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CISA has called SIEM-as-a-service (SIEMaaS) “the Rosetta Stone” for visibility for good reason. Federal defenders need to see what is happening across increasingly complex environments, understand what matters, and turn that context into action before an adversary achieves its objective.

Consider this hypothetical scenario: An employee tries to join what looks like a routine video meeting. The page loads, but instead of the meeting, they see an error message along with a helpful fix: Copy the provided command, open the Windows Run dialog, paste it, and press Enter. The meeting never starts. The command does something else entirely. This is ClickFix, a social engineering technique that turns the victim into the mechanism for executing an attack.

AI agents are already operating across the enterprise. As they become more autonomous in accessing data, using credentials, executing code, and acting across critical systems, the security boundary is changing with them. The question is no longer whether enterprises will adopt agents. It's how they give agents greater autonomy without giving up control.

CrowdStrike has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Proactive Security Platforms, Q3 2026. We received the highest Strategy category score in the evaluation and maximum scores in both the Innovation and Roadmap criteria. This evaluation reflects how the market is evolving. Proactive security is moving beyond traditional vulnerability management.

The conventional approach to AI-powered security is to build an offensive agent to find weaknesses, build a defensive agent to catch threats, and run them in separate tracks. It's a clean division of labor that produces capable tools. However, the conventional approach also produces a permanent blind spot — the defense is never trained against the actual offense, and the connective tissue between the two is manual, slow, and fragile.

Modern data security depends on understanding sensitive data as it is created, accessed, and moved in real time directly on the endpoint. In addition to identifying predefined patterns such as credit card numbers or Social Security numbers, organizations must protect unstructured information including documents, chat logs, support tickets, AI prompts, medical records, and free-text fields.

CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations identified a financially motivated threat actor who works as a bug bounty hunter and who developed and distributed the JavaScript (JS)-based information stealer PhantomRaven via npm, a platform on which developers can access open-source packages to build applications and software.

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.

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.

AI agents are evolving identity as we know it. They execute code, invoke tools, access applications and sensitive data, and take action on behalf of humans and systems. Increasingly, they operate autonomously and delegate work to other agents. They work at machine speed.