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Combating Cross-Domain Attacks: A Survival Guide for the Al Era

How Unified Visibility and Machine-Speed Defense Stop the Al-Accelerated Adversary

Today's adversaries move at machine speed across endpoints, identities, cloud workloads, Saas applications, and Al systems. These cross-domain attacks are coordinated intrusions that chain together weak points, exploit trust relationships, and slip between disconnected tools before defenders can connect the dots. Al has only accelerated the threat - adversaries are now using generative, agentic, and emerging frontier Al models to automate reconnaissance, scale social engineering, generate exploit code, inject malicious prompts into trusted Al tools, and weaponize legitimate credentials to blend into normal activity. In 2025, there was an 89% increase in attacks from Al-enabled adversaries, and the window between exposure and exploitation is rapidly collapsing.'

In this eBook, you'll learn:

  • How adversaries chain together weak points to move across domains
  • How to build defenses that can keep up with today's adversaries, who can move laterally in as little as 27 seconds'
  • How to detect sophisticated adversaries who bypass traditional controls without malware, as 82% of detections in 2025 were malware-free'
  • How to transform your security operations with unified visibility and automated response across all domains

Download now to discover how to stop Al-accelerated cross-domain attacks before they escalate.

'CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report

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