Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

February 2023

CrowdStrike 2023 Global Threat Report: Resilient Businesses Fight Relentless Adversaries

The CrowdStrike 2023 Global Threat Report, among the most trusted and comprehensive research on the modern threat landscape, explores the most significant security events and trends of the previous year, as well as the adversaries driving this activity. The latest edition of the CrowdStrike Global Threat Report comes at a critical time for organizations around the world.

Mitigate Cyber Risk From Email With the Falcon LogScale and Mimecast Integration

Email is the top initial attack vector, with phishing campaigns responsible for many damaging cyber attacks, including ransomware. Being able to search Mimecast email security logs in CrowdStrike Falcon® LogScale (formerly known as Humio), alongside other log sources such as endpoint, network and authentication data helps cybersecurity teams detect and respond to cyber attacks.

How to Ingest Data into Falcon LogScale Using Python

This post covers how to ingest data into CrowdStrike Falcon® LogScale from your MacOS platform using Python. This guide is great for setting up a one-node proof of concept (POC) so you can take advantage of LogScale’s free trial. Before you can write your ingest client, you must prepare a good foundation. That means preparing your MacOS instance via the following steps: Ready? Let’s get started.

Under the Wing: Shift Left Across the App Lifecycle

As organizations move into the cloud, it’s more important than ever to monitor and secure your workloads. Misconfigurations in complex, hybrid or multicloud environments can put a target on your team for adversaries to exploit. In this episode of Under the Wing, learn how CrowdStrike helps you monitor and protect your workloads, hosts and containers.

3 Ways Visualization Improves Cloud Asset Management and Security

Public cloud services and cloud assets are agile and dynamic environments. Close oversight of these assets is a critical component of your asset management and security practices. While it’s important to understand the relationships and potential vulnerabilities of your cloud assets, the practice of managing these systems is complicated by the ever-changing nature of cloud environments.

CrowdStrike Ranked #1 in the IDC Worldwide Endpoint Security Market Shares Report for Third Time in a Row

CrowdStrike maintains endpoint security market leadership with a #1 ranking in IDC’s 2021-2022 report, and has been awarded Best Endpoint Detection and Response and Best Product Development by SE Labs. These recognitions validate CrowdStrike as the industry’s market and innovation leader in endpoint security.

DLL Side-Loading: How to Combat Threat Actor Evasion Techniques

Threat actors constantly evolve their tactics and techniques to circumvent security solutions. Working at the cutting-edge of detection engineering, CrowdStrike rapidly tracks and observes these evolutions in tactics to deliver timely, effective detections that protect customers. In this blog, we explore DLL side-loading and learn how CrowdStrike has expanded protections with Advanced Memory Scanning.

Make Compliance a Breeze with Modern Log Management

From manufacturers in Michigan to fintechs in Finland, every business must comply with industry regulations — which are increasingly constraining. At the same time, businesses must protect and account for a growing number of systems, applications and data in order to remain compliant. In other words, compliance is getting harder. Enter log management. While regulations vary by country and industry, nearly every organization must store compliance-relevant information for a certain period of time.

Under the Wing: Automating Workflows with Falcon Fusion

76% of organizations report not having enough qualified security specialists. 80% of them report alert fatigue — with analysts scrambling to respond to multiplying alerts and few to no processes to streamline investigation and response. Join us in the next episode to learn how teams are using tools like Falcon Fusion to automate workflows, streamline operations and keep their team moving fast.

CrowdStrike Announces Expanded Service Integrations with AWS

At AWS re:Invent 2022, CrowdStrike announced expanded service integrations with AWS to provide breach protection across your AWS environment, simplified infrastructure management and security consolidation. On January 31, 2023, AWS announced CloudTrail Lake Partner Integrations, with CrowdStrike signing on as a launch partner. With this integration, organizations get the opportunity for a consistent security posture between on-premises workloads and those running in the AWS cloud.

Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Combat Hands-on-Keyboard Cybersecurity Attacks

With news headlines like “A massive ransomware attack hit hundreds of businesses” becoming common, concern about malware has never been higher. High-profile examples of malware like DarkSide, REvil have been profiled so many times that not only cybersecurity professionals are on edge — every organization that has on-premises or in-the-cloud workloads is concerned.