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Fortune 500 Company Enhances Endpoint Security with Falcon Host and Overwatch

Customer Company Size

Large Corporate

Region

America

Country

United States

Product

Falcon Host
Falcon Overwatch
Falcon DNS
Falcon Intelligence

Tech Stack

Endpoint Security
Threat Intelligence
Proactive Threat Hunting

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Productivity Improvements
Customer Satisfaction
Digital Expertise

Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security

Applicable Industries

Semiconductors
Electronics

Applicable Functions

Business Operation
Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Intrusion Detection Systems

Services

Cybersecurity Services
System Integration

About The Customer

This Fortune 500 company is a leading provider of advanced technologies and components found in data centers, mobile devices, and other electronics. The company is renowned for its innovation and high-quality products that are integral to the functioning of modern electronic devices. With a global presence, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including telecommunications, computing, and consumer electronics. As a large corporate entity, it faces significant challenges in maintaining robust security across its extensive network of endpoints and servers. The company is committed to ensuring the highest standards of security to protect its valuable intellectual property and maintain customer trust. Its decision to enhance its endpoint security reflects its proactive approach to addressing emerging threats in the digital landscape.

The Challenge

The customer had focused on and invested in bolstering their defenses at the network level. However, they still found themselves vulnerable to ongoing intrusion activity and concerned about threats they might be 'blind to.' They instinctively knew they needed better protection on the endpoint and that their AV was not doing enough. They wanted a better strategy and capability for endpoint protection. They evaluated a number of endpoint security suppliers, and were disappointed in the weak performance of many of the endpoint security solutions they tested. They became increasingly convinced that they needed better efficacy against commodity attacks and proven abilities to ward off more sophisticated attacks. The also wanted to ensure that they would not have to install multiple agents and that endpoint performance and user experience would not be impacted. The customer was also convinced that they needed to augment their human security resources and expertise in order to protect themselves against determined and skilled attackers targeting their environment.

The Solution

In addition to deploying Falcon Host, they also implemented Falcon Overwatch to provide the 24/7 proactive hunting capability that their own internal resources were struggling to sustain. They also enhanced their security posture by adding detailed threat information with a Falcon Intelligence subscription. The deployment of Falcon Host was swift, allowing the company to gain immediate endpoint visibility and control with unprecedented speed and ease. The quality of alerting from Falcon Host significantly benefited the company, as it reduced the overwhelming quantity of alerts generated by previous security products. Falcon Overwatch proved particularly valuable by prioritizing and analyzing suspicious activity and proactively alerting the customer when malicious activity was detected. Drawing upon decades of experience to research anomalous and suspicious behaviors captured by Falcon Host, Overwatch’s fast, round-the-clock response frequently alerts them to new and developing threats in their environment, and provides guidance for quickly mitigating those threats using the Falcon Host platform.

Operational Impact

The customer was able to deploy Falcon Host swiftly across its environment, gaining immediate endpoint visibility and control with unprecedented speed and ease.
Given its limited in-house security operations, the company benefits significantly from the quality of alerting they get from Falcon Host, as opposed to being overwhelmed with the sheer quantity of alerts generated by their previous security products.
Falcon Overwatch has proven itself particularly valuable by prioritizing and analyzing suspicious activity and proactively alerting the customer when malicious activity is detected.

Quantitative Benefit