Selection brings Consortium's CrowdStrike Center of Excellence and Metrics that Matter® risk quantification to the remediation of AI-discovered vulnerabilities for U.S. and Canadian enterprises
Consortium (consortium.net), a cybersecurity and technology advisory firm that helps organizations make smarter, faster, and more financially aligned security decisions, has been named to the North American partner cohort for Project QuiltWorks — the industry coalition CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) assembled to confront the wave of vulnerabilities that frontier AI models are now surfacing in production code.
Announced September 10, 2026, the cohort is the first time CrowdStrike has organized QuiltWorks by geography rather than treating it as a single global program. Consortium joins Blackthorne Consulting, CDW, Echelon Risk + Cyber, EVOTEK, GuidePoint Security, NETbuilder, Optiv, Pondurance, and Presidio in bringing frontier AI readiness expertise and remediation capacity to organizations across the United States and Canada.
The regional structure exists because discovery stopped being the hard part. Frontier models surface logic flaws, design weaknesses, and exploit paths faster than most security teams can triage them — and far faster than they can fix them. That moves the difficult question from what did we find to what do we fix first, and what is it worth to fix. Answering the second half is the work Consortium has built its firm around. Through its proprietary Metrics that Matter® (MTM®) platform, a queue of findings becomes a prioritized, defensible investment decision rather than a backlog.
PARTNERSHIP AT A GLANCE
Announced: September 10, 2026
Focus: Assessment, prioritization, and remediation of frontier AI-discovered vulnerabilities
Consortium's Role: Advisory and remediation delivery, paired with financial quantification of risk through MTM®
Partner Standing: Elite-level CrowdStrike partner with a dedicated CrowdStrike Center of Excellence
FROM FINDINGS TO PRIORITIZED ACTION
Project QuiltWorks is a coalition rather than a product. It pairs CrowdStrike's AI-driven vulnerability discovery with partner-delivered remediation, drawing on frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic and open Nemotron models from NVIDIA, cloud infrastructure from Amazon Web Services, and financial protection from the cyber insurance industry. Third-party security telemetry flowing into Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM widens the aperture QuiltWorks draws from, while Falcon IQ converts what it sees into attack narratives, investment priorities, and remediation roadmaps.
Consortium's contribution begins where those roadmaps meet a live security program. Its CrowdStrike Center of Excellence is led by recognized CrowdStrike Champions — Consortium was named Global Technical Champion of the Year and was the first partner to earn Champion Expert accreditation — with delivery spanning Falcon platform optimization, identity, cloud, Next-Gen SIEM, professional services, and embedded staff augmentation.
What holds the engagement together is measurement. MTM® renders technical findings in business terms, so leadership can see which exposures carry genuine financial weight, where remediation spend buys the largest reduction in risk, and what the program actually achieved once the work is finished. Consortium's Artificial Intelligence Risk Navigator (AIRN) applies the same discipline to AI risk specifically, giving organizations an architecture-aware way to assess GenAI exposure against NIST, OWASP, and MITRE guidance.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Key elements of Consortium's participation in the North American cohort include: