(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. is betting big on cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., replacing other defensive tools with the company’s safeguards.
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Amazon’s profitable cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services, has ditched other security products in favor of CrowdStrike’s cyber threat response and protection offerings, the two companies announced Thursday.
They described this as part of a broader “strategic partnership,” without providing specific details of the financial arrangement.
CrowdStrike shares were up about 3% at 12:15 p.m. Thursday in New York.
CJ Moses, Amazon’s chief information security officer, said AWS and other parts of the company have largely completed the adoption of CrowdStrike’s latest security monitoring platform, in addition to its services to prevent attacks via employee credentials. compromised. These programs and much of CrowdStrike’s suite of security tools will be rolled out “across Amazon” by the end of the year, he said.
“We secure everything from satellites in space to delivery vehicles,” Moses said. The newly adopted CrowdStrike products replace some tools developed by Amazon itself, he said, as well as products from “individual niche players” that he declined to name.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said Amazon’s expanded use fits with what his company has seen from other customers — a desire for simple, unified cybersecurity products. by analysts and competitors, including Microsoft Corp., the largest seller of cybersecurity products.
CrowdStrike, for its part, is adopting more AWS services to accelerate the development of generative artificial intelligence capability in its core security platform, Kurtz said.
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(Updates with share price in fourth paragraph.)
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