CrowdStrike and Anthropic Give Critical Infrastructure Defenders the AI Advantage

Critical infrastructure is where cyber risk becomes real-world risk. The environments powering energy, water, manufacturing, and transportation are among the most complex to defend as they often combine decades-old operational technology (OT) with modern IT. Downtime is not an option, and patching isn’t always possible.

Now, AI is raising the stakes. Adversaries are using AI to move faster and operate at greater scale, compressing the time defenders have to respond to attacks. Critical infrastructure facing machine-speed threats requires machine-speed defense.

That’s why CrowdStrike is joining Anthropic’s Critical Infrastructure Defense Program.

The program brings together cybersecurity and critical infrastructure leaders with Anthropic’s technical guidance and frontier research to strengthen and defend critical infrastructure. It creates a forum to share defensive practices, inform research, and put frontier AI expertise behind the organizations already protecting these environments.

CrowdStrike brings a uniquely powerful foundation to this program: the scale and power of the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, rich security data across IT and OT, industry-leading threat intelligence, and deep cyber expertise. Together, these provide unmatched context into how adversaries operate and how defenders stop them. Combined with Anthropic’s frontier AI expertise, we can put a greater advantage in the hands of critical infrastructure defenders.

Protecting the Systems Powering the World

CrowdStrike has spent years extending the Falcon platform beyond the endpoint to protect the operational environments that keep businesses and critical infrastructure running.

CrowdStrike Falcon® for XIoT, delivered from the Falcon platform, gives organizations visibility and protection across IT, OT, and connected assets. Defenders can discover unmanaged and legacy assets, understand vulnerabilities and exposure without disruptive scanning, detect threats crossing between IT and OT, and respond with the context of the broader enterprise.

The Falcon platform brings endpoint, identity, cloud, threat intelