CloudStrike Positions Endpoints as Critical Core for AI Security
CloudStrike announced new features across its Falcon® platform, positioning endpoints as a critical core for AI security. These innovations enhance its market-leading AI security platform by extending AI agent detection, shadow AI governance, and runtime threat detection from endpoints to all attack surfaces in SaaS, browser, and cloud environments where AI agents operate.
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※This material is an abridged translation of a press release announced in the United States on March 23, 2026.
CloudStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced new features across its Falcon® platform. These new capabilities position endpoints as a critical core for AI security, strengthening CloudStrike's competitive edge as a market-leading AI security platform. The new platform innovations extend AI agent detection and shadow AI governance, as well as runtime threat detection, from endpoints—the point of AI execution—to all attack surfaces in SaaS, browser, and cloud environments where AI agents operate.
As AI agents gain autonomy and system-level privileges, endpoints have become the target for applying modern security. AI systems now directly execute commands on endpoints, access sensitive data, and trigger downstream workflows. However, their behavior is often indistinguishable from legitimate user activity. The endpoint is where AI actions actually occur, and it must be managed in real-time. Traditional legacy controls and network controls are not designed to manage such behavior. With this release, CloudStrike closes the gap that existed between AI adoption and security application.
Michael Sentonas, President of CloudStrike, stated:
"AI agents are fundamentally changing how technology operates and is secured. Security built for static applications cannot cope with autonomous systems. Organizations need real-time visibility and control over AI behavior wherever AI operates. CloudStrike provides that new standard."
Protecting AI Agents at the Endpoint
With the surge in AI demand, endpoints are increasingly serving as a critical core for security. CloudStrike's sensors detect over 1,800 individual AI applications running on enterprise devices. Across the entire customer base, this amounts to approximately 160 million unique application instances (※1). AI agents autonomously execute terminal commands, modify files, access sensitive data, and trigger downstream workflows, but their behavior is indistinguishable from legitimate user activity. To protect where AI executes, CloudStrike provides the following capabilities:
EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) AI Runtime Protection: CloudStrike provides runtime visibility into AI behavior at the point of execution. Falcon sensors capture commands, scripts, file activity, and network connections for all applications (including agent-based applications) running on endpoints. When suspicious behavior is detected, human and agent security teams can trace the activity back to the originating process, isolate affected endpoints, and take immediate action to contain the threat before it spreads.
Shadow AI Detection at the Endpoint: Automatically detects AI applications, agents, LLM runtimes, MCP servers, and development tools running on each endpoint, linking them to asset context and privilege exposure to prioritize risks to critical systems. Security teams can assess not only which AI is deployed but also the potential impact of a compromise.
AIDR for Endpoints: Extends prompt layer protection to desktop AI applications such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Microsoft Copilot, O365 Copilot, and GitHub Copilot, Cursor. It provides real-time prompt inspection and detection against injection attacks and data leakage, revealing access and content policy violations.
Protecting AI Agents Across SaaS, Browser, and Cloud
Agents are not limited to endpoints but also operate on SaaS platforms, cloud workloads, and AI pipelines.
CloudStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced new features across its Falcon® platform. These new capabilities position endpoints as a critical core for AI security, strengthening CloudStrike's competitive edge as a market-leading AI security platform. The new platform innovations extend AI agent detection and shadow AI governance, as well as runtime threat detection, from endpoints—the point of AI execution—to all attack surfaces in SaaS, browser, and cloud environments where AI agents operate.
As AI agents gain autonomy and system-level privileges, endpoints have become the target for applying modern security. AI systems now directly execute commands on endpoints, access sensitive data, and trigger downstream workflows. However, their behavior is often indistinguishable from legitimate user activity. The endpoint is where AI actions actually occur, and it must be managed in real-time. Traditional legacy controls and network controls are not designed to manage such behavior. With this release, CloudStrike closes the gap that existed between AI adoption and security application.
Michael Sentonas, President of CloudStrike, stated:
"AI agents are fundamentally changing how technology operates and is secured. Security built for static applications cannot cope with autonomous systems. Organizations need real-time visibility and control over AI behavior wherever AI operates. CloudStrike provides that new standard."
Protecting AI Agents at the Endpoint
With the surge in AI demand, endpoints are increasingly serving as a critical core for security. CloudStrike's sensors detect over 1,800 individual AI applications running on enterprise devices. Across the entire customer base, this amounts to approximately 160 million unique application instances (※1). AI agents autonomously execute terminal commands, modify files, access sensitive data, and trigger downstream workflows, but their behavior is indistinguishable from legitimate user activity. To protect where AI executes, CloudStrike provides the following capabilities:
EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) AI Runtime Protection: CloudStrike provides runtime visibility into AI behavior at the point of execution. Falcon sensors capture commands, scripts, file activity, and network connections for all applications (including agent-based applications) running on endpoints. When suspicious behavior is detected, human and agent security teams can trace the activity back to the originating process, isolate affected endpoints, and take immediate action to contain the threat before it spreads.
Shadow AI Detection at the Endpoint: Automatically detects AI applications, agents, LLM runtimes, MCP servers, and development tools running on each endpoint, linking them to asset context and privilege exposure to prioritize risks to critical systems. Security teams can assess not only which AI is deployed but also the potential impact of a compromise.
AIDR for Endpoints: Extends prompt layer protection to desktop AI applications such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Microsoft Copilot, O365 Copilot, and GitHub Copilot, Cursor. It provides real-time prompt inspection and detection against injection attacks and data leakage, revealing access and content policy violations.
Protecting AI Agents Across SaaS, Browser, and Cloud
Agents are not limited to endpoints but also operate on SaaS platforms, cloud workloads, and AI pipelines.