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Jazz launches data loss prevention app on CrowdStrike

Jazz launches data loss prevention app on CrowdStrike

Thu, 3rd Sep 2026 (Today)
Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin
JOSEPH GABRIEL LAGONSIN News Editor

Jazz has launched its data loss prevention platform as an app on CrowdStrike Falcon Foundry, making its Melody investigator available inside the Falcon console.

The release follows Jazz's selection as the winner of the 2026 CrowdStrike, AWS and NVIDIA Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator, where it was chosen from nearly 1,000 startups.

Falcon customers can install the Jazz app through the CrowdStrike Marketplace and use Melody within their existing Falcon workflow. The app works with data protection signals already flowing through the Falcon platform and returns investigated findings directly to the console.

Jazz says the approach is designed to help security teams determine whether data movement presents a real risk, rather than simply flagging that an event occurred. According to the company, Melody evaluates data, systems, people and business process information before sending a finding to analysts.

The launch gives Jazz a native position within CrowdStrike's Foundry environment rather than relying on a separate interface. Customers do not need to deploy an additional endpoint agent or move to a new console to use the integration.

Analyst workflow

The companies are positioning the product as a way to reduce the manual work tied to data protection alerts. Instead of passing raw alerts to analysts, Melody sends pre-investigated findings with supporting evidence attached, Jazz says.

That reflects a broader push across cybersecurity software to provide more context around alerts as security operations teams manage large volumes of signals from endpoint, cloud and identity tools. Data loss prevention products have often been criticised for generating high alert volumes that require time-consuming triage.

Ramon Espinosa Jr., Information Security Engineer at Cooper Machinery Services, described the product's operational impact in a customer quote released alongside the launch.

"Melody adds business context to the rich security context we already have in Falcon, giving our analysts a more complete picture of data risk. Having both in one console means they can focus on decisions instead of manual, time-consuming investigations," said Espinosa.

Startup progression

For CrowdStrike, the launch marks a rapid transition from accelerator recognition to a commercial product embedded in its platform ecosystem. CrowdStrike highlighted that Jazz moved from the startup programme to a live Foundry application within a year.

Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike, said the speed of that progression matched the accelerator's aims.

"The CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator exists to find companies building what security teams need next, and Jazz is exactly that. Seeing an Accelerator winner go from the program to building on Falcon Foundry in a single year is the kind of outcome we built it for. Melody brings Jazz's business context to data protection investigations, putting that innovation to work directly in the Falcon platform where analysts are already working," said Bernard.

Jazz's product centres on what it calls an agentic investigator, a form of software designed to assess and prioritise signals before a human analyst reviews them. In this case, the system examines the nature of the data involved, the systems between which it moved, the people connected to the activity and the business intent behind the flow.

Jazz argues that this combination can distinguish between routine business activity and incidents that deserve closer scrutiny. That remains a persistent challenge for security teams, particularly in environments where staff use cloud applications, desktop tools, personal accounts and generative AI services as part of daily work.

Ecosystem push

The launch also underlines CrowdStrike's effort to expand the range of third-party applications available through Foundry and the Falcon marketplace. Across cybersecurity, platform vendors have been trying to keep customers inside a single operating environment while giving partners access to users and telemetry.

For Jazz, native integration with Falcon offers access to customers already using CrowdStrike for security operations and endpoint monitoring. It also aligns the company with a broader industry shift toward embedding specialist functions into larger security platforms rather than asking customers to manage another standalone product.

Ido Livneh, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Jazz, said the integration is intended to bring a fuller view of data activity into CrowdStrike's environment.

"The expanding CrowdStrike ecosystem creates immense value for customers, and we're excited for Jazz to be part of it. Melody understands the data, systems, people, and intent behind every data flow, revealing the full story of what happened and why. Bringing that intelligence into Falcon makes advanced data-protection investigation more accessible to CrowdStrike customers," said Livneh.