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CrowdStrike > Case Studies > CrowdStrike Falcon Platform Secures University with Real-Time Threat Detection and Prevention

CrowdStrike Falcon Platform Secures University with Real-Time Threat Detection and Prevention

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
  • America
Country
  • United States
Product
  • Falcon Prevent
  • Falcon Insight
  • Falcon OverWatch
  • Falcon Discover
Tech Stack
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • MacOS
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Digital Expertise
Technology Category
  • Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security
  • Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Applicable Industries
  • Education
Applicable Functions
  • Business Operation
Use Cases
  • Intrusion Detection Systems
  • Remote Asset Management
Services
  • Cybersecurity Services
  • System Integration
About The Customer
Consistently ranked as one of the top higher education institutions in the world, this university faced mounting challenges keeping sophisticated attackers at bay. CrowdStrike’s reputation within the close-knit academic community led to a speedy deployment of the Falcon Platform across a very broad set of semi-autonomous organizations operating within the university system. The customer quickly gained the visibility and prevention capabilities they needed to thwart ongoing attempts by advanced adversaries to target their systems and data.
The Challenge
This sprawling university houses a widely dispersed collection of entities, many operating their own IT infrastructure in a decentralized fashion. While this provides a tremendous amount of autonomy to the faculty and staff of various colleges and organizations within the university, it also results in a lack of standardization across the endpoints of numerous interconnected IT systems. This creates the potential for innumerable attack vectors that can be exploited to gain access to valuable information. As part of a broad security improvement initiative taking place throughout the university and its affiliated organizations, the institution’s security team recognized the need to confirm the integrity of their environment and ensure that they were not at risk of exposing sensitive privacy or research data.
The Solution
The university deployed Falcon on all endpoints (Windows, Linux, and MacOS) in faculty and central server locations, including associated colleges and business operations. Immediate alerting capabilities from the deployment resulted in Falcon OverWatch quickly identifying multiple potential vulnerabilities — ranging from commodity malware to sophisticated tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) consistent with nation-state and hacktivist/activist threat actors — which the university was able to address and resolve promptly with the direct help of the OverWatch team.
Operational Impact
  • Real-time, in-depth visibility into endpoints across a dispersed environment.
  • Prevention of both common and advanced 'unknown' threats.
  • Falcon OverWatch threat-hunting capabilities proactively address threats and vulnerabilities before a breach occurs.
  • Threat actor attribution allowing the security team to understand who is targeting their environment and why and how attacks are taking place.
  • Extensive use of Falcon’s network containment capabilities to isolate infected systems, preventing lateral movement, persistence, exfiltration, and other risks, regardless of the highly distributed network.
Quantitative Benefit
  • More than 20,000 endpoints and servers secured.

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