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- Google Cloud (NASDAQ:GOG)(Nasdaq:Google) and cybersecurity company CrowdStrike (Nasdaq:CRWD) has entered into an expanded partnership to combat cloud intrusions.
- CrowdStrike found that cloud intrusions have increased by 75% over the past year, with bad actors infiltrating customer environments in less than two minutes.
- “Cloud-minded adversaries, especially cybercrime actors, use valid credentials to access victims' cloud environments, and then use legitimate tools to carry out their attack — making it difficult to distinguish between normal user activity and a breach,” CrowdStrike's latest report says. Global threat report.
- The new partnership aims to combine Google Cloud's security operations platform with CrowdStrike's endpoint detection and response, identity threat detection and response, and exposure management products.
- CrowdStrike sees new cyber threats emerging from using generative AI to create malicious software and tools to compromise companies.