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CrowdStrike unveils AI agent identity provider at Fal.Con

At Fal.Con, CrowdStrike unveiled an AI-agent identity provider; its CMO said firms will have 90 agents per employee.

AI News Feed · 2026-09-04 10:50

The new Agentic Identity Provider is designed to establish what an AI agent is before deciding what it is allowed to access. CrowdStrike’s chief marketing officer, Jennifer “JJ” Johnson, said the product addresses a workplace in which machines will greatly outnumber people. “Are you thinking about agent identities the same way as human identities? The answer, of course, is no,” Johnson said. “You’re going to have 90 agents for every human. Let that sink in. Agents don’t operate like humans.”

SiliconANGLE reported that the Agentic Identity Provider fills a gap in CrowdStrike’s Continuous Identity system, a real-time authorization service announced in June and built with technology from the company’s $740 million acquisition of SGNL Inc. Continuous Identity decides whether an agent should be allowed to perform an action at a given moment. The new provider handles the step before that, by defining what the agent actually is. Many organizations currently use service accounts and API keys as stand-ins for agent identity.

CrowdStrike also described the introduction as part of the next evolution of its Agentic SOC, with coordinated investigations that follow an attack across endpoint, identity, SaaS, cloud and network simultaneously. Johnson said this reflects how autonomous attackers move compared with the sequential, one-system-at-a-time attacks security teams previously chased. “Defending AI with AI at machine speed means you have to get visibility and look cross-domain and act on that simultaneously,” she said. “That’s the single sensor, single platform. That’s the way to do it.”

In an interview during theCUBE’s Fal.Con coverage, Johnson said the challenge could force security teams to solve identity problems in a new order. “One CISO told me we never even figured out the identity problem for humans,” she said. “I’m going to look at this as a positive: Now let’s figure out how to finally solve the identity problem for agents, and then maybe we can reverse engineer it back to humans.”