CrowdStrike Deployment FAQ
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DEPLOYMENT
Literally minutes — a single lightweight sensor is deployed to your endpoints as you monitor and manage your environment via a web console. With CrowdStrike Falcon® there are no controllers to be installed, configured, updated or maintained: there is no on-premises equipment.
Only these operating systems are supported for use with the Falcon sensor for Windows. Note: For identity protection functionality, you must install the sensor on your domain controllers, which must be running a 64-bit server OS.
64-bit Server OSes:
- Server 2025
- Server 2022
- Server Core 2022
- Server 2019
- Server Core 2019
- Server 2016
- Server Core 2016
- Server 2012 R2
- Storage Server 2012 R2
- Server 2012
- Server 2008 R2 SP1
Microsoft ARM64:
- Windows 11
- Windows 10
Desktop OSes:
- Windows 11 25H2
- Windows 11 24H2
- Windows 11 23H2
- Windows 11 22H2
- Windows 11 21H2
- Windows 10 22H2
- Windows 10 21H2
- Windows 10 1809
- Windows 10 1607
- Windows 10 1507
- Windows 7 SP1
- Windows 7 Embedded POS Ready
Legacy Operating Systems with Falcon for Legacy Systems (for more information on Falcon for Legacy Systems, click here )
- Windows XP 32-bit - Service Pack 3
- Windows XP 64-bit - Service Pack 2
- Windows Server 2003 32-bit & 64-bit - Service Pack 2
- Windows Server 2003 R2 32-bit & 64-bit - Service Pack 2
- Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit - Service Pack 2
- Windows Server 2008 32-bit and 64-bit - Service Pack 2
- Windows Embedded POSReady 2009
- Windows 8 32-bit and 64-bit
- Windows 8.1 32-bit and 64-bit
X86_64
Alma Linux
10.0 sensor version 7.26.17905 and later
9.6: sensor version 7.23.17607 and later
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
10.0 sensor version 7.26.17905 and later
9.6: sensor version 7.23.17607 and later
Rocky Linux
10.0 sensor version 7.26.17905 and later
9.6: sensor version 7.23.17607 and later
SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES)
15.6 15 SP6: sensor version 7.19.17219 and later
OpenSuse LEAP
15.6 15 SP6: sensor version 7.19.17219 and later
Ubuntu
24.04: sensor version 7.19.17219 and later
Graviton
Alma Linux
9.6: sensor version 7.23.17607 and later
9.5: sensor version 7.23.17607 and later
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
9.6: sensor version 7.23.17607 and later
9.5: sensor version 7.23.17607 and later
Rocky Linux
9.6: sensor version 7.23.17607 and later
9.5: sensor version 7.23.17607 and later
SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES)
15.6 15 SP6: sensor version 7.22.17507 and later
15.5 15 SP5: sensor version 7.22.17507 and later
Ubuntu
24.04: sensor version 7.19.17219 and later
390x, Falcon sensor for Linux on IBM zSystems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
9.5: sensor version 7.23.17607 and later
9.4 sensor version 7.20.17308 and later
The Falcon sensor for Mac is currently supported on these macOS versions:
- macOS Tahoe 26: Sensor version 7.29 and later (Intel CPUs and Apple silicon native support included)
- Sequoia 15: Sensor version 7.19 and later (Intel CPUs and Apple silicon native support included)
- Sonoma 14: Sensor version 6.58.17102 and later (Intel CPUs and Apple silicon native support included)
Falcon Insight for ChromeOS ingests event data directly from Google and does not require the deployment of a Falcon agent to the ChromeOS device. However, ChromeOS version 113 or higher is required. Contact sales for a complete list of supported hardware devices.
Falcon for Mobile supports iOS 16 and later. The CrowdStrike Falcon app supports the most recently released version of iOS plus the previous two versions.
Falcon for Mobile supports Android 9.0 and later.
Falcon Firewall Management allows you to easily create, enforce and maintain firewall rules and policies across your Windows, macOS, and Linux environments.
Yes, Falcon is a proven cloud-based platform enabling customers to scale seamlessly and with no performance impact across large environments. The platform’s “frictionless” deployment has been successfully verified across enterprise environments containing more than 100,000 endpoints.
- Amazon EC2 instances – on all major operating systems including AWS Graviton processors*
- AWS Fargate
- AWS Outposts
- Amazon WorkSpaces
- Amazon Elastic Container Service
- Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry
- Amazon EKS Anywhere
* Support for AWS Graviton is limited to the sensors that support Arm64 processors. Please refer to the product documentation for the list of operating systems and their respective supported kernel versions for the comprehensive list. All product capabilities are supported with equal performance when operating on AWS Graviton processors.