CrowdStrike can leverage Mimecast’s newest zero-day information to alert administrators and prevent the threat from executing on the managed endpoint devices. This added protection halts the attack before it succeeds, whether originating through a personal email account, a USB device or other vector.

Integration of the three solutions is easy to establish and requires no scripting or programming. Once completed, full bi-directional communication among all three systems works immediately, requires no further configuration and can be monitored from each system’s administrative console.

The straightforward integration process of this holistic solution helps manage the challenge organisations face of preventing data loss when data can leave their network via thousands of cloud services, many outside the IT team’s control.

Working together, the solution reduces the possibility of data loss whether inadvertent, negligent or malicious. It becomes more difficult for malware to find workarounds and successfully exfiltrate data by targeting the weak link of a personal email account.

With integrated data, SecOps and IT Ops gain greater visibility into each other’s challenges. Uniting SecOps and IT Ops can avoid downtime by protecting people earlier — leading to fewer trouble tickets, fewer interruptions and fewer employees forced offline due to security problems.

The same data flows and improved feedback may also help internal software professionals build more secure systems, supporting a DevSecOps approach that integrates security more deeply throughout the development lifecycle.