CrowdStrike
By CrowdStrike Holdings
CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company best known for its Falcon platform, a cloud-native endpoint protection solution that combines antivirus, EDR, and threat intelligence to detect and stop breaches in real time.
Definition
CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company best known for its Falcon platform, a cloud-native endpoint protection solution that combines antivirus, EDR, and threat intelligence to detect and stop breaches in real time.
Overview
CrowdStrike's flagship product, Falcon, pioneered the cloud-native approach to Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). Rather than relying on periodic signature updates pushed to each device, a lightweight Falcon agent streams telemetry to CrowdStrike's cloud, where machine-learning models and threat intelligence analyze behavior in real time to detect malware, fileless attacks, and other malicious activity. The Falcon platform has expanded well beyond traditional antivirus into a broader security suite covering Extended Detection and Response (XDR), cloud workload protection, identity threat detection, and managed threat hunting delivered by CrowdStrike's own analysts. This positions it as a direct competitor to SentinelOne in the modern endpoint security market. CrowdStrike also publishes widely cited threat intelligence research through its Falcon OverWatch and intelligence teams, and its incident response arm is frequently engaged following major breaches, giving the company significant visibility in Threat Intelligence circles. In July 2024, a faulty Falcon sensor content update caused a widely reported global IT outage, which drew significant industry attention to how endpoint security updates are tested and rolled out.
Key Features
- Cloud-native Falcon agent with lightweight footprint on endpoints
- Real-time behavioral detection using cloud-based machine learning
- Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and antivirus in a single agent
- Extended Detection and Response (XDR) across endpoints, identity, and cloud
- Threat intelligence integration from CrowdStrike's research teams
- Managed threat hunting service (Falcon OverWatch)
- Incident response and forensics services for breached organizations