F5-CrowdStrike network security partnership: Is EDR enough?

A new F5-CrowdStrike partnership extends EDR to vulnerable network infrastructure, but is it enough? Research shows NDR outperforms EDR in many places.

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• John Grady, Principal Analyst

Seeking to better protect customers from exploitable network devices, F5 and CrowdStrike recently announced a technology alliance in which CrowdStrike Falcon will integrate with and run directly on F5's BIG-IP platform. This partnership will enable customers to use workload security from the Falcon agent, as well as CrowdStrike's Falcon Adversary OverWatch managed threat hunting service, across their BIG-IP footprint. The vendors have positioned this alliance as a new approach that redefines network protection and extends edge protection from laptops, desktops and mobile devices to vulnerable network infrastructure.

While this is a growing area of concern for many organizations, it is worth noting that this partnership comes on the heels of a significant breach F5 suffered in ...