CrowdStrike’s CEO says AI agents can hack like nation-states. Can his company stop them?

George Kurtz wants CrowdStrike to become essential to the agentic enterprise. Falcon Guardian anchors that strategy, but the company’s next act depends on how much control customers will give its own AI defenders.

Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz [Source Images: Adobe Stock and Wikipedia]

Model developers are selling agentic models to enterprises on the promise that they can work through problems without asking permission at every step. This summer, the cybersecurity industry got a disturbing demonstration of what can happen when that autonomy outruns its constraints. During an internal cybersecurity test at OpenAI, AI agents looking for ways to cheat bypassed restrictions on internet access and broke into systems at Hugging Face, a platform for sharing AI models and........

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