We're thrilled to share that the CrowdStrike Falcon® sensor now fully supports Google Cloud Run, bringing advanced security capabilities to your serverless applications.
While we announced this at Google Cloud Next in April 2024, this blog goes deeper into the integration and shares how customers leveraging Google Cloud Run and CrowdStrike can deploy Falcon quickly to enhance their serverless security requirements.
With the Falcon sensor now integrated with Google Cloud Run, organizations can leverage CrowdStrike's industry-leading protection to secure their serverless workloads.
Google Cloud Run shown via containers in the Falcon console.
By supporting Google Cloud Run, the Falcon sensor ensures that your serverless applications benefit from the same robust security measures that protect traditional and cloud-based workloads.
The host management dashboard in CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security shares information for Google Cloud Run services.
Deploying the Falcon sensor on Google Cloud Run is straightforward and seamless, allowing you to integrate security into your DevOps processes without compromising performance or agility.
Container sensor runtime security for Google Cloud Run services in the Falcon console.
With this new support, DevSecOps teams can now gain real-time insights into the security status of their serverless applications running on Google Cloud Run.
The Kubernetes and containers inventory dashboard in Falcon Cloud Security is where you can find Google Cloud Run service monitoring and detections.
Google Cloud Run is a fully managed serverless compute platform built from Knative that enables customers to run containers without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure.
You can run your containers either fully managed with Google Cloud Run or in your Kubernetes Engine cluster with Google Cloud Run on Anthos.
The Falcon container sensor for Linux can extend runtime security to container workloads in Google Cloud Run because it runs in the user space with no code running in the kernel or the worker node OS. Figure 5.
How the Falcon sensor deploys to secure Google Cloud Run-supported containers.
Deploying the Falcon container sensor for Linux to Google Cloud Run requires modification of the application container image.
The Falcon container sensor image contains a Falcon utility that supports patching the application container image with Falcon container sensor for Linux and its related dependencies.
Deploy the Falcon container sensor for Linux to Google Cloud Run.
Here's a more detailed step-by-step guide for customers using Falcon Cloud Security.
The powerful combination of AI-powered cloud services from Google Cloud and the unified protection and threat hunting capabilities of the Falcon platform provides the security that organizations need to stop breaches in multi-cloud and multi-vendor environments.
This synergy between CrowdStrike and Google Cloud will shape the future of cloud technology and security, setting a new standard for protecting today's cloud environments.
This Cyber News was published on www.crowdstrike.com. Publication date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:13:04 +0000