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CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, announced the CrowdStrike Falcon platform is bolstering its Linux protection capabilities with additional features, including machine learning prevention, custom Indicators of Attack and dynamic IoAs. CrowdStrike delivers proven breach prevention and visibility from its cloud-delivered platform via a single lightweight agent that supports endpoints and cloud workloads on all platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux and mobile devices.
Attivo Networks, an award-winning leader in deception for cybersecurity threat detection, announced an integration with CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, to provide organizations an integrated defensive strategy based on the Attivo ThreatDefend platform and the CrowdStrike Falcon endpoint protection platform. The joint solution provides early and accurate threat detection coupled with the ability to automatically quarantine a compromised endpoint.
Through this growing partnership, CrowdStrike customers can now proactively reduce their endpoint attack surface by up to 80%, and dramatically reduce the alert fatigue caused by unpatched and misconfigured systems. Automox's cloud-native cyber hygiene platform automates the fundamentals of endpoint hardening to dramatically reduce corporate attack surface up to 80% while decreasing alert fatigue common in downstream endpoint detection and response tools.
Threat actors linked to China increasingly targeted the telecommunications sector in 2019, according to endpoint security firm CrowdStrike. In the case of the telecom sector, many of the attacks were attributed to China-linked hacker groups, including the ones tracked as Wicked Panda, Emissary Panda, and Lotus Panda.
In its 2020 Global Threat Report, CrowdStrike found that bad actors are disabling endpoint protection and compromising WordPress sites to steal data and credentials. CrowdStrike's eport includes a threat landscape overview, ransomware threat assessment, e-crime trends and activity, and an update on intrusions from Iran, North Korea, China, Russia and other countries.
CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, announced at RSA Conference 2020 it is expanding the industry-leading visibility of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, to protect workloads, across all environments, including workloads and containers running in the cloud and in private, public and hybrid data centers or on-premise. Falcon is extending the capabilities of its award-winning endpoint protection and endpoint detection and response to provide visibility specific to workloads hosted on Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure and to provide EDR and run-time protection for containers.
By leveraging the power of the cloud-native CrowdStrike Falcon Platform and Threat Intelligence at the hands of CrowdStrike's highly-experienced Services team, Endpoint Recovery Services helps customers actively remediate ongoing security threats and rapidly recover from a potential incident while minimizing business interruptions. "Leveraging the power of the cloud, CrowdStrike is able to make incident recovery a quick, painless process for customers. With our innovative technology and leading group of security experts, Endpoint Recovery Services is geared to drastically reduce the average time-to-recovery, without interrupting business operations."
CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, announced the appointment of Michael Sentonas as the company's new chief technology officer effective immediately. With over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, Sentonas is a seasoned leader who in his previous role at CrowdStrike was responsible for developing and executing CrowdStrike's overall technology strategy.
Endpoint security firm CrowdStrike announced on Wednesday that Michael Sentonas has been appointed chief technology officer after Dmitri Alperovitch decided to leave the company to launch a non-profit policy accelerator. Alperovitch, one of the founders of CrowdStrike, has been acting as CTO since the company's launch in 2011.
Delta Risk, a leading provider of SOC-as-a-Service and security services, announced that it has joined the CrowdStrike Elevate Partner Program. Delta Risk will support customers using the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform to help businesses strengthen their cyber security posture to detect and prevent attacks.