Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Every year, CrowdStrike Professional Services performs hundreds of Technical Risk Assessments (TRAs) across myriad industries, geographies, and business environments. These deep, hands-on reviews look at how security controls behave in production to evaluate the threats they see and block — and crucially, the threats they miss.

Since October 2025, CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations has observed a shift in intrusion tradecraft: Threat actors are executing high-speed, SaaS-centric attacks that bypass traditional endpoint visibility. CORDIAL SPIDER and SNARKY SPIDER exemplify this evolution as distinct adversaries conducting rapid data theft and extortion campaigns with striking operational similarities.

As organizations scale ChatGPT Enterprise across departments, AI is becoming embedded in everyday business operations. Finance teams are building custom GPTs. Developers are leveraging Codex to act on codebases. Employees are invoking third-party tools within AI conversations to automate workflows. As adoption accelerates, security teams face a fundamental challenge: visibility around agents deployed and running in SaaS environments.