New Unique Zero Trust, macOS and Threat Hunting Updates Added to CrowdStrike’s Industry-Leading Falcon Platform
CrowdStrike has announced significant updates to its Falcon® Platform, enhancing security features for macOS environments and introducing a new Message Center aimed at improving customer communication. Key updates include expanded macOS capabilities such as enhanced detection and IT hygiene, Zero Trust Assessment for Mac endpoints, M1 processor support, and device control improvements. The new Message Center allows seamless interaction between CrowdStrike analysts and customers, improving visibility and response to threats. These innovations aim to reinforce CrowdStrike's position as a leader in cloud-native endpoint protection.
- Enhanced macOS coverage with improved detection and IT hygiene capabilities.
- Introduction of Zero Trust Assessment for better endpoint health monitoring.
- Launch of the Message Center for improved communication with managed service customers.
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CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint and workload protection, today announced multiple updates to its CrowdStrike Falcon® Platform including expanded macOS coverage, CrowdStrike Zero Trust, and the addition of the new Message Center for both Falcon Complete and Falcon OverWatch. CrowdStrike remains the only cloud-native vendor to offer a full spectrum of endpoint security capabilities — next-generation AV, endpoint detection and response, managed threat hunting, IT hygiene, threat intelligence and vulnerability management — all delivered via a powerful, intelligent single agent.
Comprehensive macOS Coverage
macOS is ubiquitous in enterprise environments and continues to gain adoption with end users and organizations looking to adopt cloud-flexible business capabilities. The growing adoption of macOS has been coupled with an increase in adversarial targeting of macOS environments via living off the land techniques and sophisticated malware-free approaches, which can enable threat actors to stay active and undetected in these environments. CrowdStrike has enhanced and expanded macOS capabilities across the platform including prevention, detection, IT hygiene, device control and enhanced visibility through CrowdStrike Zero Trust Assessment.
CrowdStrike Falcon enhancements for macOS environments include:
- Enhanced prevention and detection with mac script control
- Expanded IT hygiene coverage with Falcon Discover that now includes macOS application inventory, account monitoring, drive encryption and system capacity
- Zero Trust Assessment that displays the overall health of Mac endpoints and shares metrics with CrowdStrike partners for real-time conditional access enforcement
- M1 processor support
- Device Control for macOS Big Sur (Beta is scheduled to begin in June 2021)
CrowdStrike Zero Trust Solution
CrowdStrike continues to set the security standard for forward-looking organizations looking to deploy and maintain frictionless Zero Trust security without the burden of complexities. CrowdStrike Zero Trust is an innovative cloud-native solution to stop breaches in real-time for any endpoint, workload, or identity. It combines high fidelity attack correlation with near real time policy enforcement powered by the CrowdStrike Threat Graph®, which promotes a frictionless Zero Trust journey for organizations of any size.
With CrowdStrike Zero Trust, organizations can gain visibility of workforce identities across multi-directory, multi-cloud environments. CrowdStrike Zero Trust reduces dynamic friction with conditional access to reduce false positives, reducing the time to detect and resolve incidents by eliminating the need for complex, error-prone log analysis. This reduces alert fatigue, stops attack proliferation, and helps to better inform security teams.
OverWatch/Falcon Complete: Message Center & Dashboards
To enable frictionless, transparent, and secure communication with CrowdStrike’s managed services, CrowdStrike is excited to launch the new Message Center for Falcon Complete — CrowdStrike’s turnkey “endpoint protection as a service” that combines CrowdStrike’s endpoint protection technology with the skills and experience of the Falcon Team and Falcon OverWatch — the company’s managed threat hunting service.
The Message Center will act as a central hub for collaboration between CrowdStrike analysts and Falcon Complete or Falcon OverWatch customers, providing secure communication on emerging threats, adversary behaviors and potential incidents. Additionally, both managed service offerings will provide customers access to new intuitive dashboards that deliver visibility into day-to-day activities, helping security teams stay informed and understand threats more quickly. CrowdStrike has also introduced workflow and dashboard Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to offer seamless integrations into existing workflows and ticketing systems.
“We continue to drive innovation and reinforce that the CrowdStrike Falcon platform is the market-leading solution that offers security teams the control, flexibility and comprehensive protection needed to stop breaches. The CrowdStrike Falcon platform provides customers with a true end-to-end solution that tackles today’s challenging threats in a way that helps enable organizations boost security operations and business maturity,” said Amol Kulkarni, CrowdStrike’s chief product officer.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including statements regarding benefits customers may experience from updates to the Falcon Platform. There are a significant number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from statements made in this press release.
You should not rely on these forward-looking statements, as actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements as a result of such risks and uncertainties. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we do not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements provided to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike, 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 correlates over 5 trillion endpoint-related events per week 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.
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