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Gulf Business
2 days ago
- Business
- Gulf Business
CrowdStrike launches unified identity security platform to counter AI-driven threats
Image: Getty Images/ For illustrative purposes The new offering, delivered through the company's AI-native Falcon platform, integrates initial access prevention, privileged access management (PAM), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), SaaS identity security, and agentic identity protection. CrowdStrike said it removes security blind spots caused by fragmented tools and gives companies immediate protection without integration delays. 'Organisations need trusted identity security now, not months or years from now,' said CrowdStrike president Mike Sentonas. 'Access in today's enterprise is dynamic and unpredictable, with identities spanning users, machines, and AI agents operating across hybrid environments in real time.' Identity has become the primary path for attackers to compromise enterprises, exploiting service accounts, SaaS credentials, and AI agents with broad system access. CrowdStrike said non-human agent identities represent 'superhuman identities' that expand the attack surface by granting persistent access to sensitive data and workflows. CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security: Highlights Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security provides real-time visibility and autonomous response across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments. It enforces just-in-time access controls, detects lateral movement, and blocks privilege escalation. The system is powered by agentic AI, which enables autonomous threat analysis and response. The launch comes as companies face a surge in identity-driven breaches, which bypass traditional identity and access management (IAM) and legacy PAM systems that often fail to address cross-domain attacks spanning endpoints, cloud, and SaaS. CrowdStrike said the solution is delivered through a single lightweight sensor and managed from one console, giving security teams faster deployment, simplified operations, and immediate time-to-value. Founded in 2011, CrowdStrike is known for its cloud-native Falcon platform that protects endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, and data. Read:
Channel Post MEA
5 days ago
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
CrowdStrike Unveils Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security
CrowdStrike has announced CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security, the first unified solution to protect every identity – human, non-human, and AI agent – across the full hybrid identity lifecycle and every environment. Delivered today, without delays or integration complexity through the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon platform, the new offering protects identities across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and workloads, removing security blind spots and replacing fragmented controls. CrowdStrike unifies initial access prevention, modern privileged access management (PAM), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), SaaS identity security, and agentic identity protection to stop identity-driven breaches across domains. 'Organizations need trusted identity security now, not months or years from now. CrowdStrike provides what customers need most in a unified platform: modern identity security by design, without architectural trade-offs and integration debt,' said Mike Sentonas, president, CrowdStrike. 'Access in today's enterprise is dynamic and unpredictable, with identities spanning users, machines, and AI agents operating across hybrid environments in real time. The Falcon platform was built to manage this complexity, providing the speed, scale, and precision organizations need to stop modern identity attacks.' Identity has become the primary path adversaries take to compromise an organization. Attackers increasingly exploit a broad spectrum of identities that span human users, service accounts (non-human identities), SaaS credentials, and now, autonomous AI agents. Each agent represents a superhuman identity with persistent access to systems, applications, and sensitive data. These non-human agent identities dramatically increase the size and severity of the attack surface: more identities across more environments, more privileges across more workflows, and more opportunity for adversaries to move faster than defenders can respond. Modern adversaries exploit this access to move seamlessly across domains – endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS – leaving organizations that rely on traditional IAM and legacy PAM tools exposed to cross-domain attacks. Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security closes the gaps that adversaries exploit with a unified solution that delivers continuous protection across identity types (human, non-human and AI agent), environments, and stages of the identity attack chain. From initial access to lateral movement, CrowdStrike protects human, non-human, and AI agents across hybrid environments, including on-prem, cloud, and SaaS. Powered by CrowdStrike's agentic AI, organizations gain autonomous threat analysis and response that helps them detect, investigate, and stop identity-based attacks in real time, through a single unified platform. Organizations can immediately strengthen their security posture without waiting for promised integrations, or accepting identity capabilities fragmented across multiple platforms that replicate the same complexity and security gaps as multi-vendor solutions. Delivered through a single lightweight sensor and managed from a single console, CrowdStrike gives defenders real-time visibility, dynamic access enforcement, and autonomous response across every identity and every domain. CrowdStrike's Unified Platform for Securing Every Identity Across Hybrid Environments Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security unifies four core capabilities to deliver end-to-end visibility, control, and protection of identities, privileges, and risk across the full attack chain in hybrid identity environments: Initial Access Prevention: Leverages real-time endpoint signals, industry-leading threat intelligence, and AI trained on trillions of events to authenticate trusted identities, dynamically blocking threats before adversaries can gain initial access. Leverages real-time endpoint signals, industry-leading threat intelligence, and AI trained on trillions of events to authenticate trusted identities, dynamically blocking threats before adversaries can gain initial access. Modern Privileged Access Management (PAM) : Enforces just-in-time access and eliminates standing privileges. Dynamically adjusts access based on real-time risk to secure sensitive systems across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. : Enforces just-in-time access and eliminates standing privileges. Dynamically adjusts access based on real-time risk to secure sensitive systems across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) : Detects and stops identity-based attacks in real time. Uses cross-domain telemetry and agentic AI to triage threats, enforce policy, and block lateral movement and privilege escalation. : Detects and stops identity-based attacks in real time. Uses cross-domain telemetry and agentic AI to triage threats, enforce policy, and block lateral movement and privilege escalation. SaaS Identity Security: Identifies misconfigurations, flags risky behaviors, and governs overprovisioned access – for humans, non-human identities, and AI agents – across cloud-first applications. Delivered through the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security replaces fragmented tools and disconnected workflows. Security teams gain real-time visibility, dynamic enforcement, and autonomous response across every identity and every domain. With rapid deployment and immediate time-to-value, organizations can strengthen their identity security posture today, without waiting for integrations or accepting security gaps.
