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CrowdStrike

Cybersecurity & VPN 53 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-09-12 METHOD V6.5
BDS-1000 Score 530 /1000 C Tier C - High
Military ↗ 0.00 Digital ↗ 0.00 Economic ↗ 6.20 Political ↗ 2.44
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Key Findings

  • Economic: CrowdStrike operates an Israeli R&D entity, acquired Israeli cybersecurity companies Flow Security, Bionic Stork and Adaptive Shield, maintains an Israeli reseller relationship with Trustnet, and reported $15.512 million in Israeli cash income-tax payments for FY2026.1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  • Political: CrowdStrike’s documented public engagement with the 2023 Israel–Hamas conflict was threat-intelligence reporting; reviewed lobbying disclosures did not identify Israel-, Palestine-, BDS-, settlement- or military-welfare-related issues.6, 7
  • Governance: CEO George Kurtz is reported to have backed Israeli cybersecurity company Aryon Security, whose founders are described as former IDF encryption-and-information-security personnel; the available records do not establish his investment amount, an operational role, or a military or political purpose.8, 9
  • Not found: No public evidence identified of CrowdStrike contracts or deployments with Israeli military, intelligence, police, prison, border-security or settlement bodies, nor of weapons, targeting, offensive-cyber or Project Nimbus involvement.10, 11

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameCrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.
JurisdictionDelaware, United States.12
Headquarters206 E. 9th Street, Suite 1400, Austin, Texas 78701, United States.12
SectorCloud-delivered cybersecurity, including endpoint, cloud-workload, identity and data security.12
OwnershipNasdaq-listed parent registrant. As of 3 April 2026, Vanguard Capital Management held 7.27% and BlackRock, Inc. held 6.70% of Class A common stock; no disclosed beneficial owner held 10% or more.13
Key Executives / GovernanceGeorge Kurtz - founder, President, CEO and director; Gerhard Watzinger - Chairman; Burt W. Podbere - CFO; Michael Sentonas - President. The 2026 proxy also lists Johanna Flower, Denis J. O’Leary, Godfrey R. Sullivan, Roxanne S. Austin, Sameer K. Gandhi, Cary J. Davis and Laura J. Schumacher as directors.12, 13
Israeli-Nexus SummaryDocumented nexus consists of Israeli-incorporated subsidiaries and acquired cybersecurity businesses, Israeli R&D, an Israeli reseller route to market, and Israeli tax payments; reviewed evidence does not establish Israeli state-security or settlement operations.1, 2, 4, 5, 10

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

CrowdStrike is a U.S.-incorporated, Nasdaq-listed cybersecurity company. Its documented Israel nexus is principally commercial and operational: Israeli-incorporated subsidiaries, an Israeli R&D footprint, acquisitions of Israeli cybersecurity businesses, and an Israeli channel relationship with Trustnet. The record establishes acquisitions of Bionic Stork, Ltd. in September 2023, Flow Security Ltd. in March 2024, and A.S. Adaptive Shield Ltd. in November 2024; the acquired businesses were described as application-security, data-security and SaaS-security companies.1, 3, 14

The strongest evidence-bearing vector is economic. CrowdStrike’s filings confirm Israeli group entities and report $15.512 million in Israeli cash income-tax payments for the fiscal year ended 31 January 2026. Trustnet is listed as an Elite CrowdStrike partner and describes itself as an Israeli cybersecurity integration and consulting company that deploys and manages CrowdStrike technology. However, the reviewed record does not identify Trustnet’s end customers, values, deployment locations, or a state, military, police, settlement or critical-infrastructure customer relationship.4, 5

The political-domain record is limited. CrowdStrike’s 2024 threat-report executive summary covered cyber operations associated with the 2023 Israel–Hamas conflict, but presented this as threat intelligence rather than a political or humanitarian position. Its reviewed federal lobbying records concern cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, privacy, appropriations and related U.S. policy matters; no explicit Israel-, Palestine-, BDS-, settlement-, foreign-aid- or military-welfare-related lobbying issue was identified in the reviewed filing set.6, 7

