity Leaders Powered by CrowdStrike
Given today’s global cyber threatscape, the increased amount of targeted attacks against the financial sector — and New York City’s position as the financial capital of the U.S. (though some would arg[…]
New Falcon Fund Helps Startups Develop Innovative Apps for the Falcon Platform
Today we are proud to announce the CrowdStrike Falcon® Search Engine, the largest and fastest search engine exclusively for cybersecurity professionals. We recognize the transformative effects that se[…]
Achieving Cybersecurity Effectiveness in a World of Advanced Threats
CrowdStrike CEO and co-founder George Kurtz was featured In a recent Forbes article, Security Advice from the CEO of the World's Newest Unicorn — CrowdStrike, where he outlined his recommendations for[…]
CrowdStrike Investors Double Down and Lead $100 Million Series D Round to Support the Company’s Global Growth
When we founded CrowdStrike in 2011, cloud-based endpoint protection did not exist and the cloud was regarded as too risky for companies to use as a security platform. We set on a journey to bring muc[…]
CrowdStrike Uncovers I2Pminer MacOS Mineware Variant
The IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of information and communications technology (ICT) suppliers in a given market. The research met[…]
CrowdStrike Named the Only Customers’ Choice in 2024 Gartner® “Voice of the Customer” for External Attack Surface Management
"Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done." — Bran Ferren. I am thrilled to announce that Gartner has named CrowdStrike a “Visionary” in the 2017 Magic Qu[…]
Mimikatz in the Wild: Bypassing Signature-Based Detections Using the “AK47 of Cyber”
November 2016 has been proclaimed Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month. This is an annual effort, beginning this year, to educate and engage citizens about the vital role critical inf[…]
CrowdStrike Falcon® and Humio: Leverage All Your FDR Data in One Place
We started CrowdStrike five years ago with the mission to revolutionize endpoint security. At that time, no one was talking about replacing legacy and bloated AV agents with a next-generation, cloud-d[…]
[OLD] The Power of The Platform: Spring Release Extends The CrowdStrike Falcon® Platform
Many folks that track CrowdStrike’s progress are well aware that in 2015 we proudly announced that Google lead an investment round of $100M. After the round was completed, I had the opportunity to spe[…]
M&A – Buying While Cyber Blind?
The year 2015 marked the highest ever value of mergers & acquisitions with an astounding $4.6 trillion. If 2016 follows this trajectory, we’re looking at over 18,000 M&A events to occur this year, man[…]
Are You More Interested in Stopping a Breach or Stopping Malware?
This is a question I ask a lot of organizations that I speak with. While the obvious answer should be both, if you had to stack rank the two what would you choose first? If you chose malware as the fi[…]
Top 5 Cybersecurity Mistakes Companies Make and How to Avoid Them
Cybersecurity requires a holistic organizational approach. From the leadership to each rank-and-file employee, a concerted effort must be maintained to establish, execute and follow-through with a pla[…]
U.S. - China Cyber Agreement: Trust, but Verify
The joint U.S.-China cyber agreement announced today represents the next iteration of the ongoing cyber security saga between two world powers. For many years the security industry has been advocating[…]
Going Beyond Malware: The Rise of “Living off the Land” Attacks
It was almost four years ago that I co-founded CrowdStrike with intention of creating an enduring security company that would shake up the industry and change the way we think about and implement secu[…]
VENOM Vulnerability: Community Patching and Mitigation Update
Today, CrowdStrike disclosed a critical virtual machine escape vulnerability (which we named VENOM) discovered by our Senior Security Researcher Jason Geffner. VENOM affects a number of open-source hy[…]
Unprecedented Announcement by FBI Implicates North Korea in Destructive Attacks
There is a curse that is purported to translate to an old Chinese Proverb - “May you live in interesting times.” These past few weeks have certainly been that. Today we have an unprecedented announcem[…]
Malware-Free Intrusions: Adversary Tricks and CrowdStrike Treats
‘Tis the season for trick-or-treating, so I thought it might be a good time to share some of the new tricks we’re seeing from the land of targeted adversaries in evading existing security defenses and[…]
New Container Exploit: Rooting Non-Root Containers with CVE-2023-2640 and CVE-2023-32629, aka GameOver(lay)
Every once in a while an adversary does something unique or interesting that really captures our attention. The majority of the remote access tools we come across generally run with limited privileges[…]
CrowdStrike Sets Highest Possible Standard in SE Labs Breach Response Test
A large number of ShellShock online vulnerability scanners have been released since the bug disclosure on September 24. These tools can be great for scanning external web servers, however, just as we'[…]
A Deep Dive into Custom Spark Transformers for Machine Learning Pipelines
For some time now, CrowdStrike has been working with a number of national security think tanks and human rights organizations on a pro bono basis to help them with their security posture. These organi[…]
*NEW* Community Tool: CrowdStrike Heartbleed Scanner
Since last week, several researchers and security companies have released free web-based scanners for the OpenSSL Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160) vulnerability independently revealed on April 7th. While th[…]
*NEW* Community Tool: CrowdResponse
At the 2014 RSA Conference in San Francisco, CrowdStrike CTO Dmitri Alperovitch and I presented the security community with a demo of CrowdResponse during the Hacking Exposed: Day of Destruction talk.[…]
Actionable Indicators for Detection of Signs of Compromise from Target-related Breaches
A lot of press stories and blogs have been written about the Target breach in the last month after Brian Krebs broke the story on December 20th. However, very little detail has been released up until […]
CrowdStrike Joins the MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defense’s “Summiting the Pyramid” Research Project to Make Analytics More Robust
CrowdStrike launches in stealth-mode with $26 million Series A round led b Warburg Pincus As I mentioned in a previous post, I was delighted to announce that I had joined Warburg Pincus, a leading glo[…]