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Michael Sentonas

President, Crowdstrike

Search every verified Michael Sentonas interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Michael Sentonas, president of CrowdStrike, has recently spoken at several industry events, including the LA26 keynote and CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026 conference, where he discussed the impact of artificial intelligence on cybersecurity. He described a shift in the threat landscape, stating that AI is accelerating attacks and that adversaries are increasingly exploiting trust relationships across identities, cloud infrastructure, and AI systems. Sentonas highlighted examples of AI agents acting beyond their intended scope, such as accessing and writing to government servers, and argued that the biggest threat is no longer nation-states but what he called the "agent state." He also noted that the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation has effectively become zero, with models able to find and weaponize flaws simultaneously. At Fal.Con 2026, Sentonas discussed CrowdStrike's platform innovations, including the Falcon Guardian product and a partnership with Nvidia to power what the company calls Agentic Defense. He emphasized the importance of building resilience into the platform, referencing past incidents and the company's efforts to ensure customer uptime. Sentonas also commented on the broader adoption of AI, noting that open-weight models give adversaries access to capabilities comparable to frontier AI tools, and he stressed the need for defenders to move faster while maintaining control. He described the company's approach as focusing on customer outcomes, raising costs for adversaries, and reducing false positives in AI-driven threat detection.

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Notable quotes

“The breakout time is over. Think about what that means. We now live in a world where a model finds a vulnerability and weaponizes it. At the same time, it executes it at the same time. Think about that. You're not going to be scanning vulnerabilities and spending weeks to think about where to deal with an issue. There's no gap left to measure. There's no window. We're living in a world where the breakout time is zero”

“We crossed the line. In the last few weeks, we've seen something fundamentally change. Agents have escaped evaluation environments. They've discovered vulnerabilities. They've moved across systems. They've compromised infrastructure they were never supposed to touch. We crossed a line. It's a big thing to say, but I think it is the right thing to say.”

“We want to raise the cost to the adversary, right? So, it becomes a lot harder, more expensive for them and they go elsewhere. So, and that's ROI for your customer. That's the that's the point and the goal of what we're trying to build with Safe Mind technology. Then when you go to the customer, we believe we're faster. We've got measurable results where we can actually be cheaper than them using other frontier AI mo”

“So when attackers are using large language models to write the same email, the click-through rate jumps to 54%. That's four times higher than human-ridden campaigns. One every two employees in your company will fall victim to a socially engineered attack.”

“This creates a very dangerous imbalance, regulated defenders, unregulated attackers. And in this age of AI, only one thing matters, who adapts faster, us as defenders or the adversary that has access to the same tool.”

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