Securing the Nation’s Most Critical Systems: CrowdStrike Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization
The evolving landscape of state-sponsored threats demands the highest levels of security for federal systems and critical infrastructure. As part of our longstanding commitment to protecting federal agencies and critical infrastructure, the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® platform has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High Authorization — the U.S. government’s most stringent cloud security standard.
This milestone arrives at a critical juncture, as the CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report reveals adversaries can now move laterally across networks in just 48 minutes on average, with the fastest recorded breakout time being just 51 seconds. Parallel to these accelerated breakout times, the escalation in China-nexus activity — an observed 150% year-over-year increase globally and peaks of 300% in critical sectors — exposes the limitations of conventional security frameworks.
With FedRAMP High authorization, CrowdStrike’s cloud-native platform now delivers comprehensive protection across the entire U.S. federal ecosystem — from civilian agencies to the nation’s most sensitive systems.
“We have remained steadfast in our commitment to protecting government data and missions. We are very excited to be able to give that assurance to federal customers that their mission execution is secured in accordance with the highest FedRAMP control set,” stated André Murphy, CrowdStrike’s Senior Federal Tech Strategist in the Office of the CTO. This holistic approach ensures mission-critical data remains secure against sophisticated threats.
FedRAMP Security Baselines and CrowdStrike’s Designations
FedRAMP uses the NIST FIPS 199 guidelines to establish authorizations commensurate with the level of impact that may result from an incident affecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of an organization’s data. These impacts are rated as Low (limited), Moderate (serious adverse), or High (severe or catastrophic).
The FedRAMP High baseline’s security controls are based on NIST SP 800-53, which outlines security and privacy control baselines for the U.S. federal government. In addition, the FedRAMP High baseline also contains controls, parameters, and guidance above this NIST baseline to address the unique elements of cloud computing. The FedRAMP High baseline implements 421 security controls — the broadest control set of all FedRAMP baselines — to protect systems that would experience severe or catastrophic adverse effects to the organization’s operations, assets, or personnel.
High-impact data resides in mission-critical systems across law enforcement, emergency services, healthcare, and financial sectors — where any breach could have catastrophic consequences. These cloud-based environments safeguard the government’s most sensitive data, directly impacting human life and economic stability.
CrowdStrike: Unified Protection for Mission-Critical Systems
CrowdStrike stands ready to stop breaches of the highest-impact federal information systems. Powered by a single, lightweight agent, the Falcon platform regularly processes and analyzes trillions of security events daily from millions of sensors across 176 countries, delivering comprehensive protection for the government’s most sensitive systems. Unlike traditional fragmented solutions, this cloud-native architecture eliminates security gaps and operational complexity while ensuring strict federal compliance.
The Falcon platform unifies advanced endpoint, cloud, identity, and data protection — delivering comprehensive security aligned with both the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model and DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture as well as NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 controls. And with CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM, federal agencies can unify their security telemetry and logs in one place — eliminating silos and delivering a complete, real-time picture of their organization in an efficient and actionable manner. By orchestrating intelligence across logs, managed and unmanaged devices, and disparate data layers, Next-Gen SIEM empowers security teams to quickly understand where adversaries are dwelling and take decisive action. This cloud-native foundation, powered by real-time AI and enhanced by integrated threat intelligence, enables rapid deployment and operational resilience at mission speed.
With 26 FedRAMP High authorized products and services spanning critical security domains, federal teams can defend against sophisticated adversaries at mission speed while addressing strict compliance requirements.These essential solutions include:
Endpoint Security and Response
Falcon Complete: Managed detection response
Falcon Device Control: Complete USB device visibility
Falcon FileVantage: File integrity management
Falcon for Mobile: Endpoint security for mobile devices
Falcon Insight XDR: Extended detection and response
Falcon Prevent: Next-gen antivirus
Threat Intelligence and Hunting
Counter Adversary Operations Elite: Advanced threat hunting
Counter Adversary Operations: Threat hunting, intelligence, and monitoring
Falcon Adversary Intelligence: Actionable threat intelligence
Falcon Adversary Intelligence Premium: Enhanced threat intelligence
Falcon Adversary OverWatch: Detecting cross-domain threats
Cloud and Infrastructure Security
Discover IoT/Insight IoT: IoT device discovery
Falcon Cloud Security: Cloud workload protection
Falcon Cloud Security for Containers: Container runtime security
Falcon Cloud Security for Managed Containers: Managed container security
Falcon Discover: Complete asset visibility
Identity and Data Protection
Falcon Data Protection: Data loss prevention
Falcon Forensics: Triaging forensic data
Falcon Identity Protection: Identity threat protection
Falcon Spotlight: Assessing vulnerability exposure
Security Operations and Automation
Falcon Firewall Management: Centralized firewall management
Falcon for IT: Real-time visibility and remediation
Falcon Foundry: Building low-code applications
Falcon Fusion: Security workflow automation
Falcon Next-Gen SIEM: Security information and event management
Falcon SIEM Connector: Streamlined data integration
This comprehensive suite of FedRAMP High authorized solutions enables federal agencies to deploy enterprise-wide security that meets the U.S. government’s most stringent requirements. Through CrowdStrike’s unified platform approach, agencies can now protect their most sensitive systems and data while reducing complexity, increasing operational efficiency, and maintaining continuous compliance with federal security standards.
CrowdStrike’s FedRAMP High Authorization Empowers Critical Infrastructure Resilience
In an era where adversaries can breach and move laterally through federal networks in less than an hour, fragmented security tools create dangerous blind spots that federal agencies cannot afford. The surge in China-nexus attacks against critical infrastructure demonstrates the urgent need for unified security capabilities.
The Falcon platform’s achievement of FedRAMP High authorization across 26 products and services represents more than a compliance milestone — it provides federal security teams with an unmatched advantage in defending America’s most sensitive systems. Through one unified console, agencies gain complete visibility and control across their entire infrastructure, enabling them to maintain national security against threats that evolve by the second. This comprehensive approach, backed by CrowdStrike’s proven track record in federal security, ensures agencies can defend their critical systems with the speed, efficiency, and reliability that modern threats demand.
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