4 Ways the ExtraHop and CrowdStrike Partnership is Modernizing the SOC

The call is coming from inside the house.

In today's security landscape, that chilling reality is the new normal. Despite best efforts to build impenetrable perimeters, sophisticated threats will inevitably find a way inside. The front door might be locked, but a vulnerability, a misconfiguration, or a compromised credential is an open window.

The most effective security strategy is no longer just about keeping threats out. The focus has shifted from, “How do we stop them from getting in?” to “How quickly can we detect and contain them once they're already there?”

For more than five years, ExtraHop has partnered with CrowdStrike to give security teams the complete picture they need to detect and stop every threat with speed and precision. While ExtraHop monitors, decrypts, and analyzes all the traffic and activity inside your network, CrowdStrike provides a close-up view of every device, offering a powerful combination of inside-out and outside-in visibility that helps organizations find threats – before they can cause damage.

Unlike typical integrations that offer limited, one-off connections, our two platforms are deeply and seamlessly integrated, enabling a wide variety of innovative and transformative use cases that set a new standard for the SOC.

1. Conduct Proactive Threat Hunting

In threat hunting, the challenge is seeing the forest, not just the trees. Traditional tools create data silos, giving you a detailed view of a single device but missing the broader context of a threat moving through your network. ExtraHop and CrowdStrike shatter those data silos by combining network and endpoint visibility for a unified, comprehensive view. Instead of having to piece together information from separate sources, security teams can combine network and endpoint data to hunt for threats with greater speed and accuracy.

To illuminate blind spots, the integration also provides long-term storage of network intelligence, allowing for lightning-fast search capabilities. This means you can rapidly assess what has happened historically and what’s happening right now to piece together the scope of an attack. 

2. Eliminate Shadow AI Risks

The rapid proliferation of unsanctioned AI applications and services, known as shadow AI, has put organizations at risk of data exposure, exfiltration, and non-compliance. These tools often bypass established security controls, creating dangerous blind spots that adversaries can exploit or access misconfigurations that can lead to breaches.

By integrating ExtraHop’s deep network telemetry with first and third-party data from Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and automated remediation from Falcon Fusion SOAR, SOC teams get a complete picture of their AI footprint across their entire infrastructure—from endpoints to the cloud.

With this holistic view, you can instantly identify unauthorized AI models and agents, visualize exactly how and where these tools are being used, and automate containment actions to prevent sensitive data exposure.

This approach also helps to maintain regulatory compliance and governance, closing critical security gaps that might otherwise lead to violations of industry regulations (like GDPR or HIPAA) or internal policies.

3. Improve Security Hygiene and Compliance

It’s nearly impossible to maintain security hygiene and compliance without a full, continuous view of your organization’s network.

You need to know every single device, communication, etc. coming in at all times. The ExtraHop and CrowdStrike integration provides this full-spectrum insight with continuous asset discovery, comprehensive monitoring, and policy and control enforcement.

When a new IoT device connects to a healthcare network, your security tools will instantly discover, monitor, and protect its communications, preventing the device from becoming an open door for attackers.

• Continuous asset discovery: Discover and monitor communications among both unknown and unmanaged devices, including mobile, iPads/Tablets, IoT, and more.
• Comprehensive monitoring: Monitor newly identified assets so they don’t become weak links in the chain.
• Policy and control enforcement: Meet compliance requirements and improve overall security posture.

4. Accelerate Ransomware Investigations

Ransomware attacks thrive on time. The longer an attacker remains undetected, the more damage they can inflict, expanding their foothold, moving laterally, escalating privileges, finding critical assets, and deploying malicious payloads. The ExtraHop and CrowdStrike integration is built to prevent attackers from hiding in your systems by combining the best of network and endpoint security.

When ExtraHop’s advanced machine learning detects a hidden threat –like an attacker moving laterally from an unmanaged device– it sends a high-fidelity alert to the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.

From there, you can instantly contain the threat with a single click or an automated playbook for a near immediate response.

After an attack is neutralized, packet-level forensics help you confidently ensure the network is completely clean to prevent re-infection and boost resilience.

CrowdStrike + ExtraHop for Stronger Security

In a world where threats are intensifying and networks are growing more complex, the ExtraHop and CrowdStrike partnership is shining a light in the dark spaces where attackers hide, ensuring that your organization stays one step ahead.

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