Digital Frontier: CrowdStrike MDR Protects Against Cyber ​​Threats

As businesses relentlessly battle constant cyberthreats, CrowdStrike Inc.’s multi-faceted services are positioned to protect businesses from evolving threats by erecting perimeters along the digital frontier.

CrowdStrike’s Tom Etheridge discusses the evolution of MDR with theCUBE.

“Our work in services is to focus on two things,” said Tom Etheridge (pictured), global director of professional services at CrowdStrike. “One is the customer. Our job is to ensure that we are helping the client prevent breaches from happening in their environment, whether through effective incident response and forensic investigation work or through consulting and assessment and delivering some of the cybersecurity consulting experience to help customers to get better at detecting and responding to incidents that occur in their environment.”

Etheridge spoke with theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante and Rebecca Knight in Falconduring an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s live broadcast studio. They discussed new threats to the digital frontier, including insider attacks and renewed business email compromise schemes. (* Disclosure below.)

Managed detection and response evolves to secure the digital frontier

CrowdStrike pioneered Managed Detection and Response, a service rooted in the need to proactively defend against cyberattacks. The spirit behind the creation of MDR was the need for continuous, 24/7 monitoring. This is how the MDR service was born, which aims to stop attacks through rapid detection and remediation, with a special focus on identity, endpoints and cloud environments, according to Etheridge.

“On the MDR side in particular, we’ve been leveraging Charlotte AI and many of the tools we’ve built internally to leverage velocity, increasing the speed at which we’re able to triage incidents, to contextualize incidents with the intelligence that the company produces and to build and automate some of the runbooks that the team has built around remediation in particular,” he said.

This service allows CrowdStrike to act quickly when incidents arise, with response times typically within 62 minutes, according to Etheridge. Through continuous monitoring, CrowdStrike helps companies detect and stop cyber threats before they escalate.

“On the consulting side, we’re taking full advantage of what we’ve built into the product and what we announced this week in terms of the incident workbench capabilities that exist in the product today to make the analysts doing this investigative work much more efficient. . efficient,” he said.

Here’s the full video interview, part of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE Research’s coverage of Falcon:

(*Disclosure: CrowdStrike Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE.)

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