The Challenge: Why More Alerts Isn’t the Answer

Last summer we introduced Automated Leads, a transformative approach to threat detection designed to surface the subtle signs of an attack before it turns into a full-blown breach. It’s powered by CrowdStrike® Signal (distinct from SGNL) and delivered via the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform.

Since that launch, the goal has remained the same: to move beyond the limitations of traditional alerting and give analysts a head start on detecting the most sophisticated adversaries.

Today, we’re peeling back the curtain on how the new family of self-learning AI models that generates Automated Leads works, and announcing a powerful new capability to instantly isolate unusual processes and anomalous remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool usage that would otherwise be lost in the noise.

Improving detection is a core driver for the CrowdStrike Advanced Research team, which is behind the development of the AI models powering Automated Leads. For years, the industry has followed a predictable cycle:

1. Create a rule for a known malicious feature.
2. Deploy it.
3. Triage the resulting alerts.
4. Tune out the high-volume noise.

The consequence? “Noisy” rules, which might actually trigger on real malicious activity, are suppressed because there are too many for human triage. Malicious activity can slip through the cracks.

On the Falcon platform, we see millions of indicators, or events that don’t quite reach the threshold of a traditional detection. In a complex environment, we might see 10,000 such indicators in a single hour. They are too numerous for a human to review, but with the right algorithmic approach, they are the key to finding the needle in the haystack.

How Automated Leads Works: Scoring and Correlation

The AI engine powering Automated Leads solves this by shifting the focus from individual alerts to entity-based scoring. Instead of treating every event as a binary “good” or “bad” alert, the engine assigns a score to every indicator and detection event. These scores are essentially an initial prioritization. The engine then links these events by entity (such as an endpoint).

When multiple positively scoring events occur on the same host, their scores are summed. These anomalous examples are filtered down to surface leads earlier in the attack chain and reveal special kinds of Automated Leads called “zero detect” leads — malicious activity that hasn't triggered a traditional alert but is clearly suspicious when viewed as a collective cluster of behaviors.

Real-World Analysis: The RMM Hunting Ground

The engine monitors RMM tools, which adversaries use to blend in with approved tools on endpoints. In a recent internal analysis, the engine flagged a single execution of MeshAgent, a tool never seen before in that environment. It correlated this with other quiet behaviors on the same host: command prompt launch, registry queries, and local network probing. None of these events alone would raise an alarm, but together they spiked the engine’s confidence score.

New Innovation: Investigating Unusual Processes

We are thrilled to announce a new capability integrated into Automated Leads: Investigate Unusual Processes.

Analyzing every process created during a suspicious window is a massive time sink. Most process creation activity is routine and benign, even on compromised endpoints. Malicious processes are a small fraction intertwined with benign creations.

To rapidly analyze process creations during suspected attacks, we introduced the ProcessAncestryInformation (PAI) event. This flags only the most unusual process creations — typically 1-3% of all processes. For example, during a recent two-hour attack, out of approximately 5,000 processes created, 75 were flagged as unusual, including a legitimate RMM tool, a command prompt, and the ping utility.

How to Use It

This feature is available now for all customers within the Automated Leads dashboard:

1. Locate a Lead: Click on the three-dot menu (⋮) next to the Status of any Automated Lead.
2. Pivot to Advanced Event Search: Select “Investigate unusual processes.”

This opens Advanced Event Search (AES), pre-populated with PAI events joined with ProcessRollup2 data, giving the full picture including command lines and ancestor processes without sifting through thousands of benign events.

Always-On Intelligence

Investigate Unusual Processes is available across Windows, macOS, and Linux. It is always active and integrated into Automated Leads for ease of use. You can search for the ProcessAncestryInformation event in Advanced Event Search for any endpoint at any time to see what’s truly out of the ordinary in your environment.

By automating the "boring" work of filtering routine noise, we empower teams to quickly focus on unusual activity in their environment.

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CrowdStrike Falcon® OverWatch for Defender delivers continuous, expert-led threat hunting to support stronger outcomes for Microsoft Defender.

CrowdStrike is excited to announce Falcon OverWatch for Defender, a new offering that extends our elite managed threat hunting to Microsoft Defender environments.

The need for proactive threat hunting is increasingly urgent as adversary operations evolve: 82% of intrusions observed in 2025 were malware-free, the CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report revealed, and the fastest eCrime breakout time was a mere 27 seconds. Adversaries using AI increased their attacks 89% year-over-year.

Security tools remain essential, but not every sophisticated intrusion can be reliably detected through automation alone. Techniques including credential abuse, hands-on-keyboard activity, misuse of legitimate tools, and in-memory tradecraft are too subtle, novel, or context-dependent to automate high-fidelity detections for them without generating too much noise.

