CrowdStrike has announced plans to acquire Fiddler AI and Dreadnode to integrate AI agent observability and automated security testing into its Falcon platform.
CrowdStrike has announced plans to acquire AI security companies Fiddler AI and Dreadnode in separate deals to expand its Falcon platform. The acquisitions aim to provide automated testing of AI systems and monitoring of AI agent behavior as enterprises address security risks from autonomous applications.
CrowdStrike intends to integrate Dreadnode’s automated testing technology and Fiddler’s agent observability capabilities into the Falcon platform. Both offerings are scheduled for general availability in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2027.
According to CrowdStrike, the Dreadnode team will join its Cyber Superintelligence Lab. The company did not specify how the Fiddler team would be integrated.
While CrowdStrike did not officially disclose the financial terms, reports from The Wall Street Journal indicate the combined value of the acquisitions is approximately $495 million, with Fiddler AI valued at around $400 million and Dreadnode at about $95 million.
CrowdStrike plans to offer Fiddler’s technology through Falcon Observe. This product is intended to evaluate agent accuracy, task completion, and policy compliance before deployment, and to trace decisions, reasoning paths, and tool calls once agents are in production. The company stated, “An agent can hold valid credentials and approved tools and still make unsupported decisions, ignore instructions, or claim work it never completed. They don’t have to be compromised to create risk.”
Dreadnode will provide automated security testing to identify vulnerabilities in AI models, applications, and agents before deployment. The technology will allow teams to test against more than 100 AI attack strategies, including jailbreaks, prompt injection, multi-turn attacks, and attacks targeting AI agents. Findings will be mapped to frameworks such as OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, OWASP Agentic Security, MITRE ATLAS, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. These findings will feed into Falcon Guardian as policy recommendations.
CrowdStrike also introduced an AI Kill Switch within Falcon Guardian. This feature is designed to allow authorized security administrators to intervene when autonomous agents deviate from intended behavior. The control enables defenders to terminate an agent, block its relaunch on specified systems, and remove its access to the corporate network.
Additionally, CrowdStrike announced several partnerships, including work with Anthropic, EY, AWS, and Lovable. CrowdStrike stated that EY is building its frontier AI and cyber resilience business on the Falcon platform.
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