CrowdStrike recently signed an agreement to acquire Pangea, a provider of AI security. The deal will allow CrowdStrike to extend its Falcon platform to deliver complete AI detection and response (AIDR), securing data, models, agents, identities, infrastructure and interactions from enterprise AI development through workforce use, the company said.
“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.”
The Falcon platform is currently built to secure AI, protecting the environments and models where AI runs, preventing sensitive data from leaving endpoints and cloud workloads, and securing AI agents across the SaaS stack. Pangea will extend its protection to the “interaction layer,” where AI is built and used across an enterprise, CrowdStrike officials said.
Pangea will enable the Falcon platform to protect against direct and indirect prompt injection attacks, model jailbreak attempts and malicious entities. It also provides control over the topics and conversations users have with chatbots and generative AI, with visibility into AI traffic and activity and governance policies to instantly stop risky AI use, CrowdStrike said.
In addition, developers can build AI applications and agents with security baked in while security teams can monitor and govern enterprise-built and integrated AI to complement SaaS agent protection via Falcon Shield, officials said.
“AI doesn’t live in the network, it lives where models are built in the cloud and datacenter, where adoption happens on endpoints and where access occurs through human and nonhuman identities,” CrowdStrike officials said. “As AI usage expands across the enterprise, adversaries increasingly look for weak points to target. With Pangea as part of the Falcon platform, CrowdStrike will secure AI where it happens, extending its platform to the fastest-growing part 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.”
