CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) and Schwarz Digits today announced a long-term strategic partnership to bring the CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform to STACKIT, Schwarz Digits’ sovereign cloud infrastructure. This collaboration will deliver the AI-native Falcon platform with full attack path visibility on a platform fully operated within the EU on STACKIT, enabling enterprises and public institutions to meet Europe’s data sovereignty requirements while defending against advanced cyber threats.
As regulations such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act take full effect and NIS2 increases accountability requirements for executive leadership, organizations operating critical infrastructure require cybersecurity that performs at the highest level, with many highly regulated entities seeking locally-delivered, sovereign solutions – without routing data outside EU jurisdictions. Operating natively within STACKIT’s European sovereign infrastructure, the Falcon platform will support those requirements.
“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.”
By integrating the Falcon platform into STACKIT’s sovereign, GDPR-compliant cloud, Schwarz Digits will expand access to globally recognized cybersecurity technology for highly regulated industries and operators of critical infrastructure. Operating AI-driven security platforms within European data centers supports data residency and operational autonomy aligned with regional regulatory expectations.
The CrowdStrike Falcon platform will be available through STACKIT’s cloud marketplace, providing customers, including those across highly-regulated industries with access to CrowdStrike’s AI-native platform capabilities across endpoint, cloud, identity, and exposure management, powered by real-time threat intelligence and unified visibility. Telemetry and detection processing for deployments on STACKIT will operate within European data centers, supporting compliance with GDPR, the EU Cyber Resilience Act, and applicable national regulatory standards.
“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 first joint sovereign solutions resulting from this strategic partnership will be the Seraphic secure enterprise browser and a native, AI-based next-generation SIEM.
The partnership will expand CrowdStrike’s ecosystem strategy while strengthening STACKIT’s sovereign cloud offering for security-conscious organizations across healthcare, financial services, public administration, defense, and other regulated industries. As part of this long-term strategic partnership, the companies of Schwarz Group will also be consolidating its cybersecurity use on the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.
