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CrowdStrike has announced the general availability of Falcon® AI Detection and Response (AIDR), a new capability that extends its Falcon platform to secure the AI prompt and agent interaction layer. With AIDR, CrowdStrike aims to provide the first unified platform securing every layer of enterprise AI—from data and models to infrastructure and user interactions—addressing emerging threats like prompt injection.
CrowdStrike launches Falcon AI Detection and Response (AIDR) for general availability.
It secures the AI prompt and agent interaction layer, a new attack surface.
Key threats addressed: prompt injection, jailbreaks, and sensitive data leakage.
Provides real-time visibility, policy enforcement, and blocking of malicious prompts.
AIDR is integrated into the unified Falcon security platform.
It aims to protect both AI development workflows and workforce AI usage at scale.
CrowdStrike positions the AI interaction layer—where users and systems interact with large language models and agents—as the fastest-growing attack surface. Adversaries are exploiting this layer using techniques like prompt injection, where hidden instructions can manipulate AI systems to reveal sensitive data or perform unauthorized actions. Falcon AIDR is designed to secure this frontier by applying real-time detection and response to every prompt, response, and agent action.
“Prompt injection is a frontier security problem,” said Michael Sentonas, president of CrowdStrike. “Falcon AIDR secures every prompt, response, and agent action in real time, extending the power of the Falcon platform to the interaction layer and delivering complete protection across our customers’ AI infrastructure.”
The new solution delivers unified visibility, governance, and enforcement across enterprise AI through several key capabilities:
Visibility & Compliance: Provides deep runtime logs of AI usage for compliance and investigations.
Threat Blocking: Stops prompt injection attacks, jailbreaks, and unsafe content using intelligence from research on over 180 known techniques.
Policy Enforcement: Blocks risky AI interactions and contains malicious agent actions in real time based on policy.
Data Protection: Automatically detects and blocks credentials, regulated data, and other sensitive information from reaching AI models.
Secure Innovation: Offers built-in safeguards for developers to build secure AI applications and agents faster.
By integrating Falcon AIDR into the broader Falcon platform, CrowdStrike delivers what it describes as a unified security model for AI. This approach aims to protect the entire lifecycle—from the infrastructure where AI runs to the interactive layer where it is used—through a single platform. This gives organizations a consolidated method to manage AI security at enterprise scale, rather than relying on disparate point solutions.
The general availability of Falcon AIDR marks a significant expansion of CrowdStrike's platform into the rapidly evolving domain of AI-native security threats.
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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