CrowdStrike to Acquire Pangea to Launch AI Detection and Response (AIDR)

"CrowdStrike on Tuesday said that it would acquire Pangea, a company specializing in AI security, to expand its Falcon platform with new protections designed for enterprise AI systems. The acquisition, announced at CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2025 event, is intended to address security challenges specific to the use of AI models, agents, and applications in the workplace. CrowdStrike plans to integrate Pangea's capabilities to help organizations monitor, control, and secure AI interactions across their infrastructure."

"The moves, along with other recent acquisitions in the AI security space, highlight the rapid rise in enterprise demand for safeguarding generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and autonomous agents as these technologies become increasingly embedded across the enterprise. Earlier this year Pangea added AI Guard and Prompt Guard to its existing suite of corporate gen-AI security products. The first prevents sensitive data leakage from gen-AI applications, while the second defends against prompt engineering, preventing jailbreaks."

"CrowdStrike is positioning the deal as an extension of its past innovations in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), which became a standard approach to endpoint security. With Pangea, the company aims to introduce AI Detection and Response (AIDR), designed to provide oversight across the AI lifecycle - from model development to end-user interactions. As enterprises adopt AI more broadly, attackers are probing for weaknesses in AI workflows, endpoints, and identity systems."

CrowdStrike will acquire Pangea to expand the Falcon platform with protections tailored for enterprise AI models, agents, and applications. The integration will enable organizations to monitor, control, and secure AI interactions across infrastructure. Pangea added AI Guard to prevent sensitive data leakage and Prompt Guard to defend against prompt engineering jailbreaks. CrowdStrike plans to extend Endpoint Detection and Response into AI Detection and Response, providing oversight from model development to end-user interactions. The deal responds to attackers probing AI workflows and reflects growing enterprise demand and consolidation in the AI security market.

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