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CrowdStrike has announced the launch of its operations in Asia Pacific (APAC) by establishing a physical presence in Australia.
Coming off the back of robust customer and partner growth momentum globally, the move will cement CrowdStrike’s position as the leader in the next-generation endpoint protection market within the APAC region and facilitate new business development efforts.
The strategic decision to expand CrowdStrike’s presence into APAC follows a US$100 million Series C funding, led by Google Capital in 2015. Other existing investors include Warburg Pincus, Accel and Rackspace.
“CrowdStrike is seeing significant growth in APAC, and Australia in particular is an extremely important market for us,” said George Kurtz, CrowdStrike’s co-founder and chief executive officer.
“In addition to our strong global customer portfolio, we have also witnessed rapidly growing demand for our industry-leading next-generation endpoint protection platform. We are the only company that has successfully unified next-generation antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) through a fully cloud-based, API-driven platform, which allows customers unrivalled capabilities to stop existing and emerging threats.”
With Telstra among its client roster in Australia, affirming its physical presence in the region will allow CrowdStrike to accommodate and accelerate the exponential global demand for the CrowdStrike Falcon next-generation endpoint protection platform.
Recently, the company introduced powerful new features that enhance its Falcon platform, including new APIs, CrowdStrike Falcon Orchestrator and next-generation antivirus with new ransomware protection capabilities.
“The CrowdStrike technology is providing a unique value to Telstra in its ability to detect and stop zero day exploits, malware attacks, along with hacker activity and ransomware, all of which go undetected by legacy security technologies,” said Mike Burgess, chief information security officer, Telstra. “Telstra relies on CrowdStrike’s combination of technology, people and intelligence to protect against the most sophisticated threats and help keep our customers’ data safe and networks secure. CrowdStrike Falcon’s next-generation threat prevention capabilities, its DVR-like endpoint detection and response features, aided by the elite Falcon Overwatch managed hunting team, has proved its value to us time and again,” Burgess added.