CrowdStrike has announced a long-term strategic partnership with Schwarz Digits to bring the CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform to STACKIT, the sovereign cloud infrastructure operated by Schwarz Digits. Through this collaboration, the companies aim to deliver AI-native cybersecurity capabilities while ensuring strict compliance with Europe’s data sovereignty requirements. As a result, enterprises and public-sector organizations across the European Union will be able to deploy advanced threat protection without sending sensitive data outside EU borders.
As cybersecurity regulations in Europe continue to evolve, organizations face increasing pressure to adopt solutions that balance innovation with regulatory compliance. For instance, frameworks such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act and the NIS2 Directive require stronger accountability and risk management from organizations that operate critical infrastructure. Consequently, many enterprises are actively seeking sovereign cloud environments that allow them to maintain full control over their data while still benefiting from cutting-edge security technologies.
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By integrating the Falcon platform directly into STACKIT’s sovereign cloud infrastructure, the partnership ensures that security telemetry and threat detection processes remain within European data centers. This approach supports strict compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other regional regulatory requirements while maintaining high-performance threat detection capabilities.
“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.”
Furthermore, the collaboration expands access to enterprise-grade cybersecurity tools for highly regulated sectors such as healthcare, financial services, public administration, and defense. By operating AI-powered cybersecurity platforms within European cloud infrastructure, organizations can maintain data residency and operational autonomy while protecting themselves against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.
The CrowdStrike Falcon platform will also become available through STACKIT’s cloud marketplace. This will give customers streamlined access to a unified cybersecurity platform that delivers protection across endpoints, cloud environments, identities, and exposure management. In addition, the platform leverages real-time threat intelligence and centralized visibility to help security teams detect and respond to attacks faster.
“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.”
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At the same time, the partnership reduces the operational complexity that organizations often face when trying to balance data sovereignty with advanced cybersecurity capabilities. Hosting Falcon within the STACKIT infrastructure eliminates the need to route security telemetry across borders, which improves efficiency while maintaining regulatory alignment.
“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 will also introduce the first joint sovereign solutions, including the Seraphic secure enterprise browser and a native AI-based next-generation SIEM. These offerings are designed to enhance security visibility and strengthen protection for organizations operating in highly sensitive digital environments.
Overall, the collaboration reinforces CrowdStrike’s broader ecosystem strategy while strengthening STACKIT’s sovereign cloud platform. Additionally, Schwarz Group companies will begin consolidating their cybersecurity operations onto the Falcon platform, demonstrating confidence in the solution’s ability to support large-scale, enterprise-grade protection.
By combining sovereign infrastructure with AI-powered cybersecurity, the partnership positions both companies to address the growing demand for secure, compliant, and scalable cloud solutions across Europe’s most critical industries.
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