Profile

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is an American cybersecurity technology company based in Sunnyvale, California. It provides endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services. The company has been involved in investigations of several high-profile cyberattacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, the 2015–16 cyber attacks on the Democratic National Committee , and the 2016 email leak involving the DNC. CrowdStrike was co-founded by George Kurtz , Dmitri Alperovitch , and Gregg Marston in 2011. In 2012, Shawn Henry, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation official, was hired to lead sister company CrowdStrike Services, Inc., which focused on proactive and incident response services. In June 2013, the company launched its first product, CrowdStrike Falcon, which provided threat intelligence and attribution to nation state actors that are conducting economic espionage and IP theft.[better source needed]