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CrowdStrike Helps Leading Digital Recruitment Business
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Database Security
Applicable Functions
- Human Resources
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
Services
- Cybersecurity Services
The Challenge
StepStone is a rapidly expanding business with a growing presence in the U.S. and plans to enter new markets such as blue-collar industries. As a high-profile online business faced with increasingly sophisticated and numerous cyberattacks, security is more important than ever before.
- Ensuring that highly sensitive personal information is secure
- Increasing vulnerability when protecting digital-only, global business operations
- Greater risk of cyberattack due to high volume of global online traffic
- Existing antivirus and endpoint security tools no longer provided sufficient protection
The Customer
StepStone
About The Customer
Founded in 1996, StepStone is one of the world’s leading digital recruitment platforms and is ideally positioned to create value in an environment with dramatically increasing talent scarcity. By combining AI-powered hiring platforms and digital recruitment services, StepStone pushes the boundaries of technology to help companies hire the right talent and help people find the right job. StepStone is active in more than 20 countries with more than 20 brands (StepStone, Totaljobs, Appcast, and others) and employs around 3,700 people. The company has its headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany.
StepStone is one of the world's leading next-generation recruitment platforms. Through our AI-powered hiring platform and smart autonomous matching technologies, we aim to disrupt the way talent and all-sized businesses connect.
The Solution
StepStone, one of the world’s leading digital recruitment platforms, uses CrowdStrike to ensure highly sensitive candidate personally identifiable information and employer data are protected from increasingly sophisticated security threats
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