Business Wire
6 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
CrowdStrike Unveils Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security, the First Unified Solution to Protect Every Identity Across the Attack Chain
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen Identity Security, the first unified solution to protect every identity – human, non-human, and AI agent – across the full hybrid identity lifecycle and every environment. Delivered today, without delays or integration complexity through the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, the new offering protects identities across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and workloads, removing security blind spots and replacing fragmented controls. CrowdStrike unifies initial access prevention, modern privileged access management (PAM), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), SaaS identity security, and agentic identity protection to stop identity-driven breaches across domains. 'Organizations need trusted identity security now, not months or years from now. CrowdStrike provides what customers need most in a unified platform: modern identity security by design, without architectural trade-offs and integration debt," said Mike Sentonas, president, CrowdStrike. "Access in today's enterprise is dynamic and unpredictable, with identities spanning users, machines, and AI agents operating across hybrid environments in real time. The Falcon platform was built to manage this complexity, providing the speed, scale, and precision organizations need to stop modern identity attacks.' Identity has become the primary path adversaries take to compromise an organization. Attackers increasingly exploit a broad spectrum of identities that span human users, service accounts (non-human identities), SaaS credentials, and now, autonomous AI agents. Each agent represents a superhuman identity with persistent access to systems, applications, and sensitive data. These non-human agent identities dramatically increase the size and severity of the attack surface: more identities across more environments, more privileges across more workflows, and more opportunity for adversaries to move faster than defenders can respond. Modern adversaries exploit this access to move seamlessly across domains – endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS – leaving organizations that rely on traditional IAM and legacy PAM tools exposed to cross-domain attacks. Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security closes the gaps that adversaries exploit with a unified solution that delivers continuous protection across identity types (human, non-human and AI agent), environments, and stages of the identity attack chain. From initial access to lateral movement, CrowdStrike protects human, non-human, and AI agents across hybrid environments, including on-prem, cloud, and SaaS. Powered by CrowdStrike's agentic AI, organizations gain autonomous threat analysis and response that helps them detect, investigate, and stop identity-based attacks in real time, through a single unified platform. Organizations can immediately strengthen their security posture without waiting for promised integrations, or accepting identity capabilities fragmented across multiple platforms that replicate the same complexity and security gaps as multi-vendor solutions. Delivered through a single lightweight sensor and managed from a single console, CrowdStrike gives defenders real-time visibility, dynamic access enforcement, and autonomous response across every identity and every domain. CrowdStrike's Unified Platform for Securing Every Identity Across Hybrid Environments Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security unifies four core capabilities to deliver end-to-end visibility, control, and protection of identities, privileges, and risk across the full attack chain in hybrid identity environments: Initial Access Prevention: Leverages real-time endpoint signals, industry-leading threat intelligence, and AI trained on trillions of events to authenticate trusted identities, dynamically blocking threats before adversaries can gain initial access. Modern Privileged Access Management (PAM): Enforces just-in-time access and eliminates standing privileges. Dynamically adjusts access based on real-time risk to secure sensitive systems across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR): Detects and stops identity-based attacks in real time. Uses cross-domain telemetry and agentic AI to triage threats, enforce policy, and block lateral movement and privilege escalation. SaaS Identity Security: Identifies misconfigurations, flags risky behaviors, and governs overprovisioned access – for humans, non-human identities, and AI agents – across cloud-first applications. Delivered through the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security replaces fragmented tools and disconnected workflows. Security teams gain real-time visibility, dynamic enforcement, and autonomous response across every identity and every domain. With rapid deployment and immediate time-to-value, organizations can strengthen their identity security posture today, without waiting for integrations or accepting security gaps. About CrowdStrike CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world's most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value. CrowdStrike: We stop breaches. © 2025 CrowdStrike, Inc. All rights reserved. CrowdStrike and CrowdStrike Falcon are marks owned by CrowdStrike, Inc. and are registered in the United States and other countries. CrowdStrike owns other trademarks and service marks and may use the brands of third parties to identify their products and services.
