CrowdStrike has announced that Michael Rogers has been appointed vice president of global business development, channels and alliances – the company’s highest -ranking channel and alliances officer and its overall channel leader.
Previously, Rogers was the global vice president, partner and alliance sales at CrowdStrike.
Former CrowdStrike channel leader, Matthew Polly, will head to a new high-growth, partner-centric executive sales leadership role as vice president of North America mid-market sales-a segment with critical channel relevance-remains focused on servicing and growing CrowdStrike’s Channel partner program.
As a newly appointed channel officer with 25 years of experience, Rogers has spent his career focused on working with partners in the cybersecurity industry. His experience is a direct result when it comes to sales rankings in cybersecurity organizations. Prior to CrowdStrike, Rogers held executive leadership positions directly supporting alliances and partnerships with McAfee and Sophos.
“Michael Rogers has proven to be a great leader and advocate for CrowdStrike, our partners and our customers, and no one has played a bigger role in growing our channel program over the past few years,” said Jim Seidel , chief sales officer at CrowdStrike.
“In a rapidly changing cybersecurity landscape, Michael has always defended a one-team-one-fight approach to helping our customers-bringing the best of CrowdStrike and the unique value of our partners to some of the most critical security area. He’s the perfect choice to lead the next chapter of partner growth, ”he said.
Rogers added, “The difference with CrowdStrike – and why we’ve put together such a select network of partners – is that we’ve always advocated for an ecosystem approach that puts customers at the center of our program.
“CrowdStrike and our partners are laser-focused on delivering the solutions, intelligence and expertise needed to combat today’s advanced cyber adversaries and help customers stop violations,” he said.
“When you find mission -focused partners like you, customers win, simple and straightforward.”
A partner-first company by design, new appointments were made as CrowdStrike announced the results of fiscal fourth quarter 2022 and fiscal year 2022 and came during a period of significant growth and momentum in CrowdStrike’s channel partner program. . For fiscal year 2022, CrowdStrike reported a record quarter for its partner ecosystem with partner-sourced ending ARR growing 83% year-over-year, and MSSP business growing more than 200% year-over -year, with significant traction around the world. network technology alliances, cloud service providers (CSPs), global system integrators (GSIs) and Telcos.
Highlights and momentum from CrowdStrike’s diverse global partner ecosystem over the past financial year include:
Technology Alliances
- XDR-In October 2021, CrowdStrike launched the CrowdXDR Alliance, the first unified and open Extended Detection and Response (XDR) coalition of IT and security vendors in the industry. CrowdXDR Alliance partners include Armis, Claroty, Cloudflare, Corelight, ExtraHop, Google Cloud, Mimecast, Netskope, Okta, Proofpoint, ServiceNow, ThreatWarrior and Zscaler.
- Zero Trust-In January 2022, CrowdStrike expanded the CrowdStrike Zero Trust Assessment (ZTA), which strengthens conditional access based on risk profiles to stop threats in real-time, with expanded partnerships and support for macOS and Linux. ZTA partners include Akamai, Appgate, Cloudflare, CyberArk, Google Cloud, Okta, Netskope, TruU, Twingate and Zscaler.
- NDR – The Network Detection and Response (NDR) Alliance was announced in April 2021 to develop a coherent platform to protect against enterprise -wide software threats. NDR Alliance partners include Awake Security, Corelight, Darktrace, ExtraHop, IronNet, ThreatWarrior and Vectra.
- IoT – CrowdStrike has announced partnerships in 2021 covering the Internet of Things (IoT) space with Armis, Medigate, Nihon Kohden and Rockwell Automation.
- CrowdStrike Store – In May 2021, CrowdStrike announced that ExtraHop, Google Cloud, Rapid7 and Siemplify are the latest partners to join the CrowdStrike Store.
Managed Security Service Providers
For fiscal year 2022 (ending January 31, 2022), CrowdStrike reported more than 200% growth in its MSSP business annually.
Cloud Service Providers
- Awarded the 2021 AWS Global Public Sector Partner Award for best cybersecurity solution and the 2021 Canada AWS Partner Award for ISV Partner of the Year.
- Named launch partner for Amazon EKS Anywhere Support, AWS Outposts and AWS Network Firewall, and earned certifications for AWS Well-Architected Management and Governance Lens and AWS Well-Architected ISV.
- Announced several Google Cloud integrations, including Chronicle and VirusTotal integrations and the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.
- Join the Google Marketplace and Red Hat Marketplace.
- Recognized as a key launch partner for the Google Work Safer Program, which protects organizations and their hybrid workforces from cyber threats.
Global Systems Integrators and Telcos
- Announced a joint solution with Ernst & Young (EY) for Ransomware Readiness and Resilience, Incident Response (IR) Recovery and Remediation, and the acceleration of Zero Trust capabilities.
- Expanded geographies supported by the joint EY partnership in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Greece, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, Singapore and Tunisia.
- Named after EY’s preferred cybersecurity platform with Falcon platform.
- Extended alliance with Deloitte as the Falcon platform chosen to enable critical components of Deloitte’s Managed Extended, Detection and Response (MXDR).
- Announced the partnership with Verizon that provides the Falcon platform as part of the integrated solutions and services available for Verizon customers.
- It announced a partnership with Telefonica to use the Falcon platform for their Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solution, as part of the NextDefence Service.
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