Case Study: City of Las Vegas achieves 24-hour breach containment and continuous service protection with CrowdStrike Falcon

The City of Las Vegas Makes a Safe Bet on CrowdStrike for Security and Brand Protection

The City of Las Vegas — which supports about 2.7 million residents and more than 40 million annual visitors — faced escalating, high-profile cyber threats that put essential services, IoT systems and the city’s global reputation at risk. A legacy endpoint solution was proving difficult to manage, and an early-morning incident alerted Chief Innovation Officer Michael Sherwood and his team to the urgent need for a more robust defense.

Las Vegas deployed the CrowdStrike Falcon platform and managed OverWatch services to secure roughly 4,000 endpoints across on‑premises, virtual and cloud environments, centralize telemetry with AI-powered analytics, and accelerate migration to hybrid systems. CrowdStrike identified and stopped a live attack, restored systems with no data loss and resumed normal operations within 24 hours, delivering seamless protection and strengthening public trust in the city’s ability to safeguard critical services.

City of Las Vegas

Michael Sherwood

Chief Innovation Officer