With necessity being the mother of invention, the urge to mitigate security breaches, as well as the need for utmost peace of mind, have been spurring innovation in cybersecurity.

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. has set the ball rolling in this field by changing how enterprises do security, creating the endpoint detection and response category and becoming the viable alternative to legacy antivirus, according to Daniel Bernard (pictured), chief business officer of CrowdStrike.

“CrowdStrike is changing cybersecurity,” Bernard said. “CrowdStrike brought security to the cloud for the cloud era, AI native from the beginning. Look at the number of announcements that we’ve put out, Marketplace, Falcon for IT. Everyone’s excited about Charlotte, Foundry, the acquisition of Bionic. I had a CISO come up to me and tell me, ‘This is like the Woodstock of cybersecurity.’”

Bernard spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Lisa Martin and Dave Vellante at the Fal.Con event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how CrowdStrike is changing stakes in the cybersecurity industry and the strong partnerships it has formed. (* Disclosure below.)

CrowdStrike is enhancing cybersecurity growth through partnerships

With CrowdStrike being heavily embedded in Amazon Web Services Inc.’s framework, this collaboration has played an instrumental role in moving cybersecurity forward, according to Bernard. As a result, this teamwork has been making cloud workloads more secure.

“CrowdStrike was conceived and built in AWS,” he explained. “From day one, we’ve been partners. The go-to-market that we have with AWS through Marketplace is fantastic, and it’s unlike any other ISV. It’s the envy of the industry. AWS sellers talk about CrowdStrike. They bring us into their cloud deals.”

Many companies have built cybersecurity businesses around CrowdStrike. This illustrates the rich partnership ecosystem that CrowdStrike has as it continuously strives to take the industry a notch higher, Bernard pointed out.

“Let’s start with a partner like Dell, attaching CrowdStrike on the box, selling our subscription licensing, building services offerings around it,” he stated. “Lots of great work also going on with the Indian outsourcers, the GSIs. Folks like TCS, folks like HCL, folks like Infosys. Lots of exciting things going on there as they take companies on technology transformation journeys and then of course our VAR Channel, whether it’s Optiv, whether it’s GuidePoint.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Fal.Con event:

(* Disclosure: CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither CrowdStrike nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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