CrowdStrike Unveils SafeMind AI Cybersecurity System
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CrowdStrike said it is using artificial intelligence to enhance the hacking detection and response capabilities of its Falcon unified security platform. The US cybersecurity company has developed SafeMind, a security system in which an offensive AI searches for system vulnerabilities and attacks them, while a defensive AI blocks the attacks. The offensive AI then searches for alternative attack paths, repeating the process to strengthen defenses. CrowdStrike unveiled SafeMind on Sept. 1, saying the system was developed by its Cyber Superintelligence Lab. SafeMind is designed to operate within CrowdStrike's flagship Falcon security platform. Falcon is a security platform that identifies suspicious activity across corporate PCs, servers, identities and cloud environments, investigates whether the activity represents an actual cyberattack and responds to threats. SafeMind, which operates within Falcon, consists of offensive and defensive models. The offensive AI identifies vulnerabilities, the defensive AI blocks them, and the offensive AI learns from the results and searches for new weaknesses. The process is repeated continuously to improve security capabilities. CrowdStrike said its own evaluations comparing SafeMind with leading general-purpose AI models showed that SafeMind delivered a 29% higher threat detection rate. End-to-end remediation was as much as six times faster...
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The company also said it will integrate Falcon with Google Cloud's enterprise AI environment, while EY announced that it has selected Falcon.
