![]() ![]() These are actual people who are highly skilled in cybersecurity - including ex-members of the FBI and CIA intelligence - who use the CrowdStrike tools to find trends in alerts, investigate critical issues, and assist in remediation. ![]() OverWatchĬrowdStrike has a global team of Threat Hunters, and they can be part of your SOC with OverWatch. More information about this detection can be found here 5. In the days after Microsoft released patches, CrowdStrike provided a dashboard specifically for monitoring this vulnerability. The Falcon Complete team observed instances of an unknown attacker gaining unauthorised access to Exchange Server application pools across multiple customer environments. The recent Exchange Server exploits were detected by CrowdStrike weeks prior to Microsoft providing the KB updates to patch it. What that means for customers is that CrowdStrike catches trends that happen throughout the globe in real-time. It is designed to be as light as possible. ![]() They have one of the biggest Cassandra databases hosted on Amazon (bigger than Pinterest) and process an unfathomable number of events every hour. It applies this time.ĬrowdStrike was built for the cloud - not adapted from an existing client-server application. I didn’t believe it either until I used it. There are no full disk scans that chug away. The processing and memory overhead is minimal. When it’s installed, there’s usually a reboot required (to remove an existing product) - but it will never require a reboot for any future update.īest of all, you don’t notice it as it runs at the kernel layer. CrowdStrike has partnered with a number of top tier vendors including Okta, Netskope, Proofpoint, Airlock Digital, Automox and more which can take advantage of the CrowdStrike cloud, using the same single agent. The agent is API friendly, meaning it can easily integrate into other security products. There’s no extra components - just 1 agent. That customer has now been happily running CrowdStrike for over three years and over that period has prevented a number of malware outbreaks.Įndpoint security software and sluggish PCs go hand in hand, right? Not any more.ĬrowdStrike’s installer is less than 40MB. Meanwhile, the customer’s existing security solution didn’t blink an eye. The pen-testing tactics were utilising a wide range of known vulnerabilities to hack the client’s computers. The call was from CrowdStrike’s OverWatch team, who perform threat hunting across many customer sites. They received a phone call early one morning, asking what was happening and to advise that there was a high number of alerts, and devices were automatically isolating themselves off the network. One client unintentionally booked a network security and penetration test during their CrowdStrike trial period. Not only can it stop malicious activity, but in the case of a particularly bad incident, it can drop all connectivity leaving only the CrowdStrike Falcon Agent active for investigation and remediation. CrowdStrike provides essential response tools out of the box. How has that worked out for the organisations in the news articles above? Your Response capabilities are critical, and most solutions are lacking. Take a moment to think about how the response part is handled by your current tools. Prevention wins over detectionĪV products are now rebranding to EDR - Endpoint Detection and Response. No more “We stopped something dangerous” alerts that are missing the all-important “Where did it come from?”. Yes, you’ll see how malicious actions traverse across devices. The beautiful part for a Security Admin is that any incident raised is displayed in the console alongside a visual chart of the chain of processes that triggered the problematic action - and if another machine in your environment triggered it, what those processes were. It could be a PowerShell, bash script, office macro or DLL - they’re all treated the same. It’s watching the activity on your device, tracking the processes that are launching others, and assessing whether they’re safe or legitimate problematic or dangerous. Behaviours win over signaturesĬrowdStrike has no signature updates because it’s not trying to match any source files. If you’re not 100% convinced that your current toolset is doing a great job of endpoint security detection and prevention, then here are 5 reasons why you should be evaluating CrowdStrike before your next renewal. Take a look at recent news events to see that many organisations are struggling to properly protect themselves. There are smarter, more efficient ways of monitoring and preventing cybersecurity incidents. The days of matching some malware against a known dictionary of signatures are far behind us. ![]()
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