CrowdStrike Delivers Industry's First Adversary-Informed Cloud Risk Prioritization to Stop AI-Powered Adversaries

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AUSTIN, Texas & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 24, 2026--

RSA 2026-- CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced new CrowdStrikeFalcon® Cloud Security innovations to help eliminate cloud risk through adversary-informed prioritization. By revealing how business applications shape risk and aligning it with active adversary tradecraft, CrowdStrike identifies cloud exposures most likely to be exploited and their root causes – enabling faster, more precise remediation. Combined with industry-leading runtime protection and cloud detection and response (CDR), CrowdStrike surfaces the risks that matter most and stops breaches in real time.

“Cloud security isn’t about generating more alerts, it’s about understanding how risk forms and which exposures adversaries will actually target,” said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer at CrowdStrike. “Our latest innovations are the industry's first to connect application behavior and adversary tradecraft into a single operating model, delivering the context and prioritization that teams need to eliminate noise and remediate critical exposures with speed and precision.”

Static Risk Models Cannot Stop AI-Enabled Adversaries

As cloud configurations and permissions constantly change, attackers are weaponizing AI to identify and exploit weaknesses at machine speed. Traditional cloud security models assess risk in isolation, lacking visibility into how live application behavior and critical business context connects to active adversary tradecraft. This buries security teams with disconnected findings that fail to provide a clear path to remediation – allowing high-impact exposure to persist until it's too late.

Adversary-Informed Risk Reduction Stops Cloud Breaches

CrowdStrike replaces the industry's reliance on passive visibility with an adversary-informed operating model for cloud risk. By unifying application context, adversary intelligence, and root-cause analysis, CrowdStrike delivers a precise understanding of how risk develops and which exposures adversaries are targeting now – enabling faster, targeted remediation at the source.

Capabilities supporting adversary-informed cloud risk prioritization include:

• Application Explorer: Helps eliminate exploitable blind spots by unifying application and cloud infrastructure context. Delivers the industry's only runtime view of how application behavior influences cloud risk – eliminating the manual correlation that slows remediation.
• Timeline Explorer: Accelerates investigations by visualizing the evolution of cloud risk. Connects configuration and application changes on a chronological timeline, automating root cause analysis and moving teams from detection to remediation faster.
• Cloud Risk Engine: CrowdStrike’s world-class threat hunters power the industry's first adversary-informed cloud risk engine. By mapping cloud risks to active adversary tradecraft, security teams can prioritize remediation based on proven exploitation rather than theoretical severity.
• Unified Real-Time CDR: While Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) only shows what could go wrong, Falcon Cloud Security converts prioritized risk into enforced protection with advanced runtime protection and CDR, isolating compromised workloads and blocking malicious behavior in real time.

To learn more about CrowdStrike’s latest cloud security innovations:

• Visit booth #N-5845 at RSA
• Read our blog
• Visit our website

About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.

Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft, and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting, and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.

Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity, and immediate time-to-value.

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