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Preparing for an AI-Powered Future with Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt, SVP and CSO at Amazon, sees firsthand how both defenders and adversaries are using AI to their advantage. In this episode, he joins Adam and Cristian to discuss modern AI models, evolving adversary behavior, and how Amazon is responding to shifts in the threat landscape. “The big change we’ve seen recently is the ability of models to chain things together to produce something interesting,” Steve says. As AI models grow more adept at automatically chaining and acting, he adds, the time to respond has dramatically decreased.

CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian: Secure AI Agents Where They Execute

CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian secures AI agents where they execute, delivering runtime visibility, governance and protection through the CrowdStrike Falcon platform. Falcon Guardian continuously discovers AI agents, connects AI activity to downstream endpoint execution for prompt-to-impact visibility, helps security teams investigate threats and determine blast radius, and enables response before threats spread. It also builds on proven AI security capabilities for Shadow AI discovery, AI governance, sensitive data protection and defense against AI-specific attacks.

Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security: Agentic Identity Provider

CrowdStrike delivers the next evolution of the agentic SOC on the Falcon platform: coordinated teams of expert agents that investigate endpoint, identity, SaaS, cloud, and network domains simultaneously, converging on a single, evidence-backed verdict your team can trust.

CrowdStrike Delivers the Next Evolution of the Agentic SOC

The average adversary breakout time is now 29 minutes, with the fastest recorded at 27 seconds, according to the CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report. AI is supercharging the adversary playbook, empowering many to move faster across multiple domains. Defenders must match that speed with AI-driven security operations that investigate and respond across every domain, in real time.

CrowdStrike Extends Endpoint Security to Stop Software Supply Chain Attacks

Software supply chain attacks pose a critical enterprise threat. In the first half of 2026, these attacks increasingly used malicious software packages uploaded to public software registries, the CrowdStrike 2026 Threat Hunting Report found. Adversaries are poisoning open-source packages and exploiting the same dependencies that AI-assisted development tools and agentic applications pull onto enterprise endpoints every day.

Peer Pressure: Inside the Sality Botnet Disruption Operation

On August 31, 2026, CrowdStrike's Counter Adversary Operations team, in collaboration with international law enforcement and industry partners, executed a coordinated disruption of the Sality peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet, a criminal infrastructure that has operated with seeming impunity for more than two decades. The botnet enabled the operator to distribute malicious payloads to over 15,000 infected machines worldwide.

CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian Defines the Next Generation of AI Security

AI has rapidly evolved into a technology that takes action. AI agents can reason, access enterprise systems, and execute tasks autonomously at machine speed, often with the full permissions of the users they serve. As these agents proliferate across the enterprise, organizations need to understand where they operate, what they do, what they can access, and how to stop threats before they become breaches. This shift demands a new approach to AI security.