CrowdStrike has appointed AJ Shipley as Chief Product Officer, effective immediately. Shipley, formerly Chief Product Officer at Splunk Security, will lead CrowdStrike's product organization to accelerate innovation across the Falcon platform and secure the world's adoption of AI.
CrowdStrike appointed AJ Shipley as Chief Product Officer to lead product innovation across the Falcon platform.
Shipley joins from Splunk Security, where he served as Chief Product Officer and drove the investment thesis behind Splunk's $28B acquisition by Cisco.
He previously led product management for Cisco's Threat Detection and Response portfolio and held senior roles at Palo Alto Networks.
Shipley will focus on securing AI adoption, including agentic workflows, models, and AI-driven enterprise environments.
CrowdStrike's Falcon platform is positioned to secure endpoints, identity, cloud, and next-gen SIEM in the agentic era.
The appointment comes as organizations race to deploy AI, creating new attack surfaces and security demands.
CrowdStrike today announced the appointment of AJ Shipley as Chief Product Officer. Shipley now leads CrowdStrike's product organization, accelerating innovation across the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to advance the company's mission of stopping breaches and securing the world's adoption of AI.
As organizations race to deploy AI, every agent, model, and agentic workflow becomes a new attack surface to defend, a new identity to govern, and a new endpoint to secure. This creates two demands: using AI to defend the enterprise through the agentic SOC, and securing the AI that enterprises now depend on. Building on the architectural advantage that made Falcon the platform of record for endpoint, identity, cloud, and next-gen SIEM, Shipley will extend CrowdStrike's lead in securing the agentic era.
"Our platform advantage is structural: the sensor network, the telemetry, and the closed-loop system of real-time intelligence and expert validation that no one else can match," said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike. "AI executes on the endpoint, and as the pioneer of EDR, we are uniquely positioned to capture the greatest tailwind cybersecurity has ever seen: securing the AI enterprises deploy. AJ is one of the most accomplished builders in our industry, and he is the right leader to seize an opportunity this large."
Shipley brings more than two decades of experience building category-defining cybersecurity products. He joins CrowdStrike from Splunk Security, where he served as Chief Product Officer. Previously, Shipley led product management for Cisco's Threat Detection and Response portfolio, spanning XDR, EDR, NDR, email security, and vulnerability management. He built Cisco XDR from the ground up and drove the due diligence and investment thesis behind the company's $28 billion acquisition of Splunk. Earlier, Shipley held senior product leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks. Across his career, Shipley has built, scaled, and transformed security platforms – and joins CrowdStrike at the defining inflection point in cybersecurity's history.
"No company has done more to stop breaches and thwart the adversary than CrowdStrike. That is the opinion of every customer and partner I have spoken to or supported throughout my career," said Shipley. "Now there is a bigger opportunity in front of us: securing how the world adopts AI. Falcon's unified architecture is uniquely built to deliver the speed, scale, and simplicity organizations need to secure the agentic enterprise."
Shipley's appointment reinforces CrowdStrike's commitment to securing AI adoption across the enterprise. As AI agents and workflows proliferate, the Falcon platform's unified architecture and real-time intelligence capabilities position the company to address emerging security challenges in the agentic era, from endpoint protection to identity governance and cloud security.
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.
Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity, and immediate time-to-value.
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