CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike is the market-defining Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) vendor, operating the Falcon platform — a single lightweight agent and cloud-native backend that correlates telemetry across endpoints, identities, cloud workloads, and network data. Unlike legacy AV vendors, CrowdStrike's intelligence-first model (OverWatch managed threat hunting, Adversary Intelligence) treats every endpoint as a global sensor contributing to a shared threat graph. Falcon Identity Threat Protection addresses lateral movement via credential theft — one of the most common attack patterns in modern breaches. CrowdStrike's 2024 Falcon sensor update incident — which caused widespread Windows BSOD outages — demonstrated both the depth of their OS-level integration and the systemic risk of update pipelines at global scale.

Falcon platform, EDR, XDR, threat intelligence, and identity security.