CrowdStrike is betting that it has a solution to rogue artificial intelligence.
The cybersecurity vendor on Tuesday launched an AI kill switch designed to let security teams stop internal AI agents that go rogue, block them from relaunching and cut off their enterprise network access. The tool is built into CrowdStrike's Falcon Guardian platform, launched in September to secure AI agents. CrowdStrike also announced an integration with Anthropic's Claude Cowork.
"Having the ability to control and turn off, and make a decision and decide, I think that's really important for this next chapter of AI adoption," Chief Business Officer Daniel Bernard told CNBC.
A string of recent high-profile cyber incidents has added urgency to calls for some kind of emergency shutdown mechanism.
The Hugging Face breach orchestrated by rogue OpenAI agents in July was particularly alarming for businesses. Last week, Binance disclosed the largest crypto cyberattack on record and hackers have recently targeted hundreds of refrigerators and freezers at supermarkets in France.