CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike is a leading cybersecurity company whose Falcon platform delivers cloud-native endpoint protection and extended detection and response (XDR) through a single lightweight agent. Falcon combines next-generation antivirus, endpoint detection and response (EDR), threat intelligence, and AI-driven analytics in the cloud to stop breaches — detecting and responding to attacks in real time across endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, and data. Its single-agent, cloud-delivered architecture avoids heavy on-prem infrastructure and scales to large enterprises. The Falcon platform is modular and broad. Core tiers cover next-gen AV and device control (Falcon Go), firewall management (Falcon Pro), and EDR/XDR with managed threat hunting via OverWatch (Falcon Enterprise). Beyond endpoints, add-on modules span identity protection, cloud security (CSPM/CWPP), threat intelligence, exposure management, and next-gen SIEM (Falcon LogScale), plus Charlotte AI for AI-assisted security operations. This lets organizations consolidate multiple security tools onto one platform, though module choices drive total cost. CrowdStrike serves mid-market and enterprise security teams that need modern, cloud-delivered protection and consolidation. Pricing is per endpoint (commonly billed annually): Falcon Go around $59.99, Falcon Pro around $99.99, and Falcon Enterprise around $184.99 per endpoint per year, with add-on modules priced separately and volume/enterprise discounts common (effective per-endpoint costs vary widely by module mix). It competes with SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender, Palo Alto Networks, and Sophos, differentiating on its cloud-native single-agent platform and threat intelligence.