Crowd Strike Added a new security surveillance plane for AI agents that provides continuous risk-aware enforcement.
New Persistent identity For artificial intelligence agents, who joins CrowdStrike Falcon platformThe company said on Monday (June 15) that it allows each agent to take action based on who owns it, who is connected to it, and real-time risks. press release.
“One-time authorization and indefinite trust is not a security model, it is a liability,” CrowdStrike CTO Ilya Zaitsev he said in the release. “This is the transformation that CrowdStrike is driving, from static, one-time access decisions to persistent identity.”
Persistent identity provides AI agents with a verifiable agent identity where each agent is assigned an automated and secure workload identity; Context-aware authorization evaluates access based on who owns the agent, who is connected to it, and the risk posture on their devices; Permanent privilege that grants access when it is needed and revokes it when it is not; and defense-in-depth that ensures agents run with only the privileges they need, according to the release.
This new offering is powered by technology that CrowdStrike acquired through its acquisition SGNLAccording to the statement. When the acquisition was announced in January press releaseCrowdStrike said the move will redefine privileges and access for all users.
CrowdStrike said on Monday Blog post That while identity security has long been built around authenticating the user and granting access and trust in that decision until the next login, this model does not work with AI models.
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“The speed of these agents, coupled with the varying perks of the people using them, means that a trust decision that was valid at login may no longer be valid moments later,” the post read. “A compromised credential or change in business context can immediately change risk. It is not enough to grant access once and assume trust continues.”
the PYMNTS INTELLIGENCE a report “How companies can build a “know your agent” defense: Digital identity verification in the age of robotsI find that the rise of proxy commerce exposes weaknesses in traditional identity models.
Nearly 90% of companies said managing bots is now a major challenge, and legacy digital identity controls cost companies nearly $100 billion annually due to fraud, false declines and lost customers, according to the report.