This is where Falcon OverWatch for Defender comes in. Powered by the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, Falcon OverWatch for Defender adds continuous, expert-led threat hunting to Microsoft Defender environments. It helps organizations uncover stealthy attacker behavior, escalate high-confidence threats, and guide response before an intrusion becomes a breach.

Threat Hunting In the Era of Frontier AI

Frontier AI models are poised to accelerate vulnerability discovery and exploitation, sparking concerns of a surge in vulnerabilities adversaries can target. But exploits shouldn’t be the extent of their concerns — after all, they’re only one step in the attack chain.

Adversaries using an exploit to gain initial access must take additional steps, such as privilege escalation or lateral movement, to achieve their goals. This is why post-exploit threat hunting is essential: It focuses on the critical window after entry, when attackers are in the environment but haven’t yet made an impact. In the frontier AI era, stopping a vulnerability exploit is ideal, but stopping post-exploitation activity is vital.

The problem is, adversaries are becoming harder to catch. Many blend into legitimate business activity by abusing trusted identities, admin tools, remote access software, and native system processes. They’re using AI to scale phishing attacks, automate reconnaissance, and quickly generate malicious scripts. In this environment, important signals are often new, too subtle, or lack key context to convert into reliable detections right away.

This is why continuous, intelligence-driven hunting is indispensable. The Falcon OverWatch team is built for this mission. Our combination of real-time intelligence, expert human hunters, and AI at scale uncovers post-exploit activity to stop attackers before an intrusion becomes a breach.

Extending CrowdStrike’s Open Approach to Microsoft Environments

Falcon OverWatch for Defender builds on CrowdStrike’s open approach to Microsoft environments. With the lightweight Falcon sensor running alongside Microsoft Defender, organizations can strengthen security outcomes without disrupting existing protections or operations.

This added visibility enables Falcon OverWatch hunters to uncover subtle patterns of attack that might otherwise remain hidden, validate suspicious activity, and escalate high-confidence threats. The result is a stronger security outcome for Microsoft Defender customers without requiring them to replace their endpoint deployment.

Below are the differentiated capabilities it provides:

• Threat hunting informed by deep adversary intelligence: CrowdStrike tracks more than 280 sophisticated nation-state, eCrime, and hacktivist adversaries. Falcon OverWatch hunters use this intelligence to identify threat actor behavior, investigate subtle indicators, and deliver high-confidence escalations.

• AI-powered hunting at machine speed and scale: Falcon OverWatch uses AI, proprietary hunting patterns, and adversary expertise to analyze up to 6.2 trillion events per day and uncover stealthy and novel threats.

• Visibility across millions of endpoints: With visibility across CrowdStrike’s broad global customer base and millions of endpoints, Falcon OverWatch can identify uncommon activity at scale and quickly operationalize new discoveries. When hunters identify a new technique in one environment, that knowledge is turned into new hunting patterns and applied across others. This improves detection posture and helps customers find evidence of both current and prior adversary activity.

Real Outcomes, Proven at Scale

Falcon OverWatch operationalizes the latest threat intelligence to improve detection, analyzes 14 million detection leads annually, adds more than 1,800 new hunting patterns each year, and detects 100 high- to critical-severity intrusions every day.

With Falcon OverWatch for Defender, CrowdStrike extends our proven hunting model to Microsoft Defender customers to deliver the expertise, scale, and intelligence required to identify and stop sophisticated threats earlier.

Additional Resources

• Dive deeper into topics like this at Fal.Con 2026 with expert-led sessions, hands-on training, and real-world insights.

• Read the CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report for the latest insights on adversaries, tradecraft, and activity.

• Visit the Counter Adversary Operations webpage to learn about CrowdStrike’s threat intelligence and hunting solutions.

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CrowdStrike Falcon® Shield delivers deeper visibility into authentication, administrative actions, and AI conversations to help enterprises govern AI at scale.

As organizations scale ChatGPT Enterprise across departments, AI is becoming embedded in everyday business operations. Finance teams are building custom GPTs. Developers are leveraging Codex to act on codebases. Employees are invoking third-party tools within AI conversations to automate workflows. As adoption accelerates, security teams face a fundamental challenge: visibility around agents deployed and running in SaaS environments.

It’s no longer enough to know who has access to ChatGPT Enterprise. Security leaders must understand how the platform is being used, what data may be accessed through AI interactions, and whether activity aligns with enterprise policy.

Building on our August 2025 integration launch that introduced visibility into AI agents and security configurations, CrowdStrike is now expanding its ChatGPT Enterprise integration to deliver deeper audit logging and continuous activity monitoring within CrowdStrike Falcon Shield SaaS security. This expansion enables monitoring of authentication activity, administrative changes, tool usage, Codex events, and conversation-level logs across ChatGPT Enterprise workspaces.

