CrowdStrike’s ‘Incredibly Strong’ Platform Strategy Driving SIEM, AI Growth Surge: Partners

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They’re focused on 10 quarters from now.” In an interview with CRN, CrowdStrike co-founder and CEO George Kurtz said that the company’s single-agent architecture and cloud-native platform strategy are paying off in a major way, as the cybersecurity giant expands more broadly across the market. But it’s all integrated.” Solution provider executives who spoke with CRN applauded CrowdStrike’s forward-thinking platform strategy, which in recent quarters has helped lead to the company surpassing growth expectations even amid a challenging economic environment. 13 on CRN’s Solution Provider 500 for 2024, began its partnership in earnest with CrowdStrike about 18 months ago as part of its push to offer more “best-in-class” cybersecurity capabilities, said Brian McGrath, vice president of commercial and SMB sales at Somerset, N.J.-based SHI. “I think you can look at our results, and you can see that we’re taking market share from others that have traditionally been strong in the SMB.” The running theme across CrowdStrike’s channel efforts, according to Kurtz, is that investments made to bolster its work with partners in recent years are increasingly leading to major customer wins, both in endpoint security and in newer areas. That is, while CrowdStrike has already made a strong early push with its Charlotte AI technology, the vendor has also established trust that it will release even more advanced GenAI-powered capabilities in the future—“versus rushing and getting things to market that are just not ready to go,” he said.

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