Case Study: Ashton Woods Homes strengthens SaaS security and visibility with CrowdStrike Falcon Shield

Ashton Woods Homes boosts Zscaler posture from 72% to 96% with CrowdStrike

Ashton Woods Homes, a construction company with a lean IT team, faced the challenge of securing its fully SaaS-based environment. They had limited visibility into configuration drift and identity risks across their critical applications, which led to missed misconfigurations. They turned to CrowdStrike and its Falcon Shield solution to gain a unified platform for SaaS security posture management and threat detection.

By implementing CrowdStrike Falcon Shield, the company gained continuous monitoring and proactive detection across its SaaS stack. The solution provided clear remediation guidance, allowing the small team to quickly improve their Zscaler configuration posture from 72% to 96% in just a few days. CrowdStrike delivered unified visibility through a single Threat Center and enabled the three-person team to scale full-stack protection without a large internal SOC.

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