This evolution marks a shift from configuration awareness to operational visibility and active threat detection.

Governing AI at Enterprise Scale

AI platforms are rapidly becoming business-critical systems. When a GPT is configured to access sensitive customer information, when a developer connects AI tooling to a production repository, or when a conversation is shared externally, these actions introduce governance and compliance considerations that must be addressed in real time.

The challenge is in understanding usage patterns, detecting behavioral anomalies, and identifying compliance risks as they occur.

By leveraging OpenAI’s expanded logging capabilities, Falcon Shield ingests and analyzes ChatGPT Enterprise events to provide security teams with the context required to investigate suspicious behavior, enforce policy, and reduce blind spots across AI-driven workflows.

From Audit Logs to Active Defense

With expanded telemetry from ChatGPT’s Compliance Logs Platform, Falcon Shield enables detection use cases within ChatGPT Enterprise environments, including:

• Suspicious authentication activity such as malicious IP access, anonymized connections, and unusual VPN sign-ins
• Behavioral anomalies like simultaneous logins from untrusted networks and unexpected browser or OS changes
• Monitoring of administrative updates, GPT configuration changes, and high-risk tool or Codex usage

By correlating ChatGPT Enterprise activity with identity, device, and SaaS telemetry across the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, CrowdStrike enables organizations to detect and respond to suspicious AI activity before it escalates.

This deeper integration transforms ChatGPT Enterprise governance from periodic review to continuous monitoring.

Securing the Future of Enterprise AI

With this expansion, Falcon Shield extends its initial ChatGPT Enterprise integration into a comprehensive operational monitoring capability. Organizations now gain continuous oversight — not just visibility into configuration, but intelligence into how AI systems are actively being used across the enterprise.

AI adoption is accelerating across every function. Security must advance alongside it. By delivering enhanced visibility and detection across ChatGPT Enterprise environments, Falcon Shield helps organizations embrace AI innovation with confidence while maintaining governance, oversight, and control.

Additional Resources

• Learn more about the OpenAI Compliance Logs Platform for enhanced audit logging and activity monitoring.
• Join us at Fal.Con 2026 as we bring together cyber leaders from across the industry to help secure the AI revolution.
• Visit the Falcon Shield webpage for product information.
• Request a free CrowdStrike SaaS Security Risk Review.
• Try Falcon Shield SaaS security for free for 15 days.

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CrowdStrike Shadow AI Visibility Service

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CrowdStrike introduces Shadow AI Visibility Service

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CrowdStrike introduces Frontier AI Readiness and Resilience Service

The exploit window is collapsing. Adversaries are already through the gap.

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1. 89% YoY rise in AI-enabled adversary attacks¹
2. 42% more zero-days exploited before disclosure¹
3. 27 seconds: fastest eCrime breakout time¹
4. 82% of detections in 2025 were malware-free¹

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Complexity has become a defining security challenge as organizations expand across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. In fact, 52% of surveyed organizations ranked multi/hybrid cloud complexity among their top three infrastructure concerns.1 This complexity creates fragmented visibility across cloud providers, workloads, and Kubernetes environments — gaps that adversaries increasingly exploit to move undetected.

Cloud-conscious intrusions rose 37% year-over-year in 2025, the CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report found. Emerging eCrime adversaries are advancing their tactics to abuse trusted relationships and compromise downstream victims. Adversaries are also accelerating — the fastest observed eCrime breakout time was just 27 seconds — leaving little room for delayed detection and response.

Yet with the tooling available today, this remains difficult in practice. Three key gaps persist:

• Fragmented runtime visibility: Limited or siloed visibility across multi-cloud environments slows investigation and obscures attacker activity.
• Delayed detection and response: Reliance on log post-processing introduces lag, giving adversaries time to move laterally and establish persistence.
• Kubernetes control plane blind spots: Limited visibility into the Kubernetes API layer allows attackers to abuse legitimate actions to escalate privileges and modify configurations without triggering traditional defenses.

Closing these gaps requires a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) approach that extends beyond posture management to deliver real-time, unified detection and response across cloud environments.

Today, we’re introducing expanded real-time cloud detection and response (CDR) support for Google Cloud, along with new Kubernetes threat detections for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). These innovations are designed to close critical visibility gaps and enable faster detection and response to modern cloud threats.

We’re also extending the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform to regional Google Cloud infrastructure, enabling organizations to adopt and consolidate on the industry’s leading AI-native cybersecurity platform using the underlying cloud provider that best aligns to their operational and data sovereignty requirements.

With these new innovations, CrowdStrike continues to advance its mission of helping organizations stop cloud breaches across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Real-Time CDR for Google Cloud: Expanding Detection and Response Across Multi-Cloud Environments

CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security now extends real-time CDR to Google Cloud, in addition to support for AWS, delivering unified, real-time detection and response across multi-cloud environments. By bringing Google Cloud activity into a single detection pipeline, security teams gain visibility into attacker behavior across their multi-cloud attack surface and eliminate the gaps of fragmented visibility that adversaries leverage.

