Dell Technologies and CrowdStrike have announced an expansion of their strategic partnership to deliver AI-based security technologies through Dell's Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service.
Available now as a direct solution and through channel partners, Dell's MDR service now features CrowdStrike's AI-native Falcon XDR platform to help customers successfully address evolving security threats.
By combining Falcon with its own security operations experts and proactive threat hunting capabilities, Dell said customers now have access to the capabilities they need to address modern challenges in multi-cloud, multi-vendor environments.
“Working with industry leaders like CrowdStrike is critical to providing choice and flexibility to customers in a highly fragmented and complex security landscape,” explained Mihir Maniar, vice president of infrastructure for Dell's edge and security services portfolio.
“Customers need scalable, results-based security solutions to stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated threats.
“The combination of MDR and the CrowdStrike platform enables customers to exponentially reduce threat exposure, detect and respond to incidents, and recover applications and systems.”
Powered by CrowdStrike's Security Cloud and AI technology, the Falcon XDR platform relies on real-time attack indicators, threat intelligence, evolving adversarial techniques, and rich telemetry to provide enterprise-wide protection.
From a single unified hub, the offering works to provide users with accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, threat hunting, and prioritized vulnerability monitoring.
Last year, Dell integrated the platform into its SafeGuard and Response offering to strengthen the reach of its threat management capabilities. Now, the pair's expanded partnership aims to take more drastic measures against evolving cyber threats as organizations continue to battle the growing cybersecurity skills gap.
“The Falcon platform has quickly become the go-to cybersecurity platform on the market,” said Daniel Bernard, Chief Commercial Officer at CrowdStrike.
“By expanding our strategic alliance with Dell to power their MDR services, we are gaining access to more customers to provide them with industry-leading protection.
Ultimately, CrowdStrike said the combined offering will deliver an intuitive and holistic managed security solution that will reduce complexity and act as a “force multiplier” for IT and security teams.
“Together with Dell, we see a significant opportunity to provide all customers, from large enterprises to midsize organizations and SMBs, with the best security outcomes: stopping breaches, consolidating specific products and reducing costs,” added Bernard.
