According to a Mandiant survey of 1,350 global business and IT leaders, when trying to secure their networks against cyber threats, nearly all respondents (96%) believe it’s important to understand the threat actors targeting their organizations. That’s hardly a surprise. But then there’s this finding: 79% of respondents say that most of the time, they make decisions about cyberattacks without insights into who could be targeting their organization.

Cybersecurity automation is a hot topic as organizations wrestle with the challenges of increasing attack volumes, cybersecurity skill shortages, and how to make the best use of limited resources to protect the enterprise. However, when it comes to implementing automation with a target of achieving extended detection and response (XDR), it can be hard to know where to start and how to build a case for investment.

Hybrid working models have increasingly become the normal way of doing business. Employees are working from anywhere, users and their devices are moving on and off the office network, and many applications once hosted in data centers are now moving to public clouds or being replaced with software as a service (SaaS).

XDR (Extended Detection and Response) systems and SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) systems share some similarities, but they are not exactly the same and do not necessarily replace each other. XDR systems are a newer technology that is designed to provide organizations with a more comprehensive view of their security posture by collecting and analyzing data from multiple sources, such as endpoints, networks, and cloud environments.

Time and again, analyst reports, independent tests and numerous other awards and acknowledgements affirm CrowdStrike is a leader in cybersecurity. Why is this important? Because when CrowdStrike is #1, it’s our customers who win. But to us, the best validation of the power of the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform comes from our customers themselves. We are proud to have earned the trust of so many organizations — over 20,000 customers and counting — around the world.

CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR™ and CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale™ were hot topics at Fal.Con 2022. We weren’t surprised — both are transformational technologies. They’re also complementary, which spurred some questions about how they work together to solve the toughest IT and security challenges. Here, we dig into the details and clear up some common questions about what these tools do, when they should be used and the value they provide.

At CrowdStrike, we stop breaches. It’s a simple yet powerful promise to our customers, our partners and to the world. As thousands join us today in person at Fal.Con 2022 in Las Vegas, and thousands more watch remotely via livestream, it’s a promise that we want to reinforce and extend. As cyberattacks have grown more powerful and disruptive, the importance of stopping the breach has grown. Stopping the breach is about more than stopping a single attack.