Several months ago, we announced that our strategic alliance partner CrowdStrike decided to use our Open NDR technology across its professional services portfolio. This wasn’t just a meaningful validation for us—it was also a testament to the importance CrowdStrike places in arming its world-class Services teams with the technology that can best ensure the protection of its customers.
Threat detection and mitigation is one of the core responsibilities of a SOC. With cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, it has become arduous for security analysts to secure their network from threats. Hybrid work and BYOD policies are making it more difficult for SOCs to keep track of network activities. Attackers continue to improvise new tactics and techniques to compromise an organization’s network.
Breakthrough innovation arises primarily in response to two conditions. One, when new technology emerges that creates new demand by fulfilling needs customers didn’t know they had. Think smartphones. A generation ago, people didn’t know they needed to be tethered to a phone the size of their palm that was also a camera, a bank, an encyclopedia and a shopping mall. Two, when new challenges arise that require innovation to address them.
The power of the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform lies in its ability to detect and protect customers from new and unknown threats by leveraging the power of the cloud and expertly built machine learning (ML) models. In real-world conditions and in independent third-party evaluations, Falcon’s on-sensor and cloud ML capabilities consistently achieve excellent results across Windows, Linux and macOS platforms.
About seven months ago at Defcon, Zenity CTO Michael Bargury presented security research that discovered and outlined a way to take over Microsoft Power Automate enabling bad actors to send ransomware to connected machines by using Power Automate as it was designed. By simply taking over an endpoint, our research showed that attackers can run their own payloads and execute malware by assigning machines to a new administrative account using a basic command line.
Whether or not you made it to RSA 2023, here are two key themes we saw throughout this year’s conference.
