As edge AI lowers the barriers to entry for sophisticated attacks and shortens the window between the emergence of a vulnerability and its exploitation, any organization becomes a target. Through global distributors, cloud marketplaces, and the broadest channel-partner ecosystem in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike now brings SMEs worldwide the only coordinated framework designed to protect every layer of risk associated with edge AI.
Global partner networks, MSP and MSSP from Arrow Electronics, Ignition Technology, Nord Security, Pax8, TD SYNNEX, Westcon-Comstor and Zip Security bring QuiltWorks to the SME market, extending to organizations that previously hadn’t had access to an enterprise-grade program of this scale the AI-powered vulnerability analysis and prioritization capabilities, expert-guided remediation, and financial protection. At the same time, they enable the development of repeatable and scalable edge AI businesses on the Falcon platform.
“Edge AI has transformed cybersecurity, shifting it from a risk-management issue to a business imperative,” says Daniel Bernard, CrowdStrike’s Chief Business Officer. “SMBs are the backbone of the global economy and deserve the same level of protection as large enterprises. QuiltWorks has proven to be that standard: others have tried, but no one has replicated it. The channel is the path that will allow QuiltWorks to reach every organization, regardless of size, sector, or geography.”
As AI models at the edge become increasingly capable, virtually any adversary can discover, chain, and exploit vulnerabilities at machine speed and scale, putting organizations of all sizes at risk. Driven by frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic, the QuiltWorks Project combines CrowdStrike’s AI-powered vulnerability analysis and adversary-informed prioritization with remediation services provided by leading systems integrators, reinforced AWS cloud infrastructure, and financial protection from leaders in the cybersecurity insurance space. Most SMEs lack the resources and specialized knowledge needed to access these capabilities and put them to work on their own.
With the world’s leading technology distributors and marketplaces, as well as their global networks of thousands of partners already delivering managed security services to SMEs across regions, QuiltWorks now has a pathway to reach every organization and a proven framework to protect them at the moment edge AI has forever changed the cybersecurity landscape.
