CrowdStrike announced the 2025 Protectors Awards and Global Partner Awards at Fal.Con 2025 in Las Vegas, recognizing organizations driving innovation in AI-powered cybersecurity. Held with over 8,000 professionals from 3,000 organizations across 65 countries, the event showcased advancements on the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon platform, highlighting collaborative efforts to combat evolving cyber threats.
CrowdStrike’s 2025 Protectors Awards celebrated customer achievements in leveraging the AI-native Falcon platform. Oracle earned the Protector of the Year title for outstanding cybersecurity outcomes. NVIDIA received the Innovator Award for pioneering advancements, while American Express Global Business Travel secured the Falconer Award for exceptional platform utilization. The Indiana Office of Technology was awarded the Hero Award for impactful contributions to security resilience.
The Global Partner Awards recognized key collaborators enhancing cybersecurity ecosystems. Amazon Web Services (AWS) was named Global Partner of the Year, with NVIDIA also earning the Global AI Partner title. Accenture took the Global Services Partner award, and Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) was honored as Global System Integrator of the Year. Other winners included Optiv (Global Flex Partner), GuidePoint Security (Global Solution Provider), TD SYNNEX (Global Distributor), Zscaler (Global Technology Alliance Partner), Asper (Global MSSP Partner), Consortium (Global Technical Champion), and Kudelski Security (International Partner).
The awards underscore CrowdStrike’s ecosystem approach, which integrates real-time threat intelligence and AI-driven capabilities to deliver superior protection. “Our customers and partners are the heartbeat of CrowdStrike,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike. The Falcon platform’s cloud-native architecture ensures rapid deployment, scalability, and reduced complexity, enabling organizations to counter AI-powered threats effectively.
Fal.Con 2025 highlighted the Falcon platform’s role in redefining modern security with hyper-accurate detections and automated remediation. By uniting customers and partners, CrowdStrike fosters a community dedicated to stopping breaches. The event emphasized the importance of collaborative innovation in addressing enterprise risks across endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, and data.
CrowdStrike, a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.
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