CrowdStrike Innovates to Modernize National Security and Protect Critical Systems BLOG Featured Now Live: The CrowdStrike 2026 Financial Services Threat Landscape Report May 14, 2026 Falcon AIDR Detects Threats at the Prompt Layer in Kubernetes AI Applications May 13, 2026 May 2026 Patch Tuesday: 30 Critical Vulnerabilities Among 130 CVEs May 12, 2026 Inside CrowdStrike Automated Leads: A Transformative Approach to Threat Detections May 11, 2026 Recent Video Video Highlights the 4 Key Steps to Successful Incident Response Dec 02, 2019 Helping Non-Security Stakeholders Understand ATT&CK in 10 Minutes or Less [VIDEO] Feb 21, 2019 Analyzing Targeted Intrusions Through the ATT&CK Framework Lens [VIDEO] Jan 22, 2019 Qatar’s Commercial Bank Chooses CrowdStrike Falcon®: A Partnership Based on Trust [VIDEO] Aug 20, 2018 Category Agentic SOC How Charlotte AI AgentWorks Fuels Security's Agentic Ecosystem 03/25/26 CrowdStrike Services and Agentic MDR Put the Agentic SOC in Reach 03/24/26 4 Ways Businesses Use CrowdStrike Charlotte AI to Transform Security Operations 03/12/26 Inside the Human-AI Feedback Loop Powering CrowdStrike’s Agentic Security 02/10/26 Cloud & Application Security 05/13/26 CrowdStrike Named a Leader in Frost & Sullivan 2026 Radar for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms 04/27/26 CrowdStrike Expands Real-Time Cloud Detection and Response to Google Cloud 04/22/26 CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security Delivered 264% ROI Through Unified Cloud Protection Threat Hunting & Intel 05/14/26 CrowdStrike Named a Leader in the First-Ever Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies 05/06/26 CrowdStrike Launches Falcon OverWatch for Defender 05/05/26 Tune In: The Future of AI-Powered Vulnerability Discovery 05/01/26 Endpoint Security & XDR 05/11/26 CrowdStrike Falcon Platform Achieves 441% ROI in Three Years 04/21/26 Falcon for IT Supports Windows Secure Boot Certificate Lifecycle Management 04/01/26 Enhanced Network Visibility: A Dive into the Falcon macOS Sensor's New Capabilities 03/11/26 Engineering & Tech EMBER2024: Advancing the Training of Cybersecurity ML Models Against Evasive Malware 09/03/25 Falcon Platform Prevents COOKIE SPIDER’s SHAMOS Delivery on macOS 08/20/25 CrowdStrike’s Approach to Better Machine Learning Evaluation Using Strategic Data Splitting 08/11/25 CrowdStrike Researchers Develop Custom XGBoost Objective to Improve ML Model Release Stability 03/20/25 Executive Viewpoint Frontier AI Is Collapsing the Exploit Window.
Here’s How Defenders Must Respond. 04/20/26 Frontier AI for Defenders: CrowdStrike and OpenAI TAC 04/16/26 Anthropic Claude Mythos Preview: The More Capable AI Becomes, the More Security It Needs 04/06/26 The Architecture of Agentic Defense: Inside the Falcon Platform 01/16/26 From The Front Lines CrowdStrike Technical Risk Assessments Reveal Common Exposure Patterns 05/04/26 Introducing the CrowdStrike Shadow AI Visibility Service CrowdStrike Flex for Services Expands Access to Elite Security Expertise From Scanner to Stealer: Inside the trivy-action Supply Chain Compromise 03/20/26 Next-Gen Identity Security Detecting CVE-2026-20929: Kerberos Authentication Relay via CNAME Abuse 03/31/26 CrowdStrike FalconID Brings Phishing-Resistant MFA to Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security 02/26/26 CrowdStrike Named a Customers’ Choice in 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for User Authentication 02/12/26 CrowdStrike to Acquire Seraphic to Secure Work in Any Browser 01/13/26 Next-Gen SIEM & Log Management Falcon Next-Gen SIEM Supports Third-Party EDR Tools, Starting with Microsoft Defender 03/23/26 Falcon Next-Gen SIEM Simplifies Onboarding with Sensor-Native Log Collection 03/06/26 Exposing Insider Threats through Data Protection, Identity, and HR Context 02/18/26 How to Scale SOC Automation with Falcon Fusion SOAR 02/11/26 Public Sector 03/18/26 Falcon Platform for Government Now Offers Falcon for XIoT to Secure Connected Assets CrowdStrike Achieves FedRAMP® High Authorization 03/19/25 NHS Matures Healthcare Cybersecurity with NCSC’s CAF Assurance Model 03/13/25 Exposure Management 05/12/26 April 2026 Patch Tuesday: Two Zero-Days and Eight Critical Vulnerabilities Among 164 CVEs 04/14/26 How CrowdStrike Is Accelerating Exposure Evaluation as Adversaries Gain Speed 04/05/26 March 2026 Patch Tuesday: Eight Critical Vulnerabilities and Two Publicly Disclosed Among 82 CVEs Patched 03/10/26 Securing AI CrowdStrike Expands ChatGPT Enterprise Integration with Enhanced Audit