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Alex Ionescu reposted thisAlex Ionescu reposted thisEveryone sees the dot on the chart. Few understand what it takes to get there...and keep it there. Holding the top-right corner of the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms for FOUR consecutive years requires three things most companies can't sustain simultaneously: 1. Vision bets that land before the market expects them. AI Detection and Response wasn't a reaction to a trend. We created the category. 2. Platform velocity that compounds. Every module we add makes the next one stronger. Our architecture accelerates at scale. 3. Customer conviction. 97% recommendation rate. It's because the platform performs. In a category where names have disappeared entirely, it's not luck that we're named a Leader for the 7th consecutive year. Now, the AI era is rewriting what "endpoint" means. We've been here before... Every technology shift is where CrowdStrike separates, leads, and wins.
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Alex Ionescu reposted thisAlex Ionescu reposted thisTIME named its 100 Most Influential Companies. One cybersecurity company made the list. CrowdStrike. Alphabet Inc., Anthropic, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, SpaceX. You are the company you keep. This is the company we've built together. To our customers, partners and CrowdStrikers that made this possible: thank you. https://lnkd.in/dqQmfyMf
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Alex Ionescu reposted thisAlex Ionescu reposted thisThere is no shortcut to adversary intelligence if you want to stop breaches. Done right, it is the operational backbone of the SOC, informing every detection, every hunt, every decision, in real time. Done poorly, it is an expensive newsletter. This week, CrowdStrike was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies, positioned furthest right for Completeness of Vision among all vendors evaluated. This is where Counter Adversary Operations changes the math. At the heart of CAO sits Falcon OverWatch, the team that pioneered managed threat hunting and still sets the bar for it, working shoulder to shoulder with our intelligence analysts to track 280+ of the most active nation-state, eCrime, and hacktivist adversaries on the planet. Not signatures. Adversaries: their tradecraft, their infrastructure, their playbooks. That intelligence flows directly into the Falcon platform, where Threat AI now reasons across it, hunts proactively, and disrupts attacks at machine speed. This is how you stop breaches. Press release: https://lnkd.in/guVntKnY Gartner report: https://lnkd.in/gEZXtiqa Threat AI: https://lnkd.in/gvCdFWB9
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Alex Ionescu reposted thisAlex Ionescu reposted thisDay Zero: The 2026 Threat Research Summit is bringing together featured speakers from Amazon, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Recorded Future, CrowdStrike, and more to share original research on emerging adversary tradecraft. Applications are now open: https://lnkd.in/gVZQxS5n Join us Aug. 30 – Sep. 1, 2026 at the Virgin Hotel in Las Vegas for a closed-door summit built for the cybersecurity community’s most technical minds — threat researchers, reverse engineers and intelligence experts working at the forefront of adversary analysis. Featured sessions will explore agentic AI weaponization, evolving China-nexus tradecraft and DPRK playbooks, vulnerability exploitation, and multinational investigations. The lineup includes: • Martin Wendiggensen, Dreadnode • Ashley Shen, Cisco Talos • Julian-Ferdinand Vögele, Recorded Future • Selena Larson, Proofpoint • A special session with John Hultquist, Google Threat Intelligence Group, and Sherrod DeGrippo, Microsoft
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Alex Ionescu reposted thisVery proud to share that CrowdStrike has just been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2026! @TIME recognizes companies driving global innovation and economic change, and I believe there is no industry where that bar matters more than cybersecurity. AI is accelerating threats at a rapid pace, enabling nation-state actors, eCrime groups, and hacktivists to be more capable and relentless than ever. CrowdStrike was built to meet this moment. Our platform, our technology, our vision, and our team are what put us on this list. Huge thanks to the people who live our mission every day, and the customers who entrust us with stopping the breach. #TIME100Companies
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Alex Ionescu reposted thisAlex Ionescu reposted this🏆🤩 Félicitations! Ten Concordia University graduates will be presented with Alumni Recognition Awards this spring! 👏 Join the Concordia University Alumni Association and our emcee, CBC Montreal’s Sudha Krishnan, BA 99, in celebrating #CUpride on May 25. Joignez-vous à l’Association des diplômés de l’Université Concordia et à notre animatrice Sudha Krishnan, BA 99, de CBC Montreal, le 25 mai, pour célébrer nos gagnants. 🏆 Rana Ghorayeb, BA 97, MEng 01 – Humberto Santos Award of Merit and Service 🏆 Lenore Vosberg – Honorary Life Membership 🏆 Alex Ionescu, BCompSc 12 – Benoît Pelland Alumnus of the Year 🏆 Alexandra Kindrat, PhD 18 – John F. Lemieux Medal 🏆 Hayfa Akoubi, M.Sc, EMBA (c) BSc 17, BSc 22 – John F. Lemieux Medal 🏆 Gaetan Lefebvre, BComm 86, EMBA 06 – MBA Alumnus of the Year 🏆 Hong Deng, MEng 01 – International Excellence Award 🏆 Lai King Hum, BA 85 – Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award 🏆 Sharon Nelson, BSc 97, BEng 10 – Outstanding Faculty Award 🏆 June Aldinucci – Outstanding Student Leader Award Read more register for the ceremony: https://lnkd.in/gDqEAeHR Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science Concordia University - John Molson School of Business
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Alex Ionescu reposted thisAlex Ionescu reposted thisIntroducing Project QuiltWorks. AI is opening a whole new risk frontier for all organizations. Vulnerability risk. The patching window hasn't just been reduced. It's vanishing. No single company can close this gap alone. Not at this speed. Not at this scale. QuiltWorks brings together OpenAI, Accenture, IBM Cybersecurity Services, EY, Kroll, and a growing coalition to assess, prioritize, and remediate AI-discoverable vulnerabilities at enterprise scale. And we’re using the latest models from OpenAI and Anthropic. The frontier labs are choosing CrowdStrike. They're choosing us because we're cybersecurity's leader. Anthropic chose us for Glasswing. OpenAI chose us for Trusted Access for Cyber. The only cybersecurity company in both. From day one. We have the trust of the customer. We have worldwide distribution. We have the right security platform to deliver the best security outcomes for the customer. Uniting the ecosystem. Leveraging our AI-native platform. Combined with frontier models. This is Project QuiltWorks. For the benefit of the world's secure AI adoption.