Many approaches to processing agentless cloud telemetry introduce delays in detection. Falcon Cloud Security analyzes Google Cloud activity as it happens and instantly applies detections. This enables SOC teams to identify malicious cloud activity in seconds and interrupt attacker activity before it can progress, reducing dwell time and limiting potential blast radius.

CrowdStrike powers CDR with the breadth of the broader Falcon platform, in which teams can correlate cloud telemetry with sensor activity and threat intelligence, and accelerate with CrowdStrike® Charlotte AI™ for deeper threat hunting and faster investigations.

With multi-cloud support, CrowdStrike continues to lead as the only CNAPP delivering real-time, cross-cloud detection and response designed to stop breaches.

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This new capability is in beta and will be generally available in the coming months.

Kubernetes Threat Detection: Exposing Attacker Activity in the Control Plane

As organizations increasingly rely on Kubernetes to run mission-critical and AI-driven applications, visibility into the control plane has become essential to stopping modern attacks. Without it, adversaries can operate through legitimate orchestration workflows and bypass traditional runtime defenses to remain undetected.

Falcon Cloud Security now extends detection coverage into the Kubernetes control plane to provide visibility into attacker activity within the orchestration layer that manages and deploys workloads. While the Falcon sensor protects the runtime environment, Kubernetes threat detection enhances coverage by ingesting and monitoring Kubernetes audit logs to expose how adversaries exploit resources — such as service accounts or secrets — to gain access, escalate privileges, and maintain persistence beyond the workload.

Each detection is enriched with cloud, workload, and identity context and correlated across the Falcon platform so security teams can trace attacker activity across Kubernetes and the broader cloud environment. This allows teams to connect control plane actions with runtime behavior and identity activity, and gain a unified view of how attacks unfold across domains.

By extending detection into the control plane, Falcon Cloud Security provides comprehensive Kubernetes protection that helps organizations detect and stop attacks that would otherwise remain hidden.

[Figure 1. Kubernetes detections are enriched with cloud, workload, and identity context]

This new capability is generally available.

CrowdStrike Expands Falcon Platform to Google Cloud

CrowdStrike is extending the Falcon platform to Google Cloud regional infrastructure, delivering the multi-cloud flexibility global organizations demand. Starting next quarter, organizations can consolidate their security stack on the unified Falcon platform without being tethered to a specific cloud provider or forced to manage fragmented security across diverse environments.

Multi-cloud flexibility enables data to be processed, correlated, and acted on within regional environments to help meet strict operational and sovereignty requirements. This architecture anchors data residency within regional boundaries while maintaining unified global intelligence, helping companies stop breaches in a world where attacks do not respect borders.

Stop Breaches with Unified Cloud Coverage

These innovations in Falcon Cloud Security deliver unified detection and response across multi-cloud environments and every layer of the cloud stack. From real-time CDR for Google Cloud to deep visibility into the Kubernetes control plane, organizations gain the coverage needed to close blind spots and track attacker behavior end to end.

With added availability for Google Cloud regional infrastructure, organizations can achieve this level of protection while working to meet data residency and operational requirements without fragmenting their security stack.

Together, these capabilities enable security teams to detect threats earlier, accelerate investigations, and stop attacks before they escalate into breaches, making CrowdStrike the platform of choice for securing modern cloud environments.

Additional Resources

• Fal.Con 2026 registration is now open. Join us in Las Vegas to explore what’s next in cybersecurity.
• Learn more about CDR with CrowdStrike on our product page.
• Download the Cloud Detection and Response Survival Guide for the SOC to strengthen your CDR approach.
• Check out how CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security performed in MITRE’s first-ever cloud evaluation: 2025 MITRE ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluations.

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This blog may include discussion of unreleased services or features. Any unreleased services or features referenced here are still in development and subject to change. Customers should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available.

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Since the launch of CrowdStrike AI Security Services in 2025, our Professional Services team has yet to encounter an organization with an accurate inventory of the AI tools and services in use across its environment.

One customer counted 150 agents in its inventory. We found over 500. Another had not approved agentic development at all; we discovered over 70 active agents. In many cases, web filtering created a false sense of control by masking the extent of unapproved AI activity taking shape inside the environment. These are not edge cases. This is the norm for organizations of every size, across every industry and region.

The new CrowdStrike Shadow AI Visibility Service aims to address this problem by giving organizations the truth about their AI footprint. Powered by the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform and delivered by CrowdStrike experts, this service uses telemetry-based evidence to identify sanctioned and unsanctioned AI usage across endpoint, cloud, and SaaS environments.

