imposed on the endpoint , and how well both common and previously unseen threats were handled – and decided that we should do more in-depth testing of CrowdStrike ,” he said .

Running a trial

Lawson conferred with several other public sector organizations that had deployed CrowdStrike .

However , it was not until the city ran a trial that the real power of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform and Falcon Complete Managed Detection and Response ( MDR ) service became apparent . Lawson likened his initial experience of evaluating CrowdStrike to the movie ,

It has a very intuitive interface that accelerates analysis and the amount of information it gives us is unreal .

Aliens , when the crew scans the spaceship and watches , mesmerized , as the alien gets closer and closer .

“ We set up CrowdStrike to monitor our environment and witnessed the launch of a keyboard attack targeting our externally-facing PeopleSoft servers ,”

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