George Kurtz’s 5 Boldest AI Statements At CrowdStrike Fal.Con 2025

The CrowdStrike co-founder and CEO used his Fal.Con keynote to discuss his vision for the ‘agentic SOC,’ AI detection and response and working toward the realization of security AGI.

CrowdStrike is making its next big moves in AI with a focus on enabling a Security Operations Center (SOC) that is fundamentally powered by agents — the “agentic SOC,” CrowdStrike co-founder and CEO George Kurtz said Tuesday.

At the same time, the cybersecurity giant is also “pioneering” a new category in AI security, “AI detection and response,” in part through the just-announced deal to acquire AI guardrails startup Pangea, Kurtz said during his keynote at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2025 conference in Las Vegas. The offering builds on CrowdStrike’s track record in its core segment of endpoint detection and response (EDR), as well as in areas including managed detection and response (MDR) and cloud detection and response (CDR), he said.

And CrowdStrike is looking even further out by taking the initial steps toward developing security-focused artificial general intelligence, or security AGI, according to Kurtz.

“The destination for me really is security AGI,” Kurtz said during his Fal.Con keynote.

With predictions that AGI as a concept is likely to still be years in the future, “this is not something that is going to be hit anytime soon, but it’s what we’re thinking about as the industry is moving forward,” he said. “We think this is a big, bold vision, and we’ve got the company galvanized around that.”

Kurtz made the remarks as CrowdStrike also announced an array of new cybersecurity offerings related to AI and agents, including the Falcon Agentic Security Platform. The platform offers an “AI-ready” data layer that enables the expansion of agentic functionality on CrowdStrike’s platform, ultimately providing faster and more effective responses to threats, according to the company.

CrowdStrike also introduced a new set of AI agents through the launch Tuesday of its Agentic Security Workforce offering. The new agents are aimed at going beyond chatbot-based copilots by handling key security workflows across a number of Falcon modules, CrowdStrike said.

Additionally, CrowdStrike also debuted Charlotte AI AgentWorks, which is a no-code platform for building, testing, deploying and orchestrating security agents.

Ultimately, the agentic SOC is not about “building a better dashboard,” Kurtz said.

“The agentic SOC [is powered] by intelligent agents that don’t just assist — they reason, decide, and they act,” he said. “The humans get elevated into a role where they’re now controlling a fleet of agents, and letting the agents do the work on their behalf.”

What follows are Kurtz’s five boldest AI statements at CrowdStrike Fal.Con 2025.

‘Obsolete’ Technology Vs. AI

“The challenge that we have [in cyber defense] is, the old model can’t keep up. We’ve got too many folks fighting the battle with obsolete technology, and you just can’t keep up with the speed of what we’re seeing in terms of the threats and how sophisticated these attackers have gotten. And when we think about GenAI, we’ve actually not only empowered the attackers to be more sophisticated, but we actually multiplied more of them. There are more people who can do this with a high level of sophistication than there were just two years ago because of these technologies. … The SOC is trying to fight a 21st Century war with 20th century weapons. That has to change.”

‘Agentic SOC’ Vision

“So what is the new model? The new model is something where we have to reimagine what the SOC is going to be [and] we need to rebuild it to operate at the speed of AI. So let’s talk a little bit about the agentic SOC. What I mean by the agentic SOC is not building a better dashboard. The agentic SOC [is powered] by intelligent agents that don’t just assist — they reason, decide, and they act. They operate across domains, identities, endpoints, cloud, SaaS. There’s a few pillars that we believe are key to the agentic SOC [including] agentic detection, triage and workflow. … Where we’re going in the industry with this SOC transformation is [that] the humans get elevated into a role where they’re now controlling a fleet of agents, and letting the agents do the work on their behalf.”

‘AI Detection And Response’

“AI agents, to me, actually look a lot like a human. They have an identity, they have a workflow, they have access to resources, they have access to data. … I’m excited to announce today that we acquired Pangea [which is] a leader in the space of protecting AI agents from the browser, application, gateway, cloud, in the development pipeline, as well as in production. … We’re pioneering AI detection and response … For a computer, workload, endpoint, it doesn’t matter — you have to have visibility. You have to understand what it did. It’s the same for an AI agent, because an AI agent is not only going to talk to data — it’s going to talk to another AI agent, that’s going to talk to another AI agent, that’s going to talk to an MCP server. And you’re going to have to put guardrails. You’re going to [need to] have visibility across the entire line. When someone says, ‘Hey, what happened? What did this AI agent do?’ [Having] an AI agent is like giving an intern full access to your network. That’s scary. So you’ve got to put some guardrails around [the agent].”

Build-Your-Own Security Agents

“For us, it’s about creating agents that do work on our customers’ behalf. We created seven. But there’s always going to be a need for [more] that we haven’t thought about. We are announcing Charlotte AI AgentWorks [because] we want our customers to be able to build their own agents. So think about what you can imagine, what you could do, and how you want to streamline both security and IT elements in these agents. … This fundamentally has the ability to change how we think about working in the SOC and moving us into that agentic workflow.”

Security AGI Is Coming

“The destination for me really is security AGI. … If we think about AGI itself, [Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang talks about AGI — [the concept of] AGI — maybe five years out. Is it three? Is it five? Is it 10? Who knows. All I know is, things are moving pretty quickly. But part of what our teams are focused on, and building as we get up the stack of autonomy, is to get to a point where we could deliver security AGI. … So you’ve got to move into something that can recursively get smarter and smarter until you hit that security AGI. So this is not something that is going to be hit anytime soon, but it’s what we’re thinking about as the industry is moving forward. … As I said, it’s a destination. There’s not a product that we’re shipping next week that has this. But as a company that’s really on the forefront of doing these things, we think this is a big, bold vision, and we’ve got the company galvanized around that.”