Case Study: Florida State University strengthens cybersecurity excellence with CrowdStrike

Florida State University Sets the Standard for Cybersecurity Excellence in Higher Education with CrowdStrike

Florida State University, a major higher-education institution with more than 45,000 students, faced growing cybersecurity risk across its academic, research, healthcare, and athletics operations. The university needed stronger protection from cybercriminals, including 24/7 threat monitoring, and was struggling with too many false-positive alerts that made it hard to spot real threats. CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform was brought in to help address these gaps.

CrowdStrike implemented a unified defense through the Falcon Platform, giving Florida State University better visibility and continuous monitoring. The result was a stronger security posture with reduced alert noise and improved ability to detect threats around the clock, helping protect sensitive data and lowering the risk of weekend or holiday attacks.

Florida State University

Bill Hunkapiller

Chief Information Security Officer