CrowdStrike planned to acquire Adaptive Shield. a startup that helps companies protect the data they keep in cloud applications. The deal’s financial terms were not disclosed, and the acquisition expected to be completed in Q1-2025.
CrowdStrike, as all know, is a cybersecurity provider with an installed base of more than 30,000 organizations. Adaptive Shield provides a cybersecurity platform for protecting software-as-a-service applications. The software scans such applications for vulnerabilities, misconfigured accounts, and malicious activity.
With the adpation of cloud applications, users use their Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 accounts. While sign-up, an application can gain access to the files associated with an account, which is a risk. Adaptive Shield platform automates the task of uncovering such risks to save time for administrators.
- The platform also detects when a company doesn’t enable an application’s malware detection features or uses weak passwords.
- The platform spots any employee accounts that having access to more data than is strictly necessary.
- It has a breach detection engine built into the platform monitors for attempts by hackers to access a company’s cloud applications. After spotting malicious activity, it generates a summary of the breach tactics.
- The platform ranks the risks it finds by severity. It generates remediation suggestions to guidance administrators through the breach response process.
- Adaptive Shield’s risk detection engine analyzes the security posture of the devices with which a company’s employees access those applications.
Adaptive Shield relies on CrowdStrike’s flagship Falcon platform to power some of its device security features. It uses the Falcon to determine which employee uses what endpoint and find vulnerable systems. This existing integration should make it easier for CrowdStrike to integrate Adaptive Shield into its product portfolio.
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