Cisco vs CrowdStrike

Cisco — Hardware · Public · $433.3B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  CrowdStrike — Application · Public · $192.6B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Cisco AI Defense and Charlotte AI do comparable work on threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to detect and respond to security threats; same layer and the same scale band (large-cap).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale band

3 of 17 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, threat detection and response and workflow automation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Same scale band — Both large-cap.

Ludbee scale bands · from valuation and funding figures

Aligned comparison

FieldCiscoCrowdStrike
Market cap$433.3B$192.6B CrowdStrike has 2.2× smaller
Employees86,20010,698 CrowdStrike has 8.1× fewer
Founded19842011 27 yrs later
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryHardwareApplication
Stack layerAI agent, Application, HardwareAgent platform, Application, Platform
HeadquartersSan Jose, USAAustin, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Agent orchestrationThreat detection and responseWorkflow automation

Not verified for CrowdStrike · 14

Accelerator siliconAI compute hardwareCustomer supportData analysisData securityEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyInterconnectModel inferenceModel trainingServer systemsSpeech to textSummarizationVoice agent

Recorded for Cisco. CrowdStrike’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

CrowdStrike has no capability Cisco lacks, among the 3 recorded here.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Cisco

Application

AI Assistant for Webex Contact CenterApplication

AI assistant for contact-centre agents and supervisors that produces call and transfer summaries, live transcription, suggested chat replies, topic analytics, automatic CSAT scoring and agent burnout signals.

Cisco AI CanvasApplication

AgenticOps workspace where teams and AI agents collaborate to investigate, correlate and resolve issues across domains: natural-language querying, multi-step agent workflows, shared real-time visibility, and native Cisco plus third-party tool integration via Cloud Control Studio.

Cisco AI DefenseApplication

End-to-end AI security product that discovers an organisation's AI assets, red-teams models and applications for vulnerabilities, and enforces runtime guardrails against prompt injection and data leakage.

Cisco IQApplication

Agentic support intelligence delivered inside Cisco Support and Professional Services — 'the delivery vehicle for everything Cisco Support and Professional Services knows about your environment, made continuously available before you ask for it' — generally available as SaaS since April 2026 and included with existing support contracts.

Webex AI Workforce Engagement ManagementApplication

AI-native workforce engagement suite for contact centres that forecasts demand and optimises shifts, uses NLP and LLMs to evaluate 100 percent of human and AI agent interactions (AI Quality Management), and runs performance coaching and AI-led onboarding simulations.

CrowdStrike

Application

Charlotte AIApplication

Assistant inside Falcon that answers questions about an environment and triages detections.

No counterpart

Cisco sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for CrowdStrike yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

AI agent

Webex AI AgentAI agent

Autonomous customer-service AI agent that handles inquiries conversationally across voice, SMS, email, chat and messaging apps and escalates to a human agent with context when it cannot resolve.

Hardware

Cisco AI PODsHardware

Pre-validated modular AI infrastructure bundles that combine Cisco UCS servers, NVIDIA GPUs, Nexus 9000 400G/800G switching and management software into single orderable stacks for AI inferencing, training and fine-tuning.

Cisco AI PODs for CollaborationHardware

Turnkey on-premises AI appliance that runs real-time speech transcription for Cisco collaboration deployments locally, for customers with data-sovereignty requirements that rule out cloud AI services.

Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AIHardware

Cloud-managed full-stack AI cluster sold as hardware plus software plus service, packaging Cisco 6000 and N9300 series switches on an 800GbE back-end fabric, UCS servers with NVIDIA H200 GPUs and BlueField DPUs, optional VAST storage and NVIDIA AI Enterprise under the Hyperfabric cloud controller.

Cisco Silicon OneHardware

Unified programmable networking-silicon architecture for AI, hyperscale, data-centre, service-provider and enterprise routing/switching, spanning five series (G/P/E/K/A) of chip families.

CrowdStrike sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Cisco yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Agent platform

Charlotte Agentic SOARAgent platform

Orchestrates fleets of prebuilt and custom AI security agents alongside human analysts to automate SOC investigation, triage and incident response.

Platform

CrowdStrike Falcon platformPlatform

Endpoint and cloud security platform that uses machine learning to detect and stop attacks.