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CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian

Advanced AI Detection and Response (AIDR)

Accelerate secure AI adoption and innovation

CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian, an industry leading AI Detection and Response (AIDR) solution, empowers organisations to discover active and dormant AI agents operating anywhere within their environment.

Falcon Guardian delivers unprecedented runtime visibility into AI behaviour. Discover AI agents across your environment and understand where they’re operating.

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Deploy the CrowdStrike Falcon® Guardian sensor directly onto your infrastructure and see the power of our AI Detection and Response (AIDR) capabilities firsthand. Achieve enterprise-grade AI protection in minutes – with zero reboots, no downtime, and absolutely no operational disruption.

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Key benefits of Falcon Guardian

Falcon Guardian provides complete AIDR coverage across your entire AI estate, securing data, models, prompts, agents, identities, infrastructure, and interactions.

Discover and Eliminate Shadow AI Continuously identify both authorised and unknown AI agents operating across your digital estate. CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian provides unparalleled visibility into your environment, enabling your security teams to pinpoint exactly where shadow AI exists, who deployed it, and where your operational risks are concentrated.

Enforce Robust AI Governance Policies Translate your AI governance frameworks into technology-enforced controls. CrowdStrike AIDR allows you to govern permitted AI usage and seamlessly safeguard sensitive data across all AI interactions. This proactive approach ensures strict regulatory compliance and prevents accidental data breaches before they occur.

Secure AI Agents with Runtime Protection Defend against sophisticated, AI-specific attack vectors, such as prompt injection and malicious tool hijacking. Falcon Guardian delivers robust runtime protection for both third-party agents deployed directly on the endpoint and bespoke, enterprise-developed AI agents hosted in the cloud.

Accelerate AI Threat Investigation and Containment Rapidly detect AI-specific threats using industry-leading AI Detection and Response (AIDR) capabilities. Reconstruct the full execution graph of agent behaviour, accurately assess the blast radius of any compromise, and deploy automated containment protocols to neutralise threats before they can spread across your network.

Deployed in Minutes, Protected 24/7

Eliminate the need for costly on-premises hardware or dedicated maintenance staff. The Falcon platform is a 100% cloud-native Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. Simply install the sensor and your endpoints are instantly secured against sophisticated AI threats, operating seamlessly both online and offline, 24/7.

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Key Features of Falcon Guardian

Discover AI & Understand Exposure

Discover shadow AI, continuously identify known and hidden AI agents across your digital estate. Assess endpoint risks and pinpoint exactly where agents run, who uses them, and highlight high-risk activity. Map AI exposure by connecting users, models, and tools to gain complete visibility into AI relationships.

Govern AI Use & Enforce Access

Apply strict, contextual governance across all users and AI interactions. Control agent access, sanction approved endpoint agents and permanently block unauthorised AI from running. Prevent data exposure and automatically detect and block the sharing of PII, source code, and sensitive corporate data.

Secure Enterprise-Developed AI

Deploy guardrails on bespoke AI workloads to stop AI-specific threats instantly. Embedded secure development by integrating Falcon Guardian via SDKs and cloud gateways to protect AI from code to production. Apply organisational policies across all prompts, responses, and models to enforce AI security.

Detect & Stop AI Threats

Block prompt injection techniques, jailbreaks, and model manipulations. Detect and identify malicious behaviour and uncover compromised agents and AI-specific threats using rich runtime context. Protect MCP interactions and actively monitor Model Context Protocol communications for unauthorised activity.

Investigate & Stop AI Breaches

Link AI activity with endpoint telemetry to reconstruct the exact chain of events. Contain rogue agents and automatically block compromised behaviours and isolate threats at runtime. Maintain audit trails by logging all AI activity and policy events for rapid investigation and compliance monitoring.

