Google Cloud has partnered with CrowdStrike to leverage the CrowdStrike Falcon platform and Google Cloud Security Operations to strengthen cybersecurity through Mandiant's incident response (IR) and managed detection response (MDR) services.
Google Cloud strengthens partnership with CrowdStrike
This collaboration leverages CrowdStrike's endpoint detection and response (EDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and exposure management solutions.
A 75% increase in cloud intrusions over the past year highlights the urgency for effective cybersecurity solutions. As CrowdStrike claims, attackers are becoming increasingly nimble, infiltrating customer environments within minutes.
Therefore, the company noted that addressing these modern threats requires an intuitively managed security approach that simplifies complexity and empowers security and DevOps teams.
The partnership aims to help customers stop breaches across diverse cloud environments by combining AI-driven Google Cloud services with Google Cloud's Security Operations Platform and CrowdStrike's advanced protection capabilities.
Daniel Bernard, CrowdStrike's chief business officer, argued that his company's technology is essential to stopping breaches at critical moments of attack.
He emphasized that CrowdStrike's single-platform, single-agent architecture provides superior protection with very easy and quick deployment.
Bernard sees the expanded partnership with Google Cloud as a transformative step in cybersecurity.
This enables Mandiant's incident response and managed detection and response services to leverage Falcon alongside Google Cloud's security operations platform, incorporating top-level technology and expert insights to deliver critical breach prevention. functionality to your organization.
This collaboration spans Google Chronicle, the hyperscale security operations platform, Mandiant Managed Defense, and the deployment of CrowdStrike Falcon in support of Mandiant Consulting.
“CrowdStrike has been a strategic technology partner for both Mandiant and Google Cloud for many years,” said Dom Delfino, vice president of global sales for Google Cloud Security, in a press release.
“Collaboration across Google Cloud Security with enhanced threat intelligence sharing, tight integration between CrowdStrike and Google Chronicle, hyperscale security operations platform and Mandiant Managed Defense, and the ability to deploy CrowdStrike Falcon to support Mandiant Consulting. I'm excited to deepen this.”
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