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CrowdStrike competitors, on the record

The companies whose own annual reports name CrowdStrike as a competitor, each with the sentence it appears in and the filing it came from.

Who CrowdStrike names

CrowdStrike’s annual reports for 2024 to 2026 describe its competition by kind of business and do not name competing companies.

Who names CrowdStrike

Companies whose own annual reports name CrowdStrike as a competitor.

  1. Check Point Software Technologies names it as “CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.” · 2025

    Word for word“We also compete with several other companies, including Zscaler, Inc., Trellix, Trend Micro Inc., NortonLifeLock Inc., Lookout, Inc., Zimperium, Inc, CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc., SentinelOne, Inc., Sophos Group plc, Proofpoint, Inc., Broadcom, Inc., Mimecast Limited, Microsoft Corp., Netskope, Inc. and Abnormal Security Corp., with respect to specific products that we offer.” 20-F for 2025
  2. Cisco names it as “CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.” · 2026

    Word for word“Our competitors (in each case relative to only some of our products or services) include: Amazon Web Services LLC; Arista Networks, Inc.; Broadcom Inc.; Ciena Corporation; CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Datadog Inc.; Dell Technologies Inc.; Dynatrace Inc.; Fortinet, Inc.; Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Microsoft Corporation; Nokia Corporation; Nvidia Corporation; Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; RingCentral, Inc.; Zoom Video Communications, Inc.; and Zscaler, Inc.; among others.” 10-K for 2026
  3. CyberArk Software · 2024

    Word for word“Accordingly, we may also compete for budget priority, to a certain extent, with other cybersecurity solutions offered by Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and CrowdStrike.” 20-F for 2024
  4. Elastic · 2026

    Word for word“• For Elastic Security: security vendors, such as Azure Sentinel (owned by Microsoft), CrowdStrike, Google SecOps, Palo Alto Networks, and Splunk (owned by Cisco Systems).” 10-K for 2026
  5. Fortinet · 2025

    Word for word“Our competitors include companies such as Check Point, Cisco, CrowdStrike, F5 Networks, HPE, Huawei, Microsoft, Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, SonicWALL, Sophos, and Zscaler.” 10-K for 2025
  6. McAfee names it as “Crowdstrike” · 2021

    Word for word“We also face competition from many smaller companies that specialize in particular segments of the markets in which we compete, including Crowdstrike, VMware, Netskope, and Zscaler.” 10-K for 2021
  7. Microsoft · 2024

    Word for word“Windows faces competition from various software products and from alternative platforms and devices, mainly from Apple and Google, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint competes with CrowdStrike on endpoint security solutions.” 10-K for 2024
  8. SentinelOne names it as “CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.” · 2026

    Word for word“Our competitors include the following: • endpoint security providers, such as CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (CrowdStrike) and Carbon Black (within Broadcom, Inc.); • legacy antivirus providers such as Trellix (formerly McAfee Corp.), Symantec (a subsidiary of Broadcom, Inc.) (Symantec), and Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft); • providers of general network security products and services who offer a broad portfolio of solutions, such as Palo Alto Networks, Inc.” 10-K for 2026
  9. Vmware · 2023

    Word for word“Competitors in the end point security space range from established solution providers such as Microsoft and Trend Micro to next-generation endpoint security providers such as CrowdStrike and SentinelOne.” 10-K for 2023
  10. Ziff Davis · 2025

    Word for word“Our online cybersecurity solutions compete against providers of cybersecurity solutions and related software, such as Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Proofpoint, Gen Digital Inc., Kape Technologies, KnowBe4, and Malwarebytes.” 10-K for 2025

Read from CrowdStrike’s annual reports (10-K for 2026, 10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-03-05. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.