Business Description

Overview Founded in 2011, CrowdStrike reinvented cybersecurity for the cloud and artificial intelligence (“AI”) era and transformed the way cybersecurity is delivered and experienced by customers. When we started CrowdStrike, cyberattackers had an asymmetric advantage over legacy cybersecurity products that could not keep pace with rapid changes in adversary tactics, a dynamic that has intensified as adversaries increasingly leverage automation, identity abuse, and AI to operate at machine speed. We took a fundamentally different approach to solve this problem with the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform, which serves as the operating system for cybersecurity. CrowdStrike built the first, true, cloud-native platform with AI at the core, capable of harnessing vast amounts of security and enterprise data to drive real-time security decisions and response – stopping breaches at scale through a single lightweight sensor. The CrowdStrike Falcon platform is designed to be the definitive platform for cybersecurity consolidation, purpose-built to stop breaches. The platform’s single, lightweight sensor collects and integrates data from across the enterprise, including endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, and third-party sources. This data is ingested once and reused across multiple security functions, forming the foundation for detection, investigation, and response across the platform. We use this to train our AI to detect and prevent threats and drive workflow automation to give security teams machine speed advantage to stop adversaries. By consolidating and replacing legacy point products and fragmented platforms across key areas of security and IT, the Falcon platform delivers a unified, modern approach that increases capabilities, reduces complexity, and lowers costs – all while stopping breaches. We believe our approach has defined a new category called the AI Security Cloud, which has the power to transform the cybersecurity industry the same way the cloud has transformed the customer relationship management, human resources, and service management industries. Using cloud-scale AI, our AI Security Cloud enriches and correlates trillions of cybersecurity events per week with indicators of attack, threat intelligence, and enterprise data (including data from across endpoints, workloads, identities, DevOps, IT assets, configurations and AI interactions). This data is continuously curated, labeled, and validated through real-world security operations, including managed detection and response, threat intelligence, and incident response activities, creating high-fidelity intelligence grounded in real adversary behavior and outcomes – cyber Reinforced Learning from Human Feedback (“RLHF”) at scale. This intelligence is used to train and refine our AI models, enabling the Falcon platform to provide real-time context on adversary behavior, inform security decisions, and automatically prevent threats across our customer base. The more data that is fed into our Falcon platform, the more intelligent the AI Security Cloud becomes, the stronger our ability to anticipate and counter evolving adversary tradecraft, and the more our customers benefit, creating a powerful network effect that increases the overall value we provide. CrowdStrike: The Architectural Purpose Behind the Platform Our Falcon platform was purpose-built in the cloud to harness the power of data and AI to deliver the next generation of automated protection and provide threat hunters with the intelligence required to stop sophisticated attacks, including malware-free and fileless attacks. This approach has made CrowdStrike an industry leader in protection across endpoints, cloud workloads, identity data, and AI systems, delivering consistent security execution across hybrid and cloud environments, and allowing us to rapidly extend this best-in-class protection across new and emerging areas of enterprise risk.…