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CROWDSTRIKE MDR

CrowdStrike® Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, is redefining security for the cloud era with an endpoint protection platform built from the ground up to stop breaches. The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform’s single lightweight-agent architecture leverages cloud-scale artificial intelligence (AI) and offers real-time protection and visibility across the enterprise, preventing attacks on endpoints on or off the network. Powered by the proprietary CrowdStrike Threat Graph®, CrowdStrike Falcon correlates over 2.5 trillion endpoint-related events per week in real time from across the globe, fueling one of the world’s most advanced data platforms for security

 
  • Client:
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  • OEM:
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  • A leading SaaS Solutions Provider
  • Software Company
  • aviation industry
  • October 25th, 2020
  • Crowdstrike
  • Managed Detection & Response (MDR)

It is widely accepted that there is a chronic shortage of cybersecurity professionals and expertise across all industry sectors. It is a worldwide issue that is impacting organizations of all sizes. Organizations struggle to move beyond a preventive security stance to address the need for earlier detection, proactive threat hunting and a fast and effective response to threats on a 24/7 basis. Staffing and resourcing a dedicated security team that can achieve all of this may be feasible for larger organizations with the budgets to afford it, but most companies will find it a difficult proposition given their resource limitations.

Gartner Research lays out the goals of MDR in in its Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services, July 15, 2019: “The goal of MDR services is to rapidly identify and limit the impact of security incidents to customers. These services are focused on remote 24/7 threat monitoring, detection and targeted response activities. MDR providers may use a combination of host and network-layer technologies, as well as advanced analytics, threat intelligence, forensic data, and human expertise for investigation, threat hunting and response to detected threats.”*

They have difficulty fully implementing and properly configuring the technology they have acquired.

There are too many alerts and incidents daily. It takes time to successfully implement a program. Organizations don’t have the resources to properly remediate incidents. It is difficult to find and retain the necessary expertise.

WHAT ARE THE CORE ELEMENTS OF MDR?

The capabilities characterized within MDR are broad, and new attributes are emerging over time. Core elements of MDR fall into the following key categories:

DETECTION

  • INVESTIGATION
  • PRIORITIZATION
  • RESPONSE

Falcon Complete Falcon Complete undertakes all of the actions needed to respond to and remediate an incident. The team works to understand the nature of the alert, build a strategy to remediate with specific countermeasures, disrupt and eradicate attacks in progress, clean up a compromised endpoint and remove malware artifacts for further analysis.

Three reasons why customers choose

Crowdstrike over Traditional AV

Better Protection

CrowdStrike offers the ideal replacement for outdated legacy technology. CrowdStrike Falcon’s Threat Graph powered prevention and detection utilizes trillions of data points combined with machine learning, and behavioral analytics to protect customers against the entire threat lifecycle. Additionally, CrowdStrike’s team of elite, human threat hunters work 24/7, proactively searching for stealthy threats that technology alone cannot unearth.

Better Performance

CrowdStrike delivers protection via the single lightweight Falcon agent and cloud-native platform. Thousands of customers just like you choose CrowdStrike’s Falcon Platform to consolidate security products, eliminate agent bloat, and eradicate the unnecessary burden of on-premise infrastructure. Harnessing the power of big data and artificial intelligence reduces the frequency of incidents and time to remediation.

Immediate Value

Unlike legacy and infrastructure vendors, the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform delivers every feature and capability through a single agent which is deployed and managed from the cloud, protecting your users wherever they are, and giving you an immediate boost to your security posture. Built in the cloud, the Falcon Platform requires no scans, no reboots, no signatures, and eliminates complexity to stop breaches in any environment

How we replaced the existing AV with CrowdStrike

Install CrowdStrike in Detect Only Mode
It is not recommended to install CrowdStrike Falcon in prevention or blocking mode simultaneous with other AV solutions active on the endpoint. Instead, you can deploy CrowdStrike in detection only mode. This allows you to install CrowdStrike’s next generation AV solution on the endpoints without creating conflict with the existing Symantec solution for a seamless transition.
Uninstall the existing AV Agent
For an organization wide removal, Group Policy, SCCM, or other utilities will likely be used to remove the Symantec agent from the production environment. To remove existing AV Agent from an individual host, utilize the “Add/Remove Programs” feature in the Windows Control Panel. Select the existing AV Agent and then select the “uninstall” option that appears above the list of installed programs. A reboot after uninstall is recommended.
Enable Prevention Mode for CrowdStrike
To enable prevention mode, you have two options. You can edit your original, “detection only” policy to turn on preventions for all hosts under that policy. However, many organizations prefer a phased approach. We will walk through the phased approach by migrating systems to a second, prevention enabled policy. CrowdStrike’s cloud native platform delivers proven prevention capabilities.
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