CrowdStrike launches comprehensive Falcon next-gen identity security

CrowdStrike, a leader in cyber security, has introduced its latest offering: the CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen Identity Security. This pioneering solution is tailored to protect a range of identities—human, non-human, and AI agents—across the entire hybrid identity lifecycle effectively and efficiently.

Delivered without the usual integration hitches, this AI-native platform secures identities in on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments, thus eliminating security vulnerabilities and replacing fragmented controls. The unified platform holistically integrates modern privileged access management (PAM), identity threat detection, SaaS identity security, and more—a strategy aimed at preventing identity-driven breaches diverse domains.

The need for trusted identity security has never been more pressing, as demonstrated in the words of Mike Sentonas, president of CrowdStrike. In today's unpredictable enterprise landscape, identities evolve dynamically, spanning users, machines, and AI agents across hybrid environments. The Falcon platform adeptly manages this intricacy with the speed, scale and precision organisations require to thwart modern identity attacks.

Adversaries focus on identities as their primary route to compromise organisations, exploiting a spectrum of identities including human users, non-human service accounts, SaaS credentials, and AI agents. These AI agents, representing 'superhuman' identities, increase the attack surface, offering more access and opportunity for attackers to move fast, often faster than defenders can react. This exploitation facilitates cross-domain incursions across endpoints, identity, cloud, and SaaS, leaving organisations relying on traditional IAM tools exposed.

Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security mitigates these risks with continuous protection across the spectrum of identity types and environments. It bridges the security gaps adversaries exploit, combining initial access prevention with autonomous threat analysis via its agentic AI capabilities culminating in a robust defence strategy against identity-based attacks.

The solution empowers organisations with real-time visibility and dynamic access enforcement, anchoring its identity security enhancement on a unified platform that streamlines the traditionally fragmented process. CrowdStrike’s approach promises rapid deployment and immediate value, without waiting for integrations or grappling with security gaps common in multi-vendor solutions.

Core Capabilities of Falcon

• Initial Access Prevention: Utilises real-time signals and industry-leading threat intelligence to dynamically authenticate identities, blocking threats pre-emptively.
• Modern Privileged Access Management: Enforces just-in-time access, dynamically suiting real-time risk to safeguard systems effectively.
• Identity Threat Detection and Response: Taps into cross-domain telemetry and agentic AI for real-time threat detection and policy enforcement.
• SaaS Identity Security: Manages misconfigurations, flags risky behaviours, and governs access for diverse identity types across cloud-first apps.

Delivered via the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, this new solution integrates seamlessly, offering comprehensive protection in real-time for every identity across every domain, strengthening organisations' identity security posture effortlessly.