CrowdStrike joins with SaaS, cloud and security leaders to set the standard for XDR through new CrowdXDR Alliance

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Members including Google Cloud, Okta, ServiceNow, Zscaler and others join forces to establish a shared schema for XDR data exchange, providing customers with a unified, best-platform approach to XDR.

Sunnyvale, California, October 12, 2021–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fall. Con 2021–CrowdStrike Inc., (Nasdaq: CRWD), a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint and workload protection, today announced the CrowdXDR Alliance, a unified and open Extended Detection and Response (XDR) alliance to support security and IT operations Formed with leaders and the best. – Breed solution. The CrowdXDR Alliance will offer joint customers a first of its kind, integrated solution to protect their organizations from sophisticated cyber adversaries in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.

“The CrowdXDR Alliance will take XDR beyond just one discussion and help customers adopt the platform’s best approach to enterprise-wide security. Organizations don’t need more security alerts in their security stack to prevent them The most relevant insights are needed. Prevent complex attacks and breaches, said CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz. The out-of-the-box integrated XDR solutions will enable and extend comprehensive visibility, security and control across all environments.”

The lack of standards for sharing data across security platforms creates gaps in investigation and threat hunting. The CrowdXDR Alliance will establish a shared schema for data exchange to enrich the EDR data with the most relevant, vendor-specific security telemetry. Together, CrowdStrike and CrowdXDR Alliance partners will endeavor to:

  • Expanded detection and response in a unified security stack: United customers will benefit from optimized real-time threat detection, investigation, response and hunting through seamless ingestion and correlation of contextual telemetry to deter even the most sophisticated attackers and novel threats.

  • Unparalleled safety efficiency and efficacy: Intelligently process telemetry from multiple sources at scale and speed to provide customers with actionable security insights and instant cross-domain investigations in real time, reducing time to remediation.

  • Defense in depth with shared telemetry: Establishing and supporting a standardized XDR schema to share contextual telemetry and accelerate incident response with contextually rich identification, more effective correlation, timely investigation and automated responses – designed to optimize the security posture of organizations to be done.

  • streamlined operational capabilitySimplify deployment by robustly integrating customer’s existing solutions and building a cohesive and more effective cybersecurity stack designed to prevent cyberattacks anywhere in their environment.

CrowdXDR Alliance launch partners include leaders in the security and IT industries spanning cloud, web, email, identity, network, OT and IT operations. Current members of the Alliance include Google Cloud, Okta, Service Now, Zscaler, Netscope, Proofpoint, XtraHop, Mimecast, Clarotti, and CoreLite.

According to Forrester’s “Adapt or Die: XDR Is on a Collision Course with SIEM and SOAR” report: “Good XDR lives and dies from the foundation of a good EDR. XDR providers will be limited or enabled by the EDR on which they are based. Choose your XDR based on high impact detection, strong third-party partnerships or an EDR with expanded native capabilities and automated response recommendations.”

Companion Quotes:

Google Cloud: “There are many challenges facing cybersecurity professionals today – and they need solutions that work at the cloud scale to provide better methods of detection and response. Google with our strategic partnership and the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform Through the integration of the cloud, we deliver customers. “Massive defense-intensive security, broad visibility and workload protection in a hybrid cloud environment,” said Sunil Potti, vice president and general manager of Google Cloud Security. We are excited to join the CrowdXDR Alliance today to expand and bring joint customers an enriched XDR experience that combines a scalable cloud-based analytics solution in Google Cloud with a leader in endpoint security.”

ServiceNow: “ServiceNow is proud to be an inaugural member of the CrowdXDR Alliance, as addressing today’s security challenges for our customers requires vendor collaboration,” said Lou Fiorello, vice president and general manager of the Security Operations business unit at ServiceNow . “ServiceNow brings the unique strength of integrated security, IT and risk operations together on a single platform. Connecting CrowdXDR Alliance Insights with ServiceNow Security Operations enables customers to reduce their attack surface and enable collaboration and automation across people, process and technology.” Enabling it helps to optimize the response.

