CrowdStrike has introduced significant advancements in its Falcon® Next-Gen Identity Security platform, aiming to provide comprehensive protection for all identities human, non-human, and AI agents across the entire hybrid identity lifecycle. These innovations address critical gaps left by traditional identity and access management (IAM) and privileged access management (PAM) solutions.
Key Enhancements in Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security:
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Phishing-Resistant MFA with FalconID: Built on FIDO2 standards, FalconID offers passwordless, phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication. Integrated into the Falcon for Mobile app, it utilizes real-time identity and endpoint telemetry to make smarter access decisions, effectively blocking techniques that bypass traditional MFA.
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Enhanced Falcon Privileged Access: This feature simplifies complex Active Directory (AD) and Entra ID configurations, automates grants and revocations via Microsoft Teams and Falcon Fusion SOAR, and provides real-time visibility into access patterns. These capabilities minimize standing privileges and reduce associated risks.
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Identity-Driven Case Management: Automatically correlates detections into a single Falcon Next-Gen SIEM case, enriched with endpoint, cloud, and SaaS telemetry. This approach delivers full context on cross-domain attacks, accelerating investigation and response.
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Elia Zaitsev, Chief Technology Officer at CrowdStrike, emphasized the importance of these advancements: “Identity is the front line of modern attacks. In today’s enterprise, access is constantly evolving across identities spanning human users, machines, and AI agents that operate dynamically in hybrid environments. Traditional IAM and PAM were designed to manage access, not stop adversaries. CrowdStrike closes the gaps adversaries exploit with these fragmented solutions, securing every identity across every stage of the attack and environment. Our latest innovations provide deeper visibility, more powerful automation, and streamlined response to extend the unified advantage of Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security.”
These enhancements are designed to eliminate security blind spots and consolidate fragmented controls, advancing identity security beyond legacy IAM and PAM solutions. CrowdStrike‘s unified platform now offers comprehensive protection across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and workload environments.
