The "Real Time Responder – Active Responder" role is specifically designed within the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to grant users the necessary permissions to connect to hosts using the Real-Time Response (RTR) feature. This role allows a security analyst or administrator to establish a remote shell session to an endpoint to perform hands-on investigation and remediation. The "Active Responder" designation specifically includes permissions to execute commands that can modify the system, such as writing files, deleting files, and running scripts, in addition to read-only commands.

A. Endpoint Manager: This role is focused on managing sensor deployment, sensor update policies, and host groupings, not on direct, interactive response capabilities for individual hosts.

B. Falcon Administrator: While the Falcon Administrator role has broad permissions that likely include RTR access, it is a super-user role. The "Real Time Responder" is the specific, purpose-built role for this function, following the principle of least privilege.

D. Prevention Hashes Manager: This is a highly specialized role limited to managing custom IOCs (file hashes) for prevention policies and does not grant any remote access or response permissions.

1. CrowdStrike

Inc. (2023). CrowdStrike Falcon® Platform Documentation: User Management. "Roles and Permissions

" Section: Predefined Roles. This document details the specific capabilities of each built-in role

explicitly stating that the "Real Time Responder – Active Responder" role is required to "Connect to hosts and run all commands

including those that can modify a system."

2. CrowdStrike

Inc. (2023). CCFA-200b Falcon Administrator Courseware. Module: "Managing Users and Roles." The course material distinguishes between administrative roles (like Endpoint Manager) and response-focused roles

identifying "Real Time Responder" as the primary role for using the Real-Time Response feature.