Public Sector Endpoint Security
CrowdStrike sets the standard in endpoint protection for the public sector by using machine learning, behavioral analytics and proactive threat hunting to stop all attack types, while ensuring you meet the most stringent compliance requirements.
STOP BREACHES
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- Provides enhanced next-generation antivirus (NGAV) capabilities that include zero-day exploit mitigation techniques and ransomware prevention.
- Endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities give you real-time situational awareness and the ability to hunt adversaries and remediate with confidence.
- Managed proactive threat hunting by the Falcon OverWatch™ team augments and empowers your security operations center (SOC) — freeing your internal resources to focus on remediation, mitigation and security posture enhancements.
- The massively-scalable CrowdStrike Threat Graph® database offers a broader view of each threat, providing context from half a trillion events per week gathered from millions of sensors globally.
SIMPLIFY ENDPOINT SECURITY
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- 100% cloud-native architecture. Optimized for simple and rapid deployment at scale, including for federated organizational structures. No on-prem equipment required.
- Single-agent platform. A modular solution that empowers endpoint consolidation strategies, enabling customers to replace five or more legacy or single-purpose solutions.
- Platform agnostic. Radically simplifies endpoint management — securing laptops, desktops, servers, cloud workloads and mobile devices in one console.
- Simple and efficient. The CrowdStrike Falcon platform’s remote response and one-click network containment capabilities enable operators to swiftly prevent incidents from becoming a breach.
- Integrated threat intelligence. Rapid identification and understanding of known threat actors targeting your environment — within a single console.
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY
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EMBRACING AND SECURING A REMOTE WORKFORCE
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The first half of 2020 changed the way your organization functions. The second half will see you make even more adjustments to systems, devices and access to data, while you build a strategy to make those changes permanent.
CrowdStrike created this resource hub to educate and assist you as you continue to adapt to a remote-first, cloud-first way of working, and to guide you through the security risks, infrastructure challenges, and the sheer volume and variety of cyberthreats. We’re here to keep you informed about those threats and to provide expertise, recommendations and resources to help your organization reduce risk, stay safe and continue to do business – wherever you are.
Endpoint Security for Federal Government
CrowdStrike offers a FedRAMP-authorized, cloud-delivered solution that provides unrivaled protection and helps meet the strictest federal standards.
CrowdStrike Falcon: Delivering Modern, Secure, and Resilient Endpoint Security for the Public Sector
TAILORED TO SUPPORT YOUR MISSION
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- Addressing Mission Readiness and Value. Increase confidence in decision-making with a complete understanding of current cybersecurity conditions, establishing cyber resiliency, reducing cost and complexity and minimizing risk.
- Cybersecurity Transformation and Modernization. Deliver true operational efficiencies in real-time via an integrated platform across endpoints, servers, mobile and cloud workloads.
- Compliant to Operate. Bridge the gap between cybersecurity and compliance while adhering to the latest government certifications and standards.
FALCON ON GOVCLOUD
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Cloud-delivered and FedRAMP-authorized, CrowdStrike Falcon on GovCloud brings the leading cybersecurity solution to the public sector.
- Built for Public Sector: The first and only endpoint protection platform delivered from the trusted AWS GovCloud (U.S.). Falcon on GovCloud exceeds U.S. FedRAMP program requirements with U.S. administrators and NIST 800-171 compliance.
- Protection and Visibility: Continuous monitoring of the endpoint allows for rapid detection and response to malicious activity to block known and unknown malware, as well as malware-free threats.
- Scalability and Efficiency: A lightweight agent that deploys in minutes across all endpoint and data environments — including on-premise, virtual and cloud-based servers — the CrowdStrike Falcon platform ensures comprehensive protection with immediate time-to-value.
- Initiative-Focused: Provides a seamless path to help support critical government initiatives, such as multi-cloud security, rapid cloud migration, Zero Trust and comply to connect.
REGULATORY COMPLIANCE WITH CROWDSTRIKE
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Regulatory compliance is critical to federal agencies. CrowdStrike can assist with satisfying a broad range of compliance requirements:
- FedRAMP: CrowdStrike Falcon on GovCloud is recognized as "FedRAMP Authorized" on the FedRAMP Marketplace with an authority to operate at the FedRAMP Moderate impact level.
- NIST 800-53: CrowdStrike Falcon addresses the system protection and monitoring controls identified in NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4 and implementing eight separate NIST control families, covering 23 separate controls.
