George Kurtz

Today, with more than 4,500 customers and partners joining us at Fal.Con, the industry’s premier cybersecurity event, I was excited to unveil a host of powerful innovations that will unlock the power […]

The CrowdStrike 2023 Global Threat Report, among the most trusted and comprehensive research on the modern threat landscape, explores the most significant security events and trends of the previous ye[…]

At CrowdStrike, we stop breaches. It’s a simple yet powerful promise to our customers, our partners and to the world. As thousands join us today in person at Fal.Con 2022 in Las Vegas, and thousands m[…]

The theme of RSA Conference 2022 succinctly captures the aftermath of the disruption we’ve all experienced over the last couple of years: Transform. Customers continue to transform and accelerate digi[…]

The security problems that plague organizations today actually haven’t changed much in 30 years. Weak and shared passwords, misconfigurations and vulnerabilities are problems that have tormented the i[…]

For security teams on the front lines and those of us in the business of stopping cyberattacks and breaches, 2021 provided no rest for the weary. In the face of massive disruption brought about by the[…]

Since we founded CrowdStrike, one of the things I’m proudest of is our collective ability to work with customers to lead the industry forward. Leadership is more than just being the loudest voice or m[…]

The United States and like-minded nations face unprecedented threats from today’s adversaries. Continuous cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, supply chains, government agencies and more present s[…]

This announcement is part of the Fal.Con 2021 CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Conference, Oct. 12-14. Register now for free to learn all about our other exciting new products and partnerships! Our mission a[…]

We Stop Breaches. Each word in that statement is deliberate — and important. Stopping breaches is what CrowdStrike was created to do, and as a company, we’ve been delivering on that mission since Day […]

Everyone reading this will likely remember the year 2020 for the rest of their lives. It was a year of hardship and grief for many, as well as tumultuous social and economic change on a global scale. […]

At CrowdStrike, we don’t take half measures. When we commit to something, we commit — whether it’s taking on the endpoint protection market with a bold new approach, pursuing our global mission of sto[…]

The title of this blog might seem harsh, but in today's world we are in uncharted territory and the cold reality is that the strongest will survive and thrive, but they must transform first. If you ta[…]

In 2020, we saw a rapid shift to digital transformation, accelerating the adoption of cloud technologies across industries. This secular technology trend has increased the opportunities for targeted a[…]

In March 2020, at the beginning of the U.S. response to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, I expressed my gratitude for the healthcare workers and other first responders who put themselves at risk to en[…]

Let me start by expressing on behalf of the global CrowdStrike® team how grateful we are to the healthcare workers, law enforcement and first responders — and all individuals whose jobs require them t[…]

Those of us who have worked in cybersecurity for many years often start to think we’ve “seen it all.” We haven’t. This year’s CrowdStrike® Global Threat Report provides clear evidence of that. Conside[…]

Today, at the CrowdStrike® annual cybersecurity conference, Fal.Con UNITE 2019, I was thrilled to announce CrowdStrike Falcon®® for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which tailors the powerful Falcon endpoin[…]

This year’s launch of The CrowdStrike® Store, a marketplace for third-party apps that expand the capabilities of the CrowdStrike Falcon®® platform, was an important milestone in reaching CrowdStrike’s[…]

We are thrilled and honored to be positioned as a “Leader” in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP). This recognition from Gartner, which we believe is among the most[…]

I’m proud to announce that as of today, CrowdStrike® is a publicly traded company on The Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol "CRWD.” This marks a new chapter in our company’s journey and sign[…]

Update: CrowdStrike's 2020 Global Threat Report is now available. Download the report to stay ahead of today's adversaries. This year’s Global Threat Report: “Adversary Tradecraft and the Importance o[…]

I’m excited to tell you about CrowdStrike’s 2018 Summer Release, in particular, how we’ve expanded our automated threat intelligence solution, CrowdStrike Falcon® Intelligence™, adding more contextual[…]

I am very pleased to announce CrowdStrike’s Series E financing round of $200 million, led by General Atlantic, Accel, and IVP with participation from March Capital and CapitalG. After this round, the […]

I’m proud to announce that CrowdStrike® continues its mission to deliver the most powerful endpoint protection in the industry with our spring platform release — a trifecta of new security solutions d[…]

It's been another banner year for bad actors. Not only did the volume and intensity of cyberattacks hit new highs, the overall level of sophistication across the global threat landscape experienced a […]

“Vision without execution is hallucination.” – Thomas Edison In just our second year of inclusion in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms(EPP), I’m thrilled to announce that Cr[…]

Prior to co-founding CrowdStrike®, I was probably best known in the business world as one of the founders and CEO of Foundstone, a company that pioneered the vulnerability management space. In fact, I[…]

Today we are proud to announce the CrowdStrike Falcon® Search Engine, the largest and fastest search engine exclusively for cybersecurity professionals. We recognize the transformative effects that se[…]

When we founded CrowdStrike in 2011, cloud-based endpoint protection did not exist and the cloud was regarded as too risky for companies to use as a security platform. We set on a journey to bring muc[…]

The IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of information and communications technology (ICT) suppliers in a given market. The research met[…]

"Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done." — Bran Ferren. I am thrilled to announce that Gartner has named CrowdStrike a “Visionary” in the 2017 Magic Qu[…]

I often hear from Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) how hard their job is and how often they are in the ‘line of fire’ when bad things happen. I feel for CISOs, not only because their jobs a[…]

Many folks that track CrowdStrike’s progress are well aware that in 2015 we proudly announced that Google lead an investment round of $100M. After the round was completed, I had the opportunity to spe[…]

This is a question I ask a lot of organizations that I speak with. While the obvious answer should be both, if you had to stack rank the two what would you choose first? If you chose malware as the fi[…]

The joint U.S.-China cyber agreement announced today represents the next iteration of the ongoing cyber security saga between two world powers. For many years the security industry has been advocating[…]

It was almost four years ago that I co-founded CrowdStrike with intention of creating an enduring security company that would shake up the industry and change the way we think about and implement secu[…]

Many of my team members know that one of my favorite parts of running CrowdStrike is meeting with customers. It’s always fascinating to hear from customers about the challenges they face on a day-to-d[…]

At the 2014 RSA Conference in San Francisco, CrowdStrike CTO Dmitri Alperovitch and I presented the security community with a demo of CrowdResponse during the Hacking Exposed: Day of Destruction talk.[…]

On Tuesday, November 13, 2012, a previously unknown Linux rootkit was posted to the Full Disclosure mailing list by an anonymous victim. The rootkit was discovered on a web server that added an unknow[…]

CrowdStrike launches in stealth-mode with $26 million Series A round led b Warburg Pincus As I mentioned in a previous post, I was delighted to announce that I had joined Warburg Pincus, a leading glo[…]