CrowdStrike to shell out nearly $500M for 2 AI security startups as the market for securing agents takes off
CrowdStrike said it will buy Fiddler AI, which makes AI agent observability software, and Dreadnode, which helps companies automate AI security testing.
CrowdStrike said it will buy Fiddler AI, which makes AI agent observability software, and Dreadnode, which helps companies automate AI security testing.
The short version
- Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike is buying two AI security companies that expand its products to more broadly monitor, test, and cover AI models and agents, as companies across industries start rolling out AI agents and models wholesale.
- The company is paying around $400 million for Fiddler AI, and about $95 million for Dreadnode, according to The Wall Street Journal .
- The deals are happening at a time of significant upheaval in the cybersecurity space, especially as companies’ policies and processes lag behind AI adoption within their walls.
What happened
Teams and individual employees alike are experimenting with AI tools, automating workflows, vibe-coding custom apps, and deploying armies of AI agents to do their bidding, which is understandably causing headaches for security teams. The company has itself been building detection and response controls , dubbed Falcon Guardian, to help companies see and understand what agents are doing on their devices, and these acquisitions seem to further flesh out its offerings.
Why it matters
Dreadnode, meanwhile, will be integrated into the Falcon Guardian product , to which the startup’s software will feed its testing results as security policy recommendations.
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