The Browser as the New Gateway to the Organization: Why Did CrowdStrike Acquire Seraphic?
It doesn’t take much imagination to understand that a high percentage of daily work in an organization is done through the browser – internal access to the organization, but also to cloud applications, use of AI tools, and transfer of sensitive information (personal, medical, business, etc.).
In each such interaction, the browser sees all the traffic before encryption begins.
But, while organizations invest a lot of resources in Endpoint and Network security, the browser remains a huge blind spot even for these on-the-fly attackers. This is exactly the risk gap that CrowdStrike wanted to reduce. By acquiring Seraphic, CrowdStrike is able to reduce risk and create the ability to see and analyze everything that happens at the browser layer, before encryption, and combine this telemetry with endpoint data.
The market is in an aggressive consolidation process. Organizations prefer integrated platforms over individual best-of-breed products, even if it requires technological compromises. The reason is simple: each separate product holds mountains of data, integrations between systems require time and human resources that most organizations do not have, and without them, the tools remain powerless - partially implemented or not utilized at all. In the advanced world of defensive and real-time detection, combined with AI-Native, large companies understand this, which is why we see an arms race: CrowdStrike acquires Seraphic and SGNL for dynamic identity management, Palo Alto acquires Cyber-Ark, and the list goes on.
CrowdStrike's move creates something fascinating: a combination of Browser Security, Endpoint Protection, and Dynamic Identity Management. Imagine a situation where the system detects suspicious activity in a browser session - connecting to an external AI tool, uploading code to an LLM model, or accessing a phishing site. With the combination of Seraphic + SGNL + CrowdStrike Falcon, the system not only detects the threat in real time, but can also automatically escalate - restrict permissions, block actions, or require additional authentication - all based on the full context of the user (human), the device (technology), and the behavior (process).
Ultimately, every organization needs to choose advanced security products that can share data with each other via an AI Native broker with a human in the loop for accurate analysis of comprehensive telemetry, in order to generate rapid responses to events and crises at the very first stage of their formation. The ability to understand the connections between different touchpoints - Endpoint, Browser, Identity - will determine the readiness and VOI level of the organization's security as an important indicator for management and the board of directors.
The question: Would you prefer to continue with the attempt to integrate dozens of different products, or go for a single platform that does 80% of the work out-of-the-box, as in this case?
