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CrowdStrike AI security acquisitions
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CrowdStrike has engaged in a series of strategic moves to expand its AI-driven security capabilities through significant acquisitions. In October 2026, the company entered advanced negotiations to acquire the Israeli startup Orion Security for approximately $500 million. Orion Security focuses on replacing traditional Data Loss Prevention tools with an AI-based agent architecture designed to reduce false positives by analyzing data movement contextually. By November 2026, CrowdStrike announced plans definitive agreements to acquire two additional AI security startups, Fiddler AI and Dreadnode, for a combined total of roughly $495 million. Fiddler AI, based in Palo Alto, will provide observability and explainability features for While the Falcon platform, while Dreadnode, valued at approximately $95 million, specializes in pre-deployment security testing. According to company did not officially disclose the purchase prices, reports from The Wall Street Journal, the company Journal indicate that Fiddler AI will pay roughly cost approximately $400 million for Fiddler AI and Dreadnode approximately $95 million for Dreadnode, with the million. These acquisitions are expected to close in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2027. Fiddler AI technology will be integrated into a new offering called Falcon Observe to help organizations track agent behavior, tools used, provide observability by tracking an agent’s decisions, tool calls, and data accessed. behaviors. Dreadnode capabilities will be integrated into the Falcon Guardian platform to identify vulnerabilities like vulnerabilities, such as prompt injection and jailbreaking jailbreaking, through automated security testing before systems go live. During this period, CrowdStrike also introduced the AI Kill Switch within its Falcon Guardian platform, a platform. This feature enabling enables administrators to immediately terminate a misbehaving or rogue AI agents, agent, block their its relaunch, and revoke their its network access.
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