CrowdStrike has joined the OpenID Foundation and IDPro, placing the cybersecurity company inside two groups focused on identity standards and practice.
It joined the OpenID Foundation as a Sustaining Corporate Member and also became a member of IDPro, a professional body for identity specialists. CrowdStrike said the memberships would support work on what it describes as continuous, risk-aware identity security.
The announcement comes as security groups and software providers push for identity systems that respond to changing threat conditions rather than relying on a single authentication step. The debate has become more urgent as companies contend with AI agents and other non-human identities that can act at machine speed and hold broad access rights.
CrowdStrike plans to contribute real-time security signals from its Falcon platform to open standards efforts and share that intelligence across identity providers, software-as-a-service platforms, and security tools. The aim is to support access decisions that can be revised as risk changes.
Standards work
Within the OpenID Foundation, CrowdStrike said it would take part in work on the Shared Signals Framework and the Continuous Access Evaluation Profile. Those standards are designed to let identity and security information move between systems so access controls can respond when a user, device, or service becomes risky.
The issue has become more prominent as organisations extend access to automated software agents, cloud services, and machine identities alongside human users. Traditional models based on static policies and standing privileges are under pressure because they often assume trust continues after an initial login.
Elia Zaitsev, Chief Technology Officer at CrowdStrike, linked the memberships to that shift in the threat landscape. "Identity is the front line of modern attacks, and static identity frameworks can't stop AI-driven threats," Zaitsev said. "No other platform has the real-time telemetry and adversary intelligence that Falcon does; the signals that continuous, risk-aware identity security runs on. CrowdStrike is making those signals the foundation for Next-Gen Identity Security across the industry."
CrowdStrike said its approach combines threat and identity intelligence from Falcon with SGNL's runtime access enforcement layer. It said that combination lets its identity product continuously evaluate conditions and grant, deny, or revoke access across human users, non-human identities, and AI agents.
Industry backing
The OpenID Foundation said CrowdStrike would join its working groups and board-level discussions on identity standards. The foundation develops specifications used by software vendors, service providers, and enterprises to manage authentication, authorisation, and identity data exchange.
Gail Hodges, Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation, said the company's entry carried weight beyond its own product plans. "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," Hodges said. "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 defence."
IDPro, which focuses on professional development and practical identity management, said CrowdStrike's membership could help connect formal standards work with operational deployment. That reflects a wider challenge in cybersecurity, where technical standards often take time to translate into products and day-to-day policy enforcement inside large organisations.
CrowdStrike said its role in IDPro would centre on practitioner engagement as well as standards participation. It described the combination as a way to bridge the gap between standards development and real-world deployment across identity systems.
Joni Brennan, IDPro Board Chair and DIACC President, welcomed the company into the organisation. "CrowdStrike is an important and highly respected leader in cybersecurity. At IDPro, we are delighted that they recognise the critical role that identity plays in underpinning the security posture of any institution," Brennan said. "We are thrilled that they will sponsor IDPro and look forward to welcoming members of their team into our community - and to future collaborations that will elevate the knowledge base across our industry."
The memberships underline how identity security is becoming a central battleground in cyber defence as enterprises try to manage users, services, and software agents within the same access framework. They also show the growing role of shared standards in determining how threat data is exchanged between vendors and how quickly organisations can revoke trust when conditions change.