Crowdstrike Holdings is an American global cybersecurity technology company with its corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The firm serves an international customer base and was founded in 2011 with the aim of advancing a new approach to protecting businesses against sophisticated malware attacks that were compromising cybersecurity and putting company and customer data at risk.
The firm’s approach focuses on pinpointing the source, or perpetrator, of the attack rather than just the malware itself. Its advanced platform delivers a broad range of cloud-based solutions for endpoint and cloud workload protection, including antivirus software, device control, endpoint detection and response, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence. The company’s cloud module solutions include Falcon Firewall Management, Falcon OverWatch, Falcon Device Control, and Falcon Search Engine.
Crowdstrike has been named as one of Forbes’ Most Promising Companies and a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. The firm was also awarded the highest rating among vendors named at the Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice Awards for two years running. It won the SC Magazine Best Security Company Award in 2020. The firm trades on the NASDAQ and is listed under the ticker CRWD.
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