The risk of cyberattacks continues to grow for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Today, a staggering 70% of cyberattacks target SMBs, a scourge that cost organizations with fewer than 500 employees an average of $3.31 million USD in 2022, up 13.4% over the previous year. Adversaries tend to take the path of least resistance. This often means targeting small businesses, which face many of the same security threats as large organizations but lack the resources to defend against them.

All web traffic flowing out of your company network should be passing through a web proxy. These proxy logs are a great resource for threat hunting and security investigations, yet they often translate into extremely large volumes of data.

As organizations increasingly deploy business-critical workloads to managed cloud services, enforcing strong security practices needs to be a top priority. While many managed cloud service providers do a good job of protecting the cloud and infrastructure itself, it’s the responsibility of the customer to protect what’s running inside the cloud.

CrowdStrike customers tend to stay with CrowdStrike, typically starting with endpoint detection and response (EDR), then expanding to other attack surfaces as they consolidate their cybersecurity with the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. But what happens when a business that uses and trusts CrowdStrike is forced to adopt Microsoft Defender due to a divestiture? That’s exactly what happened to this CrowdStrike customer, a major American retailer.

Cyberattacks evolve daily, and defenders are forced to adapt at the same rate. Cybersecurity best practices, however, are updated and codified much less frequently. There is broad experimentation in the field, and it takes some time for authoritative working groups to sort out which new practices and controls are practical and consistently effective for a large cross-section of users. Some guidelines and standards are updated every year or two and others much less frequently.

As CrowdStrike’s Advanced Memory Scanning capability has matured, so have its applications. CrowdStrike detection engineers and researchers work tirelessly to ensure the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform’s detection content stays ahead of adversaries. The following case study describes how CrowdStrike leverages memory scanning in combination with new IOAs to provide world-class protection to our customers.

Adversaries are continuing to expand their attacks by adding tactics like domain abuse, multifactor authentication (MFA) fatigue and unique crafted exploit kits acquired from underground forums. Typosquatted domains pose a risk for any organization as they are used at the start of the attack chain, with the goal of misdirecting users to a look-alike site to steal their identities.

We couldn’t be prouder that CrowdStrike achieved the highest coverage across the last two consecutive MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations. We achieved 100% protection, 100% visibility and 100% analytic detection coverage in the Enterprise Round 5 evaluation — which equates to 100% prevention and stopping the breach. We also achieved the highest detection coverage in the Managed Security Services Providers testing.

CrowdStrike is raising the bar for proactive detection and response with the introduction of CrowdStrike Falcon® Counter Adversary Operations Elite, the industry’s first and only white-glove service created to rapidly disrupt sophisticated adversaries with the fusion of industry-leading intelligence and threat hunting.*

CrowdStrike’s AI-powered Falcon platform has achieved flawless 100% protection, 100% visibility and 100% analytic detection coverage in Round 5 of the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations: Enterprise. The Falcon platform stopped 13 of 13 protection scenarios spanning every stage of an attack, without relying on prior knowledge or legacy signatures. We believe these results demonstrate the superior security outcomes and power of a unified platform that is purpose-built to stop breaches.