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CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security

Cloud Detection and Response: stop cloud attacks in motion

Protect the cloud AI depends on. Real-time CDR exposes attacks hidden in legitimate activity and stops them before they spread.

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Cloud adversaries don’t break in. They blend in.

Attackers and compromised AI agents hide in trusted activity. Delayed, siloed defenses miss it.

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1. AI-enabled adversary operations and attacks surged by 89% year-over-year1

2. 171% YoY Increase in eCrime cloud-conscious activity1

3. 35% of cloud incidents were from valid account abuse1

4. 27 seconds – fastest breakout time1

Connect the signals. Reveal the cloud attack in seconds.


Cloud attacks can look legitimate unless your CDR monitors workload and control-plane activity in real time, enriching both with adversary intelligence to reveal the threat.

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Protection, detection, and accuracy in MITRE’s first-ever cloud evaluation – 2025 MITRE ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluations3


30%

Reduction in MTTD and MTTR, accelerating cloud incident detection and response4


281+

Global adversaries tracked to detect and investigate cloud threats4

How Falcon Cloud Security stops cloud attacks

Catch the first malicious move in real time


As humans and AI agents build and operate in the cloud, legitimate cloud activity gives attackers more cover. An adversary uses valid credentials and begins calling trusted cloud APIs. Falcon analyzes activity as it streams in across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes, surfacing high-fidelity detections in seconds so the SOC can disrupt the attack before the adversary moves deeper.

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Expose behavior no rule anticipated


API calls may be permitted and look normal, especially when AI agents make them through real cloud identities and trusted APIs. By comparing AWS CloudTrail activity with each customer’s baseline, anomaly detection reveals unusual behavior and catches account takeovers and API abuse that predefined rules miss.

Investigate across domains with full cloud context


Investigate activity across cloud and the broader enterprise without manual triage. Surface the full attack story in one place and enrich every investigation with cloud telemetry, detections, and risk signals in CrowdStrike® Unified Cases to close incidents before threats escalate.

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Turn adversary context into response decisions


With the attack story assembled, Falcon Cloud Security reveals the abused identity, what executed in the workload, which resources were hit and which adversary techniques are in play. CrowdStrike adversary intelligence shows how the intrusion is progressing and what may follow, so analysts can prioritize activity most likely to become a breach and act with confidence.

Contain the attack with agentic response


Take response actions in the Falcon console, or automate them with CrowdStrike® Charlotte Agentic SOAR across your security stack. Choose the level of human control and automation that fits your policies, and contain the intrusion before it spreads.

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Scale defenses with 24/7 managed cloud protection


Augment your team with CrowdStrike experts who monitor, detect, and respond to cloud threats 24/7. Backed by elite threat intelligence and proactive threat hunting, CrowdStrike Falcon® Complete delivers managed protection across your cloud workloads and services — so you stay ahead without adding headcount.

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Stop cloud threats with frontline insights


Get practical playbooks designed to stop modern adversaries abusing trusted cloud access paths and identities. Turn intelligence into action against today’s sophisticated threats.

Industry Validation

CrowdStrike named a Leader in the 2026 Frost Radar™: Cloud and Application Runtime Security

Battle-tested in MITRE’s first-ever cloud evaluation, delivering 100% detection and protection with zero false positives

CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security delivers 264% ROI over three years

Customer Stories


See why organizations trust Falcon Cloud Security.

CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security extends prevention and detection to containerized workloads, while shared telemetry across modules delivers seamless visibility across every environment.”
Jaifar Al Mamari, CISO, Vodafone Oman
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We can see exactly what services are running in Kubernetes ... If something is malicious, it’s blocked immediately by CrowdStrike. 90% of alerts are resolved automatically, so we rarely have to step in.”
Gaurav Verma, Head of IT Risk and Security, Monvia
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As Rate Companies evolves, Falcon Cloud Security allows it to seamlessly scale its protection, providing real-time visibility and threat detection across its cloud infrastructure — regardless of the number of employees or the amount of data being processed.”
Katherine Mowen, SVP Information Security, Rate Companies
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Featured Resources

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1CrowdStrike 2026 Threat Hunting Report
2Results are from Mercury Financial and Intermex. Individual results may vary by customer.
3MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluations: Enterprise 2025
4The Total Economic Impact™ of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security,” a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of CrowdStrike, April 2026. Results are based on a composite organization representative of interviewed customers.
5Results are from detection and response workflows in AWS environments. Performance may vary based on customer configuration and cloud platform.