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CrowdStrike announced it will acquire Fiddler AI for nearly $400 million and Dreadnode for about $95 million, totaling nearly $500 million to expand its Falcon platform with tools to monitor and test AI agents as the market for securing AI agents takes off.
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SecurityWeek leads with the specific acquisition price while TechCrunch emphasizes the count of startups purchased.
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CrowdStrike Buys AI Security Firms Fiddler and Dreadnode
CrowdStrike agrees to buy Fiddler AI, which helps monitor AI agents, for ~$400M, and Dreadnode, an automated security AI testing tool, for ~$95M, mostly in cash (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)
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