Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In an increasingly connected digital landscape, the security of your organization’s data and publicly facing assets is more critical than ever. According to the CrowdStrike 2023 Threat Hunting Report, more than 20% of all interactive intrusions are associated with the exploitation of public-facing applications. As an organization’s attack surface expands and cyberthreats proliferate, it is imperative IT and security teams take a proactive approach to safeguarding their digital footprint.

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.