Crowdstrike Holdings Stock Price, News & Analysis

CrowdStrike (CRWD) and Australia's Academic and Research Network (AARNet) have expanded their partnership to provide Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR, a 24/7 managed detection and response service, to Australia's research and education sector. The service, powered by CrowdStrike's AI-native Falcon platform, will be delivered through AARNet to help institutions defend against sophisticated cyber threats. This strategic partnership addresses the growing cybersecurity challenges faced by educational institutions, which are prime targets due to their valuable proprietary data and intellectual property, often combined with limited security resources. The service will be available either as a standalone offering or as an addition to existing AARNet Security Operations Center managed services.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has been recognized as a Customers' Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer' for Endpoint Protection Platforms report. The company achieved the highest number of 5-star ratings (450) among Customers' Choice vendors and maintains a 97% Willingness to Recommend score based on 601 responses as of January 2025. Notably, CrowdStrike is the only vendor to receive this recognition in every iteration since 2019. The Falcon platform, their AI-native security solution, unifies endpoint, identity, cloud, and Next-Gen SIEM capabilities. The platform features advanced AI-powered protection through innovations like CrowdStrike Signal and Charlotte AI, offering autonomous reasoning and action capabilities for enhanced threat detection and response.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has been named the Leader and Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR). The company achieved perfect 5/5 scores across all Emerging Feature categories and tied for highest marks in Key Features and Business Criteria. The report recognizes CrowdStrike's Falcon® platform as the most mature and complete solution for securing both human and non-human identities in hybrid environments. Key highlights include:

• Perfect scores in AI-Enhanced SecOPS/Copilot and Non-Human Identity Security
• Charlotte AI's autonomous triage system achieves >98% accuracy in threat detection
• Comprehensive protection against identity-based attacks, with 79% of initial access attacks now being malware-free
• Falcon Fusion SOAR enables automation of over 1,500 response actions

CrowdStrike (CRWD) announced the winners of its 2025 Europe Partner Awards at the third annual CrowdStrike Europe Partner Symposium in Budapest. The awards recognize outstanding partners for their contributions in helping customers implement the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon platform. Computacenter AG & Co. oHG emerged as the top winner, securing both the Central Europe Partner of the Year and Europe Partner of the Year awards.

Other notable winners include Softcat (North Europe), Telefónica Tech Spain (South Europe), Grant Thornton (MSSP Partner), NTT (GSI Partner), Cysiam (Rising Star), AWS (Cloud Solution Provider), and Zscaler (Tech Ecosystem Partner). Individual awards were presented to Lukasz Kowalski from E&Y (Technical MVP) and Holger Viehoefer from Computacenter (Channel MVP).

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has announced its integration into the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design architecture, enabling enterprises to protect their AI infrastructure, systems, and models. The integration allows organizations to deploy CrowdStrike's Falcon platform in NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory deployments, providing comprehensive security for AI implementations.

The collaboration combines CrowdStrike's AI-native cybersecurity capabilities with NVIDIA's AI Factory infrastructure, which supports the complete AI lifecycle from data ingestion to deployment. CrowdStrike's solution includes features like Falcon Cloud Security AI-SPM, AI Model Scanning, and Shadow AI detection, complemented by AI Red Team Services and Falcon Adversary OverWatch, to protect against threats such as data poisoning, model tampering, and sensitive data exposure.

The solution is deployable on-premises with NVIDIA Blackwell infrastructure, offering real-time, AI-powered cybersecurity for organizations accelerating their AI adoption.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has appointed Brad Burns as Chief Communications Officer (CCO) to lead the company's global communications strategy. Burns, previously serving as CCO at both Snowflake and Salesforce, brings over 20 years of experience in shaping market narratives and building scalable communications functions. Prior to these roles, he held senior communications positions at AT&T.

In his new role, Burns will focus on elevating CrowdStrike's position as the gold standard for modern cybersecurity platforms and strengthen relationships with government organizations to influence global cybersecurity policies. CEO George Kurtz emphasized the critical timing of this appointment as adversaries increasingly weaponize AI, highlighting the importance of communicating the Falcon platform's capabilities in defeating modern threats.

CrowdStrike (CRWD) has released its 2025 State of SMB Cybersecurity Report, revealing a significant gap between cybersecurity awareness and implementation among small and medium-sized businesses. While 93% of SMBs are aware of cyber risks and 83% have security plans, only 36% are investing in new tools, and a mere 11% have adopted AI-powered defenses.

Key findings show that SMBs with fewer than 50 employees are most vulnerable, with only 47% having security plans and over half spending less than 1% of their budget on cybersecurity. While 67% of SMBs prioritize affordability, only 57% focus on protection against advanced threats. Ransomware remains a significant concern, particularly for smaller teams, with 29% of SMBs under 25 employees reporting incidents.

In response, CrowdStrike has introduced Falcon Go, a solution designed specifically for SMBs, offering AI-powered security that's simple, effective, and affordable to implement.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has announced Terra Security as the winner of the second annual AWS and CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator, in collaboration with NVIDIA Inception. Terra Security was selected for its innovative agentic AI-powered continuous web application penetration testing solution.

The 2025 program attracted hundreds of applicants from the U.S., Israel, and Europe, with 36 early-stage startups participating in the 8-week, equity-free accelerator. Terra Security emerged victorious from 10 finalists at RSA Conference 2025, with Kenzo Security and Rig Security named as runners-up for their work in agentic AI-driven security and identity threat protection.

The judging panel included notable industry leaders: George Kurtz (CrowdStrike CEO), CJ Moses (Amazon CISO), and David Reber Jr. (NVIDIA CSO). The program provided participants with expert mentorship, technical guidance, funding resources, and go-to-market support.

CrowdStrike and ExtraHop have expanded their partnership to combat shadow AI risks in enterprises. The new integration combines ExtraHop's network intelligence with CrowdStrike's Falcon Next-Gen SIEM platform to provide real-time visibility and automated response to unauthorized AI usage.

The collaboration addresses a critical security challenge as employees increasingly adopt AI tools outside IT oversight. The integrated solution enables Security Operations Center (SOC) teams to:

• Identify unauthorized AI models and agents
• Monitor usage patterns across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments
• Automate containment actions to protect sensitive data

Through this partnership, organizations can embrace AI innovation while maintaining security control. The integration leverages ExtraHop's network telemetry capabilities and CrowdStrike's Falcon Fusion SOAR to deliver comprehensive protection against shadow AI threats.