Why CrowdStrike Stock Just Jumped 5%

Why CrowdStrike Stock Just Jumped 5%

Shares of cybersecurity specialist CrowdStrike Holdings (NASDAQ: CRWD) are up a strong 5.4% in 11:05 a.m. EDT trading. CrowdStrike had already announced that it would be making this acquisition -- just last week, in fact. CrowdStrike promised that bringing Preempt into the fold would help it to "provide a modern Zero Trust security architecture and threat protection to keep organizations' users, endpoints, and data safe from modern attacks, without compromising productivity or the user experience."