George Kurtz (Born 5 May 1965) is the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results, Democratic National Committee cyber attacks, "WEATHERTECH SPORTSCAR CHAMPIONSHIP George Kurtz", "In Good Company: CrowdStrike's George Kurtz is in a race against hackers", "When Wall Street and Washington Get Hacked, They Call This Guy", "Parsippany native leads charge against cyber attacks", "McAfee Buys Security Consulting Firm Foundstone", "Security Advice From The CEO Of The World's Newest Unicorn - CrowdStrike", "McAfee Looking For New CTO After Kurtz Steps Down", "How Google attacks changed the security game", "McAfee CTO warns of new combined threat named 'Night Dragon', "McAfee loses high-profile researcher and CTO", "Duelling Unicorns: CrowdStrike Vs. Cylance In Brutal Battle To Knock Hackers Out", "CrowdStrike Helped Trace The DNC Hack To Russia -- Now Business Is Booming", "CrowdStrike IPO Seeks To Raise $100M, Reveals Strength Of Channel", "Stealth startup CrowdStrike wants to obliterate security threats, raises $26M", "Ex-McAfee execs start security firm, CrowdStrike", "Former McAfee CTO Debuts Stealthy Security Technology Startup CrowdStrike With $26M In Funding", "Outmaneuvered at Their Own Game, Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt", "Standing up at the gates of hell: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz", "Former McAfee CTO Strikes Back with Crowdstrike", "Hack Investigator CrowdStrike Reaches $1 Billion Valuation", "10 Hot Cybersecurity Companies To Watch In 2020 CrowdStrike", "Why CrowdStrike's CEO isn't surprised his company equaled Symantec in value in its Wall Street debut", "CrowdStrike recognised as leading endpoint security vendor on global scale", "Pirelli Paddock Pass: George Kurtz Sportscar365", "Utah PWC: James delivers fourth GTS win for Panoz", "George Kurtz: Leader On And Off The Track", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Kurtz&oldid=1152410328, People from Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers, Pages using small with an empty input parameter, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 30 April 2023, at 02:19. George Kurtz, CEO and co-founder of CrowdStrike, discusses the current cyberthreat landscape and his strategy to drive innovation and lead in the cybersecurity space. "What we've seen is, people have gotten better at ransomware detection/prevention and also at backing up data, so what we've seen now is [threat actors saying], 'Let's just skip encrypting all your data and exfil the data and extort you,'" Kurtz said. Cloud costs can get out of hand but services such as Google Cloud Recommender provide insights to optimize your workloads. It was running Tails, a Linux-based anti-surveillance operating system, and Evilginx2, an open source penetration testing tool that uses a man-in-the-middle framework to harvest credentials.