TCS teams up with CrowdStrike for enterprise cybersecurity

Indian IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike on Wednesday announced a partnership to enhance TCS’ extended managed detection and response (XMDR) services with the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon XDR platform.

This partnership enables TCS to leverage the unified protection of the Falcon platform, incorporating cloud security and next-gen SIEM, delivering AI-powered SOC transformation that effectively prevents breaches.

As the complexity of today’s cyber-attacks continues to increase, organizations need outcome-based security protection focused on stopping breaches. With cloud intrusions growing 75% in the past year, breakout times now measured in minutes, and the growing cybersecurity skills gap, managed security solutions serve as the force multiplier customers need to protect their critical assets and securely drive digital transformation initiatives. The combination of TCS’s worldwide team of expert practitioners with Falcon platform’s CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM is expected to offer customers with the protection they need to stop breaches.

Ganesa Subramanian Vaikuntam, vice president and Global Head, of Cybersecurity Business Group, TCS, said, “TCS has been partnering with enterprises across the globe for over 20 years to protect their businesses. As the attack surface evolves, enterprises must secure their digital core with robust cybersecurity to grow and innovate. Our partnership with CrowdStrike bolsters our capabilities to offer stronger cyber defense to our customers and protect them from modern, sophisticated cyber threats.”

Daniel Bernard, chief business officer, CrowdStrike, said, “The Falcon platform has set the global standard, becoming cybersecurity’s AI platform of choice for businesses and their trusted delivery partners. This partnership brings CrowdStrike closer to customers, empowering TCS’s large, global footprint to modernize, innovate and standardize on the Falcon platform. 

In November, TCS launched an artificial intelligence-based cybersecurity and compliance platform. Called Cyber Insights, the platform builds on Amazon Security Lake along with TCS’ expertise in managed detection and response for customers to unify their security datasets across clouds and environments. To be sure, launched in November 2022, Amazon Security Lake is a purpose-built security data lake for customers to aggregate and store data.