CrowdStrike and Perplexity have announced a strategic partnership to integrate the CrowdStrike Falcon platform with Comet Enterprise, Perplexity’s AI-native browser. The collaboration delivers real-time threat detection, governance, and data protection directly within AI-driven workflows, enabling enterprises to secure employee interactions with AI while maintaining productivity and compliance.
As enterprises increasingly rely on AI interfaces like Comet Enterprise for research, analysis, and decision-making, these tools become critical work surfaces—and new attack vectors. The partnership embeds CrowdStrike Falcon’s advanced protections directly into the browser, extending security controls to AI interactions.
This integration prevents data exposure, unauthorized sharing of proprietary content, and exploitation by adversaries operating through trusted AI environments. Real-time monitoring and policy enforcement ensure compliance while preserving seamless productivity.
“The browser is no longer just where people access information – it’s becoming the interaction layer for enterprise AI. As AI scales across the workforce, organizations expect it to operate within their existing security architecture and controls,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike. “Perplexity has led the way in secure AI browsing since launching Comet, and we’re excited to partner with them to extend CrowdStrike’s protections into AI-native workflows. CrowdStrike was built to secure the AI era, and together, we’re securing AI where work happens – governing agentic risk within a single, AI-native platform.”
"CrowdStrike is one of the most trusted names in enterprise security, with a proven track record of helping organizations protect their most important workflows," said Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer at Perplexity. "Comet Enterprise already gives customers secure, AI-native browsing out of the box, and this partnership adds an extra layer of control for enterprises that want to extend CrowdStrike's protections into the browser."
The collaboration leverages CrowdStrike’s browser-layer runtime capabilities, enhanced by the Seraphic acquisition, to deliver comprehensive visibility and control. Enterprises can apply unified security policies across AI-driven tasks, reducing risk from web threats, prompt-based attacks, and data leakage while supporting the safe scaling of AI adoption.
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike, a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.
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