CrowdStrike adds a kill switch to stop company AI agents that go rogue

CrowdStrike has launched an AI kill switch in its Falcon Guardian platform that it says lets security teams stop internal AI agents that misbehave, block them from relaunching and cut off their enterprise network access, CNBC reports. It does not delete the agent's code; instead it uses connected AI gateways to cut the agent off from the AI models that drive its decisions. Chief Business Officer Daniel Bernard said the system can detect agent activity but a human decides when to cut an agent off and when to restore access. These are CrowdStrike's own descriptions, not independent tests.