This Technical Validation from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group documents our evaluation of the Google Cloud Security Ecosystem and the CrowdStrike Falcon Security platform. Our analysis focused on how Google Cloud enables a cybersecurity independent software vendor (ISV) like CrowdStrike to provide differentiated security offerings and capabilities, accelerate time to market, and help customers secure their cloud applications. Background Momentum for digital transformation is accelerating.

Organizations are under increasing pressure to improve productivity and drive innovation to serve their customers and are leveraging cloud services to meet that demand. In fact, according to Enterprise Strategy Group research, 86% of organizations run production workloads on public cloud infrastructure/platforms,1 and most organizations strongly consider cloud as an option for new application deployments (see Figure 1). 2 Cloud services enable teams to modernize their application development processes for greater operational efficiency, which helps them meet their digital transformation objectives, including becoming more operationally efficient, providing a better customer experience, using technology that enables collaboration, and improving product development.