CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection and Falcon OverWatch add robust layers of defense by detecting identity-based attacks, suspicious authentication patterns and stealthy adversary movements. Together with Falcon Fusion SOAR’s automated responses — such as isolating endpoints or rolling back malicious changes — the Falcon platform provides unmatched visibility and comprehensive protection, disrupting ransomware campaigns before they can escalate.
The Falcon platform analyzes millions of endpoint telemetry data points in real time, detecting ransomware tactics like unauthorized encryption, credential misuse and anomalous behaviors. By focusing on indicators of attack, it identifies the methods and intent behind ransomware activity, including unknown and fileless variants. Volume shadow copy protection ensures recovery options remain intact, preventing the erasure or corruption of critical backup files.
- Predictive analytics: “CrowdStrike gathers a wide range of telemetry, pulling information from its broad customer base and its own extensive intelligence facilities, as well as from third parties, to gain insight and information. Human threat hunters then add additional intelligence and context, which is provided to customers to help them identify potential risk areas. This is bolstered by Charlotte AI, which helps make it easier for customers to query large data sets and simplify the building of threat responses.”
- Security ecosystem integration: “The CrowdStrike Marketplace offers an extensive set of integrations across a wide range of existing security tools, including SIEM, XDSR, cloud identity platforms, and email security, as well as IT service management tools like Jira and ServiceNow. This helps customers easily bring CrowdStrike into their existing security workflows.”
- Response automation: “CrowdStrike Falcon® Fusion SOAR enables organizations to build sophisticated responses to threats. It allows analysts to define end-to-end automated workflows with ease using an intuitive UI, prebuilt workflow templates and customized scripts to execute almost any action directly on protected endpoints.”
How CrowdStrike Stops Ransomware with the Falcon Platform
GigaOm also highlighted these CrowdStrike strengths:
The rising threat of ransomware demands immediate action from organizations of all sizes. When it comes to ransomware prevention, nobody does it better than CrowdStrike.
This GigaOm report is the latest independent report validating CrowdStrike’s leadership in ransomware prevention. Last year, CrowdStrike’s ransomware defense capabilities were tested by SE Labs against highly sophisticated ransomware scenarios. For the second consecutive year, CrowdStrike achieved a 100% ransomware prevention rate, earning a perfect score and reinforcing our position as the market leader.
CrowdStrike Protects Customers Against Ransomware
CrowdStrike delivers industry-leading ransomware protection through the Falcon platform, which combines AI-powered threat detection, behavior-based analytics, identity protection and proactive threat hunting from CrowdStrike Falcon® Adversary OverWatch. This integrated approach stops ransomware at every stage, from initial delivery to lateral movement and privilege escalation — tactics attackers use to navigate networks and identify vulnerable targets.
GigaOm noted in its report that a broad platform approach is often required to protect customers from ransomware — and CrowdStrike delivers. “CrowdStrike offers a broad security platform that covers endpoint protection, identity protection, cloud security, IT automation, next-gen SIEM and more. [The] Falcon platform enables comprehensive ransomware detection, prevention, and protection,” the report states.
With results like these, it’s clear the Falcon platform continues to deliver unmatched protection and set the standard for comprehensive ransomware defense.
Additional Resources
- Dive deeper into CrowdStrike’s unique approach to ransomware prevention.
- It all starts with endpoint security.
- Get started with a 15-day free trial of the Falcon platform.
- Learn how Falcon Go can help small businesses prevent ransomware attacks.