Shadow AI Changes the Risk Equation

In the past year, two trends have accelerated the shadow AI problem. First, many organizations have prohibited security teams from generally blocking AI tools and sites for fear of inhibiting experimentation and productivity. Second, AI adoption has accelerated, and the variety of tools has multiplied.

CrowdStrike AI services engagements continue to find shadow AI in SaaS and cloud-hosted AI/ML services. We’re also finding shadow AI across the full endpoint surface: desktop AI applications, browser extensions, IDEs, packages, MCP servers, models, and frameworks. Most organizations also lack visibility into how users are interacting with AI applications, including the user prompts and LLM responses that may contain sensitive data, source code, or credentials.

Figure 1. The Falcon Adversary OverWatch threat hunting team has observed significant growth in agent-triggered detection leads, now tracking at 2.5x the rate of human-triggered leads. This demonstrates that AI agents now operate on endpoints, and they are increasingly taking autonomous and potentially risky actions.

Discovering shadow AI across all of these vendors requires a security stack that sees across every surface where AI operates. Most organizations don’t have one.

Shadow AI differs from traditional shadow IT because it frequently integrates into existing, approved workflows without requiring formal installation. Security teams face an immediate challenge: They cannot protect what they cannot see. And unlike shadow IT, undetected AI doesn’t just access sensitive data — it can expose this data to unauthorized systems and take autonomous action that may disrupt or jeopardize production operations.

The visibility gap is driven by four primary factors.

Without an accurate inventory, risk compounds quickly. Shadow AI is not just a funnel for sensitive data loss, including IP exposure, source code leakage, and regulatory risk. It can also act on that data by making decisions, triggering workflows, and taking autonomous action across connected systems without the visibility, guardrails, or human oversight security teams expect.

CrowdStrike Shadow AI Visibility Service

This new service gives customers the evidence and guidance they need to understand their true AI footprint and reduce risk with confidence. Customers receive:

• A comprehensive AI inventory:
  • A clearer accounting of AI tools, agents, copilots, extensions, and model-connected services operating across endpoint, cloud, and SaaS environments
• Runtime evidence of AI activity:
  • Technical evidence of how AI is being used in practice, including prompts, responses, and agent activity — so security teams can see what’s actually happening, not what users self-report
• Visibility gap analysis:
  • Analysis to understand what is present in the environment versus what the organization believes is approved — exposing unauthorized sprawl, hidden agents, and visibility blind spots
• Prioritized findings and expert guidance:
  • Risk-prioritized findings and actionable recommendations from CrowdStrike experts to help teams reduce exposure and strengthen AI security posture

Securing AI starts where AI executes: on the endpoint. CrowdStrike has been capturing process-level telemetry on the endpoint for over a decade, and that same visibility now extends across browser, SaaS, and cloud. This is why we can deliver AI discovery across every surface where AI operates, from a single platform and a single engagement.

Discovery Is Step One. What Comes Next?

Visibility is the foundational phase of a secure AI strategy. Once an organization understands its real AI footprint, the next requirement is to evaluate whether those systems are resilient against adversarial manipulation.

For organizations that need to go deeper, the CrowdStrike AI Systems Security Assessment extends beyond discovery into:

• Secure configuration: Assess feature configurations and risks in GenAI applications and services
• Program recommendations: Advise on governing, securing, and monitoring workforce GenAI usage and secure development of AI applications
• Adversarial risk assessment: Test model security, conduct threat modeling, and identify attack paths for select internally developed AI applications.

Securing AI adoption requires shifting from a reactive posture to a threat-informed, evidence-driven defense. This transition begins with achieving total visibility of the current footprint.

For organizations seeking greater visibility into their exposures, the CrowdStrike Frontier AI Readiness and Resilience Service provides ongoing, AI-driven scanning to identify vulnerabilities and prioritize them based on adversary risk and business criticality. As frontier AI shrinks the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, this helps organizations learn where they are exposed, what is reachable, and whether their controls are strong enough to stop a breach.

Learn more on our services page or contact [email protected].

Additional Resources

• Join us at Fal.Con 2026 as we bring together cyber leaders from across the industry to help secure the AI revolution.
• Learn more about how CrowdStrike secures AI in this blog post: New CrowdStrike Innovations Secure AI Agents and Govern Shadow AI Across Endpoints, SaaS, and Cloud

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Data Onboarding Agent

Automates data pipeline creation to accelerate data onboarding.

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Next-Gen SIEM

Search Analysis Agent

Summarizes and interprets query results in seconds.

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Next-Gen SIEM

Correlation Rule Generation Agent

Recommends and tunes detection rules for advanced threats.

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Agentic SOAR

Data Transformation Agent

Normalizes and translates data across tools.

