Embracing Agentic Workforces: CrowdStrike’s Strategy to Outsmart AI Adversaries

“The legacy SOC as we know it can’t compete. It’s turned into a modern-day firefighter,” warned CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz during his keynote at Fal.Con 2025, underscoring the urgency enterprises face in adopting autonomous security to survive an escalating cyber arms race.

The onslaught of adversarial AI tradecraft is forcing the cybersecurity industry to reinvent itself at machine speed. The intensifying pressure to meet those challenges is creating an unprecedented turning point comparable to the advent of firewalls or the launch of the iPhone. At Fal.Con 2025, CrowdStrike seized the moment by unveiling its Agentic Security Platform, designed around autonomous AI agents.

“The customer response has been overwhelming,” Kurtz noted in a post-event interview with VentureBeat. “From my perspective, the takeaway is how excited customers are, and just to hear the feedback on how important we are in their own organizations, how customers want to do more, and how they want to consolidate with CrowdStrike. The general consensus was the innovation, the pace of innovation, they were very impressed with.”

Strategic partnerships with industry giants Nvidia, Salesforce and Meta amplify this pivot, positioning CrowdStrike squarely at the center of an information security market projected to soar to $293.9 billion by 2028.

Despite predicted double-digit compound annual growth rates for cybersecurity spending in general and SOC investments specifically, SOCs are facing an existential challenge moving faster and with more lethality than predicted.

Kurtz’s keynote included examples of how traditional Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are becoming obsolete in the face of AI-driven threats. Generative AI (gen AI) is already well-weaponized and compressing the time SOCs have to respond. Mike Sentonas, CrowdStrike president, began his keynote with compelling data that underscored how cybersecurity defenses are being challenged in new ways that defy easy identification and containment.

Both Kurtz’s and Sentonas’ keynotes provided compelling data showing how organizations clinging to legacy defenses face severe exposure unless they urgently embrace agent-driven defenses that operate at AI speed.

The event itself generated positive industry feedback, with Kurtz noting customer comments that “this was the best security conference they went to for the entire year.” The company cited practitioner-focused attendance as a differentiator from larger industry events.

Agentic AI ushers in a new security operating model

CrowdStrike’s introduction of the Agentic Security Platform represents a significant leap forward in the company’s platform strategy. Their ability to innovate at scale is among the fastest in the industry, specifically in the areas of integrating AI and gen AI into their platform via new modules, services, and enhancements. Central to this evolution is CrowdStrike’s recent strategic acquisition of Pangea for approximately $260 million, enabling the industry’s first fully integrated AI Detection and Response (AIDR) solution.

CrowdStrike’s Agentic Security Platform introduces four distinct innovations that fundamentally change enterprise security operations:

• Enterprise Graph

  Integrates telemetry from endpoints, identities, cloud, and SaaS environments into a unified, AI-ready data model optimized for real-time threat detection and response.

• Charlotte AI AgentWorks

  Empowers security teams with the industry’s first no-code platform for creating, testing, and orchestrating trusted autonomous security agents.

• Agent Collaboration Framework

  Built upon the Model Context Protocol (MCP), this capability positions Falcon as the core operational hub of an autonomous agent-driven ecosystem.

• AI-Powered Console

  Provides analysts with a natural-language interface, instantly transforming complex data streams into actionable intelligence.

“When I started the company, it was to be a platform company. You can’t be a platform on your own. Obviously, you need a diverse ecosystem,” Kurtz explained during the interview. “We believe our philosophy is you have to be open and not close, and that’s much different than what our competitors have.”

When asked about their development velocity, Sentonas explained the architectural advantage: “You have one sensor, you have one platform. That sensor collects data and puts it into one graph. Every other team gets benefit from that.” Kurtz added: “When we come out with a new module, for the most part, it’s a workflow. So we’ve built collection capabilities. So 75% to 80% of the work is already done. All we’re now doing is building the experience and the workflow, and that’s why we can move so quickly.”

