Phishing is the weapon of choice for many adversaries. And it’s easy to understand why: Users fall victim to attacks in under 60 seconds on average, novice cybercriminals can launch effective phishing campaigns thanks to off-the-shelf phishing kits and generative AI, and above all, it works — 71% of organizations reported at least one successful attack in 2023.

To defend against rampant phishing attacks, organizations require robust systems to detect, investigate and respond to phishing threats. This is where CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM and CrowdStrike Falcon® Fusion SOAR can deliver tremendous value, allowing you to quickly stop threats from one unified platform.

This blog shares how Falcon Next-Gen SIEM helps stop phishing attacks and why we’re offering 10GB/day of free email data ingestion to jumpstart your next-gen SIEM journey.

Detect Phishing Attacks with Falcon Next-Gen SIEM

Falcon Next-Gen SIEM empowers you to detect phishing fast by consolidating your endpoint data and third-party data on the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform. With a robust ecosystem of data connectors and parsers, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM simplifies the ingestion of third-party data so you can quickly detect and stop attacks.

 

Legacy SIEMs burden security teams with complex and unwieldy lists of correlation rules, often developed years or decades ago. These rules create a flood of false positives, forcing specialized detection engineers to waste time tuning and maintaining them. Overwhelmed, many organizations turn to managed security service providers (MSSPs) with mixed results.

Falcon Next-Gen SIEM cuts through the pitfalls of outdated correlation rules. It delivers laser-accurate detection for both Falcon telemetry — including endpoint, cloud and identity data — and third-party logs. Crafted by CrowdStrike experts with industry-leading adversary research, our out-of-the-box correlation rules align with MITRE ATT&CK®, helping you detect attack techniques across the cyber kill chain. Your team can easily customize rules with a unified language for search, parsing and dashboards.

Monitor Threats with Live Dashboards

Next, it’s helpful to discuss how live dashboards can help you identify top threats and analyze trends to improve your security posture.

Falcon Next-Gen SIEM’s dashboard capability allows you to create custom dashboards from queries, providing at-a-glance data visualization for quick decision-making. You can view aggregated data from various email sources based on common fields and use interactions to drill down into vendor-specific data and fields.

Investigate and Respond with Falcon Fusion SOAR

Workflow automation offers numerous benefits, including reduced mean time to respond (MTTR), enhanced team efficiency and cost savings.

Phishing is an ideal starting point for workflow automation due to the repetition in phishing investigations and the need for consistent responses and swift action. With Falcon Fusion SOAR, the no-code orchestration, automation and response capability built into the Falcon platform, you can quickly reap the benefits of automation, empowering your team to respond more effectively to phishing threats.

With more than 125 pre-built actions and the ability to execute actions directly on the endpoint with CrowdStrike Falcon® Insight XDR, Falcon Fusion SOAR lets you orchestrate incident response across your SOC. You can easily build workflows to automatically investigate the contents of suspicious emails or reset compromised credentials, allowing your team to save valuable time and focus on higher priorities. Workflows can run on-demand or trigger automatically based on a detection or a predefined schedule.

 

Falcon Fusion SOAR provides out-of-the-box playbook templates to simplify workflow automation. Predefined templates can be easily customized to align to your organization’s security policies and technologies.

The Incident Workbench enhances incident visualization and team collaboration. It illustrates the relationships and connections between entities, providing a clear view of the attack’s progression. Clicking on the graph reveals detailed information on each entity, including sender details, malicious URLs, indicators of compromise and relevant threat actors.

 

A prebuilt SOAR dashboard helps you monitor team performance, executed workflows, related detections and MTTR trends. By continuously measuring your phishing KPIs, you can make ongoing improvements to your detection and response capabilities, shifting from a reactive to a proactive security approach.

Get Started with 10GB of Free Email Data Ingestion

Phishing attacks remain a persistent threat to organizations. The Falcon platform seamlessly integrates data, AI, workflow automation and threat intelligence on a unified platform for full visibility and protection against cyberthreats, including phishing attacks.

Email data can be a rich source of information for uncovering malicious activity. Starting today, Falcon Insight XDR customers get 10GB per day of free email data ingestion to kickstart their SOC transformation and realize the power of combining Falcon platform data with third-party data to detect phishing schemes, accelerate investigations and meet compliance requirements.

Contact your sales representative or technical account manager to learn more about this offering.

Additional Resources

• Read this technical blog to start ingesting email data into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM.
• Learn about key benefits of next-gen SIEM in the Falcon Next-Gen SIEM data sheet.
• Sign up to attend our Next-Gen SIEM Showcase.
• Read the Complete Guide to Next-Gen SIEM to learn how to modernize your SOC.
• Want to learn more about Falcon Fusion SOAR? Read the data sheet or visit the product page.

According to the CrowdStrike 2024 Global Threat Report, the fastest recorded eCrime breakout time was just 2 minutes and 7 seconds in 2023. This underscores the need to equip security analysts with modern tools that level the playing field and enable them to work more efficiently and effectively.

Today’s analysts require a new generation of security information and event management (SIEM) technology capable of scaling to manage petabytes of data, working seamlessly with security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) capabilities to stop breaches.

CrowdStrike Falcon® Fusion SOAR, the no-code orchestration, automation and response capability built into the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, is now available to enable workflow automation for third-party data with CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM. Legacy SIEMs have failed the SOC, but Falcon Next-Gen SIEM introduces a new approach to eliminate slow queries, complex architectures and costly data ingestion. With its new features and enhancements, Falcon Fusion SOAR is well-positioned to help your security team realize the benefits that automation can deliver.

