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Imagine you are the owner of a bustling casino casually observing the vibrant scene: The clatter of slot machines, wagers are being placed, the cheerful chatter of gamblers, and waiters are serving cocktails. Everything appears normal until, without warning, the machines fall silent. However, it doesn’t stop there. Elevators grind to a halt, parking gates freeze shut, and guests find themselves locked out of their rooms as digital door keys fail to function.

Personal information also referred to as personally identifiable information (PII) and Protected Personal Information (PPI), has a good and bad side for companies. All businesses record the personal information of their clients (names, debit/credit cards, address, etc.) to identify them and execute certain business operations. These business operations may range from meeting payrolls, to filling orders, and advertising. This makes the user and business operations run much faster and smoother.

The AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon platform is built to detect and protect against even the most advanced attacks. And as new research shows, it can further strengthen defenses when integrated with modern enterprise PC hardware.

Does your corporate network treat users on VPNs as trusted regardless of who they are? Does your web server connect to its database as a fictitious user with a password in a config file somewhere? Or perhaps the most frightening scenario: did your platform engineer log in as root to configure your CI/CD pipeline toolchain? These three situations are all examples of anonymous users – someone taking action somewhere on your network or in one of your cloud accounts without identifying themselves.