CrowdStrike and Anthropic Boost Critical Infrastructure Defense with AI

Critical infrastructure is where cyber risk becomes real-world risk. As adversaries weaponize AI to attack at machine speed, defenders of energy, water, manufacturing and transportation need an equally powerful AI advantage.

Operational environments combine decades-old OT with modern IT, downtime is not acceptable, and patching is rarely straightforward. To close this gap, CrowdStrike is joining Anthropic's Critical Infrastructure Defense Program, pairing the Falcon platform with frontier AI research to help organizations defend the systems that power the world.

What was announced

CrowdStrike has joined Anthropic's Critical Infrastructure Defense Program, a forum that unites cybersecurity and critical infrastructure leaders with Anthropic's technical guidance and frontier AI research. The program is designed to share defensive practices, inform research and put advanced AI expertise behind the organizations already protecting energy, water, manufacturing and transportation environments.

CrowdStrike contributes the scale of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, rich security telemetry across IT and OT, industry-leading threat intelligence and deep cyber expertise. Combined with Anthropic's frontier AI, the collaboration gives defenders unmatched context into how adversaries operate and how to stop them. Claude is already available inside CrowdStrike Charlotte AI, bringing Anthropic's models together with CrowdStrike's security context.

Why this matters

For CIOs, CISOs and IT directors responsible for industrial environments, the stakes are rising. Adversaries using AI compress the response window and target hybrid IT/OT estates that cannot simply be taken offline for remediation. Security leaders need a defense that works at machine speed, with full visibility across endpoints, identities, cloud workloads and connected OT assets.

For procurement leaders, the direction is equally important: an open AI ecosystem that avoids single-vendor lock-in, lets organizations choose the best frontier models, and consolidates security tooling on a proven platform instead of fragmented point products.

Technical details

• CrowdStrike Falcon for XIoT: visibility and protection across IT, OT and connected assets, including discovery of unmanaged and legacy devices.
• Non-disruptive assessment: understand vulnerabilities and exposure without intrusive scanning of sensitive OT networks.
• Cross-domain detection: identify threats that pivot between IT and OT with enterprise-wide context.
• Unified Falcon platform: endpoint, identity, cloud, threat intelligence and OT security in a single console.
• Charlotte AI with Claude: Anthropic's frontier models embedded in CrowdStrike's AI analyst for faster triage and response.
• Open AI ecosystem: freedom to combine best-of-breed models and tools around the Falcon platform.

Softprom and CrowdStrike

Softprom is the official distributor of CrowdStrike. Our team helps enterprises and critical infrastructure operators design, deploy and operate the Falcon platform, including Falcon for XIoT and Charlotte AI, with licensing, enablement and local technical support.

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