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The endpoint security leader turned AI-security bellwether: a top-10 row on our league table and the company whose earnings move the whole sector's stocks.
Authority Score · June 2026
93Rank #9 of 50 tracked · DR 86
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Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Austin, CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform defined cloud-native endpoint security and now anchors one of the industry’s largest platform plays. The company is public (NASDAQ: CRWD), with FY2026 GAAP sales and marketing spend at 38% of revenue — the benchmark number we cite to every CFO who asks whether marketing investment at scale is real. It is, and the category leader’s 10-K proves it.
The 2026 story is agentic AI: at RSAC 2026, CrowdStrike opened Falcon to external AI models with Charlotte AI AgentWorks, letting customers build custom security agents on frontier models. CEO George Kurtz framed the moment as an inflection point: AI demand showing the market that cybersecurity is an essential part of the AI ecosystem.
The GFD read: DR 86, 650K monthly organic visits, 35K referring domains — an authority moat a decade in the making. The interesting question is the one our tracker watches: whether challengers win the AI-security citation layer before the incumbents notice it’s a market.
Founded CrowdStrike in 2011; the sector's most-quoted voice on AI-era security demand (verified June 2026).
Charlotte AI AgentWorks (RSAC 2026) opened the platform to external frontier models.
FY2026 10-K filed; S&M at 38% of revenue, the industry's reference point.
Compiled June 10, 2026. Facts only, in our own words; links go to the original reporting. Corrections within 24 hours.