CrowdStrike joins OpenID Foundation and IDPro

CrowdStrike has joined two identity and access management industry associations as part of efforts to accelerate the shift to risk-aware identity security industry-wide.

The company has joined the OpenID Foundation at the highest level, as a Sustaining Corporate Member, as well as IDPro, the association for identity and access management professionals.

CrowdStrike plans to use its membership in the groups to contribute to open identity standards and share real-time intelligence from its Falcon agentic security platform across identity providers, software-as-a-service platforms and security tools.

Through its work with the OpenID Foundation, the company is helping advance standards including the Shared Signals Framework (SSF) and Continuous Access Evaluation Profile (CAEP), while through its membership in IDPro, the company aims to help bridge the gap between standards development and real-world deployment.

CrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev said identity is the front line of modern attacks, which means identity frameworks need to evolve to be able to stop AI-driven threats.

“No other platform has the real-time telemetry and adversary intelligence that Falcon does; the signals that continuous, risk-aware identity security runs on. CrowdStrike is making those signals the foundation for Next-Gen Identity Security across the industry,” he said.

The Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security tool is designed to continuously evaluate identity and threat signals across human, non-human and AI agent identities even as conditions change. Falcon has been purpose-built for the cloud to enable rapid and scalable deployment, Zaitsev said.

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