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CrowdStrike today announced the appointment of Dr. Bartley Richardson as Chief AI and Autonomous Systems Officer. Richardson now leads CrowdStrike's AI strategy, advancing its structural data advantage into more autonomous, deterministic security outcomes – stopping breaches and accelerating the Company's lead on the path to artificial general intelligence (AGI). Richardson joins CrowdStrike from NVIDIA, where he led engineering for agentic AI, cybersecurity AI, and AI infrastructure.
At NVIDIA, Richardson led development of foundational technologies for AI agents including NeMo Agent Toolkit and AI-Q research assistant.
CrowdStrike's Falcon platform generates proprietary, real-time data from customer environments and world-class threat intelligence.
Richardson will advance structural AI advantage in pursuit of Security AGI.
Goal: drive the SOC to level 5 autonomy, fundamentally changing security outcomes and staffing.
CrowdStrike's threat hunters, MDR analysts, and incident responders produce expert-labeled data as byproduct of operations.
Cyber Reinforced Learning from Human Feedback at scale generates signals no frontier model can replicate.
"CrowdStrike pioneered AI-native cybersecurity. Our data advantage is structural; no one else has the sensors, the telemetry, the expert validation, and the closed-loop system to stop breaches at machine speed," said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike. "The best AI builders want to solve the hardest problems with the best data. That's why Bartley joins us."
As AI drives a surge in exploitable vulnerabilities and adversaries weaponize it to move faster and with greater sophistication, the demand for autonomous, machine-speed response has never been greater. CrowdStrike is the leading net data creator in cybersecurity, and the platform of record for stopping breaches. The Falcon platform generates proprietary, real-time data from customer environments and world-class threat intelligence that no other company has, powering agentic security innovation.
At CrowdStrike, Richardson will advance the Company's structural AI advantage in pursuit of Security AGI. CrowdStrike's threat hunters, MDR analysts, and incident responders produce expert-labeled data as a byproduct of operations – cyber Reinforced Learning from Human Feedback at scale – generating signals no frontier model can replicate. By leveraging this AI flywheel, where data, models, agents, and human expertise reinforce one another, he will drive autonomous, deterministic security outcomes at scale while advancing Charlotte AI, the agentic SOC, and AI Detection and Response (AIDR) – extending CrowdStrike's leadership in AI-native cybersecurity. His goal: drive the SOC to level 5 autonomy, fundamentally changing the dynamics of security outcomes and staffing for cybersecurity in the AI era.
"Cybersecurity is one of the defining challenges of the AI era, encapsulating massive data, constant noise, and the need to make the right decisions in real time," said Richardson. "Modern cybersecurity isn't just about stopping threats; it's ensuring organizations can deploy AI safely, at speed, with confidence. CrowdStrike's data, platform, and mission put us on the path to deliver security superintelligence, where machines and humans stop breaches together."
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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