CrowdStrike announced an expansion of its partnership with AWS to enhance cloud security and advance AI capabilities.
As part of the expanded collaboration, AWS is unifying endpoint detection and response protection on CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform to enhance security across its infrastructure.
Hyperscaler will replace several cloud point products with Falcon Cloud Security, leverage Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to secure big data logging, and deploy CrowdStrike's threat detection and identity response capabilities to help address identity-based attacks.
In turn, CrowdStrike will expand its use of AWS services such as Amazon Bedrock and AWS SageMaker in an effort to enhance AI-based functionality across its products, as well as cloud security and SIEM transformation.
In an announcement, George Kurtz, CEO and co-founder of CrowdStrike, said the expansion represents the next natural step in the company's long-standing relationship with AWS.
“CrowdStrike has been a leader in cloud cybersecurity by building on AWS. The world’s leading companies are building their cloud businesses on AWS, and protecting them with CrowdStrike,” he said.
“AWS has been a great partner and customer for many years. We continue to grow our relationship and use of AWS technologies, as well as work together to help customers secure their cloud environments using the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.”
CrowdStrike AI Capabilities
CrowdStrike's Charlotte AI conversational AI tool is built on the modern multi-AI architecture and is designed to deliver value across the entire Falcon platform to help advance generative AI capabilities,
The company is now expanding its use of Amazon Bedrock offerings, which include Anthropic's Claude family of large language models (LLMs), as well as Amazon SageMaker.
The security firm said Bedrock provides an ideal starting point for AI-driven innovation with its secure and accessible collection of high-performance foundation models (FMs) from across leading AI companies, available through a single API. AWS’s security, privacy, and compliance will also ensure that organizations can responsibly and securely adopt the latest AI capabilities, the company added.
Unified Security Across AWS
By unifying endpoint detection and response on the Falcon platform and deploying CrowdStrike's protection capabilities across its infrastructure, Amazon said it is equipped to stop breaches “from code to cloud and from device to data.”
“CrowdStrike and AWS have a deep history of working together to secure the world’s most innovative companies,” said CJ Moses, Amazon Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Security Engineering.
“Amazon uses CrowdStrike to provide visibility, detection, and response across our business to protect our customers’ cloud, infrastructure, and services. This is part of our shared mission to help all organizations build, operate, and secure their businesses.”
