CrowdStrike Unveils Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security

CrowdStrike has announced CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security, the first unified solution to protect every identity – human, non-human, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent—across the full hybrid identity lifecycle and every environment.

Delivered today, without delays or integration complexity through the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security protects identities across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and workloads, removing security blind spots and replacing fragmented controls. CrowdStrike unifies initial access prevention, modern privileged access management (PAM), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), SaaS identity security, and agentic identity protection to stop identity-driven breaches across domains.

“Organisations need trusted identity security now, not months or years from now. CrowdStrike provides what customers need most in a unified platform: modern identity security by design, without architectural trade-offs and integration debt,” said Mike Sentonas, President at CrowdStrike. “Access in today’s enterprise is dynamic and unpredictable, with identities spanning users, machines, and AI agents operating across hybrid environments in real time. The Falcon platform was built to manage this complexity, providing the speed, scale, and precision organisations need to stop modern identity attacks.”

Identity has become the primary path adversaries take to compromise an organisation. Attackers increasingly exploit a broad spectrum of identities that span human users, service accounts (non-human identities), SaaS credentials, and now, autonomous AI agents. Each agent represents a superhuman identity with persistent access to systems, applications, and sensitive data. These non-human agent identities dramatically increase the size and severity of the attack surface: more identities across more environments, more privileges across more workflows, and more opportunity for adversaries to move faster than defenders can respond. Modern adversaries exploit this access to move seamlessly across domains—endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS—leaving organisations that rely on traditional IAM and legacy PAM tools exposed to cross-domain attacks.

Closing Commonly Exploited Security Gaps with Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security

Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security closes the gaps that adversaries exploit with a unified solution that delivers continuous protection across identity types (human, non-human and AI agent), environments, and stages of the identity attack chain. From initial access to lateral movement, CrowdStrike protects human, non-human, and AI agents across hybrid environments, including on-prem, cloud, and SaaS. Powered by CrowdStrike’s agentic AI, organisations gain autonomous threat analysis and response that helps them detect, investigate, and stop identity-based attacks in real time, through a single unified platform.

With Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security, organisations can immediately strengthen their security posture without waiting for promised integrations, or accepting identity capabilities fragmented across multiple platforms that replicate the same complexity and security gaps as multi-vendor solutions. Delivered through a single lightweight sensor and managed from a single console, CrowdStrike gives defenders real-time visibility, dynamic access enforcement, and autonomous response across every identity and every domain.

CrowdStrike’s Unified Platform for Securing Every Identity Across Hybrid Environments

Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security unifies four core capabilities to deliver end-to-end visibility, control, and protection of identities, privileges, and risk across the full attack chain in hybrid identity environments:

• Initial Access Prevention: Leverages real-time endpoint signals, industry-leading threat intelligence, and AI trained on trillions of events to authenticate trusted identities, dynamically blocking threats before adversaries can gain initial access.
• Modern Privileged Access Management (PAM): Enforces just-in-time access and eliminates standing privileges. Dynamically adjusts access based on real-time risk to secure sensitive systems across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR): Detects and stops identity-based attacks in real time. Uses cross-domain telemetry and agentic AI to triage threats, enforce policy, and block lateral movement and privilege escalation.
• SaaS Identity Security: Identifies misconfigurations, flags risky behaviours, and governs overprovisioned access—for humans, non-human identities, and AI agents – across cloud-first applications.

Delivered through the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security replaces fragmented tools and disconnected workflows. Security teams gain real-time visibility, dynamic enforcement, and autonomous response across every identity and every domain. With rapid deployment and immediate time-to-value, organisations can strengthen their identity security posture today, without waiting for integrations or accepting security gaps.