CrowdStrike Unveils AI-Powered Security Innovations at Fal.Con 2025

CrowdStrike expands Falcon with next-gen identity security and AI-era data protection - SiliconANGLE

CrowdStrike expands Falcon with next-gen identity security and AI-era data protection CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced major innovations in identity and data security to wrap up its annual Fal.con 2025 event, with new capabilities designed to address the risks created by hybrid environments and the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. The announcements, which build on the company's Falcon platform, are aimed at closing persistent gaps left by legacy identity and data protection tools. First up today is the launch of Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security, a suite of capabilities that is designed to secure every identity across every stage of an attack, from initial access and privilege escalation to lateral movement. The service differs from traditional identity and access management and privileged access management systems, which CrowdStrike argues are insufficient even when paired with multifactor authentication. The new offering integrates real-time telemetry to make smarter access decisions and prevent common bypass techniques. The new offering includes a new FalconID service that provides phishing-resistant, passwordless authentication built on FIDO2 standards. The service is complemented with enhanced privileged access controls that simplify complex Active Directory and Entra ID configurations and allow teams to automate grants and revocations through tools such as Microsoft Teams and Fusion SOAR. An identity-driven case management system also automatically correlates detections into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM cases with full context to streamline investigations and enable faster, coordinated responses across security teams. CrowdStrike also today introduced a new approach to data protection built for the AI era, aimed at consolidating fragmented data loss protection and data security posture management tools and delivering real-time visibility across the movement of data. The Falcon Data Protection enhancements extend security beyond browser environments to cover local applications and runtime cloud workloads, preventing inadvertent exposure of sensitive information as organizations integrate generative AI into their operations. The system adds discovery capabilities to identify hidden AI applications and agents running across the enterprise. It also leverages AI-powered classification to better detect sensitive data types and provides insider threat dashboards with unified detections to accelerate responses. The combination of the features into a single, integrated platform allows customers to achieve stronger protection for the data used by generative AI tools. At the same time, the company says, it also simplifies operations, reducing blind spots and improving detection coverage by a factor of 10 compared with legacy systems. Today's announcements follow others made by CrowdStrike on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Tuesday, the company announced new products that address the growing need for enhanced security in the age of artificial intelligence: the Agentic Security Platform and the Agentic Security Workforce. On Wednesday, CrowdStrike announced Falcon for IT Risk-based Patching and Threat AI.

CrowdStrike targets patching and threat intelligence gaps with new AI-powered tools - SiliconANGLE

CrowdStrike targets patching and threat intelligence gaps with new AI-powered tools CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today deepened its strategy of blending automation with intelligence with the launch of two new products at its Fal.Con 2025 conference: Falcon for IT Risk-based Patching and Threat AI. The new offerings are designed to unify fragmented workflows and give enterprises a faster, more reliable defense against adversaries that are increasingly weaponizing artificial intelligence. The first new offering, Falcon for IT Risk-based Patching, has been designed to take on one of the most persistent disconnects in enterprise security: the gap between identifying a vulnerability and fixing it. The patching service seeks to address the issue whereby, traditionally, security teams find flaws while information technology teams are left to patch them using separate tools and workflows. CrowdStrike argues that the siloed approach creates blind spots, duplicate agents, added complexity and delays that attackers can exploit. Falcon for IT Risk-based Patching integrates vulnerability management and patch deployment within the Falcon platform. By pairing Falcon Exposure Management -- which highlights the most critical risks across endpoints, cloud workloads, IT/internet of things and networks -- with AI-powered patching, enterprises can prioritize threats by real-world exploitation likelihood and remediate safely at large scale. Features of the new service include Patch Safety Scores and Falcon's sensor intelligence that are designed to ensure that critical systems are updated without causing downtime, consolidating security and IT into a single workflow. CrowdStrike calls the second release today, Threat AI, the industry's first agentic threat intelligence system built to automate complex analysis and speed up response. Threat AI delivers agents that can proactively hunt adversaries, classify malware and generate intelligence at machine speed. The offering comes with two agents -- a Malware Analysis Agent that automates reverse engineering, classification, attribution and YARA rule creation, and the Hunt Agent, which continuously scans environments for signs of intrusion. The agents are complemented with a Threat Intelligence Browser Extension that embeds CrowdStrike intelligence directly into analyst workflows for faster, more informed research. Threat AI, embedded in the Threat Intelligence and Hunting module and informed by CrowdStrike's Counter Adversary Operations, automates complex workflows while surfacing actionable recommendations. The new products are embedded in the company's larger Agentic Security Workforce vision, which brings AI-driven agents into frontline defense while keeping human judgment in control. The announcements today follow CrowdStrike announcing yesterday new products that address the growing need for enhanced security in the age of artificial intelligence: the Agentic Security Platform and the Agentic Security Workforce. CrowdStrike also revealed that it entered an agreement to acquire AI security company Pangea Inc. Though the price of the acquisition was not disclosed, reports suggest that it was about $260 million.

Falcon for IT Risk-based Patching Accelerates Cybersecurity and IT Consolidation on CrowdStrike

Fal.Con 2025, Las Vegas -- CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced Risk-based Patching with Falcon® for IT, accelerating cybersecurity and IT consolidation on the Falcon® platform. With the combination of AI-powered Risk-based Patching and Falcon® Exposure Management, customers can identify, prioritize, and fix the vulnerabilities that matter most through a single console and workflow - accelerating safe, large-scale patching and expanding CrowdStrike's platform leadership beyond cybersecurity. "Adversaries exploit known vulnerabilities within minutes, yet most organizations are slowed by silos between security and IT that delay fixes and leave dangerous gaps," said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer at CrowdStrike. "With Falcon for IT Risk-based Patching, we unify teams and processes with a shared, risk-prioritized view so they know what to fix first - and can actually fix it. This is the last mile of risk reduction, closing gaps that adversaries exploit by eliminating the silos that have slowed organizations for too long. With built-in safety controls we give teams the confidence to patch both quickly and safely at scale." Closing the Gap Between Security and IT Vulnerability management is fragmented - not just by tools, but by teams and processes. Security relies on one set of tools to find vulnerabilities, while IT depends on another to deploy patches. This disconnect creates blind spots between what's found and what's fixed, duplicate agents that add complexity, and slow handoffs that give adversaries time to exploit unpatched systems. The result is that risk lingers while attackers move faster. From Identification to Remediation on One Platform CrowdStrike eliminates the silos between security and IT. Falcon Exposure Management prioritizes vulnerabilities most likely to be exploited based on adversary activity and real-world attack paths. Falcon for IT Risk-based Patching turns this insight into action - applying AI-powered patching with Patch Safety Scores and sensor intelligence to rapidly remediate the risk safely. Together on the Falcon platform, they eliminate the gap between knowing where you're exposed and fixing it, giving security and IT one unified workflow to reduce risk before attackers can exploit it. Customer Benefits Falcon for IT Risk-based Patching on the Falcon platform delivers: CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world's most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk - endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value. © 2025 CrowdStrike, Inc. All rights reserved. CrowdStrike and CrowdStrike Falcon are marks owned by CrowdStrike, Inc. and are registered in the United States and other countries. CrowdStrike owns other trademarks and service marks and may use the brands of third parties to identify their products and services. Forward-Looking Statements This press release includes descriptions of products, features, or functionality which may not currently be generally available. Any such references are provided for informational purposes only. The development, release, and timing of all features or functionality remain at our sole discretion and may change without notice. These statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. Customers should make purchasing decisions based only on services and features that are currently generally available. For more information on our existing offerings please talk to your CrowdStrike representative.