Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face many of the same cybersecurity threats as large enterprises but often lack the resources to maintain robust security across all devices. As SMBs rely on a growing number of smartphones and tablets, they must defend against a range of mobile-focused cyberattacks. The need for comprehensive security has never been more urgent.

On Tuesday, November 19, 2024, Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike Senior Vice President of Counter Adversary Operations, will testify in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on Chinese cyber threats to critical infrastructure. Within his testimony, Adam will speak publicly for the first time about a China-nexus state-sponsored actor that CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations tracks as LIMINAL PANDA.

Pegasystems, a global leader in AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation, is a strategic partner for many of the world’s leading brands. The company’s role as an enterprise software provider means it often operates under the radar of the general public — but that doesn’t shield it from cyberattacks. Upon joining Pegasystems (Pega) in 2019, Director of Corporate Security Operations Steve Tieland quickly realized the company's legacy antivirus solution was missing the mark.

As organizations race to adopt generative AI (GenAI) to drive efficiency and innovation, they face a new and urgent security challenge. While AI-driven tools and large language models (LLMs) open vast opportunities, they also introduce unique vulnerabilities that adversaries are quick to exploit. From data exposure to supply-chain risks, the potential for threats to AI systems is growing just as fast as the technology itself.

Today, at the inaugural Fal.Con Europe, I’m excited to announce CrowdStrike’s agreement to acquire SaaS security leader Adaptive Shield. This acquisition will propel CrowdStrike to become the only cybersecurity vendor to provide full protection against identity-based attacks across the modern cloud ecosystem — from on-premises Active Directory to cloud-based identity providers and the growing landscape of SaaS applications — through a single unified platform.

This week, Gartner released its 2024 Gartner Critical Capabilities Report for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) as a companion to last month’s 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms. We’re proud to share that CrowdStrike received the highest score in both the Core Endpoint Protection and Managed Security Services Use Cases in the 2024 Gartner Critical Capabilities Report for Endpoint Protection Platforms for the second consecutive time.

CrowdStrike is proud to announce cloud security support for Google Cloud’s first custom ARM-based processor, Axion, delivered by the unified, cloud-native CrowdStrike Falcon platform. This extends industry-leading protection to our customers with extensive coverage for Google Cloud environments. We are excited to collaborate with Google Cloud, which today unveils its new C4A Virtual Machines.

Cloud workloads — and containers in particular — are often seen as immutable entities with predictable behavior. But recent CrowdStrike research suggests that some cloud security solutions rely too much on this premise, leading to suboptimal detection outcomes. CrowdStrike observes billions of container events each day. The data we collect gives us insights into real-world cloud workload behavior, which challenges these assumptions.

As networks become increasingly distributed, user identities are becoming a top adversary target. CrowdStrike’s 2024 Threat Hunting Report and 2024 Global Threat Report state 5 of the top 10 MITRE tactics we observed in 2023 were identity-based, and the CrowdStrike 2023 Threat Hunting Report noted a 583% year-over-year increase in Kerberoasting attacks. These findings illustrate how modern adversaries aren’t breaking in — they’re logging in.

Not all security operation centers (SOCs) are equal. They have teams of different sizes, with varying skill levels, protecting a wide range of industries around the world. However, they have a few things in common — for one, they face many of the same threats, and many SOC teams struggle with the complexity of managing several disparate tools to detect and disrupt them. As the cybersecurity industry matures, SOC teams have more options to consolidate the security tools they use.