The available evidence does not substantiate a military or digital-security nexus to Israeli state bodies. No public evidence identified of a verified CrowdStrike contract, tender, procurement record, service agreement, deployment, reseller-mediated delivery or support contract involving the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, intelligence agencies, police, prison service, Border Police, Project Nimbus, settlement municipalities or other Israeli state-security bodies. Nor is there public evidence identified of CrowdStrike supplying weapons, target-generation, fire-control, offensive cyber tools, zero-day exploit tooling, AI surveillance systems, or Israeli military-specific product variants.10, 11

On the fixed, human-vetted V6.5 assessment, CrowdStrike receives a BRS score of 530 and Tier C (Substantial Complicity). This outcome is driven by the substantial documented economic nexus and the directness-weighted political score, while military and digital scores remain zero because the reviewed evidence did not verify relevant state-security, surveillance or military supply relationships.

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
7 November 2011CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. was formed as a Delaware-incorporated holding company.12
28 September 2023CrowdStrike acquired 100% of Bionic Stork, Ltd.; filings report total consideration of $239.7 million including replacement equity awards.3
Q4 2023CrowdStrike reported $150,000 in U.S. federal lobbying expenses on cybersecurity, AI, workforce, DoD appropriations, the Cyber Safety Review Board, Executive Order 14110 and VA cybersecurity modernization.15
February 2024CrowdStrike’s threat-report executive summary included “2023 Israel-Hamas Conflict: Cyber Operations Focus on Disruption and Influence.”6
26 March 2024CrowdStrike acquired 100% of Flow Security Ltd.; filings report total consideration of $96.9 million including replacement equity awards.3
20 November 2024CrowdStrike acquired 100% of A.S. Adaptive Shield Ltd.; filings report total consideration of $214.4 million including replacement equity awards.3
31 January 2026CrowdStrike’s FY2026 filing reports $15.512 million in cash income-tax payments in Israel for the fiscal year.4
3 April 2026CrowdStrike’s proxy disclosed Vanguard Capital Management and BlackRock as the only beneficial owners above 5%.13
10–11 June 2026Aryon Security’s materials identified George Kurtz as a backer; its two funding pages gave conflicting Series A totals of $25 million and $29 million, without disclosing Kurtz’s contribution or role.8, 9

Corporate Overview

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is the Nasdaq-listed parent registrant, with operations conducted through subsidiaries including CrowdStrike, Inc.12 Its documented products are cloud-delivered cybersecurity services: endpoint protection, cloud-workload security, identity security, data security, threat detection, threat hunting, exposure management and malware analysis.11

The corporate record identifies an Israeli footprint through acquisitions and subsidiaries. The FY2025 exhibit listed Flow Security Ltd., CrowdStrike Israel R&D Ltd. and Bionic Stork, Ltd. as Israeli-incorporated subsidiaries. The FY2026 exhibit lists CrowdStrike Israel R&D Ltd. and A.S. Adaptive Shield Ltd. The filings do not establish whether Flow or Bionic was dissolved, renamed, merged, or omitted pursuant to subsidiary-disclosure rules; no divestment or exit should be inferred.1, 2

CrowdStrike reports R&D centres in Israel, Romania and India, but the reviewed filings do not disclose the Israeli centre’s address, workforce, revenue, preferential-tax status, customer base or specific products developed there.4 Trustnet provides documented evidence of an Israeli reseller route to market, but not of downstream institutional customers or deployments.5

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of a CrowdStrike contract, tender award, framework agreement, memorandum, procurement record or deployment with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israeli intelligence agencies, Israel Prison Service, Border Police or another Israeli state-security body.10

CrowdStrike markets Falcon as a cloud-native endpoint-security platform. Its U.S. Department of War material states that Falcon Gov-2 received a U.S. Department of War Impact Level 5 provisional authorization in May 2023 for national-security systems and controlled unclassified information. This U.S. authorization does not establish supply to Israeli military or security bodies.16