Zscaler: “As two market leaders who are already providing unified integrated solutions to hundreds of Fortune 500 enterprises, we continue to deepen and broaden our collaboration,” said Punit Minocha, executive vice president of business and corporate development at Zscaler. he said. “Our advanced access control integration with CrowdStrike reduces the attack surface and makes it easy for organizations to implement zero trust security while empowering work from anywhere. By integrating with the CrowdXDR Alliance, we provide our customers with DOTS enable them to connect faster, gain meaningful insights, and more effectively neutralize threats.”

NetScope: “XDR, like SASE and Security Services Edge (SSE), is critical to security transformation and a non-negotiable requirement for enterprises moving to cloud infrastructure,” said Sanjay Berry, Chief Executive Officer, NetScope. “Netscope provides hundreds of features of rich cloud metadata for cloud detection and response as part of a larger XDR program. CrowdStrike at the CrowdXDR Alliance building on our strong partnership to help bring the best in cloud security across all environments. Glad to be involved.”

Proofpoint: “As attackers become more sophisticated, organizations need real-time, actionable intelligence to protect themselves from today’s most malicious threats,” said Ryan Kalember, executive vice president of cybersecurity strategy, Proofpoint . “Proofpoint is proud to join the CrowdXDR Alliance, which will integrate world-leading security solutions to provide customers with the tools they need to optimize their defenses while accelerating incident response.”

XtraHop: Raja Mukherjee, Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer, XtraHop: “Enterprise security teams face a formidable challenge as supply chain compromise and increasingly sophisticated ransomware—now an advanced extortion threat—become more prevalent ” “We have partnered with CrowdStrike for a long time to provide critical detection and response across edge, network, cloud, to help organizations defend against these threats. Now, we get to work with the team at CrowdStrike. Proud to join the CrowdXDR Alliance and other partners to provide advanced detection and response capabilities that give organizations the edge they need to rapidly prevent breaches.”

Mimecast: “Enterprise organizations are constantly targeted by sophisticated threat actors, and attacks in the hybrid working world have only increased,” said Mimecast CEO Peter Bauer. “Collaboration in the cybersecurity industry is critical to staying one step ahead of cybercriminals. We are proud to be a member of the CrowdXDR Alliance, and will bring real-time data and proactive threat hunting to protect our combined customers.”

Clarotti: “As industrial and critical infrastructure organizations introduce more IoT devices into their environments to improve operational efficiency and profitability, these devices serve as entry points for ransomware and other threats to disrupt operations. can,” said Yaniv Vardi, chief executive officer of Clarotti. “We are honored to be part of the CrowdXDR Alliance and continue to build on the Claroti-CrowdStrike joint solution to provide full-spectrum visibility and threat detection coverage for IoT in industrial environments.”

Coralite: “The new CrowdXDR Alliance marks an important step in the ongoing historic journey in the security industry – away from closed ecosystems, and towards an open, community-driven and data-centric approach to defense. Coralite is excited to participate, Especially given our strong integration with CrowdStrike and Humeo,” said Brian Dye, Chief Executive Officer, CoreLite.

*Adapt or Die: XDR is a Collision Course with Siem and SOAR, April 28, 2021, Forrester

forward-looking statements

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About CrowdStrike

Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, is redefining security for the cloud era with an endpoint and workload protection platform built from the ground up to prevent breaches. The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform’s single lightweight-agent architecture leverages cloud-scale artificial intelligence (AI) and provides real-time security and visibility across the enterprise, preventing attacks on endpoints and workloads on or off the network. Powered by the proprietary CrowdStrike Threat Graph®, CrowdStrike Falcon captures nearly 1 trillion high-fidelity signals per day in real time from around the world, one of the world’s most advanced data platforms for security.

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