CrowdStrike announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pangea, a leader in AI security. This acquisition will extend the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, delivering the industry’s first complete AI Detection and Response (AIDR) – securing data, models, agents, identities, infrastructure, and interactions from enterprise AI development through workforce usage.
“AI is rewriting the enterprise attack surface at breakneck speed. Each prompt becomes an entry point for the adversary,” said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike. “With Pangea, CrowdStrike will secure the entire AI lifecycle, detecting risks, enforcing safeguards, and ensuring compliance, so our customers can confidently build, deploy, and scale AI without risk.”
CrowdStrike: Delivering Complete AI Detection and Response (AIDR)
CrowdStrike pioneered Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), now the industry standard for endpoint protection. With Pangea, CrowdStrike will apply that same groundbreaking model to AI, delivering the industry’s first complete AIDR, unifying visibility, compliance, and enforcement from enterprise AI development through workforce AI usage.
The Falcon platform already delivers the foundation to secure AI, protecting the environments and models where AI runs, preventing sensitive data from leaving endpoints and cloud workloads, and securing AI agents across the SaaS stack. Pangea will extend this protection to the critical interaction layer – where AI is built and used across the enterprise – delivering complete protection across the AI lifecycle, providing the visibility and control organizations need to keep prompts and AI systems operating securely at scale.
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Pangea: Breakthrough Capabilities
With Pangea, CrowdStrike will deliver competitive advantages in securing AI:
- Complete AI Detection and Response (AIDR): Delivers visibility and control of AI agents and their workflows, unifying detection, response, and compliance across the AI lifecycle, transforming AI security just as EDR transformed endpoint security.
- Block Prompt Injection Attacks: Offers industry-best protection against direct and indirect prompt injection attacks, model jailbreak attempts, and malicious entities, with up to 99 percent efficacy at sub-30ms latency.1
- Stop Risky AI Use: Provides control over the topics and conversations users have with chatbots and generative AI with deep visibility into AI traffic and activity and governance policies to instantly stop risky AI use.
- Secure AI in Development and Production: Allows developers to build AI applications and agents with security baked in, while security teams can monitor and govern enterprise-built and integrated AI, complementing SaaS agent protection with Falcon Shield.
- Accelerate Secure Innovation: Ready-to-use safeguards help teams bring AI features to market faster, without sacrificing control.
CrowdStrike Secures AI Where It Happens
AI doesn’t live in the network; it lives where models are built in the cloud and datacenter, where adoption happens on endpoints, and where access occurs through human and non-human identities. As AI usage expands across the enterprise, adversaries increasingly look for weak points to target. With Pangea as part of the Falcon platform, CrowdStrike will secure AI where it happens, extending its platform leadership to the fastest-growing part of the enterprise attack surface.
“Pangea was founded to make AI adoption safe and secure, giving enterprises the visibility and guardrails to embrace AI with confidence,” said Oliver Friedrichs, CEO and founder of Pangea. “By joining CrowdStrike, we will be able to deliver this vision on a global scale, unifying AI security with the Falcon platform and creating the industry’s first complete AI Detection and Response platform.”
Source: BusinessWire