CrowdStrike Unveils Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security Innovations to Strengthen Unified Protection Across All Identities
At Fal.Con 2025, CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) unveiled groundbreaking advancements in its Falcon® Next-Gen Identity Security platform, delivering expanded protection for every identity—whether human, non-human, or AI-driven agents—across the entire hybrid identity lifecycle. These innovations address critical gaps left by legacy identity and access management (IAM) and privileged access management (PAM) solutions, offering phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA), modernized privileged access controls, and identity-driven case management to unify initial access protection, privilege control, and security operations center (SOC) response.
In today’s dynamic threat landscape, identities have become the primary target for adversaries. As enterprises increasingly rely on a mix of human users, machines, and AI agents operating across hybrid environments, traditional IAM and PAM tools struggle to keep pace. Designed primarily to manage access rather than stop attacks, these legacy systems often leave organizations exposed to sophisticated identity-driven breaches. CrowdStrike’s latest innovations aim to close these gaps by providing deeper visibility, advanced automation, and streamlined response capabilities—all unified under the Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security umbrella.
Addressing the Limitations of Legacy Solutions
Despite the widespread adoption of MFA and other bolt-on security measures, legacy IAM and PAM solutions fail to provide comprehensive protection. Their fragmented nature creates blind spots across the attack chain and hybrid systems, complicating efforts to detect and respond to identity-based threats. Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security addresses these shortcomings with a purpose-built approach that integrates unified initial access, modern privileged access management, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), SaaS identity security, and agentic identity protection into a single platform.
“Identity is the front line of modern attacks,” said Elia Zaitsev, Chief Technology Officer at CrowdStrike. “In today’s enterprise, access is constantly evolving across identities spanning human users, machines, and AI agents that operate dynamically in hybrid environments. Traditional IAM and PAM were designed to manage access, not stop adversaries. CrowdStrike closes the gaps adversaries exploit with these fragmented solutions, securing every identity across every stage of the attack and environment. Our latest innovations provide deeper visibility, more powerful automation, and streamlined response to extend the unified advantage of Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security.”
Key Innovations in Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security
- FalconID: Phishing-Resistant, Passwordless MFA
One of the standout features of the new release is FalconID, a phishing-resistant, passwordless MFA solution built on FIDO2 standards. This innovation ensures security-first identity verification, stopping adversaries before they even gain access. Delivered through the Falcon for Mobile app, FalconID leverages real-time identity and endpoint telemetry to make smarter access decisions. By blocking techniques that bypass traditional MFA methods—such as social engineering and man-in-the-middle attacks—FalconID significantly reduces the risk of unauthorized access. - Enhanced Falcon Privileged Access
CrowdStrike has also enhanced its Falcon Privileged Access capabilities to simplify complex Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft Entra ID configurations. The solution automates grants and revocations through integrations with Microsoft Teams and Fusion SOAR, while providing real-time visibility into access patterns. This minimizes standing privileges and reduces the risk of privilege escalation—a common tactic used by attackers. By streamlining privileged access management, organizations can better enforce the principle of least privilege and mitigate insider threats. - Identity-Driven Case Management
To accelerate investigation and response, CrowdStrike introduced identity-driven case management within the Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM platform. This feature automatically correlates detections into a single case, enriched with telemetry from endpoints, cloud environments, and SaaS applications. The result is full context on cross-domain attacks, enabling faster and more informed decision-making. By unifying data from multiple sources, this innovation empowers SOC teams to respond more effectively to identity-driven breaches.
A Unified Approach to Identity Security
The integration of these capabilities into the Falcon platform underscores CrowdStrike’s commitment to delivering unified protection for the modern enterprise. Unlike legacy solutions that focus narrowly on access management, Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security takes a holistic approach, addressing vulnerabilities across the entire identity lifecycle. From initial access to privilege control and incident response, the platform ensures that no identity—human or machine—is left unprotected.
Moreover, the platform’s ability to adapt to hybrid environments makes it uniquely suited for today’s decentralized workforces. Whether employees are accessing corporate resources from home, machines are communicating across networks, or AI agents are executing tasks autonomously, Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security provides consistent protection without sacrificing usability or scalability.
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.
Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.
Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.
