CrowdStrike brings enterprise-grade AI security to SMBs through Project QuiltWorks expansion

CrowdStrike Democratizes AI Security for Small Businesses

CrowdStrike has expanded Project QuiltWorks to small and medium-sized businesses through partnerships with seven global distributors and technology providers, marking a shift in how enterprise-grade cybersecurity reaches organizations of all sizes1

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. The distributors and marketplaces participating in this expansion include Pax8, TD Synnex, Arrow Electronics, Ignition Technology, Nord Security, Westcon-Comstor, and Zip Security2

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. This move addresses a critical gap as frontier AI lowers the barrier to sophisticated attacks and collapses the window between vulnerability and exploitation, placing organizations of all sizes at risk3

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. Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike, emphasized that SMBs are the backbone of the global economy and need the same standard of protection as the world's largest enterprises4

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Frontier AI Models Power Vulnerability Discovery

Project QuiltWorks leverages frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic to deliver AI-powered vulnerability discovery and adversary-informed prioritization5

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. CrowdStrike was an original member of both Anthropic's Project Glasswing and OpenAI's Daybreak Access, which provide access to frontier AI models for vulnerability discovery with the aim of shoring up software against exploitation1

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. Rather than providing direct access to frontier models, QuiltWorks applies capabilities from Anthropic and OpenAI around the Falcon platform, enabling partners to combine advanced AI-driven vulnerability discovery with their own services such as prioritization and remediation1

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. As more advanced AI models become available, nearly any adversary can discover, chain, and exploit vulnerabilities at machine speed and scale, placing organizations of all sizes at risk3

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Channel Partners Lead the Cybersecurity Conversation

Daniel Danielli, vice president of global scale partnerships at CrowdStrike, explained that the company has purposefully put the partner at the front of the conversation around risk from AI-discovered vulnerabilities1

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. The expansion enables managed service providers and other partners to take the lead in addressing the surging cyber risk from increased discovery of vulnerabilities and exploits demonstrated by frontier AI models such as Anthropic's Claude Mythos and OpenAI's Daybreak models1

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. Partners enrolled in CrowdStrike's Engagement Licensing Program or distributors that hold the credentials can perform assessments of a customer's security environment, then address the AI-discovered vulnerabilities identified and help customers harden their software and systems against exploitation by cyber threats1

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. The global partner, MSP, and MSSP networks extend the coalition's AI-driven vulnerability discovery and prioritization, expert-led remediation, and financial protection to organizations that have lacked access to an enterprise-grade program at this scale2

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Comprehensive Protection Through Integrated Services

Project QuiltWorks unites CrowdStrike's AI-driven cybersecurity capabilities with remediation services from leading systems integrators, hardened cloud infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS), and financial protection from leaders in the cyber insurance industry3

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. Most SMBs lack the resources and expertise to access and operationalize these capabilities on their own, making this expansion critical for protecting small and medium-sized businesses5

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. The program operates on CrowdStrike's Falcon platform and includes vulnerability assessment, remediation guidance, and financial protection through cyber insurance partners4

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. With the world's leading technology distributors and marketplaces and their global networks of thousands of partners already delivering managed security services to SMBs across regions, QuiltWorks now has a path to every organization and a proven framework to secure them at the moment frontier AI changed cybersecurity forever3

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. This enables SMBs to access the same protection against AI-discovered vulnerabilities as large enterprises, ensuring that access to the best cybersecurity technology isn't just the domain of the largest enterprises who can digest the Falcon platform1

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