CrowdStrike Partners With TCS And Amazon To Boost Cyber Security, Cloud Security And AI

As the cybercrime and digital threats landscape becomes harsher, businesses are on the lookout for capable and powerful cyber security tools.

This has led cybersecurity solutions providers to strive to ensure that they provide their customers with the latest and strongest offerings in their products, especially considering the ever-evolving and complex cloud infrastructure ecosystem.

To provide the best services to their customers, cybersecurity companies are partnering with others to enhance their offerings.

Keeping to this thought, global cybersecurity leader CrowdStrike announced two partnerships with industry leaders, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Services).

So, what are these partnerships about and how will it help? Let’s explore!
 

What Is The CrowdStrike And TCS Partnership About?

 

• Through a press release published on its website, CrowdStrike announced it signed a strategic partnership with Tata Consultancy Services, a global leader in IT services, consulting and business solutions.

• The partnership will see CrowdStrike’s AI-native Falcon XDR platform with TCS’ extended managed detection and response (XMDR) services.

• The deal will also bring CrowdStrike Falcon platform’s unified protection for cloud security and next generation SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), which will enable AI-powered SOC (Security Operations Center) transformation that stops breaches.

• As per the release, “The powerful combination of TCS’s worldwide team of expert practitioners with the ubiquitous Falcon platform’s CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security and CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM provides customers with the protection they need to stop breaches.”

 

What Did CrowdStrike And TCS Say?

 

• Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer, CrowdStrike, said, “The Falcon platform has set the global standard, becoming cybersecurity’s AI platform of choice for businesses and their trusted delivery partners. This partnership brings CrowdStrike closer to customers, empowering TCS’s large, global footprint to modernize, innovate and standardize on the Falcon platform.”

• [Contd.] “Stopping the breach, consolidating point products and driving down costs – CrowdStrike’s collaboration with TCS exemplifies our partner-first approach to platform success, delivering the very best outcomes for customers with the partners they trust to design, deploy, and operate their cybersecurity programs.”

• Ganesa Subramanian Vaikuntam, VP and Global Head, Cybersecurity Business Group, TCS, said, “TCS has been partnering with enterprises across the globe for over 20 years to protect their businesses. As the attack surface evolves, enterprises must secure their digital core with robust cybersecurity to grow and innovate.”

• [Contd.] “Our partnership with CrowdStrike bolsters our capabilities to offer stronger cyber defense to our customers and protect them from modern, sophisticated cyber threats.”

 

What Is The CrowdStrike And Amazon Partnership About?

 

• Through a press release published on its website, CrowdStrike announced an expanded strategic partnership with Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Services) to accelerate cybersecurity consolidation and cloud transformation.

• The partnership will include Amazon unifying its cybersecurity protection using the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, “protecting the company from code to cloud and from device to data”.

• It will also see Amazon replace various cloud point products with Falcon Cloud Security and use Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to prevent identity-based attacks and secure big data logging.

• On the other hand, CrowdStrike will also expand its use of AWS services, which includes Amazon Bedrock and AWS SageMaker, with the aim of driving industry leading innovation in cloud security, SIEM transformation and novel cybersecurity AI use cases.

• This will also see CrowdStrike make use of Anthropic’s Claude family to customize and deploy LLMs (Large Language Models) using SageMaker.

• Additionally, the company will boost its Falcon Platform by accelerating the development of GenAI (Generative Artificial Intelligence) capabilities and enhance innovation through its R&D teams.

 

What Did CrowdStrike And Amazon Say?

 

• George Kurtz, CEO and co-founder, CrowdStrike, said, “CrowdStrike pioneered cloud-native cybersecurity by building on AWS. The world’s leading companies build their cloud business on AWS, and they protect it with CrowdStrike.”

• [Contd.] “AWS has been a tremendous partner and customer for many years. We continue to grow our relationship and our use of AWS technologies, as well as working together to help customers secure their cloud environments with the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.”

• CJ Moses, Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Security Engineering at Amazon, said, “CrowdStrike and AWS have a deep history of working together to secure the most innovative companies in the world.”

• [Contd.] “Amazon uses CrowdStrike to provide visibility, detection, and response across our businesses in order to protect the cloud, infrastructure, and services for our customers. This is part of our shared mission to help all organizations build, operate, and secure their business.”

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