CrowdStrike agrees to acquire Fiddler AI and Dreadnode

CrowdStrike has agreed to acquire AI security companies Fiddler AI and Dreadnode, adding technology designed to monitor AI agents and test them for security weaknesses. The agreements, announced November 3 at the company’s Fal.Con Europe conference in Barcelona, are subject to customary closing conditions. CrowdStrike expects both to close in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2027. Fiddler’s technology tracks what AI agents do and helps explain their decisions. CrowdStrike plans to offer it as Falcon Observe within its Falcon platform, with general availability expected in the same fiscal quarter as the acquisitions’ planned closing. The company says the product will help customers evaluate agents before deployment and examine their actions afterward, including for audits. Dreadnode focuses on testing AI models, applications and agents before they are deployed. CrowdStrike said Dreadnode’s team will join its Cyber Superintelligence Lab. The company described testing across more than 100 known AI attack strategies. Dreadnode’s work also maps findings to security frameworks including OWASP Top 10 for large language models, MITRE ATLAS and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework....