CrowdStrike launches next-gen identity security tool

Crowdstrike has announced the launch of a new solution aimed at protecting both human and non-human identities across every enterprise environment.

CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security is designed to protect human, non-human and AI agent identities across on-premises, cloud, SaaS and individual workloads. Part of the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon platform, the offering is designed to unify access prevention, privileged access management, identity threat detection and response and agentic identity protection into a single suite.

AI agent identities are granted persistent access to systems, applications and sensitive data, drastically increasing an organisation’s attack surface. Attackers are increasingly exploiting these and other non-human identities to infiltrate and move seamlessly across domains, circumventing traditional identity access management and privileged access management tools.

Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security aims to close the gaps in an organisation’s defences by allowing security teams to detect, investigate and stop identity-based attacks in real time.

According to CrowdStrike, the platform leverages real-time endpoint signals, threat intelligence and AI trained on trillions of events to dynamically block threats before adversaries can gain initial access. The company says it also uses cross-domain telemetry and agentic AI to triage threats and block lateral movement and privilege escalation, and can identify misconfigurations and risky behaviours across cloud-first applications.

CrowdStrike President Mike Sentonas said the platform has been designed to meet organisations’ need for trusted identity security.

“CrowdStrike provides what customers need most in a unified platform: modern identity security by design, without architectural trade-offs and integration debt,” he said. “Access in today’s enterprise is dynamic and unpredictable, with identities spanning users, machines, and AI agents operating across hybrid environments in real time. The Falcon platform was built to manage this complexity, providing the speed, scale, and precision organisations need to stop modern identity attacks.”

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