- VPAT: CrowdStrike has created a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) in accordance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
UNMATCHED PROTECTION AND VISIBILITY
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CrowdStrike has built a platform with industry-leading capabilities, enabling the detection and prevention of breaches by even the most sophisticated adversaries:
- AI-powered NGAV uses IOCs, IOAs and custom allow/blocklisting (formerly "whitelists" and "blacklists") to protect against malware and malware-free attacks.
- Full EDR prevents silent failure by capturing raw events for complete visibility of endpoints on and off the network.
- Threat intelligence integration and automated attribution to adversaries speed up investigation and remediation.
- 24x7 managed threat hunting ensures stealthy attacks don’t go undetected.
ALIGNS WITH KEY U.S. GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES
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As a longtime partner of the Federal Government, CrowdStrike understands the importance of supporting mission critical federal initiatives:
- U.S. DoD Cyber Security Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)
- MITRE ATT&CK®
- Multi-Cloud Security and Migration
- DHS Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM)
- Zero Trust
- DevSecOps
RESOURCES
- Getting Ahead of the CMMC Tsunami: Overview, Best Practices & Lessons Learned
- CrowdStrike Falcon Host Comparison with NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4
- Fast Response with CrowdStrike and MITRE ATT&CK™
- Zero Trust FAQ
- Security Trends, Challenges & Best Practices using the NIST CSF
- CrowdStrike Falcon for Public Sector
- Promoting Stakeholder Action Against Botnets
- Stopping Breaches For Govies
- Cloud Delivered Protection for the Public Sector
- CrowdStrike Falcon Malquery: Fast, Comprehensive Malware Search
- CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence: Comprehensive. Relevant. Actionable.
- CrowdStrike Falcon APIs
- 5 Reasons Endpoint Security Must Move to the Cloud
- Ransomware: A Growing Enterprise Threat
Cybersecurity for State, Local & Education (SLED) Organizations
Secure your organization with a cost-effective endpoint solution that provides unrivaled protection and optimal scalability.
CrowdStrike Falcon: Delivering Modern, Secure, and Resilient Endpoint Security for the Public Sector
Serving and Securing CrowdStrike SLED Customers
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- Maintain the Trust of Citizens. Protect sensitive data and critical infrastructure while meeting compliance regulations.
- Stay Ahead of Your Adversaries. Develop and operationalize your security strategy under a single, comprehensive platform delivering best-in-class prevention, detection and response capabilities.
- Secure Digital Government. IT modernization efforts are transforming how organizations engage with governments while they shift to the cloud where security can be rapidly deployed at scale.
FALCON ON GOVCLOUD
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CrowdStrike partners with AWS to deliver a wide range of next-gen endpoint protection capabilities via GovCloud:
- Rapid deployment for unrivaled time-to-value with no on-premise infrastructure or reboot required.
- Increase cloud security: FedRAMP authorized.
- Integrated Threat Intelligence: 21+ Million indicators of compromise (IOCs) and automated threat actor attribution enabling predictive defense.
- Operated and managed by U.S. personnel. For more details on GovCloud, please see the AWS GovCloud FAQ.
THE NEW STANDARD FOR WORKLOAD PROTECTION
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CrowdStrike partners with AWS to deliver a wide range of next-gen endpoint protection capabilities via GovCloud:
- Single lightweight agent with nominal performance impact and no reboot required upon installation, and delivered via a native-cloud SaaS architecture.
- 24x7 continuous threat hunting with CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch.
- Industry-leading machine learning stops the most sophisticated malware and nation-state attacks.
- Integrated intelligence correlates IOCs and indicators of attack (IOAs) with adversaries targeting SLED verticals.
- Open API library allows for context-rich integration into SIEM, SOAR and other third-party tools.
HELPING TO IMPLEMENT BEST PRACTICE SECURITY FRAMEWORKS
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As a longtime partner of the public sector, CrowdStrike has worked to ensure that the Falcon platform helps customers adhere to the strictest cybersecurity frameworks:
- DFARS 252.204-7012
- US NIST 800-53
- US NIST 800-171/172
- US DoD Cyber Security Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Levels 1-5
- US NIST CyberSecurity Framework (CSF)
- HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF)
- Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)
RESOURCES
- The New Standard in Endpoint Security for New York Schools
- Driscoll Health Systems Case Study
- Securing the State: Wyoming's Partnership with CrowdStrike
- From the CISO: Why Columbia University Medical Center Made the Move to Cloud-Native Cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity Webinar for K-12 Schools: Eliminate District Downtime
ENDPOINT SECURITY FOR HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS
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CrowdStrike Falcon provides complete, effective and easy-to-use endpoint protection for healthcare organizations around the world.
