CrowdStrike

Extracted Attributes

• CEO

  George Kurtz

• Name

  CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.

• Type

  Publicly traded company

• Award

  Pwnie Awards

• Founded

  2011-08-29

• Founders

  George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, Gregg Marston

• Former CTO

  Dmitri Alperovitch

• Key Product

  CrowdStrike Falcon platform

• Headquarters

  Austin, Texas, United States

• CFO (retired)

  Gregg Marston

• Specialization

  Cloud workload and endpoint security, threat intelligence, cyberattack response services

• Stock Exchange

  NASDAQ (CRWD)

• Global Operations

  US, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific

• Number of Employees

  7925

Timeline

• CrowdStrike was co-founded by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Gregg Marston. (Source: Wikidata, Web Search)

  2011-08-29

• Shawn Henry was hired to lead CrowdStrike Services, Inc., a subsidiary offering security and response services. (Source: Web Search)

  2012

• Launched CrowdStrike Falcon, its first antivirus product. (Source: Web Search)

  2013-06

• CrowdStrike's reports helped the United States Department of Justice charge five Chinese military hackers with economic cyber espionage. (Source: Web Search)

  2014-05

• Involved in investigating the Sony Pictures hack. (Source: Summary, DBPedia)

  2014

• Involved in investigating cyber attacks on the Democratic National Committee (DNC). (Source: Summary, DBPedia)

  2015-2016

• Involved in investigating the DNC email leak. (Source: Summary, DBPedia)

  2016

• CrowdStrike went public with an IPO on the NASDAQ stock exchange (CRWD). (Source: Web Search)

  2019

• Exceeded $1 billion in sales through AWS Marketplace within a calendar year and was named AWS 2024 Global Security Partner of the Year, among other AWS awards. (Source: Web Search)

  2024

• Faced scrutiny due to a disastrous software update that crippled millions of PCs, leading Elon Musk to remove the software from his companies. (Source: Summary, Related Document)

  2024

Web Search Results

• CrowdStrike - Wikipedia

  CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is an American cybersecurity technology company based in Austin, Texas. It provides endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services. [...] CrowdStrike was co-founded in 2011 by George Kurtz (CEO), Dmitri Alperovitch (former CTO), and Gregg Marston (CFO, retired). The following year, they hired Shawn Henry, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) official, to lead the subsidiary CrowdStrike Services, Inc., which offered security and response services. The company launched CrowdStrike Falcon, an antivirus package, as its first product in June 2013. [...] In May 2014, CrowdStrike's reports helped the United States Department of Justice to charge five Chinese military hackers with economic cyber espionage against U.S. corporations. CrowdStrike also uncovered the activities of Energetic Bear, a group connected to Russia's Federal Security Service that conducted intelligence operations against global targets, primarily in the energy sector.

• CrowdStrike Threat Intelligence: 3 Core Solutions Explained

  CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company that provides cloud-based endpoint security solutions. Its main product is the Falcon platform, which combines endpoint detection and response (EDR), threat intelligence, and threat hunting capabilities. [...] CrowdStrike focuses on protecting organizations against cyber threats, such as malware, ransomware, and advanced persistent threats (APTs). Unlike traditional antivirus solutions, CrowdStrike uses machine learning, behavioral analytics, and a lightweight agent to detect and respond to threats across multiple environments. This is part of a series of articles about CrowdStrike Falcon ## CrowdStrike Threat Intelligence Products [...] ### CrowdStrike Falcon Counter Adversary Operations Elite CrowdStrike Falcon Counter Adversary Operations (CAO) Elite is a threat intelligence solution backed by human analysts. CrowdStrike assigns each organization an experienced analyst, who provides actionable intelligence, tailored research, and threat hunting to protect against targeted attacks. Key features include:

• CrowdStrike Inc Company Profile - GlobalData

  CrowdStrike Inc (CrowdStrike) is a provider of cyber-security technology solutions. The company offers solutions including endpoint protection, threat intelligence, next-gen antivirus, incident response, ransomware, and endpoint detection and response. Its CrowdStrike Falcon platform provides businesses with visibility and protection into end points across enterprises and prevents attacks on endpoint on or off the network based on artificial intelligence technology. CrowdStrike caters to [...] finance, manufacturing, education, energy, retail, insurance, and airline markets. Its services include provision of fast incident responses, reporting on threat actors, detection of adversaries and proactive services. The company has operations in the US, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. CrowdStrike is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the US.

• CrowdStrike is the First Cloud-Native Cybersecurity ISV to ...

  About CrowdStrike CrowdStrike(NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data. [...] CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced it is the first cloud-native cybersecurity independent software vendor (ISV) to exceed $1 billion in sales through AWS Marketplace within a calendar year. This milestone underscores the ease and simplicity of AWS Marketplace – a curated digital catalog that customers can use to find, subscribe to, deploy and govern third-party software, data and services to build solutions and run their businesses – and the growing demand for cybersecurity [...] CrowdStrike was named the AWS 2024 Global Security Partner of the Year, AWS North America Marketplace Partner of the Year, AWS MENA Technology Partner of the Year, and AWS LATAM Public Sector Technology Partner of the Year – recognizing its critical role in helping customers secure innovation built on AWS. Supporting Quotes

• What is CrowdStrike? A Guide to the Cybersecurity Leader

  CrowdStrike is best known for its Falcon platform, an AI-driven, cloud-native solution that provides Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Managed Detection and Response (MDR), and next-gen antivirus capabilities. Unlike traditional security tools, CrowdStrike delivers real-time threat intelligence, stopping cyber threats before they cause damage. [...] CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Gregg Marston with a bold mission: to revolutionize cybersecurity with a cloud-native approach. At the time, traditional antivirus solutions relied on outdated, signature-based detection, leaving organizations vulnerable to modern threats like fileless malware, ransomware, and advanced persistent threats (APTs). [...] CrowdStrike is a publicly traded company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange (CRWD). Since its IPO in 2019, it has grown rapidly, becoming one of the most trusted names in cybersecurity. ### Why CrowdStrike Became a Cybersecurity Leader

• Award

  Pwnie Awards

• Country

  United States

• Founder

  Dmitri Alperovitch

• Employees

  7,925

• Instance Of

  Q891723

• Headquarters

  Austin

• Inception Date

  8/29/2011

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is an American cybersecurity technology company based in Austin, Texas. It provides cloud workload and endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services. The company has been involved in investigations of several high-profile cyberattacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, the 2015–16 cyber attacks on the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and the 2016 email leak involving the DNC.