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January 2025

CrowdStrike

The Evolving Role of AI in Data Protection

Jan 29, 2025 By Drew Bagley - Christoph Bausewein In CrowdStrike
Each year, Data Protection Day marks an opportunity to assess the state of privacy and security in the midst of technological innovation. This year’s inflection point follows a robust dialogue on AI from last week’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. As CrowdStrike participated in these discussions, we emphasized the importance of leveraging AI to defend against ever-evolving cyber threats and protect the very data and workloads used to power AI.
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CrowdStrike Falcon Platform Achieves Perfect Score in SE Labs' Most Comprehensive Ransomware Evaluation

Jan 28, 2025 By Joel Spurlock - Brad Moon In CrowdStrike
In the 2024 SE Labs Enterprise Advanced Security (EDR) Ransomware Test, the CrowdStrike Falcon platform achieved a perfect score of 100% in detection, protection, and accuracy, earning the prestigious AAA Award for Advanced Security EDR Protection for the third time in a row. The Falcon platform detected and blocked 100% of ransomware files and protected endpoints across multiple stages during all simulated ransomware attacks.
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CrowdStrike Extends Powerful Falcon Platform Capabilities into Red Hat OpenShift

Jan 28, 2025 By Karishma Asthana - Evan Stoner In CrowdStrike
Kubernetes has become the cornerstone of modern DevOps, empowering teams to quickly deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. However, many struggle to navigate Kubernetes' complexity while operating across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Red Hat OpenShift builds on Kubernetes by providing a consistent, enterprise-grade platform that abstracts the intricacies of the underlying infrastructure. It’s trusted by customers across industries and around the globe.
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CrowdStrike Researchers Explore Contrastive Learning to Enhance Detection Against Emerging Malware Threats

Jan 22, 2025 By JP Clark In CrowdStrike
The process of crafting new malware detection features is usually time-consuming and requires extensive domain knowledge outside the expertise of many machine learning practitioners. These factors make it especially difficult to keep up with a constantly evolving threat landscape. To mitigate these challenges, the CrowdStrike Data Science team explored the use of deep learning to automatically generate features for novel malware families.
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Leveraging CrowdStrike Falcon Against Attacks Targeting Okta Environments

Jan 21, 2025 By Tony Gore - Justin Schoenfeld In CrowdStrike
As more organizations move to software-as-a-service (SaaS), remote access to applications and data is concentrated among a smaller set of identity providers. These identity providers, such as Okta, must absorb growing volumes of credential-based attacks. Okta consistently reports high volumes of credential stuffing, password spraying and phishing attacks against its customers. Additionally, red teams are discovering new patterns of abuse relevant to Okta products.
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Zero Trust Strengthens Data Protection to Achieve National Cyber Strategy Goals

Jan 16, 2025 By Naren Vaideeswaran - André Murphy In CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike recently announced FedRAMP authorization for CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection, now available to government entities requiring Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate authorization, enabling them to secure assets through the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform in GovCloud. This advancement supports compliance efforts and adoption of Zero Trust frameworks across government environments.
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CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection Delivered $1.26M in Total Benefits Over Three Years

Jan 16, 2025 By Ryan Terry In CrowdStrike
Identity-based attacks are surging across today’s threat landscape as adversaries target identities in on-premises, cloud and SaaS applications. They aren’t breaking in — they’re logging in. Organizations must respond to these threats in real time to stop breaches, but traditional security approaches consisting of siloed tools often create visibility gaps and hinder efficiency.
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CrowdStrike Falcon for Legacy Systems: Modern Security for Legacy Environments

Jan 15, 2025 By Luke Hunsinger In CrowdStrike
Many organizations across critical industries such as healthcare, manufacturing and energy rely on legacy Windows operating systems to run essential equipment. These systems, while operationally vital, are notoriously difficult and costly to upgrade — leaving them vulnerable to modern cyber threats. CrowdStrike is addressing this challenge by expanding our legacy support with the general availability of CrowdStrike Falcon for Legacy Systems.
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CrowdStrike Insider Risk Services Defend Against the Threats Within

Jan 15, 2025 By Tom Etheridge In CrowdStrike
Insider threats are among the most elusive and damaging forms of cybersecurity risk. According to the Ponemon Institute, 71% of organizations experienced between 21 and 41 insider incidents in 2023, up 67% over the previous year. The average annual cost of insider threats also climbed to $16.2 million per organization, the report found.
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The Critical Evolution of Cloud Detection and Response

Jan 15, 2025 By Dana Raveh In CrowdStrike
Cloud security has reached an inflection point. Organizations have accelerated their cloud adoption and must navigate a complex threat landscape where workloads spin up and down in seconds, applications deploy continuously and identities span multiple services and providers.
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CrowdStrike: Stopping Cross-Domain Attacks

Jan 10, 2025 By CrowdStrike In CrowdStrike
Discover how adversaries evade detection by exploiting gaps across endpoint, identity, and cloud environments - and how CrowdStrike stops them. In this demo, see the power of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform’s unified visibility and expert threat hunting in action, uncovering lateral movement, detecting evasive tactics, and accelerating response to sophisticated and stealthy cross-domain attacks. Learn how to get unmatched protection across your entire attack surface with CrowdStrike.
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CrowdStrike Strengthens Container Security with Registry Scanning for Hybrid Clouds

Jan 8, 2025 By Cody Queen In CrowdStrike
Organizations of all sizes require security tools to meet their complex hybrid cloud needs. As their cloud environments and workloads evolve, this includes solutions that can scan for vulnerabilities in container images regardless of their location across public and private cloud environments. The problem is, most organizations lack this capability. Many use tools that don’t allow the flexibility to move quickly and scan their full breadth of cloud assets.
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Recruitment Phishing Scam Imitates CrowdStrike Hiring Process

Jan 8, 2025 By Counter Adversary Operations In CrowdStrike
On January 7, 2025, CrowdStrike identified a phishing campaign exploiting its recruitment branding to deliver malware disguised as an "employee CRM application." The attack begins with a phishing email impersonating CrowdStrike recruitment, directing recipients to a malicious website. Victims are prompted to download and run a fake application, which serves as a downloader for the cryptominer XMRig.
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Falcon Cloud Security Asset Graph: Demo Drill Down

Jan 6, 2025 By CrowdStrike In CrowdStrike
Gain the edge in the race against adversaries by leveraging unified visibility across your attack surface—from endpoint to cloud. See how Falcon Cloud Security's Asset Graph uncovers vulnerabilities, highlights misconfigurations, and automatically maps the complete attack trajectory, empowering you to respond faster and mitigate threats effectively.
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