Cognizant and CrowdStrike Partner to Accelerate Enterprise Cybersecurity Transformation
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) and CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) have announced a strategic partnership aimed at driving enterprise security transformation. By combining Cognizant’s expertise in technology transformation with CrowdStrike’s AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform, the collaboration will deliver advanced cybersecurity services designed to streamline security operations, consolidate legacy tools, and strengthen organizations’ overall security posture.
Addressing the Evolving Cybersecurity Landscape
As organizations increasingly adopt cloud services—including IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, and CaaS—they face a broader and more sophisticated range of cyber threats. The growing cybersecurity skills gap and the complexity of managing fragmented legacy tools further exacerbate these challenges. To combat these issues, Cognizant and CrowdStrike will leverage Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM and Falcon® Cloud Security to help organizations simplify their cybersecurity environments, reduce operational complexity, and enhance threat mitigation capabilities.
Ravi Kumar S, CEO of Cognizant, emphasized the importance of this partnership: “As the enterprise digital landscape evolves, it is crucial to leverage AI for cybersecurity and cloud-native security technologies to help stay ahead of threats and ensure the resilience of our clients’ infrastructure. Our partnership with CrowdStrike is another important step we are taking to continue providing our clients with some of the most advanced and effective market-leading security solutions available.”
The Growing Threat of Cloud Exploitation
The need for robust cybersecurity solutions has never been more urgent. Over the past year, cloud exploitation cases have surged by 110%, while the speed and sophistication of cyberattacks continue to accelerate. Breakout times—the period between initial access and lateral movement—are now measured in minutes, leaving organizations with little time to respond.
The partnership between Cognizant and CrowdStrike addresses these challenges by integrating the CrowdStrike Falcon platform with Cognizant’s Neuro® Cybersecurity platform, along with its threat and vulnerability management and cloud infrastructure security offerings. This combined approach provides customers with a flexible operations framework capable of adapting to new technologies and emerging threats, all powered by an AI-native platform rather than disjointed legacy tools.
Key Benefits of the Partnership
- Streamlined Security Operations:
By consolidating fragmented legacy tools, organizations can simplify their cybersecurity environments, reducing complexity and improving efficiency. - Enhanced Threat Mitigation:
The integration of CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform with Cognizant’s Neuro platform enables real-time threat detection and response, helping organizations stay ahead of sophisticated attacks. - Strengthened Cybersecurity Posture:
The partnership provides comprehensive protection across endpoints, cloud workloads, and identities, ensuring a robust defense against evolving threats. - AI-Driven Insights:
Leveraging AI-native technology, the solution delivers hyper-accurate detections, automated protection, and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.
George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike, highlighted the value of the collaboration: “Our partnership with Cognizant delivers cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions that tackle the evolving challenges enterprises face today and tomorrow. CrowdStrike’s AI-native Falcon platform with Cognizant’s extensive expertise in technology transformation offers customers best-in-class protection, performance, and efficiency. Together, we will drive positive customer outcomes and enhance the security posture of organizations globally.”
Why This Partnership Matters
The Cognizant-CrowdStrike partnership represents a significant step forward in enterprise cybersecurity. By combining CrowdStrike’s industry-leading threat detection and response capabilities with Cognizant’s deep expertise in technology transformation, the collaboration provides organizations with the tools and insights needed to navigate today’s complex threat landscape.
This partnership is particularly critical as organizations continue to modernize their IT infrastructures and adopt cloud-based solutions. With cyberattacks becoming faster and more sophisticated, the need for unified, AI-driven cybersecurity solutions has never been greater.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) engineers modern businesses by helping clients modernize technology, reimagine processes, and transform experiences. With a focus on innovation and resilience, Cognizant enables organizations to stay ahead in a fast-changing world. Learn more at www.cognizant.com.
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) is a global cybersecurity leader that has redefined modern security with its advanced cloud-native platform. The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform protects critical areas of enterprise risk, including endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the Falcon platform delivers hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting, and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.
Built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform offers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity, and immediate time-to-value.
Take the Next Step in Cybersecurity Transformation
In an era of escalating cyber threats, organizations need proactive and unified solutions to protect their critical assets. The partnership between Cognizant and CrowdStrike delivers the advanced tools and expertise required to transform security operations and strengthen defenses.
To learn more about how this partnership can benefit your organization, visit Cognizant’s cybersecurity offerings and explore the capabilities of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.
