Case Study: State of Oklahoma achieves rapid threat detection and protection of 35,000 endpoints with CrowdStrike

State of Oklahoma Deploys CrowdStrike to Defend Thousands of Endpoints Against Daily Threats

The State of Oklahoma faced a rapidly growing cyber risk after consolidating 128 agencies into a single statewide IT operation—supporting 120,000 endpoints, 10,000 servers and 1,200 applications—while enduring roughly 61 million attacks per day. COVID‑19 amplified the challenge by moving 98% of staff to remote work, threatening continuity of critical citizen services and exposing a complex, high‑profile attack surface.

Oklahoma shifted to a Zero Trust model, created the OK‑ISAC for shared defense, and deployed a portfolio of CrowdStrike solutions to protect about 35,000 endpoints as part of an 18‑month program (38 initiatives) that unified endpoint control across 111 agencies. Results included reducing average reaction time from two days to under a minute, a 60% increase in security team efficiency, an expected ~300% ROI and estimated $5.7M in five‑year savings, plus improved real‑time threat detection and automated containment.

State of Oklahoma

Matt Singleton

Chief Information Security Officer