CrowdStrike protects healthcare systems from cyberattacks, so you can focus on delivering quality patient care.
- Together, the world must adapt to the new normal. CrowdStrike provides scalable cloud-native products and complete turnkey services to help you now. We protect endpoints from any location, on-and-off your network. The cloud-native Falcon platform combines threat intelligence, and response services to seamlessly support your rapid transition to a remote workforce, and telemedicine.
- Provides rapid streamlined deployment for faster time-to-value. The Falcon platform deploys in hours, not weeks or months. The lightweight Falcon agent doesn’t require a reboot to install, and goes to work immediately, ensuring continuity of care without disruption.
- Lowers costs to help you meet budget requirements. On average, CrowdStrike customers lower their IT Security costs by 30%. The Falcon platform unifies visibility, prevention, detection and threat intelligence across Windows, Linux, Macs, mobile devices (iOS and Android), servers, virtual servers/desktops, containers and public clouds (AWS, Google and Azure).
CROWDSTRIKE FALCON & COMPLIANCE
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- Assist in conforming to HITRUST and HIPAA requirements.
- Rapidly demonstrate adherence to common compliance frameworks.
- Achieve a new standard in healthcare cybersecurity through the 1-10-60 security posture.
- Reduce risk against an ever-evolving threat landscape.
- Protect valuable patient healthcare data from breaches.
- Galvanize your healthcare operations against disruptive cyberattacks (i.e., ransomware).
ONE AGENT, ONE PLATFORM, ALL ENVIRONMENTS
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Whether your infrastructure is on-premise, cloud or hybrid, Falcon deploys in seconds and is operational with zero down-time, reboots or scan storms.
- VDI provides security for the most tightly constrained resources.
- Secure IOT and medical devices through falcon network as a service.
- Granular visibility and continuous monitoring of healthcare infrastructure.
- "Discover" your connected devices and workloads and understand their security posture — trust nothing.
- Shine a "Spotlight" on risks and vulnerable assets.
- Offers a "Complete" way to overcome a human firewall (managed triage, hunting and remediation).
Healthcare Organizations Trust CrowdStrike
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3+ Trillion Events Per Day
The CrowdStrike Threat Graph® collects high-fidelity telemetry from millions of endpoints around the globe, enriches them with threat intelligence and indexes them for quick and efficient access
28+ Healthcare Adversaries
CrowdStrike Intelligence gathers data on the sophisticated threat actors who regularly set their sights on the healthcare industry and the tactics they use to conduct attacks.
22 Million Indicators
The massive amount of threat data CrowdStrike collects and analyzes provides the full context of threats, including the tactics, techniques and procedures attackers are using to target healthcare organizations.
100+ Healthcare Customers
Healthcare organizations across the globe trust CrowdStrike to stop breaches and keep their data safe.
1 Million+ Healthcare Endpoints
CrowdStrike safeguards over one million healthcare endpoints and counting across the U.S.
FedRAMP
CrowdStrike Falcon® on GovCloud provides the industry’s first cloud-delivered endpoint security and IT hygiene solution. Each component is tailored for securing the U.S. public sector, FedRAMP authorized and delivered from AWS GovCloud (US). Falcon on GovCloud enables customers to prevent all types of modern attacks and significantly reduces the cost of operating security infrastructure.
Falcon on GovCloud is FedRAMP authorized, ensuring continuous compliance with the most stringent cybersecurity regulatory requirements without hindering end-user productivity — all through one, end-to-end solution.
EMBRACING AND SECURING A REMOTE WORKFORCE
The first half of 2020 changed the way your organization functions. The second half will see you make even more adjustments to systems, devices and access to data, while you build a strategy to make those changes permanent.
CrowdStrike created this resource hub to educate and assist you as you continue to adapt to a remote-first, cloud-first way of working, and to guide you through the security risks, infrastructure challenges, and the sheer volume and variety of cyberthreats. We’re here to keep you informed about those threats and to provide expertise, recommendations and resources to help your organization reduce risk, stay safe and continue to do business – wherever you are.
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