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Agentic SOAR

Workflow Generation Agent

Converts natural language prompts into automated workflows.

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Agentic SOAR

Foundry App Creation Agent

Builds security applications in CrowdStrike Falcon® Foundry.

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Next-Gen SIEM

Query Translation Agent

Translates queries into Falcon platform-native CQL.

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Transform security operations with an agentic fleet

From signal to decision at machine speed

Offload repetitive tasks to Charlotte AI's agents — from triage to risk analysis. Reduce toil, accelerate response, and refocus analyst time on high-impact work.

Scale security operations without adding headcount

Falcon platform-native agents inherit CrowdStrike’s unified telemetry and shared security context – extending your team’s impact across security workflows, 24/7.

Powered by a singular expert-AI feedback loop

Charlotte AI’s agents learn from frontline analyst decisions and are continuously validated by CrowdStrike’s elite incident responders. The result: agents that reason, decide, and act with analyst-grade precision — maintaining accuracy and resisting drift even as threats evolve.

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One platform to build, manage, and orchestrate agents

With Charlotte AI AgentWorks, build, test, and manage agents using natural language — and fueled by best-of-breed frontier AI models. Charlotte AI centralizes AI adoption across your team, providing full control over access, credit usage, and agent activity.

Always under analyst control

Agents operate within defined guardrails: clear explanations, inspectable source data, role-based access controls (RBAC) and audit-ready logs. Bounded autonomy keeps analysts in the loop.

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Inside CrowdStrike’s science-backed approach to building expert SOC agents

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Product

Charlotte Agentic SOAR

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Making AI Real in the SOC

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Inside the Human-AI Feedback Loop Powering CrowdStrike’s Agentic Security

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Start your agentic SOC transformation today

Unified intelligence. Machine speed. Total control.

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1 Accuracy rating is a measure of Charlotte AI triage decisions that match the expert decisions from the CrowdStrike Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR team.

2 User-provided assessments of reduced manual work and accelerated time to response provided in customer case studies.

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Supercharge your agentic SOC with high-quality, real-time data

Eliminate noise, cut costs, and stop breaches at machine speed.

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Latest Innovations

Falcon Next-Gen SIEM for Defender transforms your SOC — no rip and replace required
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Powering the agentic SOC: Mission-ready agents from Charlotte AI
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Agentic Security Workforce: Mission-ready agents that turn complex security operations into AI-driven conversations
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Adversaries hide in your data noise

With overwhelming data and latency, AI-powered attackers move faster than defenders can respond.

1. 62% of alerts ignored amid overwhelming noise
2. More time spent managing data than analyzing it
3. 27s fastest breakout time: adversaries outpace your data
4. Blind spots are exploited by adversaries at scale

Accelerate your agentic SOC transformation with real-time data

Power agentic security operations with seamless onboarding, autonomous detection, and faster response.

70%
Faster incident response with in-pipeline detection

50%
Lower storage costs with smart filtering

40%
Less ingestion overhead, fueling better SOC outcomes

Cut the noise. Keep the signal.

Turn fragmented telemetry into structured, enriched data that matters. By cutting noise and amplifying context, Falcon Onum ensures CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM and SOC teams act on high-fidelity insights, not clutter.

Speed for the agentic era

Falcon Onum delivers up to 5x more events per second than its nearest competitor, processing data in real-time versus legacy batch and store methods. SOCs detect and respond faster to outpace AI-powered adversaries.

Spend less. Defend more.

Don’t pay for data you don’t need. Falcon Onum intelligently filters and routes telemetry, cutting storage costs by up to 50% while freeing budget for what matters most: defending your business.

Stop threats in the data stream

Falcon Onum moves detection upstream into the pipeline, autonomously spotting malicious activity as data flows. By surfacing high-value signals instantly, security teams gain the speed to outpace AI-powered adversaries instead of reacting after the breach.

Pipeline control made simple

Traditional pipelines require heavy scripting and deep engineering. Falcon Onum’s intuitive drag-and-drop UI empowers SOC analysts at every level to shape, enrich, and route data themselves — unlocking agility without complexity.

Validated by analysts. Trusted by customers.

Named a Leader in the 2025 GigaOm Radar for SIEM
A Visionary: 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Information and Event Management
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Adversary-informed intelligence. Delivered at scale. Trusted when it matters most.

Consolidating security on the Falcon platform allows us to address our unique security needs from a single, centralized interface. We can create custom dashboards, conduct tailored analyses, and quickly determine appropriate responses to incidents.”

Mathias Espeloer, Director of IT, HEUKING

We don't have the time or energy to go search into millions of logs. So having AI layered on top of CrowdStrike’s SIEM product is where we want to be.”

