CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says AI agents are flattening attacker hierarchies

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"Well, that has been totally just blown up because really now what we're seeing is the new apex predator is the agent state, not the nation state, it's the agent state. And what the agent state has done, if we think about the the models that are out there um that are bladed, so there there's no real guard rails. It's essentially taken all of these very complex topics and sort of techniques and cost and now flatten the entire pyramid."

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz argues that AI-driven agents and models with few guardrails are shrinking the gap between nation-state hackers and less sophisticated actors. He says this has flattened the traditional adversary pyramid by speeding up vulnerability discovery and attacks.