Crowdstrike CEO: AI agents need to be secured, controlled, and governed
Argued that AI agents are a new class of identity that has to be secured, controlled and governed like a human user, and that this is where cybersecurity spend is heading.
George Kurtz
Co-founder, President & CEO, CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (CRWD)
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Co-founded CrowdStrike in 2011 and has led it through its 2019 IPO, the July 2024 global outage response, and its current pivot toward agentic AI security products.
Podcasts, interviews & articles
9 recorded appearances
2026
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz goes one-on-one with Jim Cramer
Post-results conversation with Cramer on the quarter, the competitive state of the cybersecurity market and AI's effect on both attack and defense.
Watch CNBC's full interview with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz
Discussed CrowdStrike's newest tooling and its work with Anthropic's Mythos model.
The Future of Cybersecurity in the Agentic World | George Kurtz and Dan Ives
Told Wedbush's Dan Ives that security, visibility and guardrails are the gating factor on enterprise AI adoption - customers slow down without them, and CrowdStrike is positioning as the thing that lets them move faster.
The Crash Test is Over: New Standards of Command for AI Safety
Claimed most organizations deploy AI agents with less governance than they give an intern, and that by 2027 the smartest employee at many firms will be a machine. Laid out three current failure modes and introduced an "AI Operational Reality Manifesto."
The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
Kurtz's segment (from 52:33) covers cybersecurity in the AI era and which nation-states now field the most capable hackers.
CrowdStrike's George Kurtz Reveals the Biggest Cybersecurity Threat of 2026
Told Josh Brown the attack surface is expanding through AI agents and non-human identities, and that this - not classic endpoint compromise - is the defining 2026 threat.
2025
CrowdStrike CEO: Don't buy idea AI will kill software, need it to protect AI
Rejected the thesis that AI destroys software company value, arguing security software is what makes AI deployable in the first place.
George Kurtz, Crowdstrike | Crowdstrike Fal.Con 2025
Fal.Con 2025 interview on the platform strategy and how agentic AI reshapes the security operations center.