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CrowdStrike built cybersecurity empire on stolen IP<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/business\/article\/crowdstrike-stolen-trade-secrets-lawsuit-gosecure-21349537.php<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-13 07:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. is being sued by California-based GoSecure, which says the Austin cybersecurity company was built on its intellectual property.Haven Daley\/AP Photo\/Haven Daley, FileCrowdStrike is one of the world\u2019s foremost internet and cybersecurity companies. It has a market capitalization of $100 billion and more than 10,000 employees. It\u2019s so big that, when it pushed a bad software update to its customers in 2024, it caused the largest\u00a0internet outage in history, costing major U.S. companies $5.4 billion.But what if the whole company was built on stolen intellectual property? That\u2019s what a lawsuit in Austin\u2019s 3rd Business Court Division is arguing.\u00a0Article continues below this adGoSecure, a California cybersecurity company, says CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. has \u201cbeen improperly using GoSecure\u2019s trade secrets and confidential information to develop its Falcon Platform for years.\u201d That\u2019s allowed CrowdStrike to leapfrog its competition while passing off GoSecure\u2019s intellectual property as its own.ANOTHER SUIT: Federal judge tosses lawsuit against Austin-based CrowdStrike in 2024 global outageIn a statement Thursday, CrowdStrike denied the allegations.\u201cGoSecure\u2019s claims\u00a0\u2014 that are being brought after over a decade passed\u00a0\u2014 are meritless on their face,\u201d a\u00a0spokesman said. \u201cWe will vigorously defend the company.\u201dArticle continues below this adIt has denied the allegations in court filings, too, which also challenge GoSecure\u2019s timelines and the Texas court\u2019s jurisdiction.The suit was originally filed in 2024 in California. Because it was taking too long to get to trial there,\u00a0GoSecure said, it chose to dismiss that suit. In August, it was refiled in Texas business courts, which have far fewer cases.\u00a0Among the allegations is that\u00a0CrowdStrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch and a senior engineer he recruited collected highly sensitive engineering data from GoSecure, as well as knowledge of its source code and business plans.\u00a0\u201cMr. Alperovitch vehemently denies the allegation,\u201d said Thomas Croessmann, his attorney. \u201cThose statements about Mr. Alperovitch\u2019s intent and actions are false. This is corroborated by the fact that Mr. Alperovitch, individually, was dismissed from the lawsuit.\u201d\u00a0Article continues below this adHe left CrowdStrike in 2020.\u00a0FROM 2024: CrowdStrike apologizes for estimated $5.4 billion in damages with $10 Uber Eats gift cardsThough not a defendant in\u00a0the Texas version of the suit, the allegations about him providing the information to\u00a0CrowdStrike remain. GoSecure says Alperovitch, who worked for computer security giant McAfee at the time, joined the board of GoSecure\u00a0\u2014 then called NeuralIQ\/CounterTack\u00a0\u2014 in November 2011. He started his rival company in February 2012 and left the board in May of that year.\u00a0At the time, GoSecure was developing an endpoint detection and response product that would perform in the subterranean level of computer operating systems, something no one had successfully done to that point. It ultimately succeeded. In the following years,\u00a0GoSecure was recognized numerous times with cybersecurity industry accolades.\u00a0Article continues below this adHaving been assured by Alperovitch and another person who left\u00a0GoSecure for CrowdStrike that their trade secrets would not be misused, GoSecure says it did not suspect CrowdStrike\u2019s Falcon platform\u00a0\u2014 upon which the massive company has largely been built\u00a0\u2014 was based on its code and knowledge.\u00a0It says it discovered its intellectual property was being used by CrowdStrike in the aftermath of the July 2024 outage, when analysis and product details were released by independent auditors.\u201cUpon reading it, (GoSecure)\u00a0learned for the first time that CrowdStrike\u2019s Falcon Platform had ripped off GoSecure,\u201d the suit says.It said the company has stolen its trade secrets, used them for unfair competition and unjust enrichment using data it spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop.\u00a0\u00a0Article continues below this adCrowdStrike, in turn, argues that\u00a0GoSecure\u2019s timelines are out of whack, that it should have filed the lawsuit years ago and that the statute of limitations has long passed. It argued that no trade secrets existed at the time Alperovitch was on the board and that GoSecure hasn\u2019t proven misappropriation.CrowdStrike also takes issue with being sued in Texas.READ NEXT: $500M in five days: Delta Air Lines CEO says Austin-based CrowdStrike outage was costly\u201cCalifornia has the strongest interests in litigating a dispute between two of its citizens over events that occurred, if at all, in California,\u201d it says.Article continues below this adThough CrowdStrike announced in 2021 it was moving its headquarters to Austin, it now argues it\u2019s actually just a \u201csatellite office\u201d without senior leaders, only low-level salespeople. The products and executives are all run out of California, it says, which is where the case should be heard.GoSecure also says that since it filed its lawsuits, it has struggled to get records from CrowdStrike\u00a0despite court orders.\u201cThe disparity between what CrowdStrike was ordered to produce and what its own declarations reveal exists but did not produce is damning,\u201d GoSecure says.Article continues below this adIt has pushed the court to issue sanctions. \u00a0A hearing to determine whether the case can continue in the 3rd Business Court is scheduled for Feb. 24.\u00a0
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