CrowdStrike has introduced Falcon Guardian, a new AI Detection and Response (AIDR) solution designed to provide visibility and runtime enforcement for AI agents across endpoints and enterprise environments. The company said its deployment across hundreds of millions of devices gives it extensive endpoint visibility, positioning the endpoint as a critical control point for securing increasingly autonomous AI agents. “CrowdStrike pioneered EDR by making the endpoint the control point for stopping attacks. AI demands the same approach,” said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike. “AI hasn’t changed the attack, it has changed its speed. Governance alone can’t stop an agent already in motion. Falcon Guardian turns policy into protection, stopping threats where AI agents execute and before they can cause harm.”
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Falcon Guardian is designed to discover known and shadow AI agents across Windows and macOS, provide runtime visibility linking prompts, identities, tool calls and downstream actions, and enforce controls over which agents can operate on managed endpoints. It also offers runtime threat detection and response, while extending protection across cloud, SaaS and browser environments. Planned capabilities include an AI Gateway, Falcon Complete for Guardian, Falcon Adversary OverWatch for Guardian and native integration with Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, enabling AI activity to be correlated with identity, cloud and SaaS telemetry.