The OpenID Foundation is pleased to welcome CrowdStrike as a new Sustaining Corporate Member.

CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity leader whose CrowdStrike Falcon® platform delivers real-time threat detection, endpoint protection, and high-fidelity security intelligence across modern enterprise environments. 

CrowdStrike brings with it significant expertise in real-time threat detection and security threat intelligence. As identity has become a primary target for attackers, organizations increasingly need access controls that reflect current risk rather than relying on one-time authentication. Its Falcon platform is already generating the kind of signals that standards like Continuous Access Evaluation Profile (CAEP) are designed to share across identity systems.

And thanks to its acquisition of SGNL in February 2026, CrowdStrike arrives at the OpenID Foundation with an established presence in the ecosystem. SGNL had already been an active contributor to OpenID working groups and standards development, including Shared Signals and AuthZEN, and the OpenID AI and Identity Management community group. Central to this work are standards such as the OpenID Shared Signals Framework (SSF) and CAEP, which enable systems to exchange security signals as events occur, allowing identity decisions to adapt continuously to changing conditions.

That involvement now carries forward into CrowdStrike's membership.

Gail Hodges, Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation, said: "CrowdStrike’s leadership in identity security and commitment to strengthening open identity standards make them an invaluable addition to the OpenID Foundation’s Working Groups and Board. Their participation sends a powerful message across cybersecurity: in the age of AI-accelerated attacks, open identity standards are not optional but a foundational requirement for effective, real-time defense."

CrowdStrike also operates caep.dev, a platform that gives developers practical tools to test CAEP implementations and build transmitters and receivers using open source components, supporting adoption across the wider ecosystem. 

Atul Tulshibagwale, Senior Director for Continuous Identity Strategy at CrowdStrike, said: "CrowdStrike is proud to join the OpenID Foundation as a Sustaining Corporate Member, reflecting our deep commitment to open standards. That commitment is already embodied in our products, which support the OpenID standards: SSF, CAEP, and AuthZEN."

As a Sustaining Corporate Member, CrowdStrike joins other global thought leaders on the Foundation's Board of Directors from the identity, digital platform, and ecosystem communities, who jointly ensure the Foundation delivers on its mission as an open standards body.

The OpenID Foundation has long held that robust, interoperable identity standards depend on broad industry collaboration. CrowdStrike's membership strengthens that collective effort considerably.

About the OpenID Foundation

The OpenID Foundation (OIDF) is a global open standards body committed to helping people assert their identity wherever they choose. Founded in 2007, we are a community of technical experts leading the creation of open identity standards that are secure, interoperable, and privacy preserving. The Foundation’s OpenID Connect standard is now used by billions of people across millions of applications. In the last five years, OAuth2 - the FAPI standard for interoperable, high security - has become the standard of choice for Open Banking and Open Data implementations, allowing people to access and share data across entities. Today, the OpenID Foundation’s standards are the connective tissue that enable people to assert their identity and access their data at scale, the scale of the internet, enabling “networks of networks” to interoperate globally. Individuals, companies, governments and non-profits are encouraged to join or participate. Find out more at openid.net.

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