CrowdStrike, Cloudflare Expand Partnership for Network Security and AI-Driven SOCs

CrowdStrike and Cloudflare, the connectivity cloud company, have announced an expanded strategic partnership to integrate their platforms, enhancing security from devices to networks, accelerating Security Operations Center (SOC) transformation, and stopping breaches at scale. This collaboration combines Cloudflare One’s cloud-native, market-leading Zero Trust protection and connectivity with CrowdStrike Falcon®’s best-in-class AI-native cybersecurity and Next-Gen SIEM on the CrowdStrike Falcon® XDR platform. Joint channel partners can now drive vendor consolidation while reducing costs and operational complexity for customers worldwide.

As cyber threats evolve rapidly, organizations are challenged by a plethora of cybersecurity tools and alerts, leading to complex and often compromised internal networks. According to Gartner®, “The challenge is intensified by the growing arsenal of security tools designed to address individual security threats in isolation. This drives up the complexity of evaluating, managing and integrating these tools as part of a coherent security strategy.” It’s crucial for organizations across all sectors to have an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that connects remote users, offices, and data centers, converging data, security, and IT with workflow automation to stop adversaries from advancing.

CrowdStrike and Cloudflare are utilizing channel partnerships to deliver a fully integrated solution to global customers via a single API. The powerful combination of XDR from the Falcon platform with Cloudflare’s Zero Trust protection offers SOC teams comprehensive capabilities to detect and respond to attacks across networks, devices, endpoints, cloud, identity, data, and applications.

“CrowdStrike revolutionized cybersecurity with a modern, AI-native platform focused on stopping breaches. Our ability to execute on this mission and continually innovate across critical areas of enterprise risk is why we’re recognized as cybersecurity’s born-in-the-cloud leader by industry analysts and customers,” said Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike. “The rich dataset from our Falcon platform paired with Cloudflare’s robust Zero Trust capabilities provides unprecedented value for global customers. Together, we are converging two of the most critical pieces of the risk management puzzle that organizations of every size must address to combat today’s growing threats.”

“It’s becoming too complex for enterprises to effectively and efficiently manage risk posture with today’s expanding threat landscape. There is a significant need for organizations to enforce holistic and robust protections across their networks as attack vectors are only growing in size and sophistication,” said Grant Bourzikas, Chief Security Officer at Cloudflare. “We have already seen organizations simultaneously adopting both Cloudflare and CrowdStrike; now, this partnership makes it simple for customers to reap the benefits of the industry’s leading cybersecurity providers and enforce best-of-breed security across organizations.”

By combining Cloudflare’s extensive connectivity cloud and infrastructure network — one of the largest and most interconnected globally — with CrowdStrike’s leading cybersecurity platform, organizations can now easily achieve visibility into risk signals and stop breaches. For more information on the CrowdStrike and Cloudflare partnership, visit this page.