LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

The CEO and Co-Founder of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike , George Kurtz , is the recipient of this issue ' s Lifetime Achievement Award

With recent predictions estimating a momentous 90 % reduction in financial costs if companies adopt a cybersecurity network architecture , the benefits cannot be overstated .

Enter , CrowdStrike . With a market cap of $ 31bn , industry-leading cybersecurity company CrowdStrike provides cutting-edge endpoint protection , threat intelligence , and services designed for the next generation .

The brain behind CrowdStrike A highly-renowned figure in the security industry , George Kurtz is recognised globally as an expert in security , an accomplished author , entrepreneur , and speaker . With over three decades of experience in the field , he has demonstrated exceptional skills in driving revenue growth and scaling organisations worldwide . His entrepreneurial background and aptitude for commercialising emerging technologies have propelled him to introduce innovative products to the market throughout his career .

Kurtz has held several high-ranking positions at McAfee , a $ 2.5bn security firm , including Worldwide Chief Technology Officer and GM , and Executive Vice President of Enterprise .

Throughout his illustrious career spanning over three decades , Kurtz has remained at the forefront of cutting-edge developments in cybersecurity , relentlessly working towards making the digital world a safer place .

“ I launched my first company , Found Stone , in the vulnerability management space . I sold that to McAfee in 2004 and spent seven years at McAfee . And McAfee really sent me on a journey for CrowdStrike , because it was there that I saw the challenges , the endpoint market , and that the industry was focused on detecting malware rather than preventing breaches . And they were doing it in a way that looked like Siebel , not Salesforce .

So I thought there was a better way to create a foundational platform company like Salesforce and Workday or ServiceNow , but there was no platform company for security . And that ’ s what I started at CrowdStrike ,” Kurtz explained in a CrowdStrike blog post .

16 May 2023