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14 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
Undated
George Kurtz argues AI agents have given hacktivists capabilities that only nation-state attackers had a few years earlier.
“The new Apex Predator is the agent state. The same level of capability that a nation state would have just a few years ago, essentially a hacktivist would have today.”
Undated
CrowdStrike reports average attacker breakout time of 29 minutes, with the fastest observed at 27 seconds.
“On on average, it's twenty nine minutes, but we've seen it as quick as twenty seven seconds.”
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CrowdStrike's platform has grown from one module at its founding to 33 modules.
“We've got 33 modules today, and, you know, ultimately, when I started the company, we had one module, and now we've got 33.”
Undated
Kurtz says CrowdStrike pioneered endpoint detection and response (EDR), which in its early days relied on a computer and a human analyst.
“So we pioneered EDR endpoint detection response, which a lot of it in the early days was a computer and a human.”
Undated
CrowdStrike's SafeMind system includes a red model named Tempest and a blue model named Solano.
“we've got Red, Tempest and Blue Solano, those are the two models.”
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CrowdStrike used Nvidia's Nemotron model as one of the main bases for its blue defensive model.
“NemoTron is one of the main models that we leveraged on on the blue side.”
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At Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's urging, CrowdStrike built a digital twin that recreates a customer's environment virtually so red and blue models can be iterated against each other.
“So we built a digital twin where we can take all of the information that we know about a customer's environment.”
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Kurtz says a general remediation task on a top frontier cyber model costs about $10, compared with about $0.03 on CrowdStrike's models.
“for a general remediation, if you use like, uh, uh, uh, the highest caliber frontier cyber model, probably cost you about ten.”
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Kurtz says CrowdStrike has held customer security data for about 15 years, which it uses to post-train its models.
“We've been entrusted with that for the last 15 years.”
Undated
Kurtz says CrowdStrike's endpoint sensors generate roughly 7 trillion events per day.
“So we're creating 7 trillion or so events like, uh, a day.”
Undated
Kurtz says CrowdStrike and Nvidia have worked on the SafeMind models together for about six months.
“We've been working on it for the last six months, and we kinda went through how this would work.”
Undated
Kurtz says breaches would persist even with no software vulnerabilities because many attackers log in with stolen identities instead of breaking in.
“What people don't necessarily realize, uh, is that even with with zero vulnerabilities, which I hope the industry can get there, you're still gonna have breaches.”
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Kurtz says CrowdStrike displaced older security incumbents such as Symantec and McAfee.
“we disrupted the incumbents, we disrupted the semantics, the MacAfee's, you know, all those other players are, like, all gone for the most part, or changed or bought or whatever.”
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Kurtz says he was personally involved in designing CrowdStrike's Falcon Guardian product through small-team, frequent meetings.
“we've done that with, like, our Falcon Guardian product. And to your point, like, I was personally involved, you know, had three day a week meetings”
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