Managing application control and endpoint detection and response in separate workflows can add complexity and manual work. The Airlock Digital integration with CrowdStrike Falcon lets teams manage application control, review file context, and apply file blocks within the Falcon console, making multi-layered endpoint security easier to operate.
Every application allowed to run represents a trust decision. For organizations, a highly effective security strategy starts by controlling what software can run across their environments and how to investigate when endpoint activity raises concerns. This multi-layered endpoint security strategy connects those responsibilities, combining control over authorized execution with the ability to detect and respond to suspicious behavior.
The Airlock Digital integration with CrowdStrike Falcon brings those layers closer together. It enables cross-functional teams to manage application control capabilities, review Airlock Digital file context, and choose which files to allow or block directly within the CrowdStrike Falcon console.
Why a Multi-layered Endpoint Security Strategy Is Necessary
With security threats continually increasing, a best practices approach for controlling which applications, scripts, and executables can run while continuing to detect and respond to suspicious endpoint activity is a smart way for organizations to significantly improve their security posture. Application control and endpoint detection and response (EDR) serve complementary purposes, but operating them across separate workflows creates complexity and inefficiency.
Airlock Digital makes application control and allowlisting easy and achievable at scale to help organizations define which applications, scripts, and executables they trust to run. Its Deny by Default approach prevents unauthorized software from executing according to configured policies. Software does not need to be identified as malicious for an organization to decide that it should not run.
Together, Airlock Digital and CrowdStrike help customers reduce opportunities for unauthorized software execution while maintaining the visibility and response capabilities needed to address threats. The integration makes that layered strategy easier to manage and operate.
Remove Friction Between Investigation and Action
The integration natively brings Airlock Digital capabilities into the CrowdStrike Falcon experience, allowing teams to complete supported tasks within their existing workflow. Users gain access to application control management and gain a more direct path from investigation findings to blocklist decisions.
Manage Application Control Within CrowdStrike Falcon
With the integration, teams can now perform application control within the CrowdStrike Falcon console. For administrators, this makes application control more accessible during daily operations. Teams can perform supported management tasks in the same environment they use for endpoint security, eliminating the need to move between interfaces.
The embedded experience provides substantial Airlock Digital functionality, with the full Airlock Digital console remaining available for a complete management experience.
Use Application Context to Make Informed Decisions
For any decision within CrowdStrike Falcon, analysts can see what Airlock Digital knows about the file. The context provided by Airlock Digital helps connect the organization’s software trust decisions with its investigation process. This gives analysts the ability to inspect existing allowlist or blocklist membership in Airlock Digital before making a change.
Connect Investigation Findings to Preventive Application Control
When an analyst determines that a file should no longer run, the integration enables them to apply a file block directly within CrowdStrike Falcon. Airlock Digital then applies the resulting decision through its applicable policies and endpoint enforcement.
The analyst remains in control of the decision and the target blocklist in Airlock Digital. This is a deliberate application control action, allowing teams to apply their judgment while reducing the manual work required to carry it out.
Deliver More Value for Shared Customers
For organizations already using Airlock Digital and CrowdStrike Falcon, the enhanced integration creates a practical opportunity to connect existing security investments more closely. For Falcon customers evaluating application control, Airlock Digital adds explicit control over authorized software execution alongside their existing endpoint security capabilities. The integration demonstrates how that additional layer can fit into a familiar operating experience.
The integration brings the Airlock Digital and CrowdStrike capabilities together into a multi-layered endpoint security strategy that enables customers to:
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Reduce exposure to unauthorized execution by combining Airlock Digital software trust enforcement with CrowdStrike Falcon
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Simplify application control administration by bringing key policy and exception management tasks into CrowdStrike Falcon
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Reduce manual investigation steps by bringing Airlock Digital context into CrowdStrike Falcon EDR capabilities
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Make informed enforcement decisions with visibility into application control and what is allowed or blocked by policy
- Connect existing security investments through a shared workflow for application control administrators and security analysts
Get Started with the Enhanced Integration
CrowdStrike customers can set up the Airlock Digital integration now within CrowdStrike Foundry. The result is a more connected approach to multi-layered endpoint security to control what may run, investigate suspicious activity, and use those findings to execute the right decisions to improve the organization’s security posture. To learn more, visit Airlock Digital on the CrowdStrike Marketplace: Airlock Digital - Precision Application Control.