During the keynote, Kurtz emphasized the shift represented by autonomous AI agents: “AI agents, to me, look a lot like a human. They have an identity, workflow, resources, data access; some companies even assign them employee IDs.”

Rather than promising dramatic AI transformation, the company emphasizes cumulative benefits. “I look at AI as the ability to compound,” Kurtz explained. “You have to look at it as a compounder. Can you save 20 minutes here? Can you save 15 minutes there? Can you save costs there? And when you start to add it all up, sometimes people want a big bang, and it’s like, you don’t need a big bang, you just need to add all this stuff up and then it compounds over time.”

The shift isn’t theoretical. Canalys research confirms that CrowdStrike partners generate up to $7 in additional service revenue for every $1 invested by customers into the Falcon platform, establishing the highest cybersecurity ecosystem multiplier ever documented. Falcon Next-Gen SIEM is central to this growth, enabling partners to expand their managed services portfolios rapidly.

Strategic partnerships amplify CrowdStrike’s AI security dominance

CrowdStrike’s ecosystem-driven approach is especially evident through transformative partnerships. “You can’t be a platform on your own,” Kurtz emphasized in yesterday’s VentureBeat interview. “Our philosophy is open, not closed, and that’s why partners tell us this is the most productive event they attend. We want them to be successful, because if they’re successful, we are too.”

• Nvidia. Charlotte AI AgentWorks seamlessly integrates with Nvidia Nemotron models, allowing security analysts to rapidly create customized no-code security agents, establishing the foundations of a completely autonomous SOC.

• Salesforce. Embedding Falcon Shield into Salesforce Security Center and integrating Charlotte AI with Salesforce’s Agentforce platform empowers businesses to trace AI agent behavior to human creators directly, rapidly identify threats, and automate containment actions.

• Amazon Business Prime. Perhaps most notably, CrowdStrike now democratizes enterprise-grade cybersecurity for SMBs. Amazon Business Prime members gain complimentary access to Falcon Go, a significant savings of $59.99 annually per device, addressing the stark reality that 89% of SMBs remain vulnerable to advanced ransomware attacks due to limited AI-driven security adoption.

“Make partners successful.” CrowdStrike’s recent acquisition of Pangea has strengthened their commitment to securing the entire AI lifecycle. CEO Kurtz emphasized the importance of AI in reshaping the enterprise attack surface, highlighting the need for comprehensive protection against prompt-injection attacks. Pangea’s technology offers high accuracy and low latency, aligning with CrowdStrike’s vision of providing visibility, governance, and control over AI interactions.

In a recent interview with VentureBeat, Sentonas underscored the transparency of CrowdStrike’s pricing model, emphasizing that innovation is built into the platform without additional costs. The company aims to address enterprise concerns about the cost of adopting AI solutions by providing clear information on what is included in the subscription model.

CrowdStrike’s success is attributed to Falcon Flex, a platform that streamlines procurement processes and consolidates security solutions. The company focuses on platform consolidation rather than individual products, continuously innovating through internal development and strategic acquisitions.

Collaboration with Meta has led to the development of CyberSOCEval, an open-source benchmark framework for evaluating AI performance in security scenarios. This collaboration reflects CrowdStrike and Meta’s commitment to advancing cybersecurity in the AI era and maximizing the benefits of open-source AI technologies.

CrowdStrike’s competitive advantage lies in its vast data foundation, which processes trillions of security events daily. The company’s emphasis on autonomous security agents enables machine-speed threat response and decision-making, freeing analysts from repetitive tasks.

The integration of autonomous AI agents across the Falcon platform marks a significant shift in cybersecurity, challenging rivals to keep up with the evolving threat landscape. CrowdStrike’s vision positions security analysts as orchestrators of AI-powered agents capable of operating autonomously and decisively.

Enterprises are urged to embrace autonomous security to stay ahead of adversaries leveraging generative AI for automated attacks. CrowdStrike’s move towards full autonomy is seen as foundational in the fight against cyber threats, emphasizing the need for effective, safe, and reliable autonomous actions. Transform the following:

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