Wayne Cross, Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Operations, BLG

With Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, we were writing custom detections and getting results on day one…We're super excited about Falcon Fusion. It's intuitive, and having that type of automation within the Falcon platform is huge for us. There's a lot of custom ad hoc rules that we leverage, and having that SOAR capability to automate any of those steps is valuable."

Nathan Kelly, Senior Information Security Engineer, TaylorMade

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Accelerate your AI SOC transformation

Learn how Falcon Onum eliminates data migration bottlenecks, friction, and cost.

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FAQs

Does Falcon Onum require Falcon Next-Gen SIEM?
How does Falcon Onum work with Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and CrowdStrike Falcon® Complete Next-Gen MDR?
What types of data transformations can Falcon Onum apply before sending data to Falcon Next-Gen SIEM?
Can Falcon Onum perform detections in motion? How does this differ when used with Falcon Next-Gen SIEM?

1. CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report
2. “SOC Teams: Threat Detection Tools are Stifling Us”, Dark Reading
3. These numbers are projected estimates of average benefit based on company’s own internal analysis and recorded metrics provided by customers during pre-sale motions that compare the value of CrowdStrike with the customer’s incumbent solution. Actual realized value will depend on the customer's module deployment and environment.
4. Results are from a customer case study. Individual results may vary.

• As of June 2, 2025, CrowdStrike has an Overall Rating of 4.7 out of 5 and the most reviews in a 12 month period in the Security Information and Event Management, based on 184 reviews on Gartner Peer Insights™

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CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM

Open. Unified.

Built for the agentic SOC.

Extend AI-native security operations to Microsoft Defender and your wider stack — improving speed, clarity, and control without rip-and-replace.

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Adversaries exploit the gaps in your stack

Siloed tools create blind spots attackers chain together.

• 27 seconds fastest breakout — no time for handoffs
• 82% of attacks are malware-free, evading isolated defenses
• Disjointed tools leave gaps adversaries exploit
• Disconnected signals delay containment

Defend your entire security ecosystem from a single AI-native platform

The open foundation for your security stack.

150x

Faster search — investigate threats across domains in seconds, not minutes, with industry-leading performance.

5x

Faster streaming pipelines — transform diverse data in real-time with native CrowdStrike Falcon® Onum integration.

4,500+

SOAR third-party actions — automate response with proven SOAR workflows across your stack.

The operating system for your entire ecosystem

Open AI-native capabilities that defend across your entire technology ecosystem.

Ingest data from anywhere

Falcon Onum is natively integrated into the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, delivering real-time pipelines that ingest and transform data from virtually any source. Process up to 5x more events per second than the nearest competitor and route telemetry intelligently — so high-quality data flows into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM without complex setup.

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Use our endpoint or bring your own

Deploy Falcon Next-Gen SIEM with Falcon EDR or integrate with third-party EDR platforms—starting with Microsoft Defender—to ingest endpoint alerts and telemetry from day one. Correlate Defender signals with logs and threat intelligence in a centralized AI-native workflow, modernizing your SOC without replacing existing agents.

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Activate third-party intelligence

Ingest, enrich, score and deduplicate third-party indicators of compromise through APIs or uploads. Apply rules to control matching and exports so only curated, high-confidence intelligence flows into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM — operationalizing your unique intel alongside CrowdStrike’s adversary intelligence.

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Search data where it lives

Query data in place across AWS Athena, CrowdStrike Falcon® LogScale and ExtraHop without duplicating or re-ingesting logs. Correlate results with Falcon platform telemetry to investigate seamlessly across environments while optimizing storage costs. Falcon Next-Gen SIEM is available in AWS Marketplace for streamlined procurement.

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Detect and respond across your ecosystem

Move from siloed alerts to coordinated defense. Leverage native detections and workflow automation — including purpose-built content for third-party endpoints, starting with Microsoft Defender — to uncover threats across your ecosystem and trigger integrated response across security and IT domains. All within Falcon Next-Gen SIEM.

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Transform your SOC with Falcon Next-Gen SIEM for Defender

Accelerate ingestion with Falcon Onum pipelines

Search across your entire data ecosystem in seconds

Streamline detection and response in one platform

Integrate security seamlessly across your AWS environment

Customer Stories

See why organizations trust Falcon Next-Gen SIEM.

We asked for better parsing, better correlation, and a stronger data model — and they delivered."

Emmett Koen, Senior Director of Cybersecurity Operations and North America Regional CISO, Mondelēz

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The built-in connectors were seamless, and CrowdStrike’s implementation team guided us from A to Z.”

Richard Lee, Director of Cybersecurity and Privacy, the ALDO Group

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The cool thing about Falcon Next-Gen SIEM is that we can integrate all of those logs into the [Falcon] platform and we can do the correlation.”