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Alex Ionescu reposted this🔥 CrowdTour Montreal Recap – The Power of the Crowd in Action Yesterday, Montreal’s cybersecurity community came together for an unforgettable CrowdTour Montreal — and one thing was clear: The future of cybersecurity is AI-driven, adversary-focused, and powered by the Crowd. 🚀 A Day of Real-World Impact From the opening keynote to the final conversations, the energy in the room reflected a shared reality: organizations are actively transforming how they defend against modern threats — especially in the age of AI. A highlight of the day was our Alex Ionescu CrowdStrike , Chief Technology Innovation Officer’s keynote: “Securing AI at the Speed of AI Innovation” — setting the tone for how organizations must evolve to keep pace with both innovation and adversaries. 🎤 Customer-Led Stories & Strategic Sessions The day was grounded in real-world experiences, with customers sharing how they are actively transforming security: * Modern Security Strategies for Accelerating AI Adoption with CGI * Agentic SOC transformation stories with PSP Investments | Investissements PSP In the afternoon breakout sessions: * AI Security Summit featuring an insightful session with UV Insurance * Agentic SOC Transformation with Gameloft These sessions brought forward practical strategies, lessons learned, and tangible outcomes from organizations leading the way. 🧠 Key Takeaways AI is reshaping the battlefield Adversaries are accelerating — and defenders must match that speed with AI-native security. The SOC is evolving into an Agentic model Automation, intelligence, and orchestration are redefining how security teams operate. Platform is power Consolidation is critical to reduce complexity and enable faster, more effective response. Security must enable innovation Protecting AI isn’t just about risk — it’s about unlocking business value safely. 🤝 The Power of Community From engaging discussions throughout the day to a vibrant networking reception, the Montreal security community showed up strong — sharing insights, challenges, and ideas. The day concluded with an exclusive, strategic AI-focused dinner at #Yoko Luna — bringing together leaders for deeper conversations on the future of security and AI. 🙌 Thank You to Our Partners A big thank you to our sponsoring partners for helping make this event possible: Abnormal AI, Netskope , Dell Technologies , Intel , Rubrik , and Zscaler. ⚡ What’s Next The momentum continues. Join us for the next stop on the tour: 📍 Toronto — May 28 at Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Thank you to everyone who made CrowdTour Montreal such a success. The Crowd is just getting started. Jeffrey Freedman Marc Dube Stephane Asselin Jodi Moore Karen Margossian Alejandro Rozo Farias Marc-Andre Belair, CISSP Patrick Moubarak Stephan Cronier Nickolas Kabitsis André Martin Zia Z. Abbass Moulaye Grend Naumi Jaclyn Wittke Richard Fabic Andrew Delacretaz Louis-Alexander Chauve Angel MacKinnon
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Alex Ionescu reposted thisAlex Ionescu reposted this"CrowdStrike's argument is not that it has solved the AI security problem. Rather, it is that it built the platform, the telemetry base, and the adversarial intelligence over a decade, making it the right partner as that problem scales. The frontier model builders appear to agree." Read more in Forbes about our leadership in securing AI: https://lnkd.in/g78VGKjzCrowdStrike’s Next Act: Securing The Era Of Enterprise Agentic AICrowdStrike’s Next Act: Securing The Era Of Enterprise Agentic AI
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Congrats, son, you got this :)
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Ivan Rouzanov, M.S., MBA, GREM, CREA, MCSE, MCTS PDB annotated and some type definitions attached to arguments and parameters, maybe a few variable names here or there.
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Robert Zacek that’s a brilliant idea actually!
