CrowdStrike Inc. today announced the availability of Falcon Discover
for Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads. Falcon Discover provides
security, operations and development teams with detailed visibility and
extensive control over Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
instances, improving overall security posture.
As
today's enterprises continue to migrate their critical data and
implement hybrid centers to host workloads that are both on-premises and
on the cloud, maintaining security consistently is challenging. Today,
many organizations of all sizes lack security resources and are looking
for solutions that are easy to deploy, manage, and integrate.
Falcon
Discover allows organizations to quickly visualize existing Amazon EC2
deployments across all regions (including instances without an endpoint
security product installed) and subsequently monitors cloud trail logs
for any modifications to the environment. As a result, the customer has a
more complete picture of their networks and any systems or
applications, enabling centralized, automated management and improving
the organization's security posture.
"As
customers move workloads to the cloud, they need visibility and
consistency to effectively manage their systems and applications and
prevent threats," said Amol Kulkarni, senior vice president engineering
and product management of CrowdStrike. "As part of our cloud native
platform, Falcon Discover for AWS offers security teams a robust
solution with a simple deployment to give them unprecedented visibility
and enriched context improving their overall security posture."
Falcon
Discover highlights instances where there are security gaps and
provides rich context to analysts, enabling rapid response in the wake
of a security-related event faster and more efficiently.
Additionally, Falcon Discover for AWS provides the following benefits to customers:
- Consistent visibility over all instances and endpoints -
Provides organizations consistent visibility and control over endpoints
irrespective of whether they are running on-premises or as an Amazon
EC2 instance on AWS.
- Manage the unmanaged - Allows for security teams to efficiently identify unprotected and unmanaged assets.
- Enriched context - Assists analysts while triaging detections and provides additional context about the impacted system.
- Built in the cloud for the cloud -
As a cloud native application, Falcon Discover scales easily, instantly
deploying additional endpoint security onto any Amazon EC2 instance
with no hit to performance and no requirement to reboot.
- Simple availability -
Falcon Discover is available for procurement on AWS Marketplace,
simplifying the customer experience and allowing them to choose the size
and duration of their contract.
"We
are excited to see the launch of Falcon Discover for AWS, an innovative
endpoint security offering that complements AWS's native security
offerings, providing deeper visibility and control of workloads running
on AWS," said Terry Wise, global vice president of channels and
alliances, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "CrowdStrike has been a long
standing AWS collaborator delivering cloud based security offerings and
we are excited to see Falcon Discover launch today."
CrowdStrike
is the only next-generation vendor offering the full spectrum of
endpoint security capabilities - next-generation AV, endpoint detection
and response (EDR), managed threat hunting, IT hygiene, threat
intelligence and vulnerability management - fully delivered by a single
lightweight agent. CrowdStrike has pioneered the first fully cloud-based
endpoint protection platform with machine learning capabilities to
pinpoint and remediate known and unknown threats.
"Falcon
Discover not only helps managing AWS workloads, but also provides
better visibility into our systems and applications to detect and
prevent threats," said John Visneski, director, information security
& data protection officer, The Pokemon Company International. "The
deployment of Falcon Discover was one of the easiest rollouts we've ever
seen, and it's empowered our security teams with the additional
insights necessary to improve our overall security hygiene."
CrowdStrike
currently processes over 100 billion security events per day throughout
the world to offer security teams unprecedented threat telemetry, all
through one lightweight endpoint sensor. CrowdStrike continues to
significantly expand the capabilities of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform through
the addition of new cloud-native modules, like Falcon Discover for AWS,
to provide customers with a comprehensive solution.
Gain full access to CrowdStrike Falcon PreventTM on AWS Marketplace by starting your free trial today.