Kroll partners with CrowdStrike to boost global MDR protection
Global financial and risk advisory solutions provider Kroll has partnered with Crowdstrike. The multi-year strategic collaboration aims to elevate managed detection and response (MDR) services and accelerate customers’ cyber resilience worldwide.
“Kroll’s mission is to protect, restore, and maximise value for our clients, and we look forward to continuing to fulfil this commitment in partnership with CrowdStrike,” said David Burg, global group head of cyber and data resilience at Kroll. “This partnership will ensure we can fight sophisticated global threat actors with state-of-the-art cyber technology at our disposal – protecting data and identities whilst securing digital, physical, and financial assets. Our customers need the best experts using the best technology in a complex and evolving world.”
As part of the partnership, Kroll anticipates that protection for more than half a million endpoints will be migrated to the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, powered by Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR through the Falcon Complete for Service Providers program. By consolidating multiple legacy tools and point products onto CrowdStrike’s unified, AI-native platform, Kroll says it will deliver “faster, more effective detection, investigation, and full-cycle remediation – while continuing to provide its world-class cyber advisory and incident response expertise.”
“Kroll’s migration to Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR is a defining moment for the MDR market,” said Tom Etheridge, chief global services officer at CrowdStrike. “This partnership represents where the industry is headed, combining world-class expertise with AI-native technology to deliver faster, smarter, full-cycle protection. Together, CrowdStrike and Kroll are raising the bar for what organizations should expect from managed detection and response.”
Looking ahead, the firms will look to redefine “the future of managed detection and response”. In practice, they say this will involve “combining AI-powered technology and world-class expertise to deliver faster outcomes, stronger protection, and greater resilience for organisations worldwide.”
Crowdstrike is a global cyber security firm, 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. In 2024, the firm was involved in a publicity storm, when a problem code in its cyber security software was automatically installed in computer systems causing them to break down and display a "blue screen of death".
The global IT outage affecting 8.5 million Windows PCs highlighted the vulnerabilities in the computer systems of some of the world’s largest companies and organisations. It disrupted services and sectors including airlines, online transactions, cash machines, card payments for retailers like Morrisons and many high street banks. Even NHS GP and cancer-treatment appointments were cancelled.
As the firm rebuilds from the debacle, it has asserted that its “world-class AI” in the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, can leverage 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.
