CrowdStrike's new kill switch can stop rogue AI agents in their tracks, CEO says

Monday - Friday, 6:00 - 7:00 PM ETMad MoneyPublished Tue, Nov 3 20266:37 PM ESTKey PointsCrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said the company's new technology allows businesses to stop rogue AI agents, prevent them from restarting and cut off their network access.Kurtz says he sees AI agent safety as a major growth opportunity for CrowdStrike, pointing to growing enterprise demand and an expanded partnership with Anthropic.CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said Tuesday that the cybersecurity company can now shut down rogue artificial intelligence agents.CrowdStrike's new kill switch, announced Tuesday at its Fal.Con Europe conference, allows security teams to terminate misbehaving agents, prevent them from restarting and cut off their network access. It is designed to give humans more power over artificial intelligence models and systems, as concerns about how to control agents grow."Everyone is building AI agents, but they never had the off button, and now they do," Kurtz told CNBC's Jim Cramer on "Mad Money." "It's going to be an incredibly important part of making sure that AI agents run and operate safely." The AI Kill Switch, as CrowdStrike calls it, is part of the company's Falcon Guardi...