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Alex Ionescu reacted on thisAlex Ionescu reacted on thisEveryone sees the dot on the chart. Few understand what it takes to get there...and keep it there. Holding the top-right corner of the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms for FOUR consecutive years requires three things most companies can't sustain simultaneously: 1. Vision bets that land before the market expects them. AI Detection and Response wasn't a reaction to a trend. We created the category. 2. Platform velocity that compounds. Every module we add makes the next one stronger. Our architecture accelerates at scale. 3. Customer conviction. 97% recommendation rate. It's because the platform performs. In a category where names have disappeared entirely, it's not luck that we're named a Leader for the 7th consecutive year. Now, the AI era is rewriting what "endpoint" means. We've been here before... Every technology shift is where CrowdStrike separates, leads, and wins.
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Alex Ionescu reacted on thisLooking forward to engaging Canada's Universities and Colleges in conversation around reducing cyber risk and protecting their communities from cyber threats in the Frontier AI era. Grant Lam's session is a can't-miss! Western University Brock University University of Toronto York University Toronto Metropolitan University University of Guelph University of Waterloo Trent University Wilfrid Laurier University University of Windsor Queen's University Carleton University University of Ottawa Humber Polytechnic Sheridan College #CANHEIT #CANHEIT26 #CANHEIT2026 #CrowdStrike #AI #AISecurity #FrontierAI Alex Ionescu Michael Bloom Angel MacKinnon Joe Skeete Jennifer Tamasi
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Alex Ionescu reacted on thisAlex Ionescu reacted on thisTIME named its 100 Most Influential Companies. One cybersecurity company made the list. CrowdStrike. Alphabet Inc., Anthropic, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, SpaceX. You are the company you keep. This is the company we've built together. To our customers, partners and CrowdStrikers that made this possible: thank you. https://lnkd.in/dqQmfyMf
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Alex Ionescu reacted on thisAlex Ionescu reacted on thisToutes nos félicitations à notre chef Yannick Nézet-Séguin, qui a reçu à New York le Prix pour contribution exceptionnelle aux arts au Canada et aux États-Unis décerné par le Council for Canadian American Relations. Cette reconnaissance souligne un parcours exceptionnel et un engagement profond envers le pouvoir de l’art comme vecteur de dialogue, de rapprochement et de compréhension entre les cultures. Toute l’équipe de l’OM est fière de voir son leadership et sa contribution au rayonnement des arts célébrés de part et d’autre de la frontière. 👏
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Alex Ionescu liked thisIt is hard to understate how much more hardened Apple's Application-Processor-side of WiFi is than any other operating system out there. Between MIE and the XZM allocator there's some serious hardening on the latest iOS and iPhone 17. We spend a lot of time in wifi land and Apple's the gold standard here. The first big thing to know about Apple's WiFi on iOS is that they removed attack surface from the kernel and brought it into userland with DriverKit (https://lnkd.in/gQi4qJ23). The concept was initially formed by Simon Douglas while he was at NeXT, Inc working for Steve Jobs and brought to Mac in 2019 by Douglas and team. Most memory corruption can't get far by design and it should be exceedingly difficult to see another Ian Beer type wifi exploit (https://lnkd.in/gEGWwGC4) This use after free bug occured in `wifid`, a root userland process on iOS and can be triggered without any user interaction.Alex Ionescu liked thisiOS 26.5 dropped today with a fix for CVE-2026-28994 — a Wi-Fi use-after-free Alex Radocea discovered via automated Wi-Fi fuzzing. The bug is preauth and requires no user interaction.
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Alex Ionescu reacted on thisAlex Ionescu reacted on thisThere is no shortcut to adversary intelligence if you want to stop breaches. Done right, it is the operational backbone of the SOC, informing every detection, every hunt, every decision, in real time. Done poorly, it is an expensive newsletter. This week, CrowdStrike was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies, positioned furthest right for Completeness of Vision among all vendors evaluated. This is where Counter Adversary Operations changes the math. At the heart of CAO sits Falcon OverWatch, the team that pioneered managed threat hunting and still sets the bar for it, working shoulder to shoulder with our intelligence analysts to track 280+ of the most active nation-state, eCrime, and hacktivist adversaries on the planet. Not signatures. Adversaries: their tradecraft, their infrastructure, their playbooks. That intelligence flows directly into the Falcon platform, where Threat AI now reasons across it, hunts proactively, and disrupts attacks at machine speed. This is how you stop breaches. Press release: https://lnkd.in/guVntKnY Gartner report: https://lnkd.in/gEZXtiqa Threat AI: https://lnkd.in/gvCdFWB9
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I undertook the purchase and installation of locally used computers (and some donated) and setup a network with Internet access to allow those in need to contact loved ones back home as well as do research and job hunting online. We ran a program of Office/Internet/Email education as well to empower those in need. Wrote custom software to monitor, re-image and maintain machines as well as used off-the-shelf components (Norton Ghost, Faronics Deep Freeze, ...). I also helped maintain and update…
I undertook the purchase and installation of locally used computers (and some donated) and setup a network with Internet access to allow those in need to contact loved ones back home as well as do research and job hunting online. We ran a program of Office/Internet/Email education as well to empower those in need. Wrote custom software to monitor, re-image and maintain machines as well as used off-the-shelf components (Norton Ghost, Faronics Deep Freeze, ...). I also helped maintain and update the main office computers.
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