CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company founded in 2011 to move endpoint security toward a cloud-based approach. Its Falcon platform was designed around a lightweight software sensor that gathers activity from computers and sends it to CrowdStrike’s cloud for analysis. The company became publicly traded on Nasdaq in 2019.

Falcon is used to detect, investigate, and respond to threats affecting employee devices, user identities, cloud systems, business applications, and data. The platform also includes threat intelligence, managed detection and response, vulnerability management, and security information and event management tools. CrowdStrike now incorporates AI into investigation and response workflows and offers controls for securing AI applications and agents. The company has operated with a distributed, remote-first workforce since its early years.