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The New Apex Predator: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on Adversaries Armed With AI Agents
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Adversaries are already running AI agents, and the fastest attacks now play out in seconds. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with CrowdStrike president and CEO George Kurtz on what AI-equipped attackers mean for enterprise security. George explains how agents are flattening the adversary pyramid by putting advanced tradecraft in the hands of low-skill attackers, and why CrowdStrike and Nvidia are building a frontier-style lab of their own to train security models. They also get into how open-weight and closed models compare on security, where CrowdStrike is directing its platform investment, lessons from the recent Hugging Face incident...
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For the first time, security is the gas pedal, not the brake. How would you describe what you're seeing AI doing for adversaries? The new apex predator is the agency. The same level of capability that a nation state would have just a few years ago,
essentially a hacktivist would have today. That has dramatically changed the overall threat environment. What people have to keep in mind is it's not malware anymore, it's prompts. They can basically engineer prompts that would create a totally unique signature
of what direction they're going to go in, how they gather information, where they pivot. Everyone's coming to CrowdStrike and others going, well, how do you make AI secure so we can go faster in AI?
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