Fiserv Adds CrowdStrike Endpoint Security for Financial Industry

PRESS RELEASE — Brookfield, Wis., November 3, 2016 – Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, and CrowdStrike, the leader in next-generation endpoint protection, today announced an agreement to add CrowdStrike’s SaaS-based endpoint protection technology to the multi-layered Sentry^SM Cyber Security offerings from Fiserv. With CrowdStrike Falcon™, Fiserv clients can prevent, detect, and respond to malicious cyber threats in real-time, helping customers stop breaches.

“Cybersecurity needs can change in the blink of an eye, and our clients require security solutions that can keep them ahead of ever-evolving threats,” said Byron Vielehr, group president, Depository Institution Services, Fiserv. “The addition of CrowdStrike Falcon to Sentry Cyber Security strengthens the comprehensive, layered protection that Fiserv provides to financial institutions to help provide peace of mind for their employees, regulators and customers or members.”

Sentry Cyber Security, part of the Sentry portfolio of managed services from Fiserv, provides financial institutions with a proven ally in network security to protect their sensitive data. Fiserv offers financial institutions layered cyber security protection from the perimeter to the endpoint. The CrowdStrike partnership will provide an additional layer of threat detection to help clients defend against the rapidly growing and increasingly complex attacks from cyber criminals.{ad}

CrowdStrike Falcon goes beyond traditional endpoint protection solutions that monitor for known threats by analyzing and correlating billions of events in real-time to identify behaviors that could indicate a potential security threat, detecting intrusions before they occur. As a result, CrowdStrike provides prevention, detection and defense against attacks that are unknown, in addition to known malware and ransomware attack methods.

CrowdStrike has reinvented how endpoint security is delivered with its native cloud architecture. CrowdStrike is the first company to provide a complete end-to-end solution that unifies next-generation antivirus with endpoint detection and response and managed hunting — all delivered via the cloud using a single lightweight agent. CrowdStrike Falcon is highly effective in preventing fast-evolving attack types such as ransomware with its combination of machine learning and advanced behavior-based analytics.

As a result, the CrowdStrike technology has revolutionized the way organizations stop breaches and dramatically advanced financial institutions’ ability to fight off persistent and sophisticated cyber threats.

“Financial institutions remain a top target for cybercriminals,” said George Kurtz, co-founder and chief executive officer of CrowdStrike. “Working with Fiserv enables us to help address the demanding security needs of financial institutions in North America. Today’s hackers – be they criminal or state-sponsored actors – target all financial organizations, regardless of size, and we look forward to working with Fiserv to ensure their clients are well positioned to stop breaches, including new attack types like ransomware.”

In a world that is moving faster than ever before, Fiserv helps clients deliver solutions that are in step with the way people live and work today – financial services at the speed of life. Learn more at TheSpeedofLife.com.

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About Fiserv
Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV) enables clients to achieve best-in-class results by driving quality and innovation in payments, processing services, risk and compliance, customer and channel management, and business insights and optimization. For more than 30 years, Fiserv has been a global leader in financial services technology. Fiserv is a FORTUNE 500 company and in 2016 was honored to be named a FORTUNE magazine’s World’s Most Admired Company for the third consecutive year. In 2015 the company was recognized among Forbes magazine’s America’s Best Employers. For more information, visit Fiserv.com.