The New Apex Predator: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on Adversaries Armed With AI Agents

CrowdStrike is racing to match attacker-grade AI with its own NVIDIA-built frontier security models as breakout times shrink to seconds.

• Agent state flattens the threat pyramid: Kurtz says ablated open-weight models give hacktivists nation-state-level capability, making the "agent state" the new apex predator.
• Breakout times collapse: Average adversary breakout time is now 29 minutes, with the fastest observed at 27 seconds, driven by inference-speed prompt engineering rather than malware signatures.

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