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CrowdStrike expands alliance with Deloitte to help protect global customers against cyberattacks by securing the most critical components of business risk
AUSTIN, Texas-(BUSINESS WIRE)-CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD), a leader in cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workload, identity and data, announced today that Deloitte, a leader in managed security services, has expanded their alliance with CrowdStrike by of choosing the award-winning CrowdStrike Falcon® platform to enable critical components of Deloitte’s Managed Extended, Detection and Response (MXDR).
A range of managed services and solutions, Deloitte’s MXDR is designed to help organizations build resilience against emerging cyber threats through the use of complementary technology alliances, including Amazon Web Services (AWS ), Exabeam, Google Cloud Chronicle, ServiceNow, Splunk and Zscaler-all of which are already partners of CrowdStrike and have robust technical integration that delivers multi-layered defense solutions to customers.
CrowdStrike is currently the only Endpoint, Detection and Response (EDR) vendor included in the MXDR by Deloitte program. Deloitte clients will be able to take advantage of the extensive functionality of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, unique single-agent architecture, rich telemetry from its proprietary Security Cloud and its ease of deployment.
Deloitte’s MXDR will use the following from CrowdStrike: endpoint and cloud security, Zero Trust, threat detection and intelligence, incident response, vulnerability management and threat hunting.
“The CrowdStrike Falcon platform was built from the ground up to be open and expandable so that our partners can easily expand their solutions in real time and respond to security threats, faster and better. We are proud to have a strategic alliance with Deloitte for their new MXDR suite so that their customers – regardless of geography – can sharpen efforts to secure their organizations against potential cyberattacks, ”he said. Matthew Polly, vice president of Worldwide Alliances, Channels and Business Development at CrowdStrike. “CrowdStrike is committed to building a select network of partners to deliver the solutions and services needed to combat today’s advanced cyber adversaries.”
“Many of our clients have dozens-if not hundreds-of security tools in their arsenal, which can be a challenge to manage. We developed Deloitte’s MXDR to help organizations integrate into one managed services and solutions suite to help improve the ease, efficiency and effectiveness of cyber program management, ”said Curt Aubley, MXDR’s head of Deloitte and a Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory managing director, Deloitte & Press LLP. “We asked CrowdStrike to be part of our MXDR offering because of their technological capabilities and open API platform-both of which enable in integration with our MXDR platform and the scalability demanded by Deloitte clients. ”
As the gap in cybersecurity practices widens, many organizations are faced with the shortage of people needed to fight today’s sophisticated adversaries. Security teams continue to be overwhelmed by the rising volume of cyber threats, which can lead to burnout and increase the risk of an attack leading to a breach. The alliance of Deloitte and CrowdStrike can allow customers to identify existing security gaps, prioritize risk reduction initiatives and help improve their overall risk posture. Ultimately, the goal is to help customers:
- Increase real-time multi-platform visibility for enterprise assets with on -premises, cloud and container workloads, including capabilities to research common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), evaluate threat actor profiles and targets, understand all applications running in their environment and search to find versions, hosts and users that may pose a risk
- Improve mean time to prevent, detect, respond and mitigate vulnerabilities in security assets and associated cyberattacks
- Reduce business costs through proactive identification and enhanced efforts to respond to unknown cyberattacks with the added benefits of agent and vendor integration, less complexity and lower total cost of ownership
Better Together: CrowdStrike at Deloitte
CrowdStrike and Deloitte are both committed to delivering leading security solutions for our customers around the world. This alliance will further enable organizations to deploy efficient solutions to combat adversaries and ultimately help stop violations.
To learn more about how CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform helps boost Deloitte’s MXDR, visit our blog.
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global leader in cybersecurity, has redefined modern security using one of the world’s most advanced cloud-native platforms for protecting critical enterprise risk areas-endpoints and cloud workload, identity and data.
Powered by CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform uses real-time attack indicators, threat intelligence, emerging adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper -accurate detection, 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 fast and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.
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