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Crowdstrike must have some slick salespeople in New Zealand. Seems like nearly everyone uses it. Single point of failure problem.

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CIO here. They are known to be incredibly pushy. In my company we RFP'd for our endpoint & cyber security. Found the CS salesperson went over me to approach our CEO who is completely non-technical to try and seal a contract because I was on leave for 1 week out of service (and this was known to them). When I found out by our CEO informing me of the approach we were happy to sign with SentinelOne

I got confused and thought that you were the CIO of Crowdstrike until I read further into your comment.

"CIO of CS here: we suck."

One thing I'm really happy about at my current company is that when a sales person from a vendor (not Crowdstrike) tried that our CEO absolutely ripped them a new one and basically banned that company from being a vendor for a decade.

I had a very similar experience, I was leading the selection process for our new endpoint security vendor, Crowdstrike people: - verbally attacked/abused a selection team member - were ranting constantly about golf with our execs - were dismissive and just annoying throughout - raised hell with our execs when they learned they were not going to POC, basically went through everyone of them simultaneously - I had to get a rep kicked out of the rfp as he was constantly disrespectful

We did not pick them, and cancelled any other relashionship we had with them, in IR space by example.

It sounds like they are a bunch of shitheads type A nihilists. How stereotypical.

FYI regarding S1:

https://www.crn.com/news/security/crowdstrike-poaches-two-ex...

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