- Organisation
- University of Sunderland, United Kingdom
- Predecessor
- legacy endpoint protection that did not stop the source-described 2021 ransomware attack
- Destination
- CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR with managed endpoint protection and later identity and cloud protections
- Workload
- CrowdStrike Falcon Complete
- Stage
- operational
Verified platform change
CrowdStrike states that the University of Sunderland adopted Falcon Complete in 2021 and expanded managed identity and cloud protections in 2022.
Transition
From: legacy endpoint protection that did not stop the source-described 2021 ransomware attack
To: CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR with managed endpoint protection and later identity and cloud protections
Known unknowns
The evidence proves the bounded managed-detection-and-response adoption and later expansion. It does not expose an exact private cutover day or claim that every university security control was replaced.