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CrowdStrike delivers advanced threat protection for cloud and container workloads

CrowdStrike , a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint and workload protection , has announced expanded Cloud Security Posture Management ( CSPM ) and Cloud Workload Protection ( CWP ) capabilities for the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to deliver greater control , visibility and security for cloud workloads and cloudnative applications from build to runtime .
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Falcon platform identify and remediate vulnerabilities from development to production for a wide variety of cloud environments , including containers . Gartner has predicted that , ‘ Growing adoption of cloud-native applications and infrastructure will increase use of container management to over 75 % of large enterprises in mature economies by 2024 ( up from less than 35 % in 2020 ).’
With the incorporation of frictionless security and automated protection early in the continuous integration / continuous delivery ( CI / CD ) pipeline , DevSecOps teams are empowered to deliver production-ready applications with minimal impact to build cycles . Additionally , the new features will help organisations prevent compliance
violations with intelligent monitoring that detects misconfigurations , vulnerabilities and threats , and delivers guided remediation that equips developers with guardrails to avoid costly mistakes .
“ We continue to deliver the broadest range of cloud security capabilities in a single cloud-native platform for onprem , private , public , hybrid and multicloud environments that scales ,” said Amol Kulkarni , Chief Product Officer for CrowdStrike .
“ CrowdStrike ’ s Security Cloud is one of the largest deployments in the world , providing us a unique vantage point in supporting organisations ’ shift to cloudnative architectures and their adoption of development and IT operations ( DevOps ). The capabilities we are announcing secure development
and deployment of applications in the cloud with greater speed , efficiency and confidence .”
New Falcon Horizon CSPM capabilities :
• Provide cloud-native security posture management for multicloud environments
• Monitor cloud identities for least privileges
• Ensure continuous compliance
New Falcon Cloud Workload Protection capabilities :
• Delivers broad support for container runtime security
• Identify security threats prior to running containers in production
• Stop threats when containers are most vulnerable , during runtime
• Uncover hidden threats u
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