TechValidate Research on CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection


CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection Case Study

Medium Enterprise Banking Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise banking company is based on a July 2023 survey of CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Our security program objectives are to modernize the overall security posture and to implement a platform that we can scale.”

Challenges

What were the biggest challenges and use cases that you were facing before implementing the CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection solution?

  • Keeping up with advanced adversary tactics leveraging valid credentials
  • Unable to confidently detect and stop lateral movement
  • Unable to demonstrate ransomware readiness to the board

Which vendors did you evaluate before ultimately choosing CrowdStrike?

  • SentinelOne
  • Rapid7

Use Case

Why did you choose CrowdStrike’s identity protection solution over the others?

  • Faster time-to-value
  • Instant visibility into all accounts (human, service, and privileged) and their security posture
  • Ability to reduce cost and operational complexity

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection:

  • How is CrowdStrike’s identity protection solution helping you secure your organization?
    • Continuously assess and maintain AD hygiene
    • Detect and prevent suspicious privileged access activities
    • Detect and stop service account misuse, like interactive logins and lateral movement
    • Stop modern attacks such as ransomware and supply chain threats
  • Please rate the following capabilities of CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection compared to the competition:
    • Deployment Speed: Better
    • Ease of Use: Equal
    • Time-to-Value: Better
    • Scalability: Significantly Better
    • Integrations: Significantly Better
    • Actionable Insights: Significantly Better
    • Detection Accuracy of Identity Incidents: Significantly Better
    • Threat Hunting: Significantly Better




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection by TechValidate.

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