New features in Falcon Horizon leverage CrowdStrike’s powerful telemetry, expand protection for cloud control plane security and deliver DevOps tools for faster remediation

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – May 18, 2021 – CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint and workload protection, today announced new features for CrowdStrike Falcon Horizon Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) that leverage the vast, real-time telemetry of the CrowdStrike Security Cloud to take a unique adversary-focused approach to securing the cloud control plane. These new capabilities include continuous threat detection and monitoring across cloud and on-premises environments, providing security teams the ability to cut through the noise of a multi-cloud environment and take the most effective action. 

“Today’s application development lifecycle demands speed and agility. This requires teams to build applications and reconfigure cloud infrastructure on the fly, overwhelming security teams trying to gain control of resources to prevent breaches in the cloud,” said Michael Sentonas, chief technology officer at CrowdStrike. “To proactively protect organizations who are rapidly adopting the cloud, security teams must understand the actors targeting them and the tools being used. That is why we are delivering unique features in Falcon Horizon that leverage CrowdStrike’s best-in-class telemetry to arm customers with important data to identify where serious risks lie so they can more quickly detect and stop breaches.”

Powered by CrowdStrike’s industry-leading threat intelligence, Falcon Horizon is the first CSPM solution to deliver an adversary-focused approach for continuous, in-depth control plane threat detection across an organization’s cloud accounts, services and users for AWS and Azure. Security teams receive real-time alerting and reporting on indicators of attack (IOAs) for over 150 cloud adversaries, allowing them to better understand the adversaries and tactics that are targeting their organizations. Additionally, Falcon Horizon provides behavior-based tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) detections and guided remediation across the cloud estate, empowering security teams to proactively uncover hidden threats and conduct self-service threat hunting to more quickly spot suspicious activity and stop breaches. 

Included in Falcon Horizon’s new offerings is CrowdStrike’s Confidence Scoring. This new feature continuously aggregates, assesses and scores cloud control plane threats and configurations to accurately identify malicious activity. The scores help security teams prioritize the most urgent threats, allowing them to more quickly identify, understand and take action against critical threat activity eliminating the time and resources needed for sifting through a barrage of inconsequential alerts as is necessary with many of today’s solutions. 

Additional new capabilities for Falcon Horizon include: 

• Integration at the speed of DevOps: Enables faster integration and remediation with organizations’ DevOps and collaboration tools through CrowdStrike’s single, powerful API to seamlessly onboard new cloud accounts to keep pace with new digital transformation initiatives.
• Unified visibility and control across cloud environments: Provides visibility and control across multi-cloud and on-premises environments for simplified management and security policy enforcement from a single console, eliminating blind spots, preventing security incidents and ensuring application availability for any cloud. 
• Prevention of misconfigurations and compliance violations: Proactively detects misconfigurations, cloud plane security threats and compliance violations with over 250 out-of-the-box adversary-focused policies, saving time and reducing operation costs. 
• Guided remediation from security experts: Enables security teams to fix issues that leave cloud resources exposed with guided remediation and guardrails that enable developers to avoid critical mistakes.

To learn more about Falcon Horizon, visit here.

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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.

 With CrowdStrike, customers benefit from better protection, better performance and immediate time-to-value delivered by the cloud-native Falcon platform.

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