CrowdStrike and Mandiant joined forces this week to address an increasingly complex threat environment. The strategic partnership enables joint customers to integrate CrowdStrike’s Falcon endpoint security technology with Mandiant’s incident response and consulting services.

Mandiant will support the Falcon platform via its security validation and automated defense products. Meanwhile, Mandiant plans to extend support for its Managed Defense services to CrowdStrike Falcon later this year.

“Today’s complex threat environment calls for a collaborative approach that brings together industry-leading technologies and world-class teams to build the strongest defense for customers, which is exactly what this partnership is about,” CrowdStrike co-founder and CEO George Kurtz said in a statement.

Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia, claims the partnership will strengthen customer defenses at a time when cyber attacks have become commonplace.

The collaboration comes on the heels of Google’s $5.4 billion acquisition of Mandiant last month. CrowdStrike and Mandiant reportedly discussed the partnership prior to the deal.

The partnership also marks CrowdStrike's latest collaborative endeavor. Last month, the vendor announced an extended partnership with Cloudflare to integrate their endpoint and zero-trust services to secure identity, devices, and applications. And previously the two vendors joined forces with Ping Identity to provide free zero-trust security services to vulnerable industries.