CrowdStrike introduces AI-powered Indicators of Attack for its Falcon Platform

CrowdStrike, a provider of cloud-delivered endpoint, cloud workload, identity, and data protection, unveiled the industry’s first AI-powered Indicators of Attack (IoAs), as well as new innovations for fileless attack prevention at scale and enhanced visibility for stealthy cloud intrusions.

These new detection and response capabilities, delivered on the CrowdStrike Falcon platform and powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud, stop emerging attack techniques and enable organizations to optimize the threat detection and response lifecycle with speed, scale, and accuracy.

CrowdStrike invented IoAs more than a decade ago, ushering in a fundamentally new approach to stopping breaches based on real adversary behavior, regardless of the malware or exploit used in an attack. CrowdStrike has also pushed the boundaries of using AI in cybersecurity to detect and prevent the most advanced and emerging threats. CrowdStrike is now using advanced AI techniques to generate new IoAs at machine speed and scale.

The Falcon platform’s new capabilities include:

Industry’s first AI-powered IoAs

Organizations are under increasing pressure to defend their expanding attack surfaces against emerging threats and adversary tactics. Organizations can use the Falcon platform to:

• Detect new classes of attacks, faster than ever: Find emerging attack techniques with new IoAs created by continuously learning AI models trained on real-world adversary behavior and the world’s richest threat intelligence.
• Drive automated prevention with high-fidelity detections: Shutdown attacks based on a chain of behaviors, irrespective of the specific malware or tools used, with cloud-native AI models constantly delivered to the Falcon agent with newly-found IoAs.
• Activate IoAs at cloud scale, trained on human-led expertise: Synthesize insights with AI-powered IoAs from CrowdStrike’s world-renowned threat hunting team to minimize false positives, maximize analyst productivity and deploy threat hunting at scale.

Notably, AI-powered IoAs have discovered over 20 previously unseen adversary patterns that have been validated by experts and implemented on the Falcon platform for automated detection and prevention.

New innovations for fileless attack prevention at scale

According to CrowdStrike’s Global Threat Report for 2022, 62 percent of all attacks are malware-free. These fileless attacks can be executed entirely in memory, exposing a vulnerability for threat actors to exploit. Organizations can use the Falcon platform to:

• Prevent the most advanced fileless attacks: Stop advanced persistent threats (APT) and prevalent tools, like Cobalt Strike, with advanced memory scanning techniques that augment best-of-breed AI/ML and IoA detections with lightning fast scanning of all memory at unprecedented scale.
• Leave bloated memory scanning behind: Shed the heavy resource constraints of legacy approaches that made memory scanning a non-starter with high-performance memory scanning techniques, optimized for Intel CPU/GPUs.
• Initiate memory scans on behavior, not a fixed schedule: Automate scans with behavior-based triggers to find and stop fileless attack patterns in real time, not after a potential breach.

Enhanced visibility for stealthy cloud intrusions

As Linux environments, data, and applications have moved to the cloud, adversaries have followed to open backdoors, steal sensitive data, and hide their movements. Organizations can use the Falcon platform to:

• Hunt stealthy rootkits and reduce dwell time: Identify malicious activity early in the kill chain with deep Linux kernel visibility to fuel threat hunting and investigation of hidden, emerging Linux attacks.
• Bolster managed cloud threat hunting: Disrupt the most sophisticated threats in cloud environments with new kernel telemetry events for Falcon OverWatch experts, building on CrowdStrike’s recently announced Falcon OverWatch Cloud Threat Hunting service.

“Using CrowdStrike sets Cundall apart as one of the more advanced organizations in an industry that typically lags behind other sectors in IT and cybersecurity adoption,” said Lou Lwin, CIO at Cundall. “Today, attacks are becoming more sophisticated and if they are machine-based attacks, there is no way an operator can keep up. The threat landscape is ever-changing. So, you need machine-based defenses and a partner that understands security is not ‘one and done.’ It is evolving all the time.”

According to Forrester, “No security tool can detect every attack. Cybersecurity pits adversaries against defenders. Defensive technologies rely on rules, heuristics, and outliers to find evil. Those technologies lack one essential component that threat hunting introduces: the creativity of the practitioners defending enterprise environments.”

Please visit www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-platform/ for more information on the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.