Case Study: Virgin Hyperloop achieves 75% reduction in security costs and sub-hour malware remediation with CrowdStrike Falcon Complete

Virgin Hyperloop Plans to Revolutionize Mass Transit While Safeguarding Data

Virgin Hyperloop is a 300‑person startup founded in 2014 to develop a revolutionary, zero‑emission tube‑based transportation system that moves people and freight at high speed. Because the company’s groundbreaking IP attracts significant attention and it operates with a lean IT team and startup budget, Virgin Hyperloop faced security risks from sophisticated actors, a fragmented set of endpoint tools, and slow, costly remediation processes.

Virgin Hyperloop adopted CrowdStrike’s Falcon Complete managed endpoint security and Falcon OverWatch threat hunting, retiring redundant products and a costly remediation retainer. CrowdStrike’s managed service augmented the small IT team, freed the service desk to handle user tickets, and delivered measurable benefits: a 75% reduction in security costs, malware instances dropping from daily to rare, and remediation times shrinking from 8–48 hours to under an hour.

Virgin Hyperloop

Dawn Armstrong

Vice President of Information Technology