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.

Directories, particularly your Microsoft directories, are where it all starts. Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID (formerly, Azure AD) contain accounts, computers and resources that form the cornerstone of your IT security infrastructure. At One Identity, we are speaking with more and more organizations coming to the realization that Active Directory, however "legacy", is more crucial than ever.

Defined by relentless cyber threats and evolving challenges, the role of cybersecurity has never been more crucial. As organizations across the globe struggle with the ever-expanding threat landscape, the adoption of cybersecurity automation has emerged as a promising solution. This third annual survey conducted by ThreatQuotient, explores cybersecurity automation adoption and provides insights gathered from 750 senior cybersecurity professionals from the UK, US, and Australia.

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.