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Maker of Ootbi, an immutable backup appliance purpose-built as a ransomware-proof backup target for Veeam environments; hardware-enforced S3 Object Lock immutability ensures backup data cannot be deleted even with admin credentials.
Object First is a hardware and software company that produces Ootbi (Out-of-the-Box Immutability), an immutable object storage appliance designed specifically as a backup target for Veeam-protected environments, providing enterprise organizations with on-premises ransomware-resilient backup storage that is hardened by design against the administrator-level access that ransomware operators commonly abuse to destroy backup copies. The Ootbi appliance runs an immutable object store that enforces S3 Object Lock-compatible immutability policies on all data written to it — backup data written by Veeam cannot be overwritten, modified, or deleted by any user or process during the configured retention period, even if an attacker obtains storage administrator credentials. This hardware-enforced immutability model addresses the specific threat of ransomware operators moving laterally within IT environments to reach backup storage after compromising production systems.
CrowdStrike (CRWD) reported $3.95B ARR in FY2025 (ended Jan). Revenue $3.74B, up 29% YoY. Market cap ~$85B. 8,600+ employees. Austin, TX. AI-native cybersecurity platform. Charlotte AI for threat detection.
CrowdStrike is an AI-native cybersecurity company founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Gregg Marston and headquartered in Austin, Texas, that built the endpoint detection and response (EDR) category and has since expanded into the broadest cloud-native cybersecurity platform in the industry. The company was founded on the insight that traditional antivirus software — signature-based, retrospective, and endpoint-isolated — could not keep pace with sophisticated adversaries operating at machine speed. CrowdStrike's founding architecture, the Falcon platform, was designed cloud-native from day one: a single lightweight agent on the endpoint feeding a cloud-based AI that learns from trillions of security events across every customer simultaneously. The company trades on Nasdaq under the ticker CRWD.\n\nThe CrowdStrike Falcon platform consolidates more than 28 security modules across endpoint security, identity threat protection, cloud security, next-gen SIEM and log management, threat intelligence, and managed detection and response — all delivered through a single agent and unified console. The AI at the platform's core, Charlotte AI, provides conversational security operations, automated investigation, and AI-generated threat summaries that reduce analyst workload. CrowdStrike's threat intelligence team, Adversary Intelligence, tracks and names nation-state and criminal threat actors globally, giving customers predictive insight into campaigns before they hit their environments.\n\nCrowdStrike reported $3.95 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR) for FY2025 and total revenue of $3.74 billion, up 29% year over year, with a market capitalization of approximately $85 billion. The company has 8,600+ employees and counts a substantial share of the Fortune 500 and global governments as customers. Despite the July 2024 sensor update incident that caused a significant IT outage affecting millions of Windows systems globally, CrowdStrike's customer retention remained strong — a testament to the platform's depth of integration and the switching costs built into its consolidated architecture.
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