SailPoint & CrowdStrike: Fighting Non-Human Identity Threats

In a world where cyber threats are organised, cyber defence needs to present a united front. 

Singing to this tune, SailPoint, an enterprise security leader, has extended their arms of collaboration with CrowdStrike. 

To improve visibility and response in the face of serious identity-based security threats, the company announced new integrations between its SailPoint Identity Security Cloud and the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.

“Adding identity context to Security Operations Centre workflows helps security teams understand not only what is happening, but who is involved and what access may be affected,” says Chandra Gnanasambandam, EVP of Product and CTO at SailPoint. 

“Through integrations with the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, SailPoint customers can connect identity and threat data to support faster, more informed security decisions.”

What Are Non-Human Identity Threats in Cybersecurity?

Identity threats are cyber risks that exploit various types of digital identities instead of targeting traditional vulnerabilities, making them harder to detect using traditional tools. 

While still prevalent, compromised credentials are not the only identity threats looming large in an organisation. 

In the current hybrid workspace employed by enterprises, this includes Non-human Identities (NHIs), such as service accounts used by Saas platforms, AI agents and machine identities to name a few. 

Having overprivileged NHIs with persistent access and limited oversight is a recipe for disaster as they can be exploited by threat actors, which is why real-time access modelling and risk visibility tools are a necessity for enterprises. 

SailPoint and CrowdStrike Falcon Integration: A New Era in Identity-Driven Threat Response

SailPoint’s superior identity governance capabilities are now merged with CrowdStrike’s offerings of Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and Falcon Fusion SOAR, which is now part of CrowdStrike Charlotte AI.

To inform dynamic access decisions made by evaluating the risk factors, customers of SailPoint can now apply CrowdStrike’s identity risk insights. 

The collaboration also allows to ingest SailPoint Identity data into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to compare and correlate access patterns with threat activity. 

In case of such risks, the Falcon Fusion SOAR allows users to shut out or disable accounts and take remedial actions thereby stopping attackers in their tracks. 

“Our customers value choice and interoperability,” says Chris Stewart, vice president, technology and cloud ecosystem alliances at CrowdStrike.

“These integrations make it easy to connect SailPoint with the Falcon platform, bringing identity context into threat detection and response workflows so security teams can act with greater speed and confidence.”