CrowdStrike has announced the winners of its 2026 customer and partner awards at its Fal.Con conference in Las Vegas, naming Australian cybersecurity services firm Sekuro as International Partner of the Year and recognising a range of global technology and consulting organisations.
The company also outlined ecosystem updates involving Anthropic and OpenAI, positioning the moves as part of broader efforts to secure enterprise adoption of generative AI and “agentic” tools, where automated software agents act on users’ behalf.
In its 2026 Customer Impact Awards, CrowdStrike named Anthropic (Global Leadership Impact Award), Mondelēz International (Global Community Impact Award), Providence Health & Services (Global Transformation Award), Salesforce (Global AI Impact Award) and United Airlines (Global Platform Pioneer Award).
Partner of the Year award recipients included NVIDIA (Global Partner of the Year), Accenture (Global System Integrator of the Year), Amazon Web Services (Global AI Partner of the Year), Carahsoft (Global Distribution Partner of the Year), Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) (Global Services Partner of the Year), GuidePoint Security (Global Solution Provider of the Year), Ignition Technology (Global Technical Champion of the Year), Kroll (Global MSSP Partner of the Year), Sekuro (International Partner of the Year), SHI International (Global Flex Partner of the Year) and Zscaler (Global Technology Alliance Partner of the Year).
CrowdStrike also announced inaugural “Circle of Excellence” winners, which it said were based on net-new customer growth across its reseller and distribution ecosystem in the first half of the year. Named organisations included Asper Tecnologia LTDA, Carahsoft, CDW, FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Gamma Ingenieros S.A.S., GuidePoint Security, Kroll, Otsuka Corporation and Softcat plc.
“The Crowd is our advantage,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike. “Our customers are raising the bar for what’s possible in cybersecurity, and our partners multiply that impact around the world. This year’s winners show what happens when the world’s leading organisations build, innovate, and win together on the most critical risk of today: securing AI.”
Separately, CrowdStrike said its Falcon platform will be available through Anthropic’s Claude Marketplace, allowing Anthropic customers to procure CrowdStrike using a portion of their existing commitments with Anthropic.
“AI is changing how enterprises operate – and how technology is procured, deployed, and run. Security is leading the charge,” Bernard said. “Together with Anthropic, we’re bringing the Falcon platform to the Claude Marketplace, putting AI-native cybersecurity where enterprises are putting AI to work. We’re turning frontier AI into a force multiplier for defenders.”
Anthropic’s head of enterprise cybersecurity GTM, Ash Alhashim, said the company aims to make security tools easier to procure alongside Claude. “That’s why CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform is coming to the Claude Marketplace,” Alhashim said.
In a third announcement, CrowdStrike said it has expanded its partnership with OpenAI to extend its enterprise security to Codex agents and to bring “GPT-5.6 Cyber” to the Falcon platform.
The company said its Falcon Guardian AI Detection and Response (AIDR) product will provide runtime controls and visibility for Codex agent activity, including inventory, telemetry-linked monitoring, detection and response, and policy enforcement.
“Securing the agentic era means controlling the AI agents organisations depend on, and harnessing frontier AI to assess and act on risk at machine speed,” Bernard said. “Together with OpenAI, we’re doing both. Secure AI is the foundation for everything AI can do for the world.”
OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman said, “Status quo security is no longer enough, but AI gives defenders a real opportunity to become fundamentally stronger. Working with CrowdStrike brings frontier AI into the tools defenders already use, helping them move faster from finding a problem to securing their systems.”
CrowdStrike said Fal.Con 2026 drew more than 10,000 attendees from 4,000 organisations across 71 countries, alongside more than 150 partner sponsors.
