CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, and Ping Identity have announced a new project to provide critical infrastructure defense for organizations and their users. The technology-driven approach to this joint venture combines CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform—a cloud-delivered endpoint protection solution—with Cloudflare’s global Network and Ping Identity for secure identity and access management. By integrating these three elements, the companies can provide joint customers with advanced defense capabilities, including multi-layered visibility into user activities, enhanced attack detection and response capabilities, and cohesive enforcement of access policies.
Through this Project, the companies offer organizations comprehensive protection during breaches while providing continuing assurance through threat detection and prevention measures that keep emerging threats away from vital systems. This includes everything from strengthening authentication with risk rules engine automation to exposing malicious activity quickly through user behavior analytics to anticipate threats with greater accuracy. Furthermore, the ability to rapidly alert security teams when an incident is detected keeps malicious actors at bay even after gaining access.
The collaboration between CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, and Ping Identity brings together an innovative combination of technologies that leverage real-time machine learning algorithms as well as automated threat-hunting capabilities to protect against today’s more sophisticated cybersecurity threats such as APTs (advanced persistent threats) or fileless attacks that rely on obfuscated code in memory rather than on disk or other tangible evidence. With the full suite of risk analysis tools integrated into the Falcon platform for endpoint protection as a core function within this latest offering from CrowdStrikeTM—this joint venture has developed an organized system for defending against cyberattacks.
CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Ping Identity Announce Critical Infrastructure Defense Project
Ping Identity, CrowdStrike, and Cloudflare have announced a joint project to protect critical infrastructure from cyber threats. The Project will use CrowdStrike’s Falcon Platform and Cloudflare’s Network to defend against advanced threats.
This Project will leverage a combination of technologies to provide the best security possible for critical infrastructure. We will discuss this Project and its components in this article.
CrowdStrike’s Falcon Platform
CrowdStrike’s Falcon Platform provides advanced endpoint protection, including unparalleled device, application, Network, and cloud traffic and activities coverage. It enables telemetry collection to detect malicious process and file activity and provide visibility into network user traffic to detect suspicious remotely sourced IP address connection attempts. The platform also allows monitoring of inbound and outbound external communications for threat behavior or compliance violations. In addition, CrowdStrike’s Falcon Platform provides a comprehensive threat intelligence database to quickly identify known malicious domains, indicators of compromise (IoCs), malware, and vulnerability data.
Cloudflare’s Network is a content delivery network (CDN) that offers secure global delivery solutions for websites. Cloudflare’s CDN can ensure websites are available even during large-scale DDoS attacks that attempt to take down a website by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources. Additionally, Cloudflare’s Network features automated caching services that can help keep websites running quickly, even during periods of high demand.
When integrated, CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform with Cloudflare’s Network creates a security solution by delivering reliable protection against cyber threats without compromising latency or performance. This integrated solution can help organizations better protect their critical infrastructure while detecting real-time threats on endpoints and communication channels. Furthermore, this integrated solution offers additional benefits such as reducing false positives using crowd intelligence-based solutions, creating unified managed protection which allows enterprises to respond more quickly when under attack, enhancing event aggregation & correlation across the entire ecosystem landscape within a single pane of glass view functionality & gaining access to traditionally expensive security services such as quality 24x7x365 support at an affordable cost model that scales with each organization’s changing IT environment needs.
Cloudflare’s Network
Cloudflare’s Network is a global content delivery network (CDN) that provides secure, reliable and lightning-fast access to web applications, APIs and websites. It helps increase performance, improve the user experience and protect against malicious attacks from outside sources. By using Cloudflare’s Network, customers can reduce page load times and latency as well as protect their infrastructures from DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks.
The partnership between Cloudflare and Ping Identity to create the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project involves the integration of CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform with Cloudflare’s Network. The Falcon platform includes a series of security sensors that detect malicious activities on cloud networks in real time. The integration will allow users to take advantage of increased visibility into their applications and communicate potential threats when they occur. Furthermore, customers will also benefit from shared threat intelligence through the collaborative efforts between Cloudflare and Ping Identity to identify malicious actors before an event happens. This will enable them to more quickly identify threats before they cause damage or disruption to critical infrastructure assets while also helping organizations better defend against advanced threats such as APTs (advanced persistent threats).
The partnership between CrowdStrike, Ping Identity and Cloudflare builds upon their prior collaboration in creating the Unified Risk & Security Posture Platform (URSPP), which combines identity authentication with endpoint protection technology for stronger security posture. Leveraging best-in-class technologies provided by three industry leaders enables customers to use a consolidated suite for identity access management, endpoint protection, risk management, intelligence analysis, and application security testing – all in one platform – reducing costs associated with multiple providers while increasing agility at the same time.
Ping Identity’s Identity Platform
Ping Identity, a leader in identity and access management (IAM), is partnering with CrowdStrike and Web security platform Cloudflare to offer critical infrastructure defense via the cloud. The Project includes Ping Identity’s IAM platform, Cloudflare’s Network, and CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform.
The IAM platform provides secure access control across different applications, services, and technologies that can be used in complex network configurations. It helps organizations manage user identities and enforce logical access controls based on role policy. The system also helps organizations manage user authentication across all their services effectively by providing single sign on (SSO) capabilities. It works in tandem with the Cloudflare Network to provide more effective logins, mitigating the risk of credential stuffing attacks.
CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform combines network protection tools with endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities to help protect against malicious actors trying to gain access or disrupt business operations via malicious files or code vulnerabilities. By leveraging the latest cloud technology, it further enables increased visibility for cybersecurity professionals into potential threats lurking within the organization’s digital ecosystems. Together with Cloudflare’s web security tools—such as built-in DDoS protection—the Project provides a greater layer of security for companies’ crucial infrastructure assets throughout its network applications.
Benefits of the Project
CrowdStrike, Cloudflare and Ping Identity have announced a new project to enhance security and protect critical infrastructure.
The Project will utilize CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform and Cloudflare’s Network and will focus on providing higher levels of security and protection against cyberattacks.
In this article, we will discuss the advantages of this Project and how it can help protect against cyber threats.
Improved Security & Visibility
The joint venture between CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, and Ping Identity will deliver a multi-layered defense system designed to protect critical infrastructure. By integrating CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform and Cloudflare’s global Network with Ping Identity’s security solutions, the new Project will bring improved visibility and security to organizations worldwide.
The Falcon platform will provide real-time endpoint protection, threat monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response services and more. This potent combination of technologies will enable customers to detect threats quickly, accurately identify malicious actors and act on incidents immediately. Additionally, Cloudflare’s expansive global Network will serve as part of an enhanced breach prevention system that includes layer seven application security, distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, sandboxing and DNS filtering. These technologies work in tandem to detect malicious network activity and help prevent unauthorized access from external sources.
Lastly, Ping Identity’s identity-centric software suite offers users secure access to applications so organizations can focus their energy on more pressing matters than managing usernames and passwords for every application in use externally or internally by the organization’s employees. This includes advanced analytics capabilities such as anomaly detection technology that can detect suspicious activity the second it occurs. By using machine learning to detect behavioral patterns from user activities like logins or failed logins attempts at an abnormal rate during unusual times of day or other sudden changes in behavior over time; businesses are able to gain valuable insights into any suspicious user accounts right away so they can take immediate action if necessary allow for quick threat mitigation against sophisticated adversaries.
With improved security & visibility provided through integrated solutions from CrowdStrike®, Cloudflare® & Ping Identify®, businesses can be reassured that their systems are secure without having to bear all of the burden themselves allowing them greater peace of mind knowing their investments are being protected from potential malicious events.
Automated Response and Remediation
The Project leverages the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, Cloudflare’s Network, and Ping Identity’s authentication services to automate response and remediation when malicious or unauthorized activities occur. This provides real-time visibility into security events, automatically blocking suspicious behavior, and securely distributing countermeasures. The automated response includes response policy rules built into the Falcon Platform that trigger alerts and protections when malicious activity is detected in a customer’s environment. These policies provide critical infrastructure protection by continually monitoring for risk levels and providing an automated, unified defense across the entire IT environment.
The Project also offers a complete set of data analytics tools to assess threats, prioritize asset protection strategies, identify anomalous user behaviour, track application usage trends and detect abnormal system activities. By leveraging powerful AI and machine learning algorithms on collected threat data across the enterprise environment, enterprise security operations centre (SOC) teams can better assess risks and uncover emerging adversaries in real time. In addition to collecting threat intelligence from customers’ environments for continuous risk management analysis — data gathered from analytics can be directly used by SOC teams to investigate incidents faster.
The collaboration between CrowdStrike, Cloudflare and Ping Identity provides a comprehensive solution that helps customers respond quickly to existing threats using advanced technologies such as cloud-based behavioral anomaly detection algorithms from CrowdStrike and Cloudflare’s global DDoS protection network. Organizations can benefit from enhanced security operations center capabilities for incident response decisions driven by user profile attribute conditions combined with multi-factor authentication services provided by Ping Identity. With this solution in place, organizations are better able to protect IT infrastructure with an automated framework designed specifically for critical environments that minimizes exposure to potential attacks while being capable of responding quickly if they happen before they cause too much harm.
Enhanced Collaboration and Interoperability
The joint Project between CrowdStrike, Cloudflare and Ping Identity has been set up to provide greater collaboration between organizations responsible for securing critical infrastructure. The Project merges the advanced cloud reporting capabilities of CrowdStrike’s Falcon Platform with the scalability and performance of Cloudflare’s Network and the identity management capabilities from Ping Identity.
This merger of technologies provides a comprehensive security platform that’s designed to enable an organization to quickly identify security threats even before they occur. Additionally, this enhanced collaboration and interoperability between critical infrastructure teams will allow them to better detect, investigate, remove and analyze security incidents. The platform is also expected to result in greater visibility into threat trends as well as improved cross-team communication.
By leveraging the unique combination of capabilities across these three companies, users will benefit from integrated threat detection; a unified view for threat hunting; faster incident response times; better security compliance; and enhanced proactive defense mechanisms against attacks from malicious actors such as nation states or organized crime groups. In addition, customers can now easily detect signs of compromise within their networks through improved network segmentation analysis and continuous monitoring.
Conclusion
The Project to secure critical infrastructure using CrowdStrike Falcon Platform and Cloudflare’s Network is an important step toward having a secure and resilient Internet accessible service.
Through integrating both solutions, this initiative opens the door for organizations of all sizes to improve their security posture by increasing visibility into their networks, leveraging artificial intelligence-driven threat detection, and utilizing a powerful cloud security platform.
Working with long-standing industry leaders such as Ping Identity adds an extra layer of identity access management to guarantee operational integrity for the solution. As technology continues to evolve and cyber risks increase, partnerships such as this are essential for creating a secure foundation for tomorrow’s digital future.