CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. was founded in 2011 as a cloud-native, single-agent security solution designed to “stop the breach, not just stop malware.”Today, the company is a leading independent security firm with aspirations to become a generational platform. Its second-quarter financial results for the fiscal year 2023 showed annual recurring revenue over $2 billion and record net new subscriptions. And the evolution of its Falcon platform shows how CrowdStrike is attempting to solve security’s perennial problems and extend security beyond the endpoint.The latest updates were on show during CrowdStrike’s Fal

The technology behind CrowdStrike cybersecurity solution relies on lightweight agents or sensors to monitor for threats and collect vital security data. As organizations have learned, some agents can be lighter than others.“Many times when you look at them, they are not lightweight; they take a lot of effort to install, and they need reboots,” said Michael Sentonas (pictured), chief technology officer at CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. “We have a smart agent with smart filtering built in, so we’re very careful in terms of the data we collect