Attacks move between systems. Most security tools do not.
An attacker will use a stolen login, then a laptop, then your cloud console, then the data. CrowdStrike Falcon watches all of it as one chain. Below, you can walk six real attack chains stage by stage, then break them.
One sensor at the centre. Everything else switches on.
Select a ring or a segment. Cornerstone's own rendering of the Falcon platform architecture.
Nobody gets breached in one place.
A modern attack is a chain. Someone buys a working login, uses it on a laptop, finds a key sitting in a file, walks into the cloud console, and leaves with the data. Each individual step looks reasonable. Only the sequence is obviously an attack.
This is why a business can own good tools and still be surprised. A tool that watches devices cannot see the cloud step. A tool that watches logins cannot see the file on the desktop. Nobody is holding the whole thread, so the attack is only obvious afterwards, in the report.
Falcon's argument is simple: one piece of software on the device, one place to look, and the ability to connect an identity to a laptop to a cloud account to a file. You do not need to spot every step. You need to break the chain once. On average an attacker moves deeper within about half an hour of getting in, and the fastest case CrowdStrike has recorded was 27 seconds, so where you break it matters as much as whether you do.
First three figures: CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report. Fourth: 2025 Security Leaders Peer Report, Panaseer.
Watch it happen. Then break the chain.
Six attack chains, all drawn from patterns CrowdStrike has documented in the field. Pick one and it plays through stage by stage. Then switch to With Falcon and watch where the chain stops, and what stops it. You can take control at any point.
Each stage names the capability doing the work, so you can see which part of the platform earns its place and why. Where a stage is not a technology problem, we say so.
These are composite scenarios built from attack patterns and capability detail in CrowdStrike's own materials, and from engagement patterns we have seen. They are illustrative, not a guarantee of outcome in any specific environment. Capability described is generally available today; we do not include roadmap or early-access features.
What are you actually trying to solve?
Nobody wakes up wanting to buy endpoint detection. They wake up worried about a specific thing. Find yours below: what is going wrong underneath it, how Falcon addresses it, the evidence, and what we do around it.
Start where it counts, then grow into the rest.
Falcon has grown well beyond endpoint protection, and that breadth is the point: one platform now covers ground that used to take five vendors and five contracts. Here is all of it, grouped by the order we typically deploy it, because sequencing is what makes a platform land well. Everything below activates through the same sensor, so adding capability later is a licensing conversation rather than another deployment project.
We do not run a security operations centre. We partner for one.
Most Australian mid-market businesses cannot staff a 24/7 security team, and should not try. Detection without somebody to act on it at three in the morning is just an alarm in an empty building.
Falcon Complete provides that watch, with operations that follow the sun and include Australia, so escalations reach people in your own business hours as well as outside them. Their analysts investigate and take agreed remediation action rather than simply sending you an alert.
Our job sits above that: designing the environment, agreeing what may be actioned without waking anyone, integrating the rest of your stack, and owning the reporting that goes to your board. We are the adviser and the integrator. Falcon Complete is the night shift.
What the night shift includes, and the cost mathematicsThe one decision that matters most
Before anyone watches your environment, you have to decide how much they are allowed to do without asking you first. In practice it is a spectrum, and it is a business decision rather than a technical one.
Most risk removed, fastest containment. Accepts that occasionally something legitimate gets interrupted and has to be released.
The balanced middle, and where most businesses land. Everything short of an action that would interrupt someone's work happens immediately.
Lowest chance of disruption, highest chance of a longer incident, because containment waits for a human to answer the phone.
We work through this with you properly, along with who gets called and in what order. Getting these two things right is most of the difference between a managed service that works and one that annoys everybody.
A 24/7 security operation, without hiring one.
Falcon Complete is CrowdStrike's own analysts running detection and response for you around the clock: watching, triaging, investigating and remediating hands-on, to a mandate you set. It comes in three editions, so the watch covers exactly the ground you need it to.
Complete for Endpoint
Devices watched end to end. Threats on laptops and servers are detected, investigated and remediated by CrowdStrike analysts: the process killed, the machine isolated, the persistence removed, hands-on rather than alert-only.
Complete for Identity
The same watch over your accounts and directory. Compromised credentials, replication attacks and privilege misuse, like the chains in the simulator above, are challenged and contained as they start, not reported afterwards.
