CrowdStrike and Schwarz Digits announced a long-term strategic partnership. They will bring the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform to STACKIT, Schwarz Digits’ sovereign cloud infrastructure.
Strengthening EU Sovereign Cybersecurity Capabilities
This collaboration delivers the AI-native Falcon platform with full attack path visibility across EU-operated STACKIT environments. Enterprises and public institutions can meet Europe’s data sovereignty requirements while countering advanced cyber threats. As the EU Cyber Resilience Act takes effect and NIS2 raises executive accountability, compliance pressures intensify. Critical infrastructure operators now demand high-performing cybersecurity without routing sensitive data beyond EU jurisdictions. The Falcon platform will operate natively within STACKIT’s European sovereign infrastructure to address regulatory expectations. Highly regulated entities can deploy locally delivered sovereign solutions aligned with EU data protection standards.
“Every organization in Europe is asking the same question: how do we adopt AI at scale without compromising data sovereignty or security,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike. “Making the Falcon platform available on STACKIT will enable customers to deploy AI-native protection on EU-owned and operated infrastructure while maintaining the performance, visibility, and efficacy they expect from CrowdStrike.”
Expanding Compliance, Performance and Market Reach
Schwarz Digits will integrate the Falcon platform into its GDPR-compliant sovereign cloud environment. This move expands access to globally recognized cybersecurity technology for regulated industries. The Falcon platform will launch through STACKIT’s cloud marketplace for enterprise customers. Telemetry and detection processing will remain within European data centers to support GDPR compliance.
“Digital sovereignty is not a theoretical concept; it is foundational to European competitiveness in the AI era,” said Rolf Schumann, Co-CEO of Schwarz Digits. “Bringing a premium global technology standard in cybersecurity to our sovereign stack marks an important milestone for STACKIT and the European market. We are empowering organizations to strengthen their digital independence – helping ensure that the data driving their AI innovations remains under their control. This is the ‘Freedom of Choice’ our customers demand and the strategic resilience Europe needs to compete.”
“By integrating CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform directly into our EU-operated STACKIT infrastructure, we are helping reduce the trade-off between world-class performance and strict data residency,” said Christian Müller, Co-CEO of Schwarz Digits. “This partnership demonstrates our commitment to IT efficiency: we provide an AI-native security layer designed to protect complex workloads while minimizing the operational overhead of routing telemetry across borders. For our customers, this means advanced protection aligned with speed and technical interoperability requirements.”
The partnership introduces the Seraphic secure enterprise browser and a native AI-based next-generation SIEM. Additionally, Schwarz Group companies will consolidate cybersecurity operations on the this Falcon platform.
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Source: Businesswire