Criteria	The Status Quo	The Outcome (with Guardian)
Data Exposure & IP Leaks	Blind trust that employees will not paste customer PII or proprietary code into public web interfaces.	Active Data Loss Prevention (DLP) – Real-time inline sanitisation and zero-trust perimeter enforcement across all model interactions.
Unpredictable Cloud Expenditure	Shock invoices at month-end with absolutely no departmental attribution or budget predictability.	Granular FinOps – Per-team rate limiting, token quotas, and predictive budget forecasting.
Brand Reputation & Security Risks	Operating one prompt injection away from a front-page AI hallucination or major security breach.	Deterministic Guardrails – Sub-millisecond runtime safety filters that proactively block harmful inputs and untruthful outputs.
Compliance & Audit Paralysis	Scrambling to manually reconstruct prompt logs when regulators or enterprise clients demand proof of compliance.	Continuous Governance – Ready-to-export audit logs mapped directly to major regulatory frameworks, including the EU AI Act, SOC 2, and ISO 42001.
Vulnerable Enterprise AI Development	Internal developers build bespoke AI agents and applications with limited security oversight, inadvertently exposing the business to model manipulation and sophisticated prompt injections.	Embedded Application Security – Integrates seamlessly via SDKs, cloud gateways, and MCP proxies to apply active runtime guardrails, stopping AI-specific threats natively across all development and production environments.
Blast Radius Uncertainty	When anomalous AI behaviour occurs, security teams struggle to connect isolated AI interactions with broader system activity, making it nearly impossible to rapidly assess the true blast radius.	Causal Tracing & Containment – Links AI activity directly to endpoint and OS telemetry to reconstruct the exact chain of events, automatically isolating compromised assets and blocking malicious agent behaviours at runtime.
The Shadow AI Supply Chain	Employees independently deploy third-party AI agents and coding assistants that introduce unseen vulnerabilities and unmonitored access paths deep into the corporate network.	Robust Supply Chain & MCP Protection – Continuously monitors third-party agent behaviours and Model Context Protocol (MCP) communications, instantly identifying malicious indicators to block unauthorised system interactions.

FAQs about Falcon Guardian

CrowdStrike Falcon® Guardian is the industry’s flagship AI Detection and Response (AIDR) solution. It delivers unified AI visibility, robust governance, runtime protection, and rapid threat investigation. By extending CrowdStrike’s renowned runtime security architecture directly into the AI agent layer, Falcon Guardian connects AI activity with endpoint execution. This creates a direct causal chain from a user’s prompt to its downstream system impact, ensuring comprehensive, real-time protection.

CrowdStrike AIDR (AI Detection and Response) was the initial designation for CrowdStrike’s dedicated AI security capability. This industry-leading technology is now fully integrated and branded as CrowdStrike Falcon® Guardian. While the name has evolved to align with the wider Falcon platform, the core product and its powerful runtime protection capabilities remain exactly the same.

Yes. CrowdStrike Falcon® Guardian is a dedicated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform built specifically for AI Detection and Response (AIDR). Previously known simply as CrowdStrike AIDR, it is engineered to secure AI agents at runtime, discover shadow AI, and enforce stringent governance policies across your entire enterprise.

CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian defends organisations against a rapidly evolving landscape of AI-specific vulnerabilities. This includes robust defence against direct and indirect prompt injection attacks, malicious jailbreaks, and model manipulation. Furthermore, our AI Detection and Response (AIDR) capabilities prevent accidental data exposure by automatically blocking sensitive corporate data, personally identifiable information (PII), and source code from being shared with unauthorised shadow AI tools.

Falcon Guardian operates on CrowdStrike’s unified, single-sensor architecture. If you are already utilising the CrowdStrike platform, there is absolutely no need to deploy complex additional infrastructure or separate, resource-heavy agents. Our dedicated AI Detection and Response (AIDR) technology seamlessly extends your existing endpoint protection into the AI layer. This provides immediate, uninterrupted defence across your cloud, SaaS, and browser environments without degrading system performance.

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Once installed, the lightweight Falcon sensor provides immediate, uninterrupted protection for your systems. There is no need for reinstallation or complex configuration for as long as your account remains active. Register for your trial now.

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