CrowdStrike Expands Project QuiltWorks
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: 4 days ago
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Should l Buy CRWD?
CrowdStrike (CRWD) announced an expansion of Project QuiltWorks, CrowdStrike's coalition for AI as organizations worldwide race to adopt AI. At the same time, frontier model innovation increases security risks. Newly discovered vulnerabilities become increasingly exploitable, making it easier and faster for malicious adversary activity. Building on the coalition's early momentum, Armadin, Cognizant (CTSH), HCLTech, Infosys (INFY), KPMG, NTT DATA (NTDTY), Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Wipro (WIT) are joining pioneering frontier labs and leading systems integrators on the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to assess, prioritize, and continuously remediate frontier AI risk. "QuiltWorks proved that frontier AI can find what traditional tools miss, and partners saw the results," said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer, CrowdStrike. "Now, more of the industry is joining the coalition to deliver AI-powered discovery, adversary-informed prioritization, and remediation at enterprise scale."
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Analyst Views on CRWD
Wall Street analysts forecast CRWD stock price to rise
34 Analyst Rating
23 Buy
11 Hold
0 Sell
Moderate Buy
Current: 505.720
Low
353.00
Averages
559.71
High
640.00
Current: 505.720
Low
353.00
Averages
559.71
High
640.00
About CRWD
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is a global cybersecurity company that provides cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data. Its Falcon platform is designed for cybersecurity consolidation, purpose-built to stop breaches. The platforms collect and integrate data from across the enterprise, including endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, and third-party sources. It offers 29 cloud modules on its Falcon platform via a software as a service (SaaS) subscription-based model that spans multiple large markets, including corporate endpoint and cloud workload security, managed security services, security and vulnerability management, information technology (IT) operations management, identity protection, next-generation security information and event management (SIEM) and log management, threat intelligence services, data protection, SaaS security posture management, automation and response (SOAR) and artificial intelligence powered workflow automation, and others.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
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