CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) announced today that its Falcon® platform has secured the highly rigorous Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High Authorization, an essential milestone demonstrating the platform’s compliance with the highest standards of federal cybersecurity requirements. This achievement means the Falcon platform is now fully authorized for use by U.S. federal agencies, public sector entities, critical infrastructure organizations, and the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), enabling them to robustly secure their most sensitive information and mission-critical systems from escalating cyber threats posed by nation-state adversaries and criminal entities.
Given the intensifying cyber threat landscape faced by the U.S. government, agencies and their supply chains demand agile, real-time solutions capable of identifying and mitigating security breaches before they impact critical operations. CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform offers a comprehensive, AI-powered security approach that integrates endpoint protection, identity management, data safeguarding, and cloud workload security into one streamlined solution. By eliminating fragmented, isolated tools and consolidating diverse security functionalities, the Falcon platform simplifies operations, significantly reduces complexity, and accelerates threat response capabilities. This unified strategy delivers continuous visibility across hybrid environments, ensuring compliance while substantially bolstering cyber resilience against relentless adversaries.
Michael Sentonas, president of CrowdStrike, emphasized the urgency and complexity of safeguarding U.S. government systems, noting that the Falcon platform’s FedRAMP High Authorization greatly enhances agencies’ capacities to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure. By utilizing Falcon’s unified, cloud-native platform, federal agencies can achieve comprehensive protection that rapidly adapts to evolving threats. This authorization further demonstrates CrowdStrike’s commitment to providing advanced security capabilities that empower organizations to confidently secure their digital ecosystems, meet stringent compliance demands, and effectively counter increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.
Achieving FedRAMP High Authorization underscores CrowdStrike’s ability to satisfy the demanding NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5 High Impact Baseline security controls, a standard validated through rigorous third-party evaluations. Currently, the Falcon platform offers FedRAMP High Authorization across an extensive range of its cybersecurity products and services, totaling 26 authorized offerings spanning endpoint security, cloud protection, identity management, next-generation Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), intelligence analysis, vulnerability management, and data protection. By centralizing these capabilities into a single, cohesive solution, federal and public sector entities can significantly streamline compliance processes, eliminate redundant technologies, and reduce operational costs, ultimately fostering a more secure, resilient digital environment for critical national functions.
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