CrowdStrike and Nord Security Form Strategic Alliance to Elevate SMB Cybersecurity Standards
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) and Nord Security today announced a strategic partnership designed to overhaul cybersecurity frameworks for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This collaboration integrates the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® platform with Nord Security’s robust access and credential management tools. The alliance aims to democratize enterprise-grade security, ensuring advanced protection is accessible and manageable for businesses of all sizes.
The Growing Disparity in SMB Defense
The initiative responds to a critical disparity in the current threat landscape. According to CrowdStrike’s State of SMB Cybersecurity Survey, only 36% of SMBs are investing in new security tools, and a mere 11% have implemented AI-powered defenses. Despite these limited resources, adversaries increasingly target smaller organizations with sophisticated attacks previously reserved for large enterprises. This partnership strategically addresses these vulnerabilities by providing SMBs with the same AI-driven intelligence and speed utilized by the world’s largest corporations.
Strategic Innovations and Integration
Two primary innovations underpin this strategic alignment to simplify access to high-level security. First, Nord Security will distribute Falcon® Go and Falcon® Enterprise directly through NordLayer. This integration pairs CrowdStrike’s AI-powered endpoint protection with NordLayer’s toggle-ready network security platform, effectively simplifying the procurement and deployment process for business leaders while ensuring comprehensive coverage.
Additionally, the companies are expanding their Managed Service Provider (MSP) capabilities in conjunction with Pax8. The partnership will launch a specific add-on for Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM that merges the detection accuracy of the Falcon platform with Nord Security’s network solutions. This offering includes a 90-day complimentary access period for qualifying customers, significantly lowering the barrier to entry for advanced threat detection and response capabilities.
“This partnership transforms how SMBs secure their business,” said Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike. “Together with Nord Security, we’re redefining cybersecurity for SMBs – combining the power of the Falcon platform with Nord Security’s SMB go-to-market prowess and secure access technology to deliver enterprise-grade protection that’s fast to deploy, simple to manage, and built to stop breaches.”
“Every growing business faces the same challenge: their attack surface is expanding faster than their ability to secure it,” said Mantas Ulozas, Chief Business Development Officer at B2B Commercial at Nord Security. “By combining our secure access and credential management solutions with CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform, we’re removing barriers of cost and complexity that have long limited SMBs’ access to enterprise-grade protection – giving them the visibility and confidence to defend against modern threats.”
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, 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. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages 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. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.
