CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection Wins CRN’s 2023 Tech Innovator Award

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[{"type":"text","content":" AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nCrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD) today announced that CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection won the 2023 CRN Tech Innovator award as the best solution in the Identity and Access Management category.\n\n\nAccording to the CrowdStrike 2023 Threat Hunting Report, CrowdStrike’s elite threat hunters and intelligence analysts observed a massive jump in identity-based intrusions noting a 583% increase in Kerberoasting attacks, a technique used by adversaries to obtain valid credentials for Microsoft Active Directory service accounts and 62% of interactive intrusions involved the abuse of compromised identities. CrowdStrike also saw a 147% increase in access broker advertisements on the dark web, fueled by growing demand from adversaries looking to obtain valid credentials and privileged access.\n\n\nCrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection stood out from the competition for bringing together world-class endpoint protection and real-time identity protection to effectively combat modern threats. With this innovative approach, CrowdStrike gives security teams access to continuous visibility, proactive control and risk-based response they need to quickly identify and eliminate identity-based threats.\n\n\nCrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection helps customers stop identity-based attacks in real time with key features including:\n\n\n\nUnified Security Platform with a Single Agent: As part of the industry-leading CrowdStrike Falcon platform, CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection uses the same single, lightweight agent used for endpoint protection, XDR, cloud workload protection and more. The agent can be deployed anywhere in the customer environment vastly simplifying the collection of telemetry. The CrowdStrike Falcon console acts as a single threat interface, providing a unified view of threats correlated across endpoint and identity and more.\n\n\n\n\nComprehensive Visibility into Attack Paths: CrowdStrike provides security teams real-time correlation of threats with the combination of endpoint and identity telemetry, industry-leading threat intelligence and knowledge of adversary tradecraft. This provides complete visibility into attack paths covering all aspects of the adversary toolkit. CrowdStrike also provides deep visibility into Microsoft Active Directory (AD) authentication traffic to give teams insi...

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