CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has unveiled a significant expansion of its integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) during AWS re:Invent 2024, enhancing security for end-to-end AI innovation in the cloud. By leveraging the power of the CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform, organizations can now accelerate their AI development on AWS with comprehensive visibility and robust security across the entire AI ecosystem, from large language models (LLMs) to advanced applications.
As AI and cloud adoption surge, organizations encounter increasing risks, including data tampering, AI model poisoning, and cloud misconfigurations. To address these challenges, CrowdStrike delivers cutting-edge solutions to secure the entire software development lifecycle—from building and runtime environments to posture management—ensuring that AI deployments and sensitive data on AWS remain protected. AWS itself relies on CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform to safeguard its infrastructure across a vast attack surface, encompassing code, cloud, devices, and data. The expanded capabilities, including AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM), Falcon Data Protection, and AI Red Team Services, position CrowdStrike as a leader in securing the infrastructure driving the AI revolution.
Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer of CrowdStrike, emphasized the collaboration’s impact: “Global organizations increasingly build their cloud business and drive AI innovation using AWS – and secure it all with CrowdStrike. As AWS’s cybersecurity platform of choice, we’re advancing protection across every attack path in the cloud, accelerating secure AI innovation and stopping identity-based attacks.”
AI Container Scanning and SageMaker Enhancements
CrowdStrike has introduced innovative AI container scanning and enhanced support for Amazon SageMaker within Falcon® Cloud Security. These advancements empower organizations to detect vulnerabilities and misconfigurations during the build phase, securing AI workloads before they reach deployment. With the extended support for Amazon SageMaker, data scientists and developers gain a secure and seamless environment to build, train, and deploy machine learning models. By integrating these new capabilities, CrowdStrike enables organizations to confidently navigate every stage of the software development lifecycle while safeguarding sensitive data and maintaining compliance.
Falcon Identity Protection Integrates with AWS IAM Identity Center
CrowdStrike’s Falcon® Identity Protection now integrates with AWS IAM Identity Center, offering a unified view of identities along with advanced threat detection and response capabilities to counter cloud-based identity attacks. This integration complements existing protections for on-premises Active Directory and cloud-based identity providers such as Okta and Microsoft Entra ID. With CrowdStrike’s recent acquisition of Adaptive Shield, the platform will soon extend its protection to include SaaS applications, further solidifying its role as a comprehensive security solution.
By combining its unparalleled expertise in cloud security with AWS’s robust platform, CrowdStrike empowers organizations to securely harness the transformative potential of AI, driving innovation while mitigating risks.
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