CrowdStrike to acquire XM Cyber intellectual property and provide customers a pathway to exposure management on the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform; Schwarz Digits to adopt the Falcon platform and extend access for customers across Europe
CrowdStrike and Schwarz Digits announced an expansion of their strategic partnership, launching a multi-year roadmap to bring the AI-native Falcon® platform to European enterprises on STACKIT, Schwarz Digits’ sovereign cloud, and to extend access for customers across the region.
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As part of the expanded partnership, CrowdStrike has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the intellectual property of XM Cyber, a Schwarz Digits company recognized for its advanced attack path visualization and offensive simulation technologies. Over time, XM Cyber customers will have the opportunity to adopt the Falcon platform through Falcon® Flex. As frontier AI accelerates how quickly vulnerabilities can be discovered, chained, and exploited, organizations are replacing fragmented point tools and standardizing on the Falcon platform, uniting continuous visibility, exploitability-driven prioritization, and response across the full attack surface.
“Organizations globally are increasingly prioritizing sovereignty without wanting to compromise on cybersecurity outcomes,” said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike. “This partnership accelerates our ability to deliver the Falcon platform on STACKIT’s sovereign cloud environment in Europe, and the acquisition furthers our exposure management business. Customers are moving beyond point products for platforms to secure their AI adoption journeys.”
Falcon Exposure Management: Built for the Frontier AI Era
Falcon® Exposure Management is the foundation for securing organizations in the frontier AI era. Traditional vulnerability management cannot keep pace, leaving teams to chase every finding while attackers target the few that matter. Falcon Exposure Management replaces that model with continuous, real-time visibility across the attack surface and prioritization based on real-world exploitability, so teams eliminate the exposures attackers are most likely to exploit. Built on the Falcon platform, detection, response, and remediation move as one, closing the gap between finding risk and stopping the breach. This is why organizations are standardizing on Falcon: according to IDC, they replace an average of five point tools with the single, real-time view of risk that fragmented tools could never deliver.¹
Extending Sovereign Cybersecurity Across Europe
The partnership deepens the strategic relationship between CrowdStrike and Schwarz Digits, backed by Schwarz Digits’ internal deployment of the Falcon platform. A phased roadmap will deliver Falcon on STACKIT, Schwarz Digits’ sovereign cloud infrastructure operated within the European Union. As regulations such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act and NIS2 raise the bar for organizations operating critical infrastructure, European enterprises are seeking security that meets the highest technological standards.
“European organizations should not have to compromise on cybersecurity for sovereignty,” said Christian Müller, CEO of Schwarz Digits. “By making the Falcon platform a core pillar of our cybersecurity strategy and providing a long-term roadmap to host it on STACKIT, we are paving the way for enterprises to systematically adopt AI-native protection. Building on XM Cyber’s proven value in proactive defense, our priority is to keep daily operations seamless for our customers while offering a clear pathway to the Falcon platform. Combining our large-scale infrastructure experience and reach with the industry’s leading security platform, we are uniquely positioned to advance European digital independence.”
Expanding Falcon Platform Access Across Europe
As part of the partnership, the Falcon platform will be available to European organizations through STACKIT, extending access across the region. Combining CrowdStrike’s AI-native platform with Schwarz Digits’ scale and local presence will give European enterprises a trusted path to modern security delivered on sovereign infrastructure.
A Pathway for XM Cyber Customers to Move to the Falcon Platform
XM Cyber, a 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Challenger for Exposure Assessment Platforms, built a successful business across European markets. XM Cyber will continue to operate and support its existing customers, who will have the opportunity to adopt the Falcon platform through Falcon Flex and join organizations already standardizing on Falcon to stop breaches in the frontier AI era.
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