CrowdStrike has announced the availability of its FalconID phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication toolthus providing the Falcon platform with Risk-based identity security for multi-factor authentication. CrowdStrike FalconID, among other things, provides real-world, risk-based protection against AI-accelerated phishing attacks and credential abuse at the point of authentication.
Traditional IAM and PAM access management systems were not designed to stop security breaches, and even with multi-factor authentication they function as isolated point-in-time controls, lacking the real-time security context necessary to stop AI-accelerated phishing attacks. FalconID reframes authentication as a seamless, risk-informed experience, built into the Falcon sensor and delivered through the Falcon for Mobile app.
Using real-time risk signals from the Falcon platform, the solution determines when access is safe and when it is not, without requiring users to take steps that are not necessary. FalconID therefore reduces complexity without compromising security, transforming identity and access management at the speed of AI.
Falcon’s solution protects the entire hybrid identity lifecycle, including human, non-human, and AI agent identities. It covers initial, privileged access, identity threat detection and response, and SaaS identity security. With the purchases of SGNL and Seraphic, CrowdStrike removes permanent privileges and continuously protects interactions from the endpoint, through browser and cloud sessions, starting at the point of authentication with FalconID.
The main advantages and features of FalconID are authentication with security as a priority. Falcon ID continually assesses risk signals from the Falcon platform across identities, endpoints, devices, and behaviors to determine when access is safe and when it is not. When there is a high certainty that it is, users are authenticated transparently. When risk changes, access automatically adapts.
The solution also offers frictionless device-linked verification, which eliminates passwords, push notifications, and one-time codes through FIDO2-based biometric authentication, which requires verified physical proxying between the mobile, multi-factor authentication device and the authenticating device, which can be a laptop or workstation, to approve access.
Integrated into the Falcon for Mobile app, Falcon ID verifies user and device in real time without redirects, third-party integrations or added controls that create protection gaps and slow down users.
FalconID offers Passwordless authentication in browser using Seraphicextended by the application of SGNL’s CAEP (Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol) protocol integrated into Falcon Fusion SOAR. This continually adapts access, removes permanent privileges, protects users and interactions from authentication to execution, and secures subsequent systems as risk changes, without slowing down users.