Logging and Activity Monitoring 04/28/26 New CrowdStrike Innovations Secure AI Agents and Govern Shadow AI Across Endpoints, SaaS, and Cloud Secure Homegrown AI Agents with CrowdStrike Falcon AIDR and NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails 03/19/26 Introducing "AI Unlocked: Decoding Prompt Injection," a New Interactive Challenge Data Security Falcon Data Security Secures Data Wherever It Lives and Moves Falcon Data Protection for Cloud Extends DSPM into Runtime 11/20/25 CrowdStrike Stops GenAI Data Leaks with Unified Data Protection 09/18/25 Q&A: How Mastronardi Produce Secures Innovation with CrowdStrike 02/14/25 Start Free Trial New innovations debuted at Fal.Con Gov 2026 enable public sector defenders to understand adversaries, mobilize the security workforce, and secure the AI era at a national scale.
March 18, 2026 Karan Sondhi Fal.Con Gov 2026 , CrowdStrike is introducing new innovations to accelerate modernization and strengthen cyber defense of government systems, while helping agencies meet some of the most rigorous compliance standards within a FedRAMP-authorized environment. Cybersecurity is national security. Ransomware threatens public safety and continuity of operations. Supply chain compromise multiplies impact.
Nation-state actors target critical infrastructure for strategic disruption. Modern adversaries propelled by AI are moving with unprecedented speed and stealth, overwhelming human teams and exploiting gaps created by tool sprawl and fragmented visibility. Agencies face a historic dual mandate: Modernize security operations while preserving compliance, continuity, and public trust. But legacy architectures and acquisition models create modernization friction by locking budgets into inflexible licensing, forcing manual compliance work, and limiting adaptability as AI, IoT, and cloud technologies expand the attack surface.
The consequences are higher risk and reduced readiness and resilience when every second counts. CrowdStrike was built to help government agencies meet this moment. The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform delivers a unified, AI-native foundation to reduce complexity, cut noise, and enable action at the speed of the adversary. Below we highlight what’s new and what’s coming later this year. What’s New in GovCloud Modernized Mission Security with Falcon Flex Today’s adversaries move faster than procurement cycles.
As mission demands evolve, legacy acquisition models and point-product architectures create unnecessary friction. To help agencies respond at the speed of modern adversaries, CrowdStrike Falcon® Flex is now operationally supported for U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies. Falcon Flex shifts agencies from product-by-product buying to a flexible, commitment-based model aligned to long-term platform outcomes, helping accelerate consolidation, simplify operations, and adopt new capabilities without delays.
With Falcon Flex, agencies can: Reduce procurement friction by accessing the broader Falcon platform through a single, commitment-based model aligned to U.S. government acquisition frameworks. Adopt new Falcon platform capabilities when needed without adding tools, contracts, or administrative overhead. Evolve security operations as mission priorities change , shifting commitment across the Falcon platform to stay aligned with active operational requirements.
Maximize the value of the CrowdStrike partnership by applying committed investment where it delivers the greatest mission impact over time. The result: faster platform adoption, stronger cross-domain integration, and security operations aligned to real-world mission demands. Agentic Investigations and Natural Language Interactivity Modern investigations demand speed, scale, and consistency — but manual workflows, swivel-chair tooling, and knowledge gaps keep security teams reactive.
CrowdStrike® Charlotte AI™, CrowdStrike’s agentic security analyst, is a force multiplier for security teams, helping agencies streamline operations, automate time-intensive work, and scale expertise at machine speed. Building on our first wave of FedRAMP-authorized Charlotte AI capabilities, we’re introducing two more Charlotte AI capabilities into GovCloud later this year: Natural language conversations: Analysts will be able to interact with the Falcon platform in plain language to quickly surface the right context, retrieve intelligence, and direct the appropriate workflows to accelerate decision-making and reduce time-intensive, manual work.
