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CrowdStrike Unveils Managed XDR: 5 Big Things To Know
Kyle Alspach
The cybersecurity giant is creating new partner opportunities with the extended detection and response offering, which expands upon its popular managed detection and response service, CrowdStrike Chief Business Officer Daniel Bernard told CRN.
End-To-End XDR
The improvements that endpoint detection and response (EDR) has brought to cybersecurity are unmistakable. Simply put, attacks against endpoint devices such as laptops are getting detected far more often and much faster than they were even just a few years ago. At the same time, today’s threat actors don’t limit themselves to endpoint devices, and are known to move between environments as a standard tactic of modern cyberattacks.
The need to bring detection capabilities to all of an organization’s systems has produced the fast-growing category of XDR, or extended detection and response. XDR aims to improve security by correlating data from across an organization’s environments, and then prioritize the most critical threats for a response. Among the foremost vendors in the XDR market is CrowdStrike, a company that initially made its name on EDR. On Wednesday, the cybersecurity giant announced its next major foray in the XDR space with the unveiling of Falcon Complete XDR, a new managed XDR offering that aims to make the technology applicable to more customers and partners than it has been to date.
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In short, XDR can “become the control plane that they use to manage cybersecurity end-to-end,” said CrowdStrike’s chief business officer, Daniel Bernard, in an interview with CRN. “That’s revolutionary in the market. But also, folks need help doing it.”
As a managed XDR (MXDR) offering, Falcon Complete XDR follows the model of CrowdStrike’s popular managed detection and response (MDR) service. CrowdStrike’s MDR offering has provided 24/7 management of the vendor’s EDR technology to customers that lack the resources to do so themselves (which is not at all a rarity, amid the massive talent shortage in cybersecurity). In the same way, the CrowdStrike MXDR aims to offer management of the vendor’s XDR platform to make the technology relevant to more customers and partners, including resellers and managed service providers, Bernard said.
As EDR was getting established, “MDR became something that really helped a lot of organizations move into EDR,” he said. “And likewise, managed XDR becomes an offering that’s really compelling for organizations looking to get into XDR or get the full value out of XDR.”
What follows are five key things to know about CrowdStrike’s new managed XDR offering.
