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CrowdStrike Invests in Abnormal Security and Launches New Partnership to Stop Breaches by Combining the Power of Behavioral AI with Industry-Leading XDR
CrowdStrike Falcon Fund Investment to Help Drive Protection Across the Broader Attack Surface AUSTIN, Texas & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CrowdStrike
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nCrowdStrike Falcon Fund Investment to Help Drive Protection Across the Broader Attack Surface\n\n AUSTIN, Texas & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nCrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a leader in cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data, today announced that its strategic investment vehicle, the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, has invested in Abnormal Security, the leading behavioral AI-based email security platform.\n\nAs part of the investment, CrowdStrike and Abnormal are also entering into a strategic technology partnership that integrates the CrowdStrike Falcon platform with the Abnormal platform to offer best-in-class email and endpoint attack detection and response with automated account remediation. As part of this partnership, Abnormal has also joined the CrowdXDR Alliance and the two companies will plan to bring an XDR integration to market.\n\n“As a former CISO responsible for protecting hundreds of thousands of employees, I observed that attacks were increasingly becoming multi-channel, and this trend has grown exponentially in recent years,” said Stephen Ward, Managing Director at Insight Partners. “It’s exciting to see two market leaders, Abnormal Security and CrowdStrike, come together to forge a strategic partnership and deliver a powerful XDR-driven integration. I’m confident that this partnership can help organizations stop sophisticated attacks across a broad surface area and allow security leaders to get the most from their current solutions.”\n\nThe initial technology integration between Abnormal and CrowdStrike delivers bi-directional threat detection and response. When the CrowdStrike Falcon platform detects risk, an account takeover case is automatically created within the Abnormal platform. Security analysts, or autonomous policies, take rapid action: forcing step-up authentication, logging out users, terminating sessions and even mandating a password reset. When Abnormal detects an email account compromise, a real-time alert automatically adds the targeted user to the Falcon Watched Users list for re-authentication and investigation.\n\n“Email and endpoint devices are highly-attacked entry points into an organization, and while rapid detection and response is key, it has been limited by the manual effort required to integrate siloed data from multiple solutions,” said Evan Reiser, ...