CrowdStrike have had an exciting few weeks, building partnerships and announcing new products. As mentioned recently in Linkfest, the already strong partnership with Google took a leap forward after it was announced that CrowdStrike's threat-hunting team will now run Mandiant (a cybersecurity firm owned by Google).
Even more interesting is that CrowdStrike announced Falcon for Microsoft Defender last week. This means that CrowdStrike's Falcon, which is specialist software for endpoint security, will run in parallel with Microsoft Defender (Microsoft's endpoint security system) to protect the multiple layers of Microsoft's enterprise software for third-party clients.
CrowdStrike views Microsoft as their main competitor in the endpoint market. Clients who use Microsoft and do not fully trust Defender, can now seamlessly add an extra layer of security. You can be sure too that if there is a breach of Defender and Falcon picks it up, CrowdStrike will let clients know how much more efficient they are. Sounds like a smart move to me. I wonder how Microsoft feels about it?