CrowdStrike announced it has finalized a definitive agreement to acquire Pangea, a leading innovator in AI security. This strategic move will enhance the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, introducing the industry’s first comprehensive AI Detection and Response (AIDR) system. The acquisition aims to protect enterprise AI across all layers from data and models to agents, identities, infrastructure, and interactions throughout development and workforce usage.

“AI is rewriting the enterprise attack surface at breakneck speed. Each prompt becomes an entry point for the adversary,” said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike. “With Pangea, CrowdStrike will secure the entire AI lifecycle, detecting risks, enforcing safeguards, and ensuring compliance, so our customers can confidently build, deploy, and scale AI without risk.”

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Delivering Complete AI Detection and Response (AIDR)

CrowdStrike, the pioneer of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), established the industry standard for endpoint protection. By integrating Pangea, the company will apply its proven security model to AI, providing a unified solution that combines visibility, compliance, and enforcement across enterprise AI initiatives.

The Falcon platform already secures AI environments and models, preventing sensitive data leaks from endpoints and cloud workloads while protecting AI agents across the SaaS stack. Pangea extends this protection to the interaction layer, safeguarding AI development and usage across enterprises. This integration ensures organizations gain the visibility and control needed to operate AI securely at scale.

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Pangea’s Breakthrough Capabilities

With Pangea, CrowdStrike will offer:

  • Complete AI Detection and Response (AIDR): Unifies detection, response, and compliance for AI agents and workflows, mirroring how EDR transformed endpoint security.
  • Prompt Injection Protection: Blocks direct and indirect prompt injection attacks, model jailbreaks, and malicious entities with up to 99% efficacy at sub-30ms latency.
  • Risky AI Use Prevention: Enables control over chatbot and generative AI interactions, enforcing governance policies to halt risky activity instantly.
  • Secure AI Development and Production: Allows developers to integrate security into AI applications while giving security teams visibility over enterprise AI use, complementing Falcon Shield protection.
  • Accelerated Secure Innovation: Provides prebuilt safeguards, helping teams deploy AI features faster without sacrificing control.

Securing AI Where It Happens

AI resides in the cloud, datacenters, endpoints, and across human and non-human identities. As enterprise AI adoption grows, adversaries increasingly seek vulnerabilities. By incorporating Pangea into Falcon, CrowdStrike extends its security leadership to the fastest-growing segment of the enterprise attack surface.

“Pangea was founded to make AI adoption safe and secure, giving enterprises the visibility and guardrails to embrace AI with confidence,” said Oliver Friedrichs, CEO and founder of Pangea. “By joining CrowdStrike, we will be able to deliver this vision on a global scale, unifying AI security with the Falcon platform and creating the industry’s first complete AI Detection and Response platform.”

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