Forbes
23-04-2025
- Business
- Forbes
CrowdStrike's New Just-In-Time Approach To Privileged Access Management
Cybersecurity The most dangerous threats to enterprise IT often arrive through the front door rather than breaking through windows. According to CrowdStrike's 2025 Global Threat Report, nearly 80% of attacks gaining initial access are malware-free, with adversaries increasingly using valid credentials and trusted identities to infiltrate organizations. This shift toward identity-based attacks has exposed a critical gap in how enterprises manage privileged accounts: those powerful administrator credentials that provide the keys to the kingdom. CrowdStrike's recently announced Falcon Privileged Access is the company's answer to addressing this threat. It extends CrowdStrike's identity protection portfolio with a just-in-time approach to privileged access management that challenges traditional PAM solutions. Ahead of the announcement, I spoke with CrowdStrike president Mike Sentonas about the new offering. He told me that, while people like to talk about big dramatic attacks, the reality is that 'most attacks are simple, exploiting gaps in access management.' This is what Falcon Privileged Access is designed to address. Enterprise security teams face a growing dilemma: privileged accounts are essential for IT operations but represent a significant security risk. When compromised, these accounts give attackers elevated permissions to access sensitive data, perform administrative tasks, and make system-wide changes. Conventional privileged access management solutions typically rely on password vaults and manual approval workflows. While these approaches can satisfy compliance requirements, they also often create operational friction, leaving organizations vulnerable to sophisticated attacks that exploit authentication gaps and standing privileges. Threat actors have noticed this vulnerability. In its 2025 Global Threat Report, CrowdStrike found that access broker advertisements selling valid credentials increased 50% between 2023 and 2024. Advanced threat groups like Scattered Spider actively use stolen credentials and social engineering to gain unauthorized access, while others like Famous Chollima plant malicious insiders in target organizations to escalate privileges. CrowdStrike's Falcon Privileged Access takes a notably different approach to the problem. Rather than following the traditional path of focusing on credential vaulting or password rotation, it implements just-in-time access that grants elevated permissions only when needed and only under secure conditions. The solution integrates directly into CrowdStrike's unified security platform, analyzing real-time signals from endpoints and devices, threat intelligence data, and AI-based behavioral analysis to make dynamic access decisions. This allows organizations to automatically grant, block, or revoke privileges based on current risk conditions without disrupting legitimate workflows. CrowdStrike's approach aligns with the broader industry trend toward security platform consolidation. Unlike standalone PAM vendors, CrowdStrike leverages its existing endpoint security infrastructure and threat intelligence capabilities to inform access decisions. This integration comes with several advantages. Security teams gain unified visibility across endpoint activities and identity actions. The solution can incorporate real-time threat intelligence into access decisions, potentially identifying compromised credentials before they're misused. For organizations already using the Falcon platform, deployment requires minimal additional infrastructure. As part of its announcement, CrowdStrike said that it's enabling new complementary capabilities across its portfolio, including integration between its identity protection and next-generation SIEM offerings. This allows security teams to automate Active Directory response actions without involving identity management teams. Additionally, the company's Charlotte AI now autonomously triages identity-based attacks, addressing the significant challenge of alert fatigue in security operations. I asked Mr. Sentonas how far CrowdStrike planned to venture into consolidating cybersecurity capabilities. He reenforced that CrowdStrike is, and will remain, an endpoint security company. What we're seeing, however, is that 'the definition of endpoint is shifting.' In addition to traditional client computing, endpoint now includes cloud, intelligent edge, IoT, and other technologies. The new Falcon Privileged Access acknowledges this reality. CrowdStrike's entry into the privileged access management space puts it in competition with established PAM vendors like CyberArk, BeyondTrust, and Delinea, as well as identity providers expanding into security like Microsoft and Okta. Traditional PAM vendors offer mature capabilities around password vaulting, session recording, and privileged account workflow management. However, they typically lack the endpoint context and threat intelligence integration CrowdStrike provides. Identity providers have strong authentication capabilities but similarly lack security context from endpoints. CrowdStrike's approach is more aligned with zero-trust security principles, where access is continuously verified rather than assumed safe after initial authentication. Its dynamic assessment model addresses a fundamental limitation of traditional PAM solutions: their tendency to create separate security silos that don't communicate effectively with endpoint security tools. CrowdStrike's move into privileged access management aligns with an important trend in enterprise security: the convergence of identity and endpoint security. As attack methodologies increasingly blur the lines between these domains, security architectures that treat them as separate concerns become increasingly vulnerable. For CISOs evaluating their privileged access strategies, CrowdStrike's approach offers an opportunity to consolidate security tools while addressing the growing threat of identity-based attacks. Organizations already invested in the CrowdStrike ecosystem may find value in the seamless integration and unified visibility. By integrating real-time threat intelligence, endpoint visibility, and just-in-time access controls into a unified platform, CrowdStrike addresses a fundamental disconnect in traditional security architectures. This approach offers a compelling alternative to siloed solutions for enterprises struggling with the dual challenges of maintaining operational efficiency while reducing identity-based risks. While adoption will depend on organizations' willingness to rethink established security boundaries, CrowdStrike's entry into this space accelerates the shift toward integrated security models that better reflect how modern attacks actually unfold. As identity continues to replace the network perimeter as the primary security boundary, solutions that dynamically connect identity context with threat awareness will define the next generation of enterprise security architecture. This is a strong play for CrowdStrike that reflects the natural evolution of endpoint protection.
