October 30, 2023 at 07:34AM
CrowdStrike’s recent acquisition of Bionic is strengthening its cloud security offerings and positioning the company as a player in reactive cloud security. The acquisition brings capabilities like Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) and Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) to CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform. Bionic’s technology will be integrated into a unified dashboard to prioritize cloud security incidents and provide threat hunting. The proactive security approach complements reactive security, reducing the attack surface. Subsequently, CrowdStrike customers are evaluating Bionic for its comprehensive view of cloud risk.
Key takeaways from the meeting notes:
1. CrowdStrike’s acquisition of Bionic strengthens their cloud security offerings and positions them as a significant player in reactive cloud security.
2. The acquisition brings capabilities like Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) and Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) to CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform.
3. CrowdStrike plans to combine its Falcon Horizon Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Falcon Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) modules with Bionic’s technology into a unified dashboard for DevOps teams.
4. Bionic’s ASPM features proactively scan and analyze an organization’s application architecture and software dependencies to uncover security, data privacy, and operational risks.
5. Bionic provides visibility into the security posture of applications in production and can map application services, their dependencies, and how they communicate with each other.
6. Proactive security tools complement reactive security platforms and help reduce the attack surface for threat actors to exploit.
7. CrowdStrike customers, including Prabhath Karanth from Navan, are interested in evaluating Bionic due to its strong runtime application security technology.
8. Bionic offers organizations a comprehensive view of the risk associated with everything running in the cloud, including applications and microservices.
9. Bionic’s technology does not require source code or library integration, making it efficient to implement.