Complete for Next-Gen SIEM
Managed detection across everything you feed the platform: firewall, SaaS, network and application logs watched alongside endpoint and identity in one place. Useful when the rest of your stack needs eyes too.
Detect in minutes
The platform raises it fast. In the 2024 MITRE ATT&CK managed services evaluation, CrowdStrike reported a four minute mean time to detect.
A human triages it
An analyst confirms it is real before anyone is woken. Your team stops chasing false alarms at two in the morning.
Investigated across domains
The device, the identity and the cloud steps are pulled into one timeline, which is what the platform sections above are for.
Remediated to your mandate
They act on what you pre-agreed: isolate, kill, disable, revoke. You get the report and the morning briefing, not the 3am phone call.
Watching is a job. Fatigue is the failure mode.
Detection tools do not watch themselves. Somebody has to sit with the screen overnight, on weekends and through public holidays, and stay sharp at hour seven of a quiet shift. That is where in-house rosters fail: fatigue sets in, alerts get skimmed, and the one that mattered is the one dismissed at 4am. Falcon Complete rotates fresh analysts onto the glass every hour of the year, so accuracy never depends on how tired one person is.
Staying current is its own full-time job. Techniques change month to month, and an in-house team has to study them between tickets. These analysts do nothing else.
They already know who is attacking you.
CrowdStrike tracks more than 280 named adversary groups, with their preferred targets, tradecraft and tooling documented over years (CrowdStrike, 2026). The analysts watching your environment recognise the method, not just the malware: behaviour is matched against indicators of attack, the sequences adversaries actually follow, rather than waiting for a known-bad file to show up.
When a technique changes anywhere in the world, the watch updates for every customer at once. No internal team can replicate that on its own.
They put money behind it.
CrowdStrike backs Falcon Complete with a Breach Prevention Warranty of up to US$1 million, per CrowdStrike's published warranty terms; eligibility varies by region and subscription. Very few vendors put their own money behind a managed service. It changes the conversation with your board and your insurer.
Awake when you are, and when you are not.
Operations hand over around the globe and include Australia, so escalations reach analysts working your business hours, and the overnight watch never depends on one person staying awake. Cornerstone designs the escalation model on top: who gets called, in what order, and what never waits for a call.
What would it cost to build this yourself?
Around-the-clock coverage is a rostering problem before it is a security problem: a week has 168 hours, a roster has 38, so one always-staffed seat takes about 4.4 people before leave and absence. Put your own numbers in below. The defaults are indicative and fully editable; this is your arithmetic, not a quote.
Before recruitment, training, turnover and the tooling nobody budgets for. And it buys one seat of coverage, not a bench of specialists.
What does Falcon Complete cost instead?
A fraction of the number on the left, priced by device count and modules rather than headcount. We quote it properly, with the escalation design and onboarding included, and you can hold the two numbers side by side.
Book a meetingGet a pricing estimateSalary and tooling defaults are editable assumptions for you to replace with your own figures, not market data or a quote. The 4.4 figure is roster arithmetic: 168 hours in a week divided by a 38 hour week, before leave and absence cover. Business hours are taken as 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, and the two-hours-a-day scenario is an illustration, not a measurement.
Not our claims. Theirs, and the testers'.
100% protection with zero false positives
MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations: Enterprise 2025, round seven. The same evaluation recorded 100% detection with configuration changes applied. Separately, 100% total accuracy in the 2025 SE Labs Endpoint Protection Evaluation.
Four-minute mean time to detect
2024 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations for managed services, where CrowdStrike reported 42 of 43 attack steps.
Leader, 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for endpoint protection
Positioned furthest right for completeness of vision and highest for ability to execute, in the report dated 26 May 2026. Also a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for exposure management and the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for identity threat detection.
98% fewer critical vulnerabilities in under a year
Reported by a United States financial services business across its internet-facing estate, with two separate tools retired. Named in CrowdStrike's materials.
34% reduction in cyber insurance premiums
Reported by a Californian bank following consolidation onto the platform. A useful reminder that security posture is now a commercial line item.
83% fewer audit findings
Reported by a financial services firm managing 500 independent advisor environments, alongside a 69% reduction in compliance verification time.
Customer figures are single-customer results published by CrowdStrike and are not a projection of what any other business will achieve. Analyst and test results are attributed to the named evaluation and year. We are happy to walk you through the source material.
