---
id: "entity-crowdstrike"
type: "entity"
entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "CrowdStrike"
aliases: ["Crowdstrike"]
source_timestamps: ["¶6"]
tags: ["cybersecurity-firms", "research"]
related: ["claim-smb-budget-insufficiency", "concept-smb-cyber-risk-asymmetry"]
sources: ["governance"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-governance"
originDay: 7
articleStem: "hbr-sig-57-smb-cyber-risk"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/ai-is-changing-cyber-risk-heres-how-smbs-can-respond"
sourceTitle: "AI Is Changing Cyber Risk. Here’s How SMBs Can Respond."
---
# CrowdStrike

**Role in the source:** the survey authority behind the SMB budget statistics in [[concept-smb-cyber-risk-asymmetry]]. The article cites CrowdStrike survey data that **67%** of SMBs prioritize cost in tool selection and roughly **70%** rely heavily on internal IT staff ([[claim-smb-budget-insufficiency]]; the paired 7%-sufficient-budget figure is also attributed here).

**Profile:** a cybersecurity company specializing in endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and incident response. Publishes the annual **Global Threat Report**, a widely cited source on evolving attacker tactics — including its 2026 framing of AI as a "force multiplier" and as a new attack surface (see [[concept-ai-fueled-threat-escalation]]).

> [!note] Enrichment note
> The directional claims (SMBs underfunded, cost-dominated tool selection) are strongly supported, but the exact 7% / 67% figures do not appear verbatim in the public 2026 Global Threat Report; treat as survey-specific.