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CrowdStrikeCRWD

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The endpoint-security platform whose customers stayed through an outage that grounded airlines — the switching cost, demonstrated.

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Switching costsweight 15An agent on every device and consolidation onto the Falcon platform; the July 2024 outage proved customers do not leave.8
Network effectsweight 15More endpoints feed the threat graph, which improves detection for everyone on it.6
Scale & cost advantageweight 12Large in security, modest next to the platforms it protects.6
Brand & pricing powerweight 12Premium pricing survived the outage; the brand recovered within quarters.7
Cornered resourceweight 12Years of threat-intelligence data across a very large installed base.6
Distribution controlweight 12Channel partners and the Falcon marketplace; no owned surface.6
Disruption resilienceweight 12Microsoft bundling Defender into enterprise licenses is the threat to every security vendor.6
Independenceweight 10Few dependencies; runs on public cloud without being captive to one.6

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Switching costs

Switching costs · weight 15

How painful — in money, time, risk, retraining — is it for a customer to leave?

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