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November 20, 2025 Luke Hunsinger In a cloud-first world, sensitive data moves quickly between microservices, APIs, SaaS applications, and storage services. CrowdStrike Falcon® Data Protection for Cloud, now generally available, delivers runtime visibility and protection for sensitive data in motion so organizations have continuous insight into how data moves, when it’s accessed, and where it’s at risk.
Legacy data loss prevention (DLP) tools weren’t built for the dynamic nature of modern cloud workloads. They rely on heavy infrastructure and manual tuning, which can’t keep pace with today’s attacks. Traditional data security posture management (DSPM) solutions provide valuable data discovery at rest but stop short of runtime visibility, leaving blind spots when sensitive data moves. Falcon Data Protection for Cloud is the only solution that extends DSPM into runtime, powered by eBPF monitoring and delivered through a unified cybersecurity platform.
Organizations can view unauthorized and risky data movement the moment it happens, without proxies, sidecars, or added infrastructure. Falcon Data Protection for Cloud delivers the real-time insight needed to detect and stop sensitive data movement before damage is done. Closing the Cloud Data Visibility Gap Without continuous runtime monitoring, security teams can’t see when sensitive data is transmitted to misconfigured storage, exposed through unauthenticated APIs, or sent to unauthorized destinations.
This delays detection and response and heightens risk. Falcon Data Protection for Cloud closes this gap by extending DSPM into runtime. Unlike traditional DSPM or legacy DLP solutions that provide only static visibility, Falcon Data Protection for Cloud combines real-time visibility, runtime protection, unified classification, and integrated response. Powered by eBPF-based monitoring, it continuously observes sensitive data in motion across APIs, SaaS applications, containers, and cloud storage.
This modern architecture gives security teams the speed, precision, and context to detect unauthorized data movement the moment it occurs and respond instantly from the CrowdStrike Falcon® console. Protect Sensitive Data in Motion and at Rest Falcon Data Protection for Cloud delivers new capabilities, offering real-time runtime visibility and detection across cloud data flows while fully integrated within the Falcon platform.
Runtime monitoring powered by eBPF: Continuously observe sensitive data in motion across APIs, SaaS, databases, and storage, with full details on source, destination, encryption and authentication methods, and data classification. Figure 1. Interactive flow maps provide real-time visualizations showing where sensitive data originates, where it’s going, and who is responsible for its movement. Out-of-the-box detections: Identify high-risk activity, including sensitive data sent to public S3 buckets, unencrypted internet transfers, and exposure through unauthenticated APIs.
Figure 2. Every alert is enriched with source and destination, method of transfer, and classification tags for quick triage and response. Cloud Data Protection Dashboard: Gain unified, real-time visibility into runtime cloud data with the unified dashboard. It brings together detections, data flows, and classifications in one interactive view, helping teams quickly identify risks, investigate incidents, and track sensitive data movement across APIs, SaaS, databases, and storage.
Figure 3. A unified cloud data security dashboard provides centralized visibility into all detections, classifications, and data flows across your cloud services. GenAI data protection for cloud: Identify when sensitive data is transmitted from cloud workloads, services, or APIs to GenAI tools or large language model endpoints. Falcon Data Protection for Cloud provides visibility into shadow AI usage, unauthorized integrations, and data flowing to GenAI environments, helping teams detect emerging risks before data leaves their control.
Unified classification: Apply consistent classifications for financial data, personally identifiable information (PII), protection health information (PHI), intellectual property (IP), and other sensitive content across endpoint and cloud using the shared Falcon Data Protection classification engine. Integrated investigation and response: Enrich detections with context and trigger CrowdStrike Falcon® Fusion SOAR playbooks to notify teams, recommend remediation, and accelerate resolution.
CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM integration with CrowdStrike Falcon® LogScale: Automatically stream Falcon Data Protection for Cloud events into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM for deep analysis and correlation. Security teams can pivot seamlessly from detection to investigation within Falcon LogScale to uncover patterns, trace data movement, and accelerate incident resolution across the Falcon platform. Lightweight deployment model: Get protection delivered through the Falcon Linux sensor for rapid rollout in Amazon EKS and Azure AKS environments, with no retooling or added sensors required.
Customizable data-at-rest scanning: Run lightweight, configurable scans across Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, and Azure Blob Storage to discover and classify sensitive data without slowing operations. Falcon Data Protection for Cloud requires CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security for Containers to operate. Together, they provide complete DSPM coverage for sensitive data at rest and in motion.
Falcon Cloud Security delivers discovery for data at rest, while Falcon Data Protection for Cloud extends protection into runtime, giving organizations unified visibility into where data lives, how it moves, and when it’s at risk across cloud environments. Get Started Falcon Data Protection for Cloud is available today, ready to deliver value the moment it’s activated. It redefines modern DSPM by extending it into runtime and is the only solution to provide real-time visibility, unified classification, and automated response in a single platform.
Whether you’re extending protection from endpoint to cloud or replacing legacy DLP and traditional DSPM tools, Falcon Data Protection for Cloud helps security teams protect sensitive data wherever it moves without added complexity. See how runtime visibility can help your team detect, investigate, and respond to cloud data risks before they become breaches: Schedule a demo to experience Falcon Data Protection for Cloud in action and learn how CrowdStrike can help you secure sensitive data wherever it moves.
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