Zscaler and CrowdStrike Holdings have announced a series of partnerships that will provide end-to-end security protection from endpoint to application. These integrations help joint customers to enhance security by offering an identity-centric and data-centric zero trust solution that covers data, people, devices, workloads, and networks.
Zscaler is the first CrowdStrike cloud security partner to use CrowdStrike Zero Trust Assessment (ZTA) in general availability to provide secure access to applications from any endpoint, regardless of the user or location. ZTA grants dynamic conditional access based on continuous real-time security posture assessments of device health and compliance checks using the CrowdStrike Falcon platform which processes over 5 trillion events every week.
Commenting on the development, Amit Sinha, President, Chief Technology Officer, board member, Zscaler, said “Employees are working from anywhere and applications are moving to the cloud,” He added “The enterprise perimeter doesn’t exist anymore, the internet is the new corporate network, and security should follow users and workloads wherever they are. Zero trust requires decoupling application access from being on the corporate network and allowing access based on identity, context, and business policies. This dramatically reduces an organization’s attack surface and prevents lateral propagation of attacks that we’ve seen repeatedly when organizations rely on legacy firewall and network-centric solutions.”
This partnership between the two cloud-native security leaders gives joint customers adaptive, risk-based access control to private applications, allowing for better protection for people working from anywhere.
“Recent high profile attacks involving compromised credentials have served as a moment of truth for organizations struggling with expanding remote workforces, growth of cloud applications, and an increasingly complex threat landscape,” said Michael Sentonas, Chief Technology Officer at CrowdStrike. “Modern organizations need to embrace an identity-centric approach to security with a mature zero trust architecture that is dynamic and end-to-end, automating workflows that ensure verified access across endpoints, networks, workloads, and devices. Zero trust must be the de facto standard in today’s work-from-anywhere world.”
“CrowdStrike and Zscaler’s scalable and complementary solutions enabled our organization’s security transformation by providing increased visibility of endpoints and workloads across our approximately 400 offices in 60 countries. Immediate detection and response are critical for stopping potential breaches, and we are able to significantly accelerate our response,” said Erik Hart, Chief Information Security Officer for Cushman & Wakefield. “As distributed workforces continue to grow and increasingly expose corporate environments to intensifying cyber threat activity, an identity-centric zero trust strategy must be implemented to ensure that access is verified and that organizational risks are minimized.”
Four main benefits will be given to shared customers as a result of the integrations:
● ZPA incorporates CrowdStrike’s real-time ZTA to enforce access policy to private apps to reduce organizational risks,
● Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) deployed inline stops malware propagation by triggering device quarantine through the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform,
● CrowdStrike’s Falcon X threat intelligence and Falcon Endpoint Protection device telemetry data can be shared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange for seamless usage when integrations are activated to provide stronger protection and increased visibility,
● Cross-platform workflow shortens response time and helps combat increasing volumes and sophistication of attacks.