Releases the results of a new survey that finds 92% of IT security professionals cite operational challenges implementing IT security

SUNNYVALE, Calif. –  May 26, 2021 – CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint and workload protection, today announced it is launching new partner applications in the CrowdStrike Store and the availability of the CrowdStrike Store in the European Union (EU) Cloud for customers to discover and buy security and IT applications. Additionally, the company is announcing the release of a new survey report which unpacks the current state of IT security. 

The global IT security survey, commissioned by CrowdStrike, aims to better understand the complexities that IT security teams face when implementing a mature security strategy that includes disparate solutions. The report was independently conducted by Vanson Bourne, and surveyed 900 senior IT decision-makers and IT security professionals globally and across all industry sectors. It unveiled the need for organizations to transform their security stacks to create greater simplicity and strengthen efficacy to stop breaches, revealing that 92% of respondents say their organizations have faced operational challenges due to the implementation of IT security projects and that 71% of respondents said that integration complexity between technology and security stacks requires improvement. Other key findings include: 

• 44% believe one of their top three biggest issues when purchasing new IT security solutions for their organization is supporting existing solutions with interoperability 
• Over half of respondents (54%) feel that their organization experiences a performance impact when implementing IT security in their organization
• 64% of respondents report their organization needs to have IT security specialists in order to use their IT security solutions
• 82% admit that their organization’s IT security would be more effective if all of their security solutions shared the same aggregated pool of data 

“This research confirms how enterprises are struggling with the complexity surrounding the implementation of a comprehensive security strategy,” said Andy Horwitz, vice president of Technology Alliances and the CrowdStrike Store. “The CrowdStrike Store was built to extend the power of the CrowdStrike CrowdStrike Falcon® platform through a curated and diverse partner ecosystem that provides instant interoperability with a variety of technologies to strengthen our customers’ security posture with the click of a button.” 

The CrowdStrike Store helps combat the challenges outlined in the survey findings by delivering customers a unified Security Cloud ecosystem of trusted third-party applications and add-ons alongside the Falcon platform. It provides organizations the benefits of agent consolidation while delivering a rich choice of vendor technologies managed by a single cloud platform. The integrations leverage CrowdStrike Falcon®’s vast telemetry, which processes over five trillion endpoint and workload-related events a day, and empowers security operations teams to modernize their security stacks with unparalleled agility across interoperable solutions.

The latest additions to the CrowdStrike Store deliver customers Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR), Network Detection and Response (NDR) and Threat Intelligence integrations. Enterprises can use these integrations to optimize their existing investments, gain value faster with more efficacy, and work to unify their overall security stack – all while improving business productivity. The new integrations include:

• Rapid7’s InsightIDR (SIEM) leverages insights from Rapid7’s global services and threat intelligence network and the Falcon platform’s enriched telemetry, to unlock immediate endpoint and workload visibility alongside user, network, cloud and other security data for complete coverage of modern hybrid environments.

• Siemplify’s Security Operation Platform (SOAR) provides an intuitive, holistic workbench that makes security operations smarter, more efficient and more effective by combining workflow capabilities with the Falcon platform to deliver case management and accelerated investigation for improved security operations center (SOC) performance.

• ExtraHop Reveal(x) 360 (NDR) uses threat intelligence telemetry from Falcon to enrich and contextualize its AI-based behavioral detections with known indicators of compromise (IOCs), enhancing the accuracy of real-time threat alerts and further accelerating investigation and response across hybrid and multicloud environments.

• VirusTotal’s context enriched threat intelligence integrates with CrowdStrike Falcon®, allowing cybersecurity teams to quickly search for and identify files or URLs that are relevant to an investigation to uncover previously unknown threats. VirusTotal enhances the Detections within the Falcon console, enabling customers to more effectively track adversaries and generate detection rules that can eliminate blind spots in their footprint.

Additionally, the CrowdStrike Store is now available in the EU Cloud. Organizations now have a validated ecosystem of cybersecurity solutions where they can discover, try and buy curated partner and CrowdStrike applications.

Partner Quotes:

Rapid7’s Richard Perkett, senior vice president of detection and response – “As attack surfaces expand and become more complex, successful Security teams need efficient ways to find and extinguish threats fast – wherever they happen. Teams with a disparate security infrastructure face an uphill battle of context switching and managing through blindspots. With CrowdStrike’s Falcon Insight and Rapid7’s InsightIDR SIEM together, SOC teams now have the complete picture across endpoints, users, network, cloud, deception technology, and other critical security data for seamless, enhanced threat detection coverage across the modern environment.”

Siemplify’s Dennis Shaya, general manager North America – “We are thrilled to showcase the Siemplify Security Operations Platform to CrowdStrike’s prospects and customers who are undoubtedly facing the very challenges that makes SOAR so instrumental: alert overload, the overreliance on manual tasks and the need to integrate disparate security tools. Combining Siemplify and CrowdStrike speeds up investigations and enables security teams to seamlessly orchestrate response across all endpoints.” 

For more information on the partner integrations and report, please read the infographic. Get a deeper understanding of the report and learn how you can supercharge your security stack by registering for the CrowdCast with Vanson Bourne on June 3, 2021.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including statements regarding CrowdStrike Store applications and add-ons. There are a significant number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from statements made in this press release.

You should not rely on these forward-looking statements, as actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those anticipated or implied by these forward-looking statements as a result of such risks and uncertainties. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we do not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements provided to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.

About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike, a global cybersecurity leader, is redefining security for the cloud era with an endpoint and workload protection platform built from the ground up to stop breaches. The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform’s single lightweight-agent architecture leverages cloud-scale artificial intelligence (AI) and offers real-time protection 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® correlates over 5 trillion endpoint-related events per week in real time from across the globe, fueling one of the world’s most advanced data platforms for security.

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