No reviewed source describes CrowdStrike products as generating kinetic targets, making weapons-targeting decisions, operating fire-control, or integrating weapons effects. No public evidence identified of an Israeli military-specific variant, export-licence application, end-user certificate, defence-prime supply relationship, logistics contract or weapons-system contribution.10, 11

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

CrowdStrike’s strongest defence is that its publicly documented offerings are commercial cybersecurity products rather than weapons, targeting or military-logistics systems, and that no Israeli state-security contract or deployment was identified in the reviewed record.10, 11

Its U.S. government authorization and U.S. public-sector marketing demonstrate that products may have national-security applications in another jurisdiction, but do not establish an Israeli nexus. Absence findings are limited to reviewed public materials and cannot rule out undisclosed contracts or deployments.16

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform ingests endpoint and workload telemetry into its Security Cloud, where data is reused across the platform and to improve AI algorithms. Hosting uses third-party data centres, primarily AWS, and CrowdStrike colocation facilities.3

The reviewed materials do not identify the locations of CrowdStrike’s colocation facilities, Israeli customer-data storage or processing, Israeli data residency, routing, legal-access points, or Israeli sovereign-cloud participation. Israeli subsidiaries and R&D operations do not themselves establish Israeli Falcon customer-data processing.1, 2, 3

No public evidence identified of CrowdStrike participation in Project Nimbus, or of services publicly contracted or marketed for Israeli state digital sovereignty, state infrastructure resilience, military, intelligence, police, prison, border or occupation bodies.10, 17 No public evidence identified of facial recognition, biometrics, predictive policing, offensive cyber tools, zero-day exploits, target-generation, autonomous tracking, or AI systems supplied to Israeli state actors.10

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

CrowdStrike’s documented digital activity is defensive cybersecurity and endpoint/workload telemetry, rather than biometric-surveillance, retail-surveillance, offensive cyber or autonomous-weapons technology.3, 11

The absence findings are evidence-limited. They concern reviewed public materials and do not prove the absence of undisclosed customers, integrations, data-processing arrangements or deployments. A document-scoped review finding no CrowdStrike mention in UN report A/HRC/59/23 does not establish a broader real-world absence.17

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

CrowdStrike’s documented Israel-related economic activity concerns cybersecurity software, acquired entities, R&D and reseller distribution rather than physical-goods sourcing. It acquired Bionic Stork, Ltd., Flow Security Ltd. and A.S. Adaptive Shield Ltd., each as a cybersecurity or cloud-security business.1, 3, 14

The FY2025 and FY2026 subsidiary exhibits establish Israeli-incorporated group entities, including CrowdStrike Israel R&D Ltd. The FY2026 Form 10-K also reports $15.512 million in cash income-tax payments in Israel for the fiscal year ended 31 January 2026.1, 2, 4

CrowdStrike’s partner locator identifies Trustnet as an Elite partner, and Trustnet states that it deploys and manages CrowdStrike technology as an Israeli cybersecurity integration and consulting company. This supports an Israeli route to market, but not identified downstream customers or locations.5

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified of physical-goods procurement, Israeli agricultural sourcing, a dedicated importer-of-record entity, Israeli manufacturing, settlement-based offices, West Bank, East Jerusalem or Golan Heights operations, settlement contracts, settlement-company finance, Israeli sovereign-bond underwriting, or Israeli state lending.18

Israel-specific revenue, assets, workforce, profit, royalty, dividend and preferential-tax-treatment amounts are not disclosed in the reviewed filings. Acquisition values and tax payments establish economic activity, but do not establish the destination or use of tax receipts, Israeli government procurement, or a settlement-related economic relationship.3, 4

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

CrowdStrike’s February 2024 threat-report executive summary described cyber operations associated with the 2023 Israel–Hamas conflict, including disruption and influence activity and wipers targeting Israeli or Israel-linked entities. The report presented this content as threat intelligence rather than a public political position, donation announcement or call to action.6