Eighteen paid engagements. Real licences, your tenant, no demo.
As a CrowdStrike partner we stand the full Falcon platform up in a tenant that belongs to you and run a gated, fixed-price engagement against your real environment. Risk reviews open in days; assessments go deep over weeks.
When AI runs, language becomes an attack surface.
As your people adopt AI assistants and you start building agents, a new layer opens up: the prompts, the responses, and the actions an agent takes in between. Falcon AIDR brings the same detection and response model that defined endpoint security to that layer, so you can adopt AI with confidence instead of caution.
See AI everywhere
Visibility into how employees use AI and how agents operate, mapping the relationships between users, prompts, models and agents, with runtime logs for compliance and investigations. Shadow AI stops being a blind spot.
Block prompt attacks
Detect and stop prompt injection, jailbreaks and model manipulation in real time, in text and in images, drawing on research into more than 180 prompt-injection techniques mapped to MITRE ATLAS.
Stop risky AI use
Block unsafe interactions, contain malicious agent actions and enforce policy by user, location, model and application, so AI stays inside the boundaries you set without getting in people's way.
Protect sensitive data
Detect and block credentials, personal information, regulated data and source code before they reach a model or an external AI tool, with redaction options that keep workflows intact.
Falcon AIDR figures are CrowdStrike's, from its December 2025 general-availability materials.
A free identity security risk review, before you buy anything.
Nearly every chain in the simulator above starts with an identity. CrowdStrike offers a no-cost review of your current directory and cloud identity setup: an expert session, visibility into what is actually configured, and a risk report you can act on. We run it with you and translate the findings into a sequenced plan.
No licence commitment, no obligation to proceed, and you keep the report either way.
What CrowdStrike does, and when we pick it.
What does CrowdStrike Falcon actually do?
Falcon is one lightweight piece of software on your devices that also covers identities, cloud systems, SaaS applications and the data inside them. Because it is one platform, it can follow an attacker moving between those areas, which single-purpose tools cannot.
How is CrowdStrike different from Microsoft Defender?
Defender for Endpoint is genuinely good and is tightly built into Microsoft 365. CrowdStrike leads on depth of detection, threat hunting and managed response. You also do not have to pick one: CrowdStrike offers its logging and monitoring layer for businesses keeping Defender on the endpoint, and since 2026 its OverWatch threat hunters work over Defender endpoints too, so you can add the missing capability without replacing what you already pay for.
What is Falcon Complete?
CrowdStrike's managed detection and response service. Their analysts watch your environment around the clock, investigate, and take agreed remediation action. Operations follow the sun and include Australia. It is useful when you do not have a security operations team of your own.
Does CrowdStrike replace Microsoft Purview?
No, and we would not position it that way. Purview leads for Microsoft 365 content, sensitivity labels, native data loss prevention and AI assistant governance. Falcon leads on the device, the identity and the exits. They work best together.
Will it slow down our devices?
No. The sensor is deliberately lightweight and is one of the lowest-impact tools of its kind. New capabilities activate through the sensor you already have, without installing anything else or rebooting.
We already run Falcon for endpoints. Is there value in more of it?
Usually yes, and it is a licence consolidation conversation rather than a new project. Identity, exposure, SaaS, data and operational technology coverage can activate through the sensor already deployed, which often lets you retire tools you are paying for separately.
Does Falcon cover the Essential Eight?
It contributes strongly to patching, restricting administrative privileges, multi-factor authentication, application hardening, macro settings and the monitoring expectations at maturity level two and above. It does not replace application control, patch deployment or backup, which stay with specialist tools in our stack.
Can we keep Microsoft Defender and still use CrowdStrike?
Yes. CrowdStrike offers its security logging and monitoring layer for environments running Defender on the endpoint. Defender continues doing detection and prevention, and Falcon provides the correlation, investigation and around-the-clock monitoring over the top, with OverWatch managed hunting available across Defender endpoints since 2026. For businesses that have already invested in Microsoft licensing this is often the most sensible shape, because it adds only the capability that is missing.
Are the simulations above real incidents?
They are composites. Each one is built from attack patterns and capability detail CrowdStrike has published, combined with patterns we have seen in our own engagements. No client is identifiable, and the outcomes are illustrative rather than a guarantee.