CrowdStrike Announces Falcon Horizon Support for Google Cloud and Extends Cloud Security

CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint and workload protection, announced Falcon Horizon support for Google Cloud environments, extending its Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution to protect the three largest cloud providers. Organizations with a multi-cloud strategy can now have an end-to-end solution for security posture management and cloud workload protection from the same security vendor.

“In the past year, digital transformation has been accelerated by remote workforce mandates and the current hybrid work environments that many companies have implemented. As a result, public cloud providers have become the go-to resource for making this transformation a reality,” said Amol Kulkarni, chief product officer at CrowdStrike. “Organizations now face the challenge of securing their workloads across their cloud environments. Falcon Horizon provides control plane indicators of attack (IOAs) for Google Cloud, enabling CSPM to go beyond misconfiguration and deliver a single source of unparalleled protection, real-time monitoring and end-to-end control across workloads and hybrid-cloud environments.”

“The shift to cloud provides enterprises the opportunity to transform their security with greater insight and integrated operations,”  said Sunil Potti, Vice President and General Manager of Google Cloud Security.  “We have already seen great momentum from our strategic partnership with CrowdStrike and this extended support from CrowdStrike Falcon Horizon for Google Cloud will give our joint customers the visibility and protection needed  to stay ahead of the adversaries.”

CrowdStrike’s Falcon Horizon for Google Cloud provides comprehensive visibility and security across the control plane of private, public, hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Leveraging the vast telemetry of the CrowdStrike Security Cloud, Falcon Horizon for Google Cloud provides security teams real-time alerting and reporting on indicators of misconfiguration and attack (IOMs and IOAs) for over 150 adversaries. It also defines behavior-based tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) and guided remediation across the corporate cloud estate, enabling security teams to better discern and more quickly identify the misconfigurations and vulnerabilities that adversaries are most likely to target.

CrowdStrike Falcon Horizon for Google Cloud benefits also include:

• Continuous discovery and visibility of cloud-native assets, providing valuable context and insights into the overall security posture and actions required to prevent potential security incidents.
• Cloud misconfiguration and compliance violation prevention through real-time monitoring of cloud resources to detect and prevent misconfigurations and control plane threats before they impact business.
• Targeted threat prevention that enables security teams to gain visibility and prioritize threats to take immediate action against. Falcon Horizon continuously monitors for anomalies and suspicious activity across the control plane and correlates these insights with misconfigurations, to accelerate response and optimize business performance.
• CrowdStrike’s Confidence Scoring enables organizations to continuously aggregate, assess and score cloud control plane threats and configurations to accurately identify malicious activity and more quickly take action against critical threats.

Google Cloud recently joined as an initial member of the CrowdXDR Alliance and the companies are partnering on the Work Safer program to protect organizations from increasing cybersecurity threats in the hybrid work environment. The existing partnership between the two companies also includes integrations for CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform and Google Cloud’s Chronicle and VirusTotal services for joint customers.