Crowdstrike Holdings Inc.
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CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is a global cybersecurity technology company. It provides cloud-delivered endpoint and workload protection. The company offers a platform that delivers comprehensive security solutions, including endpoint security, threat intelligence, identity protection, and cloud securi...Show More
Better Health for All
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CrowdStrike experienced two significant IT outages in 2024, one in January and a global outage in July, both caused by a faulty software update.
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These disruptions severely impacted healthcare operations, leading to system crashes, canceled appointments, and postponed medical procedures at numerous institutions, including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Mass General Brigham.
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The healthcare sector incurred estimated direct losses of $1.94 billion due to the July outage.
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No remediation efforts for these health impacts are mentioned in the provided articles. Conversely, CrowdStrike actively provides cybersecurity solutions to the healthcare sector, deploying its Falcon platform across over 1 million U.S. healthcare endpoints
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and partnering to enhance real-time risk intelligence for electronic protected health information (ePHI), aiming to safeguard sensitive data and mitigate HIPAA non-compliance risks.
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Fair Money & Economic Opportunity
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CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity technology company and does not offer lending, deposit, or other consumer financial services. Consequently, KPIs related to fair money and economic opportunity, such as underserved client share, pricing fairness, exploitative fee exposure, inclusion initiatives, data accessibility, fair lending compliance, wealth building outcomes, financial literacy initiatives, debt burden ratio, geographic inclusion, and product simplicity, are not applicable to its core business model and are scored as 0. The company's charitable giving, including a multi-year donation of $400,000 to the Operation Motorsport Foundation for cybersecurity education and support for veterans, does not constitute community finance reinvestment as defined by the rubric, resulting in a score of 0 for that KPI.
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Fair Pay & Worker Respect
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CrowdStrike demonstrates strong employee engagement, with a survey in April 2023 revealing that 96% of employees are proud to work at the company.
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However, the company has faced a substantiated labor-law issue, settling a class and collective action in February 2023 concerning the alleged misclassification of sales representatives who were claimed to be wrongly exempted from overtime pay.
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While a federal civil rights complaint was filed in July 2024 alleging discrimination, this remains an allegation and not a substantiated violation.
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The company provides comprehensive compensation and benefits, including healthcare and insurance, and states that none of its US employees are represented by a labor union.
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Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing
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No evidence available to assess Crowdstrike Holdings Inc on Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing.
Honest & Fair Business
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CrowdStrike has a formal Whistleblower Policy, overseen by its Audit Committee
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, which includes multiple EthicsPoint Hotline numbers
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, an online reporting portal
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, and an ethics email for raising concerns
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. Business partners are expected to provide a mechanism for employees to report concerns without fear of reprisal
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, and all reports are directed to the legal department for investigation and corrective action
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. Employees are required to undergo annual mandatory training on ethical standards
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. The company also maintains a zero-tolerance, comprehensive anti-corruption and anti-bribery policy, compliant with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the U.K. Bribery Act
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. This policy applies to all employees, officers, board members, independent contractors, and business partners
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, with employees receiving annual mandatory training
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. The policy includes specific prohibitions on gifts over $150
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, meals, entertainment, bribes, and kickbacks
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Kind to Animals
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CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. is a cybersecurity company with a digital-centric business model, meaning its operations inherently avoid activities related to animal welfare, animal testing, animal-derived products, or animal agriculture.
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The company has adopted environmental initiatives, including a remote-first work environment, sustainable data center practices, and carbon offsetting collaborations, which offer indirect benefits to wildlife and ecosystems.
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However, no specific, measurable biodiversity impact, species recovery, or habitat restoration metrics are provided to assess direct wildlife conservation impact.
No War, No Weapons
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CrowdStrike's operations are not directly involved in arms manufacturing or military contracting, and the company does not produce weapons or military technology, nor does it engage in military hardware manufacturing or supply.
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This means CrowdStrike has 0% revenue from arms or defense contracts.
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The company strictly prohibits direct or indirect sales of its products or services into embargoed countries, including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and the Crimea Region of Ukraine, and complies with U.S. export controls and trade sanctions laws.
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Given its lack of involvement in arms manufacturing, CrowdStrike has no defense assets to divest, no defense business for board oversight, no conflict-linked partners to review, and no exposure to controversial weapons.
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Planet-Friendly Business
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CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. has committed to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to set science-based net-zero targets.
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However, the company has not disclosed specific carbon emissions figures or reduction targets, indicating that validation is pending and targets are not yet defined or public.
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Respect for Cultures & Communities
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In December 2019, CrowdStrike partnered with Baidam Solutions, an Australian Indigenous-owned cybersecurity firm, by welcoming them into the Elevate Partner Program
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. This collaboration aims to deliver advanced endpoint protection to Indigenous communities and support education in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector, including providing scholarships and employment pathways for Indigenous students
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. Baidam Solutions is an Indigenous-owned supplier
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Safe & Smart Tech
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CrowdStrike achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for its products, including Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, Charlotte AI, and Falcon for IT, in October 2024
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, validating its information security management. In March 2025, the CrowdStrike Falcon platform received FedRAMP High Authorization
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, ensuring compliance with stringent U.S. federal security standards for federal agencies and critical infrastructure.
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Zero Waste & Sustainable Products
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No specific, quantifiable evidence was provided in the article for any of the Key Performance Indicators related to Zero Waste & Sustainable Products. The article mentions an employee Green Team promoting efforts including reducing single-use plastics, but does not provide a percentage reduction, a baseline, or details on the number and effectiveness of waste reduction initiatives.
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Information regarding waste diversion rates, product recyclability, packaging sustainability, recycled content, take-back programs, circular design, hazardous waste management, product durability, repairability, waste audits, zero waste certifications, waste disposal violations, material efficiency, packaging-to-product ratio, waste reduction targets, supplier waste requirements, or customer waste education is not present. The commitment to science-based emission reductions aligns with net-zero targets, but this relates to carbon emissions, not waste reduction, and is explicitly excluded by the value definition. In January 2024, they committed to science-based emission reductions aligning with net-zero targets.
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