CrowdStrike has announced a long-term strategic partnership with Schwarz Digits to deploy the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform on STACKIT. The collaboration aims to provide organizations across Europe with advanced cybersecurity capabilities while ensuring compliance with strict regional data sovereignty regulations.
Through this partnership, the AI-powered Falcon platform will operate directly within STACKIT’s sovereign cloud environment, which is fully hosted and managed inside the European Union. This approach allows enterprises and public institutions to benefit from industry-leading cybersecurity technology without transferring sensitive data outside EU jurisdictions. For organizations operating critical infrastructure or handling regulated data, the integration provides a secure and compliant way to adopt advanced AI-driven protection.
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The partnership comes at a time when Europe is introducing stronger cybersecurity regulations. Frameworks such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act and the NIS2 Directive are increasing accountability requirements for organizations and executive leadership. These regulations are pushing companies—especially those managing essential infrastructure—to seek cybersecurity solutions that combine high performance with strict data residency requirements.
Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike, explained that many European organizations are currently balancing two major priorities: adopting artificial intelligence technologies while maintaining full control over their data. By making the Falcon platform available on STACKIT, CrowdStrike enables customers to deploy AI-driven security within EU-owned infrastructure while maintaining the platform’s performance, visibility, and threat detection capabilities.
The collaboration also strengthens Schwarz Digits’ mission to expand secure digital infrastructure across Europe. By integrating Falcon into STACKIT’s GDPR-compliant cloud environment, the company will offer organizations access to advanced cybersecurity capabilities across endpoint, cloud, identity, and exposure management. These features are supported by real-time threat intelligence and unified visibility across digital environments.
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Importantly, telemetry and threat detection processing for deployments running on STACKIT will remain within European data centers. This architecture helps organizations meet compliance requirements related to General Data Protection Regulation while ensuring operational independence and secure data residency.
Rolf Schumann, Co-CEO of Schwarz Digits, emphasized that digital sovereignty is becoming essential for Europe’s competitiveness in the age of artificial intelligence. According to Schumann, bringing globally recognized cybersecurity technology to a sovereign European infrastructure represents an important milestone for both STACKIT and the wider European digital ecosystem.
Christian Müller, also Co-CEO of Schwarz Digits, added that integrating CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform directly into the company’s EU-operated cloud infrastructure helps remove the traditional trade-off between high-performance security and strict data residency requirements. For customers, this means stronger protection for complex digital workloads without the operational challenges of sending sensitive security data across international borders.
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The partnership will also lead to the development of new sovereign security solutions, including the Seraphic Secure Enterprise Browser and a native AI-powered next-generation Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system designed to improve threat detection and response.
Beyond technology integration, the agreement also deepens collaboration between the two organizations. As part of the long-term partnership, companies within the Schwarz Group will consolidate their cybersecurity operations on the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.
With cyber threats becoming more sophisticated and regulatory expectations rising across Europe, this collaboration positions CrowdStrike and Schwarz Digits to support organizations seeking secure, AI-driven protection that aligns with the region’s evolving digital sovereignty goals.
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