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Falcon by CrowdStrike

Overview

Falcon is a cloud-native cybersecurity platform that provides protection for endpoints (like laptops, servers, mobile devices) against a wide range of threats, including malware, ransomware, and nation-state attacks.

It's widely used in enterprise environments to detect and prevent security breaches in real time, using AI, behavioral analysis, and threat intelligence.

What Falcon Does

Falcon offers multiple modules (many licenced separately) focusing on different security areas, for example:

  • Falcon Prevent which replaces or enhances antivirus software.
  • Falcon insight providing endpoint detection and response - Collects telemetry data from devices and enables deep investigation and threat hunting and remote response from security teams.
  • Falcon OverWatch - which monitors environments and proactively hunt for intrusions.
  • Falcon Device Control to restrict USB and other peripheral devices (enforces hardware policies)

Along with other available modules.

Considerations for Developers

Developers may encounter:

  • Falcon blocking or sandboxing your app if it behaves unusually (e.g., accessing system resources, modifying memory).

  • Falcon policies that restrict debugging tools, USB devices, or system-level changes.

  • IT security teams asking you to test your Android app on Falcon-protected devices or ensuring your dev machine is secure.