Case Study: State of Wyoming achieves continuous citizen protection and supports economic development with CrowdStrike Falcon

State of Wyoming Trusts Crowdstrike to Help Support Economic Development, Protect Citizens and Staff from Cyber Threats

The Wyoming Department of Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) was created to build the state’s IT backbone and protect agencies, citizens and the governor’s economic development mandate. ETS supports about 10,000 end users across diverse agencies with stringent compliance needs (FERPA, HIPAA, etc.), and faced a legacy antivirus that missed detections, consumed excessive resources, slowed users, and could not stop modern, scripted attacks — creating a need for a more adaptive, reliable cybersecurity solution.

ETS selected the cloud‑native CrowdStrike Falcon platform, whose lightweight agent deployed quickly with minimal user impact and delivered real‑time forensic visibility and instant detection. Combined with Falcon OverWatch™ managed hunting, ETS now isolates and remediates incidents far faster, eliminated CPU‑intensive scans, increased staff productivity and job satisfaction, extended protection to endpoints anywhere, and strengthened statewide defenses for agencies and citizens without hiring a large new security team.

State of Wyoming

Tony Young

Chief Information Officer