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Summary

CrowdStrike is enhancing its identity security capabilities with new innovations aimed at addressing key challenges in the evolving landscape of identity protection, as highlighted at Fal.Con 2024. The company's Falcon Identity Protection service now offers real-time threat prevention and dynamic access decisions for Microsoft Entra ID, leveraging advanced user behavior analytics and risk-based access decisions to thwart identity-based attacks. This integration, which operates inline with Entra ID authentication flows, ensures that only trusted users and devices gain access by assessing user risk and device trust through the CrowdStrike Falcon platform and third-party sources. Additionally, CrowdStrike is introducing Falcon Privileged Access, which reduces the identity attack surface by enforcing just-in-time access for privileged roles, providing rapid ROI by leveraging existing Falcon infrastructure. These innovations aim to provide a comprehensive, unified solution to identity security challenges, helping organizations stay ahead of sophisticated adversaries.