Wayne Cross, Director IT Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Operations, BLG LLP

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Transform AWS Security Operations with Falcon Next-Gen SIEM

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Falcon Onum: Clean, real-time data control for the Agentic SOC

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Falcon Next-Gen SIEM for Third Party Data Sheet

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Secure Kubernetes and containers from build to runtime

Mitigate risk before deployment and detect threats at runtime with full lifecycle security for containers, Kubernetes, and AI workloads.

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Complete container protection from pipeline to production

Combine agentless image assessment, AI-driven runtime defense, and adversary-informed risk prioritization to secure containers and Kubernetes at every stage.

Reduce supply chain risk

Secure images and dependencies early to prevent vulnerabilities from reaching production.

Enforce security without slowing teams

Apply consistent policies from build to runtime while enabling development velocity.

Respond to threats fast

Prioritize and stop high-risk activity across cloud-native and AI workloads.

Prevent risky images before deployment

Reduce production risk by stopping vulnerable and non-compliant images from advancing through development pipelines:

• Detect vulnerabilities and dependencies across registries
• Generate SBOMs for supply chain transparency
• Prioritize exploitable risks using adversary intelligence
• Enforce security policies in CI/CD workflows
• Block high-risk builds before production

Comprehensive container visibility

Close blind spots across containers, Kubernetes, and serverless environments with continuous discovery and unified visibility:

• Discover containers across managed and self-managed clusters
• Identify rogue or attacker-spawned containers
• Surface unprotected assets requiring security coverage
• View clusters and workloads in a single console

Runtime threat detection for containers

Detect and prioritize active threats across containers, Kubernetes, and serverless environments using adversary intelligence and control plane visibility:

• Gain runtime visibility with a sensor optimized for containers
• Combine agent-based runtime monitoring with agentless detections across the Kubernetes API Server
• Correlate user and service account activity to container behavior
• Identify workload drift and unauthorized containers

Policy enforcement across the container lifecycle

Apply consistent guardrails from build to runtime without slowing development.

• Block risky deployments with the Kubernetes Admission Controller
• Enforce policies across containers, nodes, and functions
• Codify custom security requirements into programmable policies
• Continuously assess workloads against compliance benchmarks

Securing AI development with Trusted Container Images

Accelerate AI innovation by ensuring only verified, compliant container images power production AI environments:

• Assess images used in NVIDIA NIM and AI pipelines
• Enforce trusted image policies before deployment
• Apply consistent security controls across AI workflows

Built for the speed of DevOps

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The Complete Guide to Kubernetes Security

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CrowdStrike Named Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 Company of the Year for Cloud Workload Security

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CrowdStrike Uses Proven Detection Logic for Pre-Deployment Malware Scanning

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Trusted by industry leaders

"During peak shopping times, Target’s infrastructure must scale to support millions of transactions per second. This requires a cybersecurity platform that delivers both endpoint-to-cloud protection and ultra high performance."

Jennifer Czaplewski, Senior Director, Cybersecurity Target

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Experience next-gen cloud security

Discover how CrowdStrike’s advanced protection can secure your cloud environment. No strings, no hassle.

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Find the adversaries targeting your industry

Discover the adversaries targeting your industry.

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CrowdStrike Falcon® Exposure Management

Uncover the risks hiding in plain sight

Gain control of your organization’s browser extension risk to prevent breaches.

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Eradicate extension risk blind spots

Uncover and neutralize hidden permission risks.

Unmask browser extensions

Gain a comprehensive view of all browser extensions across your organization.

Prioritize permission risks

Identify high-risk extensions with dangerous permission levels, and understand their potential impact.

Automate threat response with CrowdStrike Falcon® Fusion

Trigger instant alerts and streamline remediation workflows to swiftly eliminate extension risks.

Real-time continuous monitoring

Automate extension security with real-time, always-on evaluation. Free your team from manual assessments and gain valuable time back.

Comprehensive visibility

Gain full insight into browser extensions across major browser platforms (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox).

Meaningful prioritization and rich insights

Heuristics-based risk severity translates complex permission details into easy-to-understand assessment. Rich artifacts and details facilitate informed decision-making.

Automate remediation and shut down threats

Seamless integration with Falcon Fusion automates alerts and ticketing to accelerate response and neutralize threats fast.

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Intermex reduced critical vulnerabilities by 98% with Falcon Exposure Management

"In less than a year with Falcon Exposure Management, we reduced critical vulnerabilities by 98% in our DMZ, 92% across our entire server board and 86% on all workstations,” said Hereford. “Those are massive improvements that I was proud to present to the board."

Daniel Hereford, CISO, Intermex

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Falcon Exposure Management

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Seeing the Unseen: Preventing Breaches by Spotting Malicious Browser Extensions

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Demo Drill Down: Browser Extension Assessment

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Gain complete control and eliminate hidden risks with Falcon Exposure Management.

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