AI agents can access identities, data, files, browsers, shells and enterprise systems at machine speed. Vectra and CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian help organisations discover shadow AI, enforce AI governance, protect sensitive data and stop AI threats where they execute.
Traditional governance can define acceptable AI use, approve models and document risk. But autonomous AI agents do more than generate content: they execute actions through the operating system, use credentials, access files and data, call tools and trigger downstream workflows.
When AI can act, security must understand and control what happens after the prompt.
Falcon Guardian is CrowdStrike’s flagship AI Detection and Response (AIDR) solution. It combines AI visibility, governance, data protection, runtime protection, investigation and response across endpoint, cloud and SaaS environments.
Identify workforce AI use and supported AI agents, understand who is using them and expose unmanaged AI risk.
Connect prompts and agent activity with endpoint telemetry to trace downstream processes and system actions.
Translate policy into runtime controls around approved AI use and which supported agents are permitted to operate.
Apply controls to AI interactions to reduce malicious activity and sensitive-data exposure without unnecessarily blocking legitimate use.
Investigate compromised or manipulated agents, determine blast radius and contain malicious activity before it spreads.
An AI agent may reason at the model layer, but its actions ultimately interact with operating systems, identities, files, applications, networks and data. That makes runtime execution a critical control point.
Falcon Guardian uses Falcon endpoint telemetry to establish context from supported AI activity through to the system-level actions that follow, giving security teams a clearer causal chain for investigation and enforcement.
Good AI governance defines what the organisation will permit. AI security needs to help operationalise that intent by discovering actual usage, controlling high-risk behaviour and producing evidence that security and governance teams can act on.
Vectra can help align Falcon Guardian with your wider AI governance model, risk appetite, acceptable-use policy, data classification and security operations.
A mature AI security strategy needs to address agent runtime, identity, sensitive data and the telemetry required for investigation and response. CrowdStrike brings these controls together across the Falcon platform.
Discover, govern and secure AI agents and AI interactions at runtime.
AI Detection & ResponseEstablish trusted identities for AI agents and continuously control the access they receive based on risk and context.
Discuss AI identityDiscover sensitive data and reduce unauthorised movement across endpoints, browsers, SaaS, cloud and GenAI workflows.
Explore Data Security →Bring AI telemetry together with endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS and third-party security data for unified investigation and response.
Explore Next-Gen SIEM →Vectra is a CrowdStrike Elite Partner with specialist CrowdStrike resources in Australia. We can help customers define an AI security strategy, assess current exposure and deploy Falcon capabilities around practical governance and security outcomes.
Review AI use cases, agent adoption, governance maturity, sensitive-data exposure and the controls already in place.
Establish visibility into sanctioned and unmanaged AI usage to understand the current AI attack surface.
Translate risk appetite and acceptable-use requirements into practical security policy for users, AI tools and agents.
Design and implement Falcon Guardian policy, runtime controls, investigation workflows and integrations around the agreed scope.
Integrate AI security detections, investigations and response with existing SOC and incident-management processes.
Review new AI use cases, policy effectiveness and Falcon capabilities as the organisation’s AI footprint evolves.
Gain visibility into employee use of AI tools and reduce unmanaged use, risky interactions and sensitive-data exposure.
Understand and control agents that can interact with local applications, browsers, files, shells and system settings.
Secure homegrown AI agents and workloads against runtime threats such as prompt injection and unsafe downstream actions.
Apply security controls as developers and autonomous coding agents interact with source code, packages, terminals and enterprise systems.
Reduce the risk of confidential, regulated or customer data being exposed through AI interactions and agent workflows.
Give analysts context to investigate AI-related activity alongside endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS and other security telemetry.
CrowdStrike has announced an AI gateway capability for Falcon Guardian designed to provide a central point of visibility and control for enterprise AI traffic.
The planned capability is intended to use Falcon context across users, agents, endpoints, identities, assets and security posture to inform policy as applications and agents access AI models and services.
AI security is the set of controls used to protect AI systems, agents, data and interactions from misuse, compromise, unsafe behaviour and data exposure. It includes discovering AI use, governing access, protecting sensitive information, securing AI agents at runtime and detecting and responding to AI-specific threats.
Falcon Guardian is CrowdStrike’s flagship AI Detection and Response solution. It is designed to discover and govern AI use, secure autonomous AI agents at runtime, protect sensitive data and detect and respond to AI threats across endpoint, cloud and SaaS environments.
AI Detection and Response is a cybersecurity category focused on discovering, governing and securing AI systems and activity. AIDR extends security beyond AI interactions into runtime execution so organisations can investigate and stop AI threats as they occur.
Shadow AI is AI use or deployment that sits outside the organisation’s approved visibility, governance or security controls. This can include unsanctioned workforce AI tools as well as AI agents that security teams do not know are running.
AI governance defines policy, ownership, risk appetite, accountability and acceptable use. AI security provides the technical controls and operational processes needed to discover actual usage, enforce policy, protect data and respond to threats. Mature organisations need both.
AI agents can execute commands, access files, use credentials and take actions with user permissions at machine speed. Runtime security helps security teams understand and control what those agents actually do after receiving an instruction.
Yes. CrowdStrike states that Falcon Guardian can identify sensitive data in supported AI interactions and apply runtime controls to reduce exposure while allowing legitimate AI workflows to continue.
Yes. Vectra is a CrowdStrike Elite Partner with Australian CrowdStrike specialists. We can help assess AI security requirements, design governance and security controls, implement supported Falcon capabilities and integrate AI security into wider security operations.
Talk to Vectra about AI security, AI governance, shadow AI discovery and CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian for your organisation.
