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CrowdStrike Cloud Security India

As Indian enterprises migrate to AWS, Azure, and GCP, cloud misconfigurations, exposed APIs, and unprotected workloads create new attack surfaces that traditional security tools cannot see.

Falcon Cloud Security — CrowdStrike's CNAPP — provides unified cloud security posture management, workload protection, and identity governance across your entire multi-cloud estate.

95%
Cloud breaches due to misconfiguration
AWS+Azure+GCP
Multi-cloud coverage in one platform
Shift-Left
DevSecOps integration for CI/CD
DPDPA
Cloud data governance for India compliance

Cloud Security Challenges for Indian Enterprises

Cloud migration is accelerating in India — but security teams are struggling to maintain visibility and control across dynamic multi-cloud environments.

Cloud Misconfiguration Epidemic

Industry research shows that the vast majority of cloud security incidents result from misconfigured cloud resources — exposed S3 buckets, public databases, permissive security groups, and disabled logging. CSPM continuously scans your cloud infrastructure for these misconfigurations and prioritizes them by risk.

API and Container Attack Surface

Modern Indian enterprises run hundreds of containerized microservices with exposed APIs. Each container image and each API endpoint is a potential attack vector — and traditional endpoint security cannot see inside containers or monitor API traffic. CWPP protects workloads at the container and VM level with runtime protection.

Excessive Cloud Permissions

Cloud IAM sprawl — too many users, service accounts, and roles with excessive permissions — is the most common path from initial access to full cloud account compromise. Falcon CIEM (Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management) identifies all identities and their effective permissions, flagging over-privilege and unused access rights.

Shift-Left Security Gap

Security is often only checked at deployment — not during build. Misconfigurations and vulnerable dependencies are introduced during development and slip through to production undetected. Falcon's DevSecOps integration checks Terraform, CloudFormation, and container images in the CI/CD pipeline before deployment.

Falcon Cloud Security Modules

CrowdStrike's CNAPP platform covers every layer of cloud security — from infrastructure posture to workload runtime protection to identity governance.

CSPM — Cloud Security Posture Management

Continuously scans AWS, Azure, and GCP for misconfigurations against CIS benchmarks, NIST, and compliance frameworks. Risk-scored findings with one-click remediation guidance. Drift detection alerts on configuration changes that deviate from secure baselines.

CWPP — Cloud Workload Protection

Runtime protection for VMs, containers, and serverless functions. Detects malicious processes, privilege escalation, file system tampering, and lateral movement inside cloud workloads — using the same CrowdStrike Falcon sensor deployed on endpoints.

CIEM — Cloud Identity Entitlement Management

Analyzes all cloud IAM permissions — users, roles, service accounts, and federated identities — across your multi-cloud estate. Identifies excessive permissions, dormant credentials, and cross-account privilege paths that create attack surface. Provides right-sizing recommendations.

IaC Security — Shift-Left Scanning

Scans Infrastructure-as-Code templates (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, Kubernetes manifests) for misconfigurations before deployment. Integrates with GitHub, GitLab, and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines. Blocks deployment of non-compliant infrastructure.

Container Security — Image Scanning

Scans container images in registries (ECR, ACR, GCR, Docker Hub) for known vulnerabilities, embedded secrets, and compliance violations before they reach production. Runtime protection detects container escapes and anomalous behavior post-deployment.

Multi-Cloud Unified Dashboard

Single Falcon console covering all cloud accounts, all regions, all resource types — across AWS, Azure, and GCP simultaneously. No separate tools, no separate consoles. Correlates cloud findings with endpoint and identity telemetry for unified investigations.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Falcon Cloud Security natively supports AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform — the three cloud providers most commonly used by Indian enterprises. A single Falcon deployment covers all three clouds simultaneously. If your organization uses AWS as primary with Azure for Microsoft workloads (a common Indian enterprise pattern), Falcon provides unified visibility and policy enforcement across both accounts from a single console.
CNAPP (Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform) is the converged successor to separate CSPM and CWPP tools. Instead of misconfigurations identified by CSPM in one tool and runtime threats detected by CWPP in another, CNAPP correlates them — a misconfigured S3 bucket containing sensitive data that is also being accessed by a compromised workload generates a single high-priority alert with full context. Falcon CNAPP also adds CIEM and IaC scanning that traditional CSPM tools lack.
Yes. DPDPA 2023 requires technical safeguards for personal data regardless of where it is processed — including cloud environments. Falcon CSPM identifies cloud misconfigurations that expose personal data (publicly accessible databases, unencrypted storage, open security groups). CIEM identifies users with excessive access to data stores. The compliance dashboard generates audit-ready reports mapping cloud security posture to DPDPA requirements.
Yes — this is one of the key advantages of CrowdStrike's platform approach. If your endpoints already have Falcon sensor deployed, Falcon Cloud Security integrates with the same Falcon console, uses the same threat graph, and provides correlated investigations across endpoints and cloud workloads. An alert about a compromised cloud workload can be immediately correlated with the endpoint that triggered the initial compromise — reducing investigation time from hours to minutes.
Falcon's DevSecOps integration works as a plugin for VS Code, IntelliJ, and as a CLI tool that developers can run locally before committing code. In CI/CD pipelines, it integrates as a step in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps. When a developer pushes Terraform code with an open security group or a Dockerfile with a known-vulnerable base image, the pipeline fails with specific remediation guidance — before the misconfiguration ever reaches production.

Secure Your Cloud Workloads with CrowdStrike

Authorized CrowdStrike partner. Certified cloud security engineers. Multi-cloud coverage across AWS, Azure, and GCP — from a single Falcon console. Get pricing today.