How CrowdStrike is transforming identity and data protection for the GenAI era

Just as GenAI redefines how organisations operate, it also changes the rules of engagement for adversaries and threats. As businesses adopt GenAI tools through a calculated strategy to unlock productivity, accelerate workflows and capture the value of innovation, attackers are exploring how the same technologies can scale deception, automate intrusion, and exploit systemic weaknesses.

In this environment, identity, and data are highly valuable and vulnerable assets. Compromised credentials, stolen tokens, and misused data can all be exploited by AI-powered threats that can strike move faster and deeper than before.

This reality is one of the forcing factors behind the agentic SOC unveiled by CrowdStrike at Fal.Con Europe 2025. Their vision puts identity and data at the heart of a unified defence model that blends automation, intelligence, and human oversight into one, adaptive security fabric.

A four-step approach to counter novel, AI-native threats

1. Evolving from authentication to autonomous trust

   Identity is still the number one target for modern cyberattacks. It’s no longer enough to just authenticate users on entry to systems. Instead, businesses must continuously verify their trustworthiness through every action and session.

   CrowdStrike’s Next-Gen Identity Security brings these capabilities together within the Falcon® platform, unifying authentication, access, and investigation into a single agentic solution.

2. Phish-proofing performance with passwordless MFA

   Using FIDO2 standards and real-time telemetry, FalconID eliminates passwords altogether – replacing them with secure, proximity-based authentication that can’t be phished, replayed, or stolen.

   This agentic layer of verification continuously validates user identity in context, blocking credential misuse and session hijacking by design.

3. Minimising risk and tightening control with Enhanced Privileged Access

   Managing privileged accounts is one of the toughest challenges in enterprise security. CrowdStrike’s Enhanced Privileged Access integrates directly with Microsoft Teams, allowing users to request, approve, or revoke permissions near-instantly.

   When combined with Fusion SOAR automation and just-in-time analytics, the solution ensures sensitive access is only granted when required, and automatically rescinded once the task is complete.

4. Automating response and accelerating decisions

   When an anomaly is detected, Identity-driven Case Management automatically creates and enriches cases in Falcon’s next-generation SIEM. It then triggers contextual actions such as enforcing MFA, isolating devices, or escalating to an analyst.

   This automation reduces manual workload, accelerates investigations, and improves decision accuracy.

Collectively, these innovations have been found to cut analyst workload by over 40 hours per week, deliver insights 75% faster, and achieve decision accuracy above 98%. Taking this step, to shift the identity model from reactive defence to continuous, autonomous verification, is essential for any organisation embracing GenAI.

Protecting data is priority #1 for the GenAI workplace

As GenAI tools embed into everyday workflows, the line between legitimate use and data exfiltration is thinning. Sensitive data can now exit the enterprise via a simple prompt or plugin. CrowdStrike’s enhanced Data Protection module provides the visibility and control to mitigate these new risks, by:

1. Monitoring data flows across browsers, local applications, and SaaS platforms, to provide a unified view of how information moves through the organisation.
2. Using AI to classify sensitive data, supporting automatic detection of regulated or confidential content before it’s shared externally or used by AI tools.
3. Unifying exfiltration detection into a single framework combining agentic intelligence and real-time telemetry to identify unauthorised data transfers and insider threats.
4. Providing an insider-threat dashboard that highlights risky behaviour and surfaces users whose actions deviate from normal patterns.

These features empower SOC teams to monitor, classify, and protect data at the speed of computation, to help ensure security and compliance throughout AI innovation.

Partners should position themselves as trusted advisors on security

These developments are an opportunity for partners to expand value across advisory and managed service portfolios. Partners can help customers implement CrowdStrike’s unified platform as a foundation for zero-trust architecture – integrating FalconID, Privileged Access, and Data Protection modules for complete, flexible coverage across users, endpoints, and applications.

By combining Next-Gen Identity Security with Data Protection, partners can offer end-to-end protection against compromised identity, insider risks, and AI-driven data loss. This holistic approach simplifies procurement and strengthens customers’ resilience.

As enterprises adopt generative AI tools, partners can provide expert consulting on safe AI usage, data classification frameworks, and policy enforcement to help organisations balance governance, risk management, and productivity.

Identity and data protection are essential enablers of safe GenAI adoption

GenAI demands a new level of security maturity. Identity and data are the twin anchors of that maturity, defining both who is acting and what is at stake.

CrowdStrike has set out the blueprint with innovations that enable organisations to embrace AI with the confidence that data access and integrity are continuously safeguarded.

For partners and customers, the combination of intelligence, automation, and trust unlocks future-ready, zero-trust environments that empower the safe and responsible use of generative AI. To explore how Ignition Technology and CrowdStrike can help you secure customers’ identities and data as they progress with their Gen AI roadmap, contact the Ignition team today.

<sales-bnl@ignition-technology.eu>