Exclusive Interaction with Fabio Fratucello, Field CTO, CrowdStrike

Recently DQChannels had an exclusive interaction with Fabio Fratucello, Field CTO, CrowdStrike. He shared his views on cybersecurity threats and cloud trends. Ankit Parashar, Senior Assistant Editor, DQChannels interviewed him at the CrowdStrike APJ Partner Conference, Phuket.

The first question put forth was - "What are the different cyber attacks and cloud exploitation trends in the market?". To which Fabio Fratucello, Field CTO, CrowdStrike explained that The latest trends in cybersecurity, we're seeing a threat to cloud environments. Also, there are three time spikes in abusing remote management tools. It means that thread landscapes will continue to evolve. Attackers are operating in a more sophisticated manner and causing huge disruptions.

Taking it forward next question was about key challenges that businesses are facing post-pandemic. Fabio Fratucello shared his views, "One of the key challenges is that adversaries are becoming quicker. The average breakout time has reduced from 84 minutes to 79 minutes. Likewise, security leaders and organizations need to enhance their capabilities at a higher rate to detect and respond to a threat in a timely manner."

Ankit Parashar, Senior Assistant Editor, moved ahead with his next question about, how CrowdStrike's solutions assist customers in addressing challenges. Fabio Fratucello answered that CrowdStrike is designed to focus on stopping breaches. It has a platform approach that helped to effectively evolve our customers' and partners' capabilities to improve their cloud security.

The interaction went ahead with the next query on why SaaS platform segments provide the best business growth. Here Fabio Fratucello replied, "There are several benefits of using a SaaS platform. First, from an operational perspective, cloud-native capability is the architecture that allows to scale. Consequently, CrowdStrike manages trillions of security events regularly."

To sum up, this interaction the last question was on what are the future plans of CrowdStrike in terms of technology? Fabio Fratucello shared that CrowdStrike will continue to focus on identity and data domains. CrowdStrike will continue to have a channel-led approach and provide unified solutions to our customers.

In conclusion, this interaction threw some light on CrowdStrike's overall strategies and views on the changing dynamics of cloud security and cloud trends. It explained their take on threats like cyber attacks and how CrowdStrike is going to overcome these issues.