Response Agent: Analysts will be able to significantly accelerate response using Charlotte AI’s Response Agent, which auto-generates and answers guiding questions during investigations. The Response Agent is trained on the frontline decisions and operational playbooks of the elite CrowdStrike Falcon® Complete managed detection and response (MDR) analyst team. Figure 1. Charlotte AI’s Response Agent auto-generates questions and answers to guide investigations, with detailed explanations of its work.
Critical Infrastructure Security with Falcon for XIoT Federal agencies must manage an expanding attack surface as XIoT devices proliferate across critical infrastructure and create security blind spots that traditional tools were not designed to address. CrowdStrike Falcon® for XIoT, now available in GovCloud, delivers asset visibility and protection across critical government infrastructure. Using XIoT-specific asset and adversary intelligence, Falcon for XIoT analyzes unique XIoT device context and protects assets within the unified Falcon platform.
Falcon for XIoT addresses the unique security challenges of XIoT infrastructure, reducing the fragmentation that plagues traditional approaches to drive stronger IT/OT convergence and protect national security, public safety, and mission-critical operations for the public sector. Learn more about CrowdStrike’s extended XIoT asset protection for the public sector here . Figure 2. Falcon for XIoT identifies and classifies IoT and OT assets within the Falcon platform.
Outside-In Visibility with External Attack Surface Management Cloud adoption, third-party integrations, and legacy internet-facing systems are also expanding the attack surface for federal agencies and creating exposure beyond traditional perimeters. Adversaries scan for unknown, unmanaged, and misconfigured assets so they can exploit what defenders don’t see, gain initial access, and move laterally.
CrowdStrike’s external attack surface management (EASM) offering, part of CrowdStrike Falcon® Exposure Management, is now available in GovCloud, delivering continuous outside-in visibility into internet-exposed assets. By identifying shadow IT, exposed services, and misconfigurations before they’re exploited, agencies can proactively reduce risk, map potential attack paths, and strengthen Zero Trust initiatives.
Built natively into Falcon Exposure Management, which is already available in GovCloud, EASM helps eliminate the need for separate point tools or disconnected consoles. Agencies can gain unified visibility across internal and external assets within a FedRAMP-authorized environment. This enables faster risk reduction to protect mission-critical systems and national security operations. Figure 3. Falcon Exposure Management enables security teams to view unmanaged or unknown internet-connected assets.
Faster Threat Investigations with Behavioral Malware Analysis Malware sandboxing within CrowdStrike Falcon® Adversary Intelligence enables security teams to detonate and analyze suspicious files in a controlled environment to understand runtime behavior. Sandbox detonation provides a full path of execution and produces behavioral indicators and memory dumps that help teams confirm malicious activity and generate actionable indicators of compromise (IOCs) for investigations and response.
Now available in GovCloud, this capability extends advanced threat evaluation to federal agencies. Security teams can enrich investigations with behavioral intelligence and accelerate response while meeting strict federal compliance and data residency requirements. Mission-Ready Defense for the AI Era By expanding AI-powered automation, proactive threat defense, and unified IT/OT visibility within its FedRAMP High authorized environment, CrowdStrike is helping agencies transition from manual, compliance-driven operations to a mission-ready SOC built for speed, resilience, and execution at the national scale.
Additional Resources Learn more about CrowdStrike’s announcements at Fal.Con Gov . Explore how CrowdStrike delivers mission-ready defense for Federal State and Local agencies. This blog post includes descriptions of products, features, or functionality that may not be currently generally available. Any such references are provided for information purposes only. The development, release, and timing of all features or functionality remain at CrowdStrike’s sole discretion and may change without notice.
These statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. Customers should make purchasing decisions based only on services and features that are currently generally available. For more information on our existing offerings, please talk to your CrowdStrike representative. Related Content Categories CONNECT WITH US FEATURED ARTICLES May 06, 2026 May 05, 2026 SUBSCRIBE Sign up now to receive the latest notifications and updates from CrowdStrike.
Sign Up See CrowdStrike Falcon ® in Action Detect, prevent, and respond to attacks— even malware-free intrusions—at any stage, with next-generation endpoint protection. See Demo Privacy Request Info Contact Us 1.888.512.8906 Accessibility