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At Fal.Con 2025, I had the privilege of addressing over 8,000 cybersecurity professionals about something that’s on my mind – and should be on all of ours: how do we fundamentally reimagine security for the age of AI? We're living through the fourth industrial revolution. The first brought us steam power, the second electricity, and the third the digital age we all know and love.

CrowdStrike has been named an innovation and growth leader in the 2025 Frost Radar: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, positioned highest on the Innovation Index among all vendors evaluated. This marks another milestone in our mission to stop breaches with the industry's most unified and comprehensive cloud security solution.

As AI becomes an integral part of how modern applications are built and deployed, it introduces new risks and new blind spots for security teams. Large language models, machine learning packages, and embedded AI services can be hidden deep in the software supply chain or running unnoticed in production. Without purpose-built visibility, organizations risk exposing sensitive data, shipping vulnerable code, or relying on models they cannot fully govern.

CrowdStrike continues to raise the bar for modern identity protection. We are excited to announce innovations including phishing-resistant multifactor authentication (MFA), new privileged access capabilities, and identity-driven case management, all part of CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security.

GenAI adoption is exploding across organizations, transforming how work gets done and where data moves. CrowdStrike is announcing four new innovations in CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection to empower organizations to embrace GenAI tools while securing data across endpoints, cloud, GenAI, and SaaS environments.

AI is transforming how organizations operate, from automating workflows to fueling innovation and competitive advantage. It’s the backbone of the modern enterprise. But while the opportunities AI presents are enormous, they come with new risks: models can be stolen, cloud workloads can be hijacked, and data can be poisoned. Every layer of the AI stack — from GPUs and training data to inference pipelines and SaaS apps — is a new target.

CrowdStrike is unveiling groundbreaking innovations across Counter Adversary Operations. Threat AI, a system of AI-powered agents built on the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, is the industry’s first agentic threat intelligence system. It provides mission-ready agents to reason, hunt, and take action against any stage of adversary activity. In addition, the new Threat Intelligence Browser Extension for Google Chrome extends intelligence everywhere analysts work.

CrowdStrike is introducing Risk-based Patching in CrowdStrike Falcon for IT to close the gap between security and IT teams. With AI-powered Risk-based Patching and CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management, organizations can identify, prioritize, and fix the vulnerabilities most critical to them through a single console and workflow while accelerating security and IT consolidation.

AI has redrawn the cyber battlefield. Adversaries are already automating every phase of the kill chain to strike faster, scale wider, and overwhelm defenders. Manual workflows and conversational assistants help teams move faster, but still bind them to human speed. Agentic AI changes the equation. It enables security teams to deputize trusted, mission-ready agents that reason, decide, and act on their behalf — at the speed of AI. The promise of agentic AI is clear.

The enterprise is undergoing the most profound technological shift since the dawn of the internet. Artificial intelligence is no longer a side project or a productivity boost — it has become the new operating model for today’s businesses. Autonomous agents are reshaping how work gets done. Within the next year, nearly every organization will depend on them for competitive advantage. At the same time, adversaries are weaponizing AI to move at unprecedented speed and scale.