CrowdStrike’s documented U.S. lobbying concerned cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, privacy, federal appropriations and related matters. Review of 2024–2026 filings through Q2 2026 found no explicit Israel-, Palestine-, BDS-, settlement-, foreign-aid- or military-welfare-related lobbying issue in the descriptions examined.7

George Kurtz is reported as an investor or backer in Aryon Security. Aryon’s founders are described as veterans of the IDF Center for Encryption and Information Security. This is a reported personal investment in an Israeli cybersecurity start-up, not evidence of Israeli military procurement, political advocacy, military-welfare funding, a donation, or a CrowdStrike operational relationship.8, 9

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified of free CrowdStrike services, cloud credits, logistics, infrastructure, financing, political contributions or charitable grants connected to Israeli state, military, settlement or conflict-related entities.10

The CrowdStrike Foundation’s 2023 and 2024 Form 990-PF returns report zero grants paid; the reported $1,611 and $1,511 disbursements were administrative expenses rather than recipient grants. Separately, CrowdStrike describes a donor-advised-fund arrangement managed through Charities Aid Foundation America and company-linked giving to more than 400 nonprofits, but the reviewed disclosures do not provide a complete recipient schedule. Accordingly, no conclusion can be drawn about undisclosed recipients or private principal giving.19, 20

Aryon’s official materials conflict on whether its Series A was $25 million or $29 million. They do not disclose Kurtz’s investment amount, vehicle, stake, board right or purpose. The record therefore does not support an inference of political or military purpose.8, 9

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score

Method: V6.5.

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military0.000.000.000.00
Digital0.000.000.000.00
Economic7.006.208.006.20
Political3.804.509.002.44

V_MAX is driven by Economic: documented acquisitions, an Israeli R&D entity, reseller presence and a quantified Israeli tax payment establish a substantial economic nexus. Political reflects directness-weighted, but limited, documented political/governance records; Military and Digital remain zero because the evidence review did not verify the required military, state-security, surveillance or sovereign-cloud relationships. The method is scale-free, evidence-only and human-vetted.

Methodology Note

End Notes

https://trustnet.co.il/

https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/search/?registrant=CrowdStrike&search=search

https://www.aryon.security/about

https://www.aryon.security/resource/aryon-security-raises-25-million-series-a-backed-by-shlomo-kramer-george-kurtz-and-datadog-ventures

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535527/000153552725000009/crwd-20250131.htm

https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-innovates-to-modernize-national-security-and-protect-critical-systems/

https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202512669349100501/IRS990PF

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535527/000153552725000009/crwd-20250131xexx211.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  2. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535527/000153552726000010/crwd-20260131xexx211.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  3. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535527/000153552725000009/crwd-20250131.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14

  4. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535527/000153552726000010/crwd-20260131.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  5. https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/partner-locator/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  6. https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/crowdstrike-2024-global-threat-report-executive-summary.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  7. https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/search/?client=CrowdStrike&search=search ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  8. https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/article-899043 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  9. https://www.aryon.security/resource/aryon-security-raises-29-million-in-series-a-funding-to-bring-preventive-enforcement-to-modern-cloud-security ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  10. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535527/000153552726000010/crwd-20260131.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  11. https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/solutions/department-of-war/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  12. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535527/000153552726000010/crwd-20260131.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  13. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535527/000110465926055599/tm2532333-4_def14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  14. https://ir.crowdstrike.com/news-releases/news-release-details/crowdstrike-acquire-adaptive-shield-deliver-only-platform ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  15. https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/eb359d9d-0192-4b5c-9e4b-182cb7b3493c/print/ ↩

  16. https://www.doncio.navy.mil/chips/ArticleDetails.aspx?ID=16315 ↩ ↩2

  17. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-cloud-selected-to-provide-cloud-services-to-the-state-of-israel ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  18. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session31/database-hrc3136/23-06-30-Update-israeli-settlement-opt-database-hrc3136.pdf ↩ ↩2

  19. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202403039349100505/IRS990PF ↩ ↩2

  20. https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/about-us/sustainability/social-mission/crowdstrike-foundation/ ↩ ↩2