Crowdstrike Holdings - CRWD STOCK NEWS

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has released its 2025 Global Threat Report, revealing alarming trends in cybersecurity threats. The report highlights a 150% increase in China's cyber espionage operations, with targeted attacks in key sectors rising up to 300%.

Key findings include a 442% surge in voice phishing between H1 and H2 2024, driven by AI-powered social engineering. The report also shows that 79% of initial access attacks are now malware-free, while access broker advertisements increased 50% year-over-year.

Other significant findings include:

• Average eCrime breakout time decreased to 48 minutes
• 26% year-over-year increase in cloud intrusions
• 52% of observed vulnerabilities related to initial access
• 304 incidents linked to DPRK-nexus adversary FAMOUS CHOLLIMA, with 40% involving insider threats

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has become the first cloud-native cybersecurity ISV to exceed $1 billion in sales through AWS Marketplace within calendar year 2024. The company's deals average 4x larger when transacted through AWS Marketplace, with customers using an average of 7 CrowdStrike Falcon platform modules.

Key growth metrics include:

• 91% YoY global sales growth
• 48% YoY EMEA sales growth
• 136% YoY global public sector sales growth
• 3,548% YoY global growth in distributor sales

This milestone follows a strategic collaboration agreement with AWS in 2024, where Amazon unified its cybersecurity protection on the Falcon platform. CrowdStrike is expanding its use of AWS services, including Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker, to build and deploy custom models like Charlotte AI, their generative AI security analyst.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization for its Falcon® Exposure Management solution. This authorization enables U.S. government entities requiring FedRAMP Moderate authorization to utilize the solution through the CrowdStrike Falcon platform in GovCloud.

The authorization strengthens CrowdStrike's capability to serve federal, state, and local government entities and their supply chains. The solution provides comprehensive visibility and AI-driven vulnerability prioritization across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments, achieving a 98% reduction in critical vulnerabilities.

This development addresses the U.S. government's need for real-time visibility across complex environments, particularly against threats from nation-state adversaries like LIMINAL PANDA that exploit misconfigurations, unpatched systems, and supply chain gaps.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has announced the integration of its Falcon® Cloud Security with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This expansion comes as cloud intrusions saw a 75% increase last year, highlighting the growing challenges in managing cloud security.

The Falcon Cloud Security platform combines advanced cloud detection and response (CDR) capabilities with comprehensive CNAPP features, providing unified protection across multi-cloud environments. The solution aims to secure applications, data, identities, AI models, and SaaS environments through a single platform, addressing the fragmentation issues in current cloud security landscapes.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has announced the general availability of Falcon Identity Protection for Microsoft Entra ID, enhancing identity security across hybrid environments. This expansion unifies prevention, detection, and response to identity-based attacks by extending inline prevention to cloud-based Microsoft Entra ID.

The solution addresses critical security challenges, as 75% of initial access attacks are now malware-free, with adversaries exploiting trusted identities. Key features include real-time protection for Entra ID, unified identity and endpoint security through Microsoft's External Authentication Method integration, and hybrid risk-based conditional access.

The CrowdStrike Falcon platform leverages advanced AI trained on trillions of security events, native device trust data, and threat intelligence to analyze user behavior and privilege status, making risk-based access decisions for granting, blocking, or challenging initial access.

CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD) has announced a strategic partnership with Orange Cyberdefense to enhance cybersecurity services in Europe and North Africa. Orange Cyberdefense will integrate the CrowdStrike Falcon platform into its SOC-as-a-Service and managed detection and response (MDR) offerings.

This partnership aims to help Orange Cyberdefense consolidate point products and better protect customers, particularly Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) and Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) environments, with AI-native cybersecurity technology. The collaboration comes at a critical time as cyberattacks accelerate with breakout times now measured in minutes, and organizations face growing cybersecurity skills gaps.

The partnership addresses the concerning trend of increased cyber extortion targeting SMBs, which now represent over two-thirds of all observed cyber extortion victims. CrowdStrike's Falcon platform delivers protection across endpoint, identity, cloud and data from a single unified platform, enabling Orange Cyberdefense to provide comprehensive, localized managed security services.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has announced the selection of 36 startups for the second annual AWS and CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator, in collaboration with NVIDIA Inception. The eight-week program focuses on AI and cloud security innovation, featuring startups from the U.S., Israel, and Europe.

Participants will receive mentorship, technical expertise, funding opportunities, and go-to-market support. The program includes access to top cybersecurity investors and enablement sessions, culminating in a Demo Day at the RSA Conference 2025 in San Francisco. The winner, selected by an expert panel, may receive funding from the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund.

The initiative combines AWS's advanced generative AI services and secure cloud infrastructure with NVIDIA Inception and CrowdStrike's cybersecurity expertise to foster innovation in digital security. Among the selected startups are Agency, Alto Intelligence, Andromeda Security, Arcanna.ai, and several others, with some participants remaining in stealth mode.

CrowdStrike Holdings (Nasdaq: CRWD) has announced its upcoming participation in the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference. The event will take place in San Francisco on Thursday, March 6, 2025, with CrowdStrike's presentation scheduled for 7:45 a.m. PST.

Investors and interested parties can access the presentation through a live webcast, which will also be archived for future reference on CrowdStrike's investor relations website at ir.crowdstrike.com.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) announced the general availability of Charlotte AI Detection Triage, an agentic AI-driven security solution that triages security detections with over 98% accuracy. The system eliminates more than 40 hours of manual work per week on average, allowing Security Operations Center (SOC) teams to focus on critical threats.

Charlotte AI is trained on millions of real-world triage decisions from CrowdStrike Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR and combines AI with human expertise. The system operates within customer-defined bounded autonomy, ensuring security teams maintain full oversight of AI-driven decisions. It integrates with CrowdStrike Falcon Fusion to automate detection triage and response workflows, reducing mean time to respond (MTTR).