5 Big Takeaways From CrowdStrike’s 2025 Partner Summit

September 16, 2025 – Published on CRN

CrowdStrike is continuing to expand its investments into working with solution and service provider partners amid surging growth opportunities including AI security and tool consolidation, executives said during CrowdStrike’s Partner Summit 2025 Monday.

The event, which was held during the cybersecurity giant’s Fal.Con 2025 in Las Vegas, drew hundreds of top partners and featured remarks from CrowdStrike executives including co-founder and CEO George Kurtz and Chief Business Officer Daniel Bernard.

CrowdStrike remains steadfast in its commitment to operating as a “partner-first company” and is increasingly relying upon the channel for delivery of services around its broad cybersecurity platform—especially when it comes to the AI and agentic revolution, Bernard said.

There’s no question that CrowdStrike’s rebound since the massive July 2024 outage caused by a faulty configuration update means that the company and its partners are now focused entirely on the future, which has so many opportunities to pursue, CrowdStrike executives and partners said during the Partner Summit Monday.

“A year ago [when] we were in this room, we were thinking about different things,” Bernard said. “As we kick off this year, it’s all about growth. It’s about acceleration. It’s about the speed of what’s happening in the market.”

CrowdStrike’s unparalleled track record on security made a huge difference in how customers reacted in the wake of the outage, which allowed partners to move beyond the incident relatively quickly, GuidePoint Security’s Jason Braun said during the Partner Summit.

Many customers directly stated that they wanted to stick with CrowdStrike because the vendor had “saved” them from potentially devastating attacks numerous times, said Braun, senior vice president of sales at GuidePoint, No. 37 on CRN’s Solution Provider 500 for 2025.

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