Indian IT services company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and US cybersecurity company CrowdStrike on Wednesday announced a partnership to power TCS' Extended Managed Detection and Response (XMDR) services with the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon XDR platform.
This partnership will enable TCS to leverage the integrated protection of the Falcon platform and incorporate cloud security and next-generation SIEM to enable AI-powered SOC transformation to effectively prevent breaches.
Today's cyberattacks are becoming more complex, and organizations need results-based security protection focused on stopping breaches. With cloud intrusions increasing by 75% in the past year, time to intrusion measured in minutes, and the cybersecurity skills gap widening, managed security solutions are helping customers protect their critical assets. It serves as the power multiplier you need to protect and securely drive your digital transformation efforts. The combination of TCS' global team of experts and the Falcon platform's CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM is expected to provide customers with the protection they need to stop breaches.
Ganesa Subramanian Vaikuntam, Vice President and Global Head of Cybersecurity Business Group at TCS, said: “TCS has been partnering with enterprises around the world to protect their businesses for more than 20 years. As attack surfaces evolve, enterprises rely on protecting their digital core with robust cybersecurity to grow and innovate. Our partnership with CrowdStrike strengthens our ability to provide our customers with strong cyber defenses and protect them from the latest and most sophisticated cyber threats.”
said Daniel Barnard, CrowdStrike's chief business officer. “The Falcon platform has set a global standard and is the AI platform of choice for cybersecurity for enterprises and their trusted delivery partners. This partnership brings CrowdStrike even closer to its customers and brings TCS’ large global footprint Now you can modernize, innovate, and standardize on the Falcon platform.
In November, TCS launched an artificial intelligence-based cybersecurity and compliance platform. The platform, called Cyber Insights, is built on Amazon Security Lake with TCS' expertise in managed detection and response to help customers consolidate security datasets across clouds and environments. Indeed, Amazon Security Lake, launched in November 2022, is a purpose-built security data lake for customers to aggregate and store their data.
