CrowdStrike was co-founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Gregg Marston, and has grown into one of the largest publicly traded cybersecurity companies, listed on Nasdaq since 2019 and added to the S&P 500 in 2024. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company built its reputation on the Falcon platform, a cloud-native agent that replaced legacy on-premise antivirus for endpoint detection and response.
Falcon runs a lightweight sensor on each protected device that streams telemetry to CrowdStrike's cloud, where machine-learning models trained on daily security events across its customer base flag malicious behavior, ransomware patterns, and identity-based attacks in real time, without relying on periodic signature updates. The same cloud graph powers CrowdStrike's threat-intelligence and incident-response arms, so detections from one customer's environment can sharpen protection across the entire Falcon customer base.
Falcon Go, the entry tier for smaller businesses running up to 100 devices, is priced at $59.99 per device per year and bundles next-gen antivirus, USB device control, and mobile protection; larger organizations move to Falcon Pro ($99.99/device/year), Falcon Enterprise ($184.99/device/year), or custom-quoted Falcon Elite for extended detection and response. A 15-day free trial covers the entry-level features, though there is no permanent free tier.
