CYBER FRONT LINES REPORT

Incident Response and Proactive Services From 2020 and Insights That Matter for 2021

INSIDE THE REPORT

Take a peek at just a few of the major insights and trends uncovered in the Cyber Front Lines report.

Attacks that were financially motivated, including a high proportion of ransomware

Organizations that had antivirus solutions incorrectly configured with weak prevention settings or not fully deployed

79
days

Average adversary dwell time, leaving adversaries more than 2 months of unfettered access to compromised systems

common weaknesses were represented in 27% of CrowdStrike’s 2020 Incident Response engagements

While in previous years ransomware eCrime adversaries were rarely observed exfiltrating data, this year witnessed a widespread adoption of ransomware with data leak extortion tactics by multiple eCrime groups.

Organizations with Incident Response Services engagements that elected to engage CrowdStrike Services through outside counsel

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BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Your journey doesn’t end with the Cyber Front Lines report! CrowdStrike offers recommendations and key insights to help you audit or improve your cybersecurity readiness in a variety of ways. Want to read or listen to more topics? Check out these resources to continue your learning.

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ACHIEVING SECURITY MATURITY

YOU’VE BEEN BREACHED…NOW WHAT?

WHAT IS INCIDENT RESPONSE?

WHAT IS CLOUD SECURITY ASSESSMENT?

INTELLIGENCE-LED RAPID RECOVERY

WHAT IS MANAGED DETECTION & RESPONSE?

HOW CROWDSTRIKE SERVICES CAN HELP

The authors behind this annual report are members of the CrowdStrike Services team, who work on the front lines of cybersecurity. The Services team helps organizations train for, react to and remediate a breach quickly and effectively to allow them to get back to business faster.

CrowdStrike offers services for all types of organizations and situations. This year’s report focuses on three core services:

INCIDENT RESPONSE SERVICES

Rapid response, containment and investigation with digital forensics and root cause analysis

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ENDPOINT RECOVERY SERVICES

Containment of active threats, recovery and remediation with speed and surgical precision

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FALCON COMPLETE

Continuous 24/7/365 managed detection, response and remediation, backed by up to $1M Breach Prevention Warranty

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