CrowdStrike's blog emphasizes the importance of IT hygiene in maintaining cybersecurity readiness, highlighting the need for clear visibility into an organization's IT environment to prevent potential breaches caused by disorganization and poor password policies. It explains how unpatched applications, rogue systems, and credential theft can create vulnerabilities, underscoring the necessity of an effective IT hygiene solution like Falcon Discover to provide comprehensive transparency and mitigate security risks. The blog advocates for a "hygiene first" approach, enabling organizations to proactively manage applications and systems, thereby reducing costs and enhancing security. The article also notes how CrowdStrike integrates IT hygiene with its Falcon platform, complementing its next-generation antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) with managed hunting to ensure a robust security architecture.