Perfect Scores in Key Categories
2. Integrated Threat Intelligence: “Falcon Cloud Security integrates CrowdStrike’s threat intelligence, tracking 245+ adversaries and processing 800,000 new indicators of compromise monthly. This automates threat investigation and delivers actionable intelligence reporting, making insights instantly accessible within analysts’ workflows.”
3. Lifecycle Security Management: “Falcon Cloud Security offers comprehensive protection from code to cloud, covering the entire application development lifecycle. It seamlessly integrates with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools for continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, runtime protection, and automated compliance enforcement across applications, cloud service providers, and IT.”
The report highlights several strengths of CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security:
CrowdStrike has advanced its container security capabilities to protect cloud-native applications over the past three years. Notable innovations include:
The categories in which CrowdStrike received a 5/5 rating are: Integrated Threat Intelligence, Lifecycle Security Management, Registry Scanning & Monitoring, Flexibility, Management, Interoperability and Scalability. CrowdStrike is clearly focused on delivering the innovative and reliable cloud security solutions that customers need.
1. Contextual Risk Analysis: “Falcon Cloud Security combines CVSS scores with critical business context, including sensitive data location and active exploitation in the wild. Its AI-driven risk scoring considers factors such as asset criticality, severity of risk, probability of attack, and business impact, providing complete business and application context for detected drifts that allow teams to prioritize their criticality effectively.”
Recent Container Security Innovations from CrowdStrike
Taken together, these strengths translate into effective cloud breach protection that thousands of CrowdStrike customers rely on. Customers especially value the ability to prioritize the most relevant threats to their environment in real time and easily stop those threats in one platform covering the entire application lifecycle.
GigaOm also named CrowdStrike a Fast Mover in its report. A GigaOm Fast Mover refers to a company or technology that is identified as making significant progress and innovation within a specific market segment, indicating a relatively high rate of development and advancement compared to others in the same category.
- AWS Fargate Support: Enhances rogue container detection and drift prevention in Amazon ECS environments.
- Software Composition Analysis: Identifies and remediates vulnerabilities in open-source code across multiple programming languages.
- Expanded Image Registry Scanning: Supports eight additional container registries for broader threat detection.
- Falcon Container Sensor: Secures Kubernetes workloads with runtime threat detection and policy enforcement.
- Container Image Assessment: Detects malware, vulnerabilities and configuration issues during the build process.
