CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRWD) is a cybersecurity company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The firm was co-founded by George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch and became a publicly traded company following its initial public offering in 2019. CrowdStrike positions itself as a provider of cloud-native security solutions designed to protect endpoints, cloud workloads, identities and data against sophisticated cyber threats.
The company's core offering is the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, a modular, cloud-delivered security architecture that combines endpoint protection (EPP), endpoint detection and response (EDR), threat intelligence, and device control through lightweight agents and centralized telemetry. Falcon modules address a range of needs including next-generation antivirus, managed detection and response, cloud workload protection, identity protection and vulnerability management, allowing customers to adopt capabilities incrementally or as an integrated suite.
CrowdStrike emphasizes the use of machine learning, behavioral analytics and threat intelligence to detect and prevent attacks in real time, and it operates managed services such as Falcon OverWatch for proactive threat hunting and incident response engagements to support customers during complex breaches. Its subscription-based, software-as-a-service delivery model is intended to simplify deployment, scale across large distributed environments and reduce on-premises infrastructure requirements.
The company serves a global customer base across commercial enterprises and public-sector organizations, with operations and customers in the Americas, EMEA and APAC. George Kurtz continues to lead the company as CEO, overseeing product development, go-to-market strategy and partnerships as CrowdStrike expands its platform capabilities and international presence.