Case Study: Top-ranked University achieves real-time endpoint visibility and prevents sophisticated cyberattacks with CrowdStrike Falcon

Higher Education Institution - Customer Case Study

A world-class university with a highly distributed IT environment and more than 20,000 endpoints (Windows, Linux and macOS) faced rising risk from sophisticated attackers. Decentralized, semi-autonomous colleges and business units created inconsistent endpoint standards and countless potential attack vectors, putting sensitive research and privacy data at risk and prompting a campus-wide security improvement initiative.

The university deployed CrowdStrike Falcon (Prevent, Insight, OverWatch and Discover) across faculty and central servers to gain real-time, in-depth visibility and prevention. Falcon OverWatch quickly identified threats from commodity malware to advanced nation-state and hacktivist TTPs, enabling rapid containment and remediation. As a result, the security team achieved better threat attribution and proactive threat hunting, shifted from symptom triage to eliminating root causes, and continues to expand Falcon across its infrastructure.