Under Kurtz's leadership, CrowdStrike pioneered the delivery of endpoint protection through a single cloud-delivered agent (Falcon) and has expanded into identity protection, cloud security, threat intelligence, SIEM and agentic SOC capabilities. Kurtz is also a bestselling co-author of 'Hacking Exposed'.
Expertise
- Endpoint security
- Threat intelligence
- XDR
- Agentic SOC
- Cloud-native security
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