CrowdStrike Next-Gen SIEM Innovations Slash Response Time and Simplify SIEM Migrations

Are your legacy technologies slowing down your security operations? You’re not alone. Seventy percent of critical incidents take over 12 hours to resolve. Legacy SIEMs burden security teams with endless manual processes and agonizingly slow search speeds, delaying investigation and response while increasing the risk of a breach.

The future of security requires next-gen SIEM technology built for scale and speed, powered by automation and AI. To liberate organizations from the constraints of legacy SIEMs, we built CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM, which converges data, AI, workflow automation and threat intelligence in one platform with one console and a single-agent architecture.

Swift on the heels of launching Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, we’re already raising the bar for security operations. Today, we’re announcing AI and workflow automation breakthroughs, new defenses to detect and stop threats, and advancements to help easily migrate from a legacy SIEM to Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. To help start this journey, we’re also providing 10 gigabytes of data per day at no extra cost to CrowdStrike Falcon® Insight XDR customers. They also receive full next-gen SIEM capabilities — including correlation rules, custom dashboards, incident management, workflow automation and more — with the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform.

AI and Workflow Automation Innovations Unlock the AI-Native SOC

Today’s SOC teams are bogged down with tedious tasks — enriching alerts, gathering investigative insights, manually responding to attacks and documenting incidents. Endless alerts, false positives and complex investigations delay response, increasing the risk of a costly breach. Teams are ready for a change — and we can deliver it.

CrowdStrike is announcing groundbreaking automation and AI-driven innovations to boost efficiency, reduce incident response time and unleash the potential of the AI-native SOC.

CrowdStrike Falcon® Fusion SOAR enhancements empower teams to stop attacks quickly by automating virtually any task. Featuring a modern user experience and a new content library with an expanding set of prebuilt workflows and 300+ actions, including 200 new third-party actions, Falcon Fusion SOAR provides unmatched automation, orchestration and response capabilities to CrowdStrike customers at no extra cost.

Figure 1. Discover content and manage all Falcon Fusion SOAR apps in one place with a new content library. (Click to enlarge)

New Falcon Fusion SOAR enhancements allow analysts to run workflows, enrich incidents with threat context and view full execution details from the Incident Workbench. Falcon Fusion SOAR now integrates with on-premises tools and supports automated security workflows that can handle advanced tasks like complex loops, polling and pagination.

Investigate with CrowdStrike® Charlotte AI™ helps teams analyze incidents faster by providing a clear picture of attacks with investigative context and building LLM-powered incident reports to save analysts valuable time. We’ve also elevated the analyst experience with multiple Incident Workbench enhancements. Incident Workbench simplifies investigations by visualizing all key elements of an incident, including users, entities, malicious events and threat context, in an elegant visual graph. New features let teams upload files and save notes in a feature-rich text editor.

Figure 2. Accelerate investigations with a complete picture of attacks, including attack steps, compromised hosts, users and threat context, with the Incident Workbench. (Click to enlarge)

Stop Breaches with Industry-Best Detection, Extended to All Data

Security teams are often plagued by noisy SIEM correlation rules that flood them with useless alerts. Analysts must manually sift through a deluge of alerts, struggling to find real threats. Investigations drag on, often ending in false positives and leaving critical threats unaddressed. While analysts chase down dead ends, adversaries move laterally, expand their control and achieve their objectives, all while staying under the radar.

To outsmart them, organizations need total threat visibility and laser-accurate detection. Enter Detection Coverage: It maps detection rules to MITRE ATT&CK® techniques, providing a crystal-clear view of detection coverage. Analysts can instantly identify gaps and get actionable recommendations to elevate their security posture. Granular filters let them assess coverage by adversary, severity, log source and more.

CrowdStrike takes a unique approach to threat detection by integrating key data sources like endpoint, cloud workload and identity data from the start. With Detection Coverage, teams can evaluate detection capabilities across all data sources, including Falcon and third-party data — all in one place.

Figure 3. Assess and fortify defenses with Detection Coverage. (Click to enlarge)

Falcon Next-Gen SIEM makes CrowdStrike’s industry-leading detection, threat intelligence and adversary research immediately accessible, covering all data sources to protect every user and asset. Tight integration with the Falcon agent drives real-time detection of endpoint and identity-based attacks, with AI-powered indicators of attack (IOAs) that work out-of-the-box, without tedious rule tuning and testing.

An expanding set of correlation rules accurately detects threats across a vast array of data sources, from network and cloud data to phishing and credential compromise threats. Analysts can detect ransomware, encryption parameter tampering and privileged user escalation attempts with new correlation rule templates. Teams can rapidly deploy, customize and scale threat detections with new detection-as-code capabilities.

Analysts can also reduce the alert backlog and focus on the threats that matter by automatically handling duplicate and low-fidelity alerts with automated noise reduction and alert suppression.

Effortlessly Upgrade to the Next Generation of SIEM Technology

Organizations considering SIEM replacement might be worried about deployment and data onboarding processes — which, let’s face it, can be a headache with traditional SIEMs. To make the move to Falcon Next-Gen SIEM hassle-free, we’ve added 45 new data connectors and 58 new parsers since our last major release in May. These integrations ease setup and reduce time-to-value.

Figure 4. An expanding set of pre-built data connectors makes it easier than ever to set up Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. (Click to enlarge)

Falcon Next-Gen SIEM makes it easy to collect and process data from any source, even if a prebuilt parser does not exist, with our new, industry-first AI-generated parsers. By analyzing sample logs with multiple large language models, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM can classify log structure and contents on the fly to build parsers, saving hours of busywork and speeding up the adoption of Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. Users can review and update AI-generated parsers with a flexible parser editor.

That’s not all. Teams can also collect and forward logs from Linux, Windows and macOS hosts with the Falcon Log Collector. We’ve recently introduced features that let them remotely deploy, configure, manage and monitor a fleet of log collectors from the Falcon platform.

We’ve also added more out-of-the-box security content, including detections, workflows, dashboards and integrations, so teams can seamlessly migrate from legacy SIEM to CrowdStrike. Enhanced role-based access controls ensure the right people have the right access at the right time. New application programming interfaces (APIs) let analysts effortlessly automate workflows, run queries, orchestrate response and more.

With the latest capabilities from CrowdStrike, organizations can effortlessly migrate from their existing SIEM to Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. Existing CrowdStrike customers are well on their way because their endpoint, identity and cloud security data is already in the Falcon platform. Plus, they can easily extend CrowdStrike’s 24/7 managed detection and response to all of their data with Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR.

All of these advancements, especially our new AI and automation capabilities, help reduce complexity and costs. Most importantly, the innovations we’re announcing today empower organizations to achieve the ultimate goal: stopping breaches.

Additional Resources

• Learn more about these announcements by attending the session “Falcon Next-Gen SIEM: Innovations and Roadmap” at Fal.Con 2024, the can’t-miss cybersecurity experience of the year.
• Can’t make it to Las Vegas? Register today for our Fal.Con Digital Experience to stream the keynotes live during Fal.Con and view select sessions on-demand post-event.
• Learn how Falcon Next-Gen SIEM is transforming security operations and delivering the future of SIEM today.