CrowdStrike has announced that it will be acquiring Adaptive Shield, a company that provides security monitoring capabilities for SaaS applications.
“This acquisition will propel CrowdStrike to become the only cybersecurity vendor to provide full protection against identity-based attacks across the modern cloud ecosystem — from on-premises Active Directory to cloud-based identity providers and the growing landscape of SaaS applications — through a single unified platform,” Michael Sentonas, president of CrowdStrike, said in an announcement.
Adaptive Shield’s technology provides visibility into an application’s human and non-human identities and permissions, entitlements, activity levels, and public data. It also detects misconfigurations and other potential risks to these applications.
Additionally, it can help companies mitigate the new risks that AI brings, such as data leakage, attack surface expansion, and privacy concerns. Its technology can control AI settings to ensure no data leakage occurs, and detect shadow AI applications.
The plan is for Adaptive Shield technology to be integrated into the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, including CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, and CrowdStrike Falcon Fusion SOAR.
Examples of new joint capabilities across those tools include:
- Identity protection across SaaS, on-premises Active Directory, and cloud-based environments like Okta and Microsoft Entra ID
- A single console for viewing infrastructure, custom applications, data, AI models, and SaaS applications
- Rapid detection and response across endpoints, identities, workloads, and applications
“Adaptive Shield is an essential piece of our cloud security vision. It provides organizations with granular visibility into their growing cloud environments, enables them to manage and secure their SaaS security posture and their human and non-human identities, and helps them detect and prevent identity-centric, cloud-focused cyberattacks,” Sentonas said.
