CrowdStrike said on Tuesday it had agreed to acquire Pangea, a California-based company that develops security tools for artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The cybersecurity firm said the deal would extend its Falcon platform to cover AI-related risks through what it calls AI Detection and Response (AIDR). According to CrowdStrike, the integration will provide security across the AI lifecycle, including data, models, infrastructure and user interactions.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, said in a statement that the use of AI was expanding the attack surface for enterprises. He added that Pangea’s technology would help monitor risks and enforce safeguards to enable customers to scale AI with greater oversight.
“AI is rewriting the enterprise attack surface at breakneck speed. Each prompt becomes an entry point for the adversary,” said Kurtz.
“With Pangea, CrowdStrike will secure the entire AI lifecycle, detecting risks, enforcing safeguards, and ensuring compliance, so our customers can confidently build, deploy, and scale AI without risk,” he added.
Pangea, founded in 2021, focuses on security at the so-called “prompt layer” of AI, where users interact with large language models and other systems. The company has developed tools to detect prompt injection and jailbreak attacks, govern AI traffic and control how enterprise-built applications are deployed.
Oliver Friedrichs, CEO, Pangea, said the acquisition would allow the company’s technology to be deployed more widely as part of CrowdStrike’s platform.
The announcement comes as cybersecurity vendors seek to address new vulnerabilities created by the rapid adoption of generative AI.
CrowdStrike said its Falcon platform already secures the environments where AI models run, such as cloud workloads and endpoints. It added that Pangea’s capabilities would extend protection to the interaction layer between users and AI applications.
The deal underscores increasing investment in AI-related security, with rivals such as Palo Alto Networks and SentinelOne also rolling out products aimed at managing risks linked to enterprise adoption of generative AI tools.
