Information Security

The cybersecurity industry may need to add another conference to the list of must-attend events—presently consisting of RSAC and Black Hat/DEF CON—after the major turnout, expansive exhibition floor and high-profile speaker lineup at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026.

After a wave of frontier AI advances this year that have largely made life more challenging for cyber defense teams, the launch of CrowdStrike’s new SafeMind agentic system represents a highly welcome shift toward leveraging the technology to reduce the burden on defenders, partners tell CRN.

The use of open AI models and specialized harnesses is expected to be increasingly pivotal to making agentic-powered security tools financially sustainable into the future, as underscored by the launch of a new set of CrowdStrike-Nvidia frontier AI models this week, experts at top CrowdStrike solution provider partners tell CRN.

At Fal.Con 2026 Tuesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and OpenAI President Greg Brockman joined CrowdStrike co-founder CEO George Kurtz to offer their predictions about emerging cyber risks from agentic AI—and the need for defenders to rapidly adopt the same technology.

Flamingo expects its new $4.5 million seed round will help advance an AI-native, open-source IT security platform to help MSPs automate service delivery and support.

Amid the unprecedented threat of hacking by autonomous agents, it’s increasingly pivotal to bring frontier AI capabilities to cyber defense teams—something CrowdStrike is now seeking to do for the first time in the industry, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said during his Fal.Con 2026 keynote.

A set of newly unveiled CrowdStrike frontier AI models created in collaboration with Nvidia have the potential to make a massive difference in defending against intensifying cyberthreats powered by AI, Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang said Tuesday.

CrowdStrike sees solution and service provider partners as increasingly essential to putting the pieces together when it comes to securing the AI and agentic revolution, along with protecting against intensifying threats powered by the same LLM technologies, top CrowdStrike executives said during the cybersecurity giant’s 2026 Partner Summit Monday.

Optiv Security has reached $2 billion in joint sales with cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike to date, making the solution provider powerhouse the first partner to achieve the milestone—and setting the stage for massive continued growth ahead, the companies tell CRN exclusively.

Axonius is looking to solution and service provider partners to play an even more pivotal role in the next phase of growth at the cybersecurity asset management vendor, which sees massive opportunities ahead in combating AI and infrastructure risk, according to newly appointed channel leader Dan Schoenbaum.