Do it right the first time
– George Kurtz, CEO & Founder, CrowdStrike
Austin, Texas – Jul. 30, 2025
Legacy architectures weren’t just philosophically wrong; they were structurally wrong for the cloud era. Most companies took their on-premises approach and tried to retool it for cloud delivery. That’s like trying to turn a typewriter into a laptop.
At CrowdStrike, we started with a clean sheet. Cloud-native from day one. Single agent architecture. Data collected once and reused across every module. No on-premises components to maintain or update.
People thought we were crazy. Swiss banks told me they’d never go to the cloud. The same banks that were already using Salesforce, Dropbox, and Box for everything else.
I told them: “When you’re ready for the cloud journey—and you will be, because the cloud is much bigger than CrowdStrike—we’ll be here. But we’re not going to dilute our resources building two versions.”
George Kurtz is the CEO and founder of CrowdStrike, a leading provider of next-generation endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and services. He is an internationally recognized security expert, author, entrepreneur, and speaker with more than 30 years of experience in the security space.
Kurtz has been quoted or featured by CNN, Fox News, ABC World News, Bloomberg, CNBC, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Associated Press, Network World, and many others. He also authored the best-selling security book of all time, Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions.
