Beyond the Perimeter 2025 Unifying Security to Enhance Cyber Resilience in the AI Era

"Beyond the Perimeter 2025", an annual virtual event co-hosted by Zscaler, Okta, and CrowdStrike, was an insightful event that brought together the brightest minds in cybersecurity to discuss emerging trends, shared challenges, and collaborative strategies to tackle the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape.

Navigating the Changing Cybersecurity Landscape

The event focused on the rising trend of deep fake and phishing attacks, and the increasing use of AI-powered tools by cyber attackers. 

"Our latest findings from the 2025 CrowdStrike Threat Report reveal a significant surge in the use of cloud based tradecraft," noted CrowdStrike, underscoring the escalation in the threat landscape. This was echoed by Okta, "AI enables entirely new types of identity attacks, such as deepfakes. Deepfake incidents in the financial services sector have surged 700% over the past year."

Zscaler highlighted the increasing sophistication of attacks, noting that "Enterprises have to contend with more sophisticated, more multi-vector attacks." It was also observed that many security strategies fall short due to a lack of integration: "Unified often boils down to consolidated billing from multiple acquisitions to a shared dashboard, while the underlying systems lack true integration. Bundling or stitching together solutions for marketing convenience is not the same as building a solution unified by design."

Echoing the sentiment, CrowdStrike highlighted the need to match the attackers' arsenal with equally innovative tools: "It's very important for us to counter AI with AI because unless you have real-time contextualized intelligence, it's going to be much, much harder for you to defend your organization."

A Blueprint for Cyber Resiliency through Collaboration

The event speakers also extended the conversation to cover foundational shifts necessary for tackling these challenges and building cyber resiliency. They emphasized the importance of partnerships in cybersecurity, the benefits of standardization and integration, and the imperative of creating a Zero Trust architecture.

Amplifying the importance of these strategic integrations, specific references were made to the shared signals framework, an effective methodology to maximize current security investments. The collaboration of Zscaler, Okta, and CrowdStrike forms a formidable front against cyber threats by sharing their insights and improving security outcomes for customers.

On-the-Ground: Implementing Integrated Security—a Real-world Cyber Attack Scenario

To illustrate this, the speakers walked through a real-world cyber attack simulation. From a phishing attack staging a credential compromise to immediate detection and response by integrated solutions from Zscaler, Okta, and CrowdStrike. The simulation emphasized the critical edge that seamless integrations provide in responding effectively to multi-vector threats.

This was further underlined by a technical demonstration which focused on an incident involving a phishing email. CrowdStrike Falcon^® Next-Gen SIEM proved invaluable by providing cross-domain visibility and enabling automated responses based on predefined correlation rules—once again underlining the effectiveness of a coordinated and integrated defense strategy.

Enhanced Incident Response through AI-driven Integration

An interview with Sunbelt Rentals narrated the value addition of AI and automation in processing vast amounts of security data, streamlining identity management, and facilitating cross-platform collaboration—thereby improving the efficiency of incident response.

A Zero Trust model was pinpointed, once more, as an indispensable part of a comprehensive cyber defense strategy during a discussion led by Okta emphasizing the roles of endpoint security, identity management, and network security.

Where to From Here?

The discussions and demonstrations meticulously unrolled during "Beyond the Perimeter 2025" underscore one critical point—cyber resiliency achieved through AI and integrated security solutions is no longer a luxury, but a necessity to effectively negotiate the sophisticated threats panning today's cybersecurity landscape.

It's time to ask ourselves: Are we prepared to reevaluate our security strategies and commit to building a realistic and attainable framework for cyber resiliency?

Take the journey with us—watch the complete event on-demand—to ensure you're staying ahead of the curve and making cybersecurity a cornerstone of your transformation efforts. To download a copy of the 3-way partnership solution brief, click here.

This publication has been approved in coordination with CrowdStrike and Okta