New innovations secure AI, data, identities and SaaS applications – expanding CrowdStrike’s leadership in delivering unified protection across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
CrowdStrike, a global leader in cloud-delivered cybersecurity, unveiled a series of groundbreaking innovations designed to eliminate blind spots and secure every layer of risk across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. New capabilities such as AI Model Scanning and Shadow AI detection—now available within the CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform—underscore the company’s commitment to advancing secure AI adoption, protecting sensitive cloud data in real time, mitigating SaaS threats, and securing hybrid identities.
As cyber threats evolve, organizations are facing a dramatic increase in cloud intrusions. Attackers are exploiting valid accounts and leveraging the growing complexity of artificial intelligence (AI) and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications to bypass traditional security measures. To prevent these breaches, companies require unified visibility and real-time protection that span across infrastructure, workloads, identities, data, AI, and SaaS environments.
CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform delivers this end-to-end security by integrating cloud detection and response (CDR), AI-driven analytics, runtime protection, and world-class threat intelligence—all within a single, unified solution.
“Cloud security is about more than visibility – it’s about full protection and control across multi-cloud environments,” said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer, CrowdStrike. “The explosion of AI, combined with multi-cloud complexity, has outpaced patchwork tools that can’t keep up with today’s adversaries, or are limited to single-cloud environments. CrowdStrike is breaking that model. These innovations deliver real-time protection, not just telemetry, across every layer of risk: data, workloads, identities, SaaS and AI. It’s what only a unified, AI-native platform can do, and is the difference between watching attacks happen and actually stopping them.”
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Pioneering AI Security in the Cloud
AI advancements are largely cloud-driven, and securing this innovation is essential to preventing modern breaches. CrowdStrike has already set industry standards with solutions like Falcon Cloud Security AI-SPM and AI Red Team Services, which secure the infrastructure and systems behind the AI revolution. Building on this foundation, the company now introduces two powerful additions aimed at reducing AI-related risk:
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AI Model Scanning: Automatically scans AI models deployed in containerized environments to detect malware, backdoors, trojans, and adversarial manipulations. Powered by CrowdStrike threat intelligence and ExPRT.AI, this feature enables teams to remediate threats before models are deployed, ensuring compromised assets never reach production.
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AI Security Dashboard: Offers centralized, real-time visibility over all AI workloads in the cloud. With agentless monitoring, security teams can identify and control shadow AI, enforce governance policies, and track sensitive training data to maintain compliance and minimize exposure.
Strengthening Protection for Cloud Identities, Data, and SaaS
CrowdStrike continues to evolve its Falcon platform with new capabilities aimed at reducing operational risk and accelerating response across complex cloud environments:
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Falcon Data Protection for Cloud: Utilizes eBPF-based runtime monitoring to prevent unauthorized access and real-time data exposure—without compromising system performance.
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SaaS Threat Services: Provides dynamic threat detection and custom risk assessments for cloud-native SaaS applications, giving organizations the tools to defend against evolving SaaS vulnerabilities.
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Falcon Privileged Access: Replaces static access privileges with dynamic, Just-in-Time (JIT) access control across hybrid environments, minimizing lateral movement and access misuse.
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CrowdStrike Pulse Services: Expert-led engagements that help organizations reduce cloud attack surfaces by identifying misconfigurations, managing identity sprawl, and prioritizing risk response. Pulse enables faster detection and resolution across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
With this latest wave of innovation, CrowdStrike reinforces its position at the forefront of modern cloud security, delivering real-time, AI-native protection across the entire cloud stack—from infrastructure and data to applications and models.