CrowdStrike Joins Anthropic Program to Help Defenders Counter AI-Speed Attacks on Critical Infrastructure

CrowdStrike has announced it is joining Anthropic's Critical Infrastructure Defense Program. The program brings together cybersecurity and critical infrastructure leaders with Anthropic's technical guidance and research. It is intended as a forum to share defensive practices, inform research and put advanced AI expertise behind the organisations already protecting these environments.

CrowdStrike says critical infrastructure is where cyber risk becomes real-world risk. Energy, water, manufacturing and transport systems are hard to defend because they often combine decades-old operational technology (OT) with modern IT. Downtime is not an option, and patching is not always possible. The company also says adversaries are using AI to move faster and at greater scale, which shrinks the time defenders have to respond.

CrowdStrike points to its Falcon platform and its Falcon for XIoT product as its contribution. According to the company, these give visibility across IT, OT and connected devices. Defenders can find unmanaged and legacy assets, understand vulnerabilities and exposure without disruptive scanning, detect threats moving between IT and OT, and respond with wider enterprise context. This is CrowdStrike's own account of its offering, and the source covers only the opening of the announcement.