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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.

In today’s fast-evolving cybersecurity landscape, organizations face an increasing barrage of sophisticated threats targeting endpoints, networks and every layer in between. CrowdStrike and Fortinet have formed a powerful partnership to deliver industry-leading protection from endpoint to firewall.

CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM enhances security operations by integrating data, AI, workflow automation and threat intelligence into a single platform with a unified console and a lightweight endpoint agent. We continue to innovate in next-gen SIEM to power SOC operations, most recently with a series of product updates announced at Fal.Con 2024. But we’re not stopping there.

In today's rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, the importance of detection fidelity cannot be overstated. Security operations center (SOC) teams are overwhelmed by the sheer volume and complexity of alerts and challenged to differentiate genuine threats from false positives.