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- Google cloud (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) and cybersecurity company CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) have signed an expanded partnership to combat cloud intrusions.
- Cloud intrusions have increased 75% over the past year, with bad actors infiltrating customer environments in as little as two minutes, according to CrowdStrike.
- “Cloud-aware adversaries, especially e-crime actors, use valid credentials to access victims' cloud environments and then use legitimate tools to execute their attack, making it difficult to distinguish between normal user activity and a violation,” reads the latest CrowdStrike report. Global Threats Report.
- The new partnership aims to combine Google Cloud's security operations platform with CrowdStrike's endpoint detection and response, identity threat detection and response, and exposure management products.
- CrowdStrike sees new cyber threats arising from the use of generative artificial intelligence to create malicious software and tools to infiltrate businesses.