Elevate SOC Efficiency and Accuracy with Workflow Automation

Security automation is your secret weapon to stopping attacks and improving your bottom line. It reduces the time needed to respond to threats, cuts the costs of integrating and operating tools, and improves your security analysts’ job satisfaction by eliminating repetitive tasks, allowing the team to focus on higher-level responsibilities that cannot be automated.

Automation can significantly enhance the efficiency of the SOC. While SIEMs excel at detecting threats by analyzing vast amounts of data, they still force security analysts to manually triage detections and filter out false positives. Many investigation tasks are repetitive and time-consuming, keeping teams from stopping real threats quickly. This is where SOAR steps in to boost efficiency, driving detections to resolution and establishing a continuous information loop.

Enhance Security Operations from Detection to Action

Falcon Fusion SOAR slashes response times during an investigation — when every second counts. It not only improves the technical effectiveness of security operations by working as a cohesive unit but also optimizes operational efficiency by breaking down information silos and eliminating data transfer delays. It ensures that data flows seamlessly and bi-directionally between Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and Falcon Fusion SOAR to act on the most current information available, providing you with a real-time view of your security posture and a feedback loop for continuous improvement.

Falcon Fusion SOAR can query both Falcon platform data as well as third-party data in Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to further threat investigations and store data, such as query results, ensuring that security teams have the most up-to-date view of their data. It also accelerates responses, as Falcon Fusion SOAR can execute workflows that are automatically from a Falcon Next-Gen SIEM detection, scheduled for continuous protection or launched on-demand in response to critical threats.

Additionally, Falcon Fusion SOAR has the ability to drive workflow automation based on Falcon platform alerts and data, such as endpoint, cloud and identity, as well as third-party data collected by Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. This consolidated solution provides you with unrivaled visibility into your data and significantly reduces the time spent on detection, investigation and response.

Empowering Security Teams with No-Code Workflow Automation

Security analysts are often overwhelmed by the high number of alerts they must triage and respond to. While workflow automation is a powerful tool that can simplify security processes, cumbersome playbook development can hinder progress. Implementing orchestration and automation requires clearly defined processes, a deep understanding of the technologies being orchestrated and knowledge on how to translate these into automated processes. And often, complex decisions require human involvement. Given the advanced skills required to code playbooks and the scarcity of security talent, security teams need tools that prioritize a modern analyst experience and offer a significant advantage against adversaries.

As a native capability of Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, Falcon Fusion SOAR provides analysts with a unified experience that combines world-class security data and workflow automation to stop breaches. The newly redesigned workflow builder allows security analysts to easily visualize their workflows as they build them with an intuitive top to bottom flow for improved readability and usability. Analysts can simply select different building blocks without needing to code, making automation accessible even to more junior analysts.

 

Depending on the complexity of the workflow, building it can only take only a few minutes. Once the use case has been identified, analysts need to select a trigger, define conditions and configure the actions. Falcon Fusion SOAR supports the orchestration of complex use cases with conditional branching and logic, and by seamlessly integrating with Falcon Real Time Response (RTR) to execute any action on the endpoint. When key decision making and approvals are necessary, team members can be notified via email, Slack or your preferred communication method as part of the workflow.

To give your team a headstart, Falcon Fusion SOAR offers a growing library of out-of-the-box playbooks for common use cases. These playbook templates can be easily customized to meet your organization’s policies and technology stack.

Falcon Fusion SOAR recently released a new phishing integration and playbook to help your team automate response to emails reported as phishing by employees in your organization.The workflow integrates with MS365, authorizing Falcon Fusion to have read-only access to your organizations’ phishing inbox. When an email is reported as phishing, the workflow begins the investigation process by searching all email components for enrichment. If malicious indicators are identified, the workflow will quarantine or block indicators, update third-party tools and create custom IOCs to start a retroactive search.

Optimize Incident Response with Workflow Automation Insights

Workflow automation helps security teams cut mean time to respond (MTTR) by gathering and enriching data, guiding analysts through investigations and orchestrating, and automatically remediating attacks. It also reduces the risk of human error by driving consistent, standardized actions. Additionally, it has the potential to improve your security posture by providing insights into trends and execution, helping to better understand performance, enhance collaboration and identify areas of improvement.

Falcon Fusion SOAR offers at-a-glance insights through a metrics dashboard that enables you to view detailed workflow executions, including the various actions executed by each workflow, and related detections. This comprehensive information, along with other trends, enhances the understanding of the status and context of an incident. All of this information is readily available in a unified view within the Falcon platform, thereby reducing “swivel-chair syndrome” for your team and allowing them to concentrate efforts on the most critical threats.

Next-Level Threat Management with Falcon Next-Gen SIEM

With its native SOAR capabilities powered by Falcon Fusion SOAR, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM accelerates threat detection, investigation and response — all from a single console. This gives your team the speed to keep pace with adversaries and the focus to address the threats that put your organization at risk.

Additional Resources

• Want to learn more about Falcon Fusion? Visit the Falcon Fusion SOAR product page.
• Download the Falcon Fusion SOAR data sheet to learn about our integrated SIEM and SOAR capabilities.
• Sign up to attend our Next-Gen SIEM Showcase to see Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and Falcon Fusion SOAR in action.
• Sign up to request a test drive of Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to see how Falcon Fusion SOAR augments the module.
• Watch on demand: CrowdStrike’s AI-Native SOC Summit: The Next Generation of SIEM, Here Today
• Read our SOC Survival Guide to learn how to revolutionize your SOC.