Case Study: Inductive Automation achieves business continuity for critical industries with CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike Helps Inductive Automation Ensure Business Continuity for Critical Industry and Public Services

Inductive Automation, a Folsom, California software company behind the Ignition SCADA platform used by global manufacturers and public utilities, needed to ensure its products and development environments were highly secure. The company’s mixed Linux/Windows/Mac estate, growing AWS footprint and developer-heavy workstations exposed it to rising IoT/Industry 4.0 risks, while a legacy endpoint solution was fragmented, resource‑hungry, produced false positives and couldn’t scale with rapid growth.

Inductive Automation consolidated multiple tools onto the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, deploying a single lightweight agent plus services like Falcon OverWatch and Falcon X. The change reduced CPU impact and false positives, simplified management across ~500 endpoints, lowered operational costs, and delivered faster, higher‑fidelity detection and scalable protection for both on‑premises and cloud environments.

Inductive Automation

Jason Waits

Director of Cyber Security