Crowdstrike needs to be the first person in the room so that they can act like the boss. If other people show up before crowdstrike, there's a possibility that they'll somehow prevent crowdstrike from being the boss. For this reason, crowdstrike integrates with the boot process in ways that most software doesn't.

Their ability to monitor and intervene against all software on the system also puts them in a position to break all software on the system.

more accurately: s/boss/most informed spy/g