CrowdStrike and AWS Deepen Relationship to Provide Fortified Protection Against Ransomware Attacks and Identity-Based Threats

Rhea-AI Summary

CrowdStrike Inc. (NASDAQ: CRWD) has announced new features for its Falcon platform that enhance protection against ransomware and complex cyber threats, particularly for users of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Key features include:

• Ransomware protection and recovery: Integration with CloudEndure Disaster Recovery for rapid application restoration.
• Identity-based threat detection: IAM Analyzer for monitoring AWS accounts to prevent breaches.
• Workload deployment compliance: Integration with AWS Systems Manager for streamlined deployment.

CrowdStrike positions itself as a leader in cloud security solutions.

Positive

• Introduction of new features enhances the CrowdStrike Falcon platform's capabilities.
• Integration with AWS improves ransomware protection and recovery for customers.
• Real-time monitoring of AWS accounts can help prevent identity-based threats.
• Collaboration with AWS Systems Manager simplifies agent deployment across environments.

Negative

• None.

New CrowdStrike Falcon platform features take an adversary-focused approach, reducing exposure and monitoring growing and evolving attack surfaces

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CrowdStrike Inc., (NASDAQ: CRWD) a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint and workload protection, today announced new features to the CrowdStrike Falcon platform that work with services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that further protect customers from growing ransomware threats and increasingly complex cyber attacks. The new expanded features provide joint customers with comprehensive visibility, dynamic scale, automation and flexibility to better prevent, detect and respond to threats in the cloud and across endpoints.

“Embattled security teams have turned to the cloud to protect their dynamic work environments from sophisticated cyber actors, implementing solutions that are scalable, automated and easily deployable. However, they must consider how their applications communicate with each other and devise an effective strategy to ensure connectivity between the cloud and the rest of their security stack,” said Amol Kulkarni, chief product officer at CrowdStrike. “The CrowdStrike Falcon platform unifies cloud security posture management together with breach protection for cloud workloads and containers on AWS and hybrid cloud environments in a single platform, providing end-to-end visibility and protection that optimizes cloud resources and ensures applications are defended against advanced threats.”

The new expanded features include:

• Ransomware protection and recovery: The cloud-native CrowdStrike Falcon platform now works with CloudEndure Disaster Recovery to provide AWS customers protection and recovery from ransomware incidents and minimize impact to productivity. CrowdStrike^® Cloud Security Assessment delivers actionable insights into security misconfigurations and deviations from recommended cloud security architectures to help clients prevent, detect and recover from breaches, while CloudEndure helps customers restore their applications within minutes, minimizing business disruption.
• Identity-based threat detection and remediation: CrowdStrike IAM Analyzer for AWS is a feature in CrowdStrike Falcon Horizon and prevents identity-based threats by knowing what accounts are doing before a breach happens. It follows the principle of least privilege by assessing CrowdStrike IAM services, apps, users, roles and permissions across all cloud accounts. CrowdStrike IAM Analyzer for AWS allows security teams to continuously monitor AWS accounts for excessive or unused permissions, identify suspicious permission escalation, and audit AWS Cloud services for actions allowed per resource, user, group, and role. The solution prevents users from putting organizations at risk by automating the detection and remediation of identity-based risks.
• Enhanced security and compliance for workload deployments: CrowdStrike now integrates directly with Distributor, a capability of AWS Systems Manager. Customers can easily deploy Distributor packages with embedded CrowdStrike Falcon agent software, or install the agent via the CrowdStrike Falcon APIs, with customization to run across multiple operating systems at the same time. This allows teams to manage all agent packages from a single interface with flexibility and choice of software installation, easing deployment and without reboot requirements. With simplified deployment, teams can ensure real-time protection of workloads from both malware and malware-free attacks from day one, with minimal performance impact.

CrowdStrike was also recently highlighted as an AWS Well-Architected Framework Management and Governance Lens Partner. The M&G Lens provides prescriptive guidance on key concepts and best practices for optimizing management and governance across AWS environments.

For more information on solutions offered by CrowdStrike and AWS, please visit the CrowdStrike blog and website here.

About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, is redefining security for the cloud era with an endpoint and workload protection platform built from the ground up to stop breaches. The CrowdStrike Falcon^® platform’s single lightweight-agent architecture leverages cloud-scale artificial intelligence (AI) and offers real-time protection and visibility across the enterprise, preventing attacks on endpoints and workloads on or off the network. Powered by the proprietary CrowdStrike Threat Graph^®, CrowdStrike Falcon captures approximately 1 trillion high-fidelity signals per day in real time from across the globe, fueling one of the world’s most advanced data platforms for security.

With CrowdStrike, customers benefit from better protection, better performance and immediate time-to-value delivered by the cloud-native Falcon platform.

There’s only one thing to remember about CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.

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FAQ

What new features were announced for the CrowdStrike Falcon platform?

CrowdStrike announced new features including ransomware protection, identity-based threat detection, and enhanced compliance for workload deployments.

How do the new CrowdStrike features improve ransomware protection?

The Falcon platform integrates with CloudEndure Disaster Recovery, providing rapid application restoration and reducing productivity impact during ransomware incidents.

What is the IAM Analyzer for AWS?

The IAM Analyzer is a feature that helps prevent identity-based threats by monitoring AWS accounts for excessive permissions and suspicious activities.

How does CrowdStrike ensure compliance for workload deployments?

CrowdStrike integrates directly with AWS Systems Manager, allowing for easier deployment of Falcon agents and ensuring real-time protection from malware.

What is CrowdStrike's stock symbol?

CrowdStrike's stock symbol is CRWD.