CrowdStrike Falcon

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Product

CrowdStrike Falcon Prevent is the cloud-delivered next-generation antivirus in the CrowdStrike Falcon platform. It uses AI, behavioral analysis and threat intelligence to stop malware, ransomware and fileless attacks on endpoints, online and offline. The cloud-native CrowdStrike Falcon® platform enables fast deployment with immediate protection. Falcon Prevent stops advanced threats even when you’re offline. AI-powered protection, detection, and response backed by world-class adversary intelligence. CrowdStrike Falcon covers Linux, macOS and Windows.

Current Version: 8.11.21403.0
Product Page: crowdstrike.com/…/falcon-prevent-…
Market: EnterpriseSMB
Licence: Paid
Price: USD 59.99 / annual
Record Created: 2026-08-20
Last Updated: 2026-10-24

Vendor

CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 by George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch on a premise that was contrarian at the time: that the endpoint agent should be thin, the intelligence should live in the cloud, and the important question is not which malware ran but which adversary is behind it. It named the groups it tracked, published on them, and built much of its reputation through incident response on high-profile intrusions. It is listed on Nasdaq and is now one of the largest security companies in the world. Everything is sold on the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, in modules: Falcon Prevent for next-generation antivirus, Falcon Insight for detection and response, Falcon Identity Protection, Falcon Cloud Security, Falcon Exposure Management and Falcon Complete for the fully managed service, with Charlotte AI as the analyst assistant. Falcon Go and Falcon Pro are the packaged tiers for small organisations, which is what appears here. It sells no consumer product. Its agent is also unusual in how it is priced and deployed — per endpoint, cloud-managed, with no on-premise server — which is worth weighing against the appliance-and-console vendors listed beside it. Vendor page →

Website: crowdstrike.com
Country: United States
Headquarters: Austin, United States
Year Established: 2011
Customers: 29K organisations
Users: 250M devices protected
Revenue: $4.8B (2026)

Platforms

Linux	native
macOS	native
Windows	native

Target Market

Enterprise primarySMB secondary

Capabilities

Pricing

Plan	Licence	Priced per	Billed	Price
Summary	Subscription	not stated	yearly	USD 59.99

Versions

8.11.21403.0macOS
8.11.19508.0Linux
8.10.21408.0Windows

The newest release each source names per platform, not every release the vendor has shipped. A release date is shown only where one is recorded.

Independent Tests

At a glance — latest result per lab test

AV-Comparatives Business Security Test

Tested: Windows2026-07-15lab report ↗

AV-TEST Antivirus Test

Tested: macOSlab report ↗

MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations (Enterprise)

2025-12-10lab report ↗

SE Labs Enterprise Endpoint ProtectionAAA

2026-06-30lab report ↗

Each bar is one lab’s own figure on that lab’s own scale. Labs test different models at different times, so the figures are not combined into one score.

All results

AV-Comparatives Business Security TestAV-Comparatives Business Security Test — August–November 20252025-12-15

Protection Rate: 99.3%

AV-Comparatives Business Security TestAV-Comparatives Business Security Test — March–June 20262026-07-15

Protection Rate: 98.5%

AV-TEST Antivirus TestTest antivirus software for MacOS Tahoe - June 2026

Protection: 6Performance: 6Usability: 6

MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations (Enterprise)MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations — Enterprise 20252025-12-10

Technique-level detection: 98.9%Any detection: 98.9%Benign activity not alerted: 100%Attack sub-steps evaluated: 90

SE Labs Enterprise Endpoint ProtectionEnterprise Endpoint Security 2026 Q2

AAAOverall 100Protection Accuracy: 100%Legitimate Accuracy: 100%Total Accuracy Rating: 100%

SE Labs Enterprise Endpoint ProtectionEnterprise Endpoint Security 2026 Q1

AAAOverall 100Protection Accuracy: 100%Legitimate Accuracy: 100%Total Accuracy Rating: 100%

Certifications

FedRAMPHigh1 activeFR1807853629A

OESIS Framework SupportSupported1 activeSupported

OPSWAT Certified Security ApplicationGold1 activeGold

Change History

This record was created 2026-08-20. Everything below is what has changed since.

2026-10-24New versionNew version: 8.11.19508.0 (Linux)evidence
2026-10-12Certification addedCertified: FedRAMP (High)evidence
2026-10-07Test result addedNew MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations (Enterprise) resultevidence
2026-09-30Test result addedNew SE Labs Enterprise Endpoint Protection result: AAAevidence
2026-09-30Test result addedNew SE Labs Enterprise Endpoint Protection result: AAAevidence
2026-09-23New versionNew version: 8.10.21408.0 (Windows)evidence
2026-09-23Capability addedCentral Management Console: built inevidence
2026-09-23Capability addedCloud-Assisted Scanning: built inevidence
2026-09-23Capability addedVulnerability Shielding: built inevidence
2026-09-23Capability addedHeuristic Detection: built inevidence
2026-09-23Capability addedBehavioral Detection: built inevidence
2026-09-23Capability addedRansomware Protection: built inevidence
2026-09-22Product updatedListed in Enterprise Antimalwareevidence
2026-09-22Product updatedListed in Small Business Antimalwareevidence
2026-09-19Product updatedAlso sold to: SMBevidence
2026-09-19Pricing plan addedPrice: USD 59.99 yearlyevidence
2026-09-18Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
2026-09-15New versionNew version: 8.11.21403.0 (macOS)evidence
2026-09-09New versionNew version: 7.38.19102.0 (Linux)evidence
2026-09-09New versionNew version: 8.10.21405.0 (Windows)evidence
2026-09-09New versionNew version: 8.10.21306.0 (macOS)evidence
2026-09-04Product updatedListed in Network Firewallevidence
2026-08-30New versionNew version: 8.10.21405.0evidence
2026-08-28Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Business Security Test resultevidence
2026-08-26Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Business Security Test resultevidence
2026-08-20Platform addedRuns on Linuxevidence
2026-08-20Certification addedCertified: OESIS Framework Support (Supported)evidence
2026-08-20New versionNew version: 7.38.19102.0evidence
2026-08-20Capability addedMalware Detection: built inevidence
2026-08-20Pricing plan addedPrice: paidevidence
2026-08-20Product updatedSold to: Enterpriseevidence
2026-08-20Pricing plan addedPrice: paidevidence
2026-08-20Product updatedSold to: Enterpriseevidence
2026-08-20Product createdNew product listedevidence
2026-08-20Platform addedRuns on macOSevidence
2026-08-20Platform addedRuns on Windowsevidence
2026-08-20Certification addedCertified: OPSWAT Certified Security Application (Gold)evidence
2026-08-20New versionNew version: 8.10.21401.0evidence

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Malware Detectionkey	native
Ransomware Protectionkey	native
Behavioral Detectionkey	native
Web Protectionkey	Not known
Email Protection	Not known
Host Firewall	Not known
Sandbox Analysis	Not known
Cloud-Assisted Scanning	native
Heuristic Detection	native
Device Control	Not known
Vulnerability Shielding	native
Central Management Console	native