Complementary to our geopolitical and investment risk analysis, EuroAtlantic Associates offers CyberSecurity Intelligence & Solutions:
Organizations and executives have never been so exposed to threats from cyber attacks, ransomware. terrorism, or organized crime as today. EuroAtlantic Associates collaborates with CrowdStrike, the worlds leading CyberSecurity firm. In collaboration with CrowdStrike, we offer clients 360 Global Threat Intelligence, Malware Search, Incidence Response, Managed Threat Hunting and Endpoint Protection with th following solutions and products:
FALCON OVERWATCH
As Cyber Criminals and nation state adversaries do not limit their tactics to the use of malware and exploits, CrowdStrike Falcon Prevent provides a new generation of prevention features, capable of defeating new tools and techniques used by attackers and filling the gap left by legacy antivirus solutions that primarily focus on malware. The highly respected independent testing lab AV Comparatives has designated CrowdStrike Falcon as the industry's first "NGAV Approved" endpoint solution. These findings have been supported by top industry analysts.CROWDSTRIKE FALCON is RECOGNIZED AS LEGACY AV REPLACEMENT offering:
Falcon Prevent uniquely combines an array of powerful methods to provide prevention against the rapidly changing tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used by adversaries to breach organizations – including commodity malware, zero-day malware and even advanced malware-free attacks. Following the attack step by step, Falcon Prevent displays the entire event timeline surrounding detections in the form of a process tree, providing all the details and context necessary to fully understand what’s happening on the endpoint and take the appropriate remediation actions. Regardless of how advanced customer defenses are, there’s a chance that attackers will do an “end run” on any security solution and slip through to gain access to your environment. Conventional defenses don’t know and can’t see when this happens, resulting in “silent failure.” When silent failure occurs, it can allow attackers to dwell in your environment for days, weeks or even months without raising an alarm. The solution lies in continuous and comprehensive visibility into what is happening on your endpoints in real time. CrowdStrike Falcon Insight eliminates silent failure by providing the highest level of real-time monitoring capabilities that span across detection, response and forensics to ensure nothing is missed, leaving attackers with no place to hide. Falcon Insight provides organizations with state-of-the-art endpoint detection and response (EDR), following an approach recommended by top analyst firms such as Gartner. Gartner scored CrowdStrike as "strong" in all endpoint detection & response use cases evaluated in a comparative assessment report called Comparison of Endpoint Detection and Response Technologies and Solutions, published in 2016.* The use cases include:
THE POWER TO PREVENT SILENT FAILURE AND STOP BREACHES Falcon Insight relies on CrowdStrike’s revolutionary cloud-delivery architecture, providing a communications fabric unlike any other. Using an advanced graph data model, CrowdStrike Threat Graph™ collects and inspects event information in real time to prevent and detect attacks on customer endpoints. As part of the Falcon endpoint protection platform, Falcon Insight records all activities of interest on an endpoint for deeper inspection — on-the-fly and after-the-fact — allowing users to quickly detect, investigate and respond to attacks -- even those that evade standard prevention measures.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CROWDSTRIKE
Prior to starting CrowdStrike, the founders spent a year traveling the globe visiting the world’s largest organizations, listening to their security challenges. As the Worldwide CTO, and the Vice President of Threat Research (respectively) at one of the largest security vendors on the planet, they were both painfully aware that existing solutions were falling short, unable to meet the latest challenges in information security. The in-depth investigations they were conducting for customers who had been hacked — along with a glance at the headlines on any given day — confirmed what we already knew: Despite spending millions of dollars on the best security products and personnel available, major organizations were suffering devastating breaches, seemingly on a daily basis. And there was no “silver bullet” technology to offer that could keep our customers from becoming the next headline.
OLD SOLUTIONS FALLING SHORT: CrowdStrike realized that the nature of cyber security problems had changed radically, but the solutions had not. All of the major security providers were still relying on outdated 1990s architecture, and were myopically focused on stopping malware. But the problem was no longer just about the malware, it was about the adversaries themselves, and building technology capable of stopping them would require starting from scratch. This new breed of adversaries is extremely skilled, often well-funded, and utterly relentless. And they are able to simply outsmart and bypass malware-based defenses. In fact, malware is only responsible for four out of every 10 attacks. What about the other 60 percent? The real challenge going forward was about identifying these sophisticated adversaries — regardless of whether they were professional cyber criminals, nation-state actors, hactivists or malicious insiders — detecting their actions at the earliest possible stage of an attack, and actively preventing them from completing those attacks.
STARTING FROM SCRATCH: To solve the problem, CrowdStrike had to create a new endpoint protection platform from the ground up. Protecting endpoints was critical, because that’s where the data resides in any organization, and it’s exactly where these targeted attacks are focused. Once the endpoint is breached, adversaries can move laterally within your network with relative ease, and quietly siphon off your valuable data and intellectual property for months, sometimes years, without fear of detection. So CrowdStrike started designing a brand-new security architecture, one delivered entirely in the cloud. Companies already understood the benefits that Software as a Service (SaaS) provided in the form of CRM, HR, financial and other business-critical solutions, and it was high time that security adopted that model, too. Not only would cloud architecture drive down cost and complexity, it would allow us to effectively crowdsource threat information from around the world and provide instant “community immunity” to our customers. To collect endpoint data as efficiently as possible, and avoid the performance issues that plagued existing endpoint security offerings, CrowdStrike designed an extremely lightweight sensor that could be deployed rapidly and seamlessly across even the largest customer environments. Finally, by employing a cutting-edge Graph Data Model in the cloud, CrowdStrike could look at billions of individual endpoint events simultaneously and analyze them in real time, using a combination of highly advanced algorithms, machine learning and top-notch human intelligence to spot anomalies, identify patterns, and prevent attacks.
SOPHISTICATED PROBLEMS NEED SOPHISTICATED SOLUTIONS: This new platform, named Falcon, gives customers the unique ability to detect and prevent never-before-seen attacks while they are still in progress — protecting them against threats their conventional defenses couldn’t even see. It even gave rise to an entirely new science for detecting adversary activity before it’s too late. Instead of just relying on so-called indicators of compromise (IOCs) to determine whether a breach has already occurred, we are able to identify active indicators of attack (IOAs) to detect and curtail adversary activity before a breach.
Organizations and executives have never been so exposed to threats from cyber attacks, ransomware. terrorism, or organized crime as today. EuroAtlantic Associates collaborates with CrowdStrike, the worlds leading CyberSecurity firm. In collaboration with CrowdStrike, we offer clients 360 Global Threat Intelligence, Malware Search, Incidence Response, Managed Threat Hunting and Endpoint Protection with th following solutions and products:
FALCON OVERWATCH
- Processes more than 70 billion events per day
- Identifies and stops more than 15,000 breach attempts per year
- Identifies new threats in any environment and immediately shares the protection across the global CrowdStrike community
- Hunts ceaselessly across all industry verticals and geographies
As Cyber Criminals and nation state adversaries do not limit their tactics to the use of malware and exploits, CrowdStrike Falcon Prevent provides a new generation of prevention features, capable of defeating new tools and techniques used by attackers and filling the gap left by legacy antivirus solutions that primarily focus on malware. The highly respected independent testing lab AV Comparatives has designated CrowdStrike Falcon as the industry's first "NGAV Approved" endpoint solution. These findings have been supported by top industry analysts.CROWDSTRIKE FALCON is RECOGNIZED AS LEGACY AV REPLACEMENT offering:
- BETTER PROTECTION: Protects you against all threat vectors, not just malware - even when endpoints aren’t connected to the internet.
- IMMEDIATE TIME TO VALUE: Fully operational in seconds — no need for signatures, no need for fine-tuning, no need for costly infrastructure. Just unmatched prevention from the get-go.
- IMPROVED PERFORMANCE: Near-zero impact on the endpoint: from initial installation through ongoing day-to-day use.
Falcon Prevent uniquely combines an array of powerful methods to provide prevention against the rapidly changing tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used by adversaries to breach organizations – including commodity malware, zero-day malware and even advanced malware-free attacks. Following the attack step by step, Falcon Prevent displays the entire event timeline surrounding detections in the form of a process tree, providing all the details and context necessary to fully understand what’s happening on the endpoint and take the appropriate remediation actions. Regardless of how advanced customer defenses are, there’s a chance that attackers will do an “end run” on any security solution and slip through to gain access to your environment. Conventional defenses don’t know and can’t see when this happens, resulting in “silent failure.” When silent failure occurs, it can allow attackers to dwell in your environment for days, weeks or even months without raising an alarm. The solution lies in continuous and comprehensive visibility into what is happening on your endpoints in real time. CrowdStrike Falcon Insight eliminates silent failure by providing the highest level of real-time monitoring capabilities that span across detection, response and forensics to ensure nothing is missed, leaving attackers with no place to hide. Falcon Insight provides organizations with state-of-the-art endpoint detection and response (EDR), following an approach recommended by top analyst firms such as Gartner. Gartner scored CrowdStrike as "strong" in all endpoint detection & response use cases evaluated in a comparative assessment report called Comparison of Endpoint Detection and Response Technologies and Solutions, published in 2016.* The use cases include:
- Incident Data Search and Investigation
- Alert triage or Suspicious Activity Validation
- Suspicious Activity Detection
- Threat Hunting or Data Exploration
- Stopping Malicious Activity
THE POWER TO PREVENT SILENT FAILURE AND STOP BREACHES Falcon Insight relies on CrowdStrike’s revolutionary cloud-delivery architecture, providing a communications fabric unlike any other. Using an advanced graph data model, CrowdStrike Threat Graph™ collects and inspects event information in real time to prevent and detect attacks on customer endpoints. As part of the Falcon endpoint protection platform, Falcon Insight records all activities of interest on an endpoint for deeper inspection — on-the-fly and after-the-fact — allowing users to quickly detect, investigate and respond to attacks -- even those that evade standard prevention measures.
- Indicator of Attack (IOA) Behavioral Protection: Automatic detection of IOAs to identify attacker behavior and stop attacks, with prioritized alerts sent to Falcon web management console -- eliminating the need for time-consuming manual searches
- Real-Time Visibility: Complete oversight of security-related endpoint activity, allowing you to “shoulder surf” adversary activities, even when they try to breach your environment
- Five-Second Search: Discover and investigate current and historic endpoint activity — go back one second, one day, or even one year of activity — all at your fingertips.
- Insight and Intelligence: Events can be contextualized by threat intelligence, providing details on the attributed adversary and any other information known about the attack.
- Zero Impact on Endpoints: A cloud-delivered SaaS solution, Falcon Insight deploys in seconds with near zero impact on endpoint performance - even when analyzing, searching and investigating
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CROWDSTRIKE
Prior to starting CrowdStrike, the founders spent a year traveling the globe visiting the world’s largest organizations, listening to their security challenges. As the Worldwide CTO, and the Vice President of Threat Research (respectively) at one of the largest security vendors on the planet, they were both painfully aware that existing solutions were falling short, unable to meet the latest challenges in information security. The in-depth investigations they were conducting for customers who had been hacked — along with a glance at the headlines on any given day — confirmed what we already knew: Despite spending millions of dollars on the best security products and personnel available, major organizations were suffering devastating breaches, seemingly on a daily basis. And there was no “silver bullet” technology to offer that could keep our customers from becoming the next headline.
OLD SOLUTIONS FALLING SHORT: CrowdStrike realized that the nature of cyber security problems had changed radically, but the solutions had not. All of the major security providers were still relying on outdated 1990s architecture, and were myopically focused on stopping malware. But the problem was no longer just about the malware, it was about the adversaries themselves, and building technology capable of stopping them would require starting from scratch. This new breed of adversaries is extremely skilled, often well-funded, and utterly relentless. And they are able to simply outsmart and bypass malware-based defenses. In fact, malware is only responsible for four out of every 10 attacks. What about the other 60 percent? The real challenge going forward was about identifying these sophisticated adversaries — regardless of whether they were professional cyber criminals, nation-state actors, hactivists or malicious insiders — detecting their actions at the earliest possible stage of an attack, and actively preventing them from completing those attacks.
STARTING FROM SCRATCH: To solve the problem, CrowdStrike had to create a new endpoint protection platform from the ground up. Protecting endpoints was critical, because that’s where the data resides in any organization, and it’s exactly where these targeted attacks are focused. Once the endpoint is breached, adversaries can move laterally within your network with relative ease, and quietly siphon off your valuable data and intellectual property for months, sometimes years, without fear of detection. So CrowdStrike started designing a brand-new security architecture, one delivered entirely in the cloud. Companies already understood the benefits that Software as a Service (SaaS) provided in the form of CRM, HR, financial and other business-critical solutions, and it was high time that security adopted that model, too. Not only would cloud architecture drive down cost and complexity, it would allow us to effectively crowdsource threat information from around the world and provide instant “community immunity” to our customers. To collect endpoint data as efficiently as possible, and avoid the performance issues that plagued existing endpoint security offerings, CrowdStrike designed an extremely lightweight sensor that could be deployed rapidly and seamlessly across even the largest customer environments. Finally, by employing a cutting-edge Graph Data Model in the cloud, CrowdStrike could look at billions of individual endpoint events simultaneously and analyze them in real time, using a combination of highly advanced algorithms, machine learning and top-notch human intelligence to spot anomalies, identify patterns, and prevent attacks.
SOPHISTICATED PROBLEMS NEED SOPHISTICATED SOLUTIONS: This new platform, named Falcon, gives customers the unique ability to detect and prevent never-before-seen attacks while they are still in progress — protecting them against threats their conventional defenses couldn’t even see. It even gave rise to an entirely new science for detecting adversary activity before it’s too late. Instead of just relying on so-called indicators of compromise (IOCs) to determine whether a breach has already occurred, we are able to identify active indicators of attack (IOAs) to detect and curtail adversary activity before a breach.