A Mandiant webpage dedicated to the partnership details the benefits, including the ability to reduce the impact of a breach, take rapid action, reduce business risk and make informed decisions based on knowledge of the attacker and their tradecraft. The partnership is in response to an increasingly complex threat environment that calls for advanced threat protection technologies and top-level incident response talent, said George Kurtz, co-founder and CEO of CrowdStrike, in a statement. "CrowdStrike has worked with Mandiant many times over the years and there is a mutual respect for the caliber of technical and team expertise we both bring to the fight," Kurtz said. "We are proud to establish this alliance with them and to more effectively enable the people, processes and procedures necessary to secure the modern organization." Kevin Mandia, CEO of Mandiant, said the two companies have developed reputations in the cybersecurity community as go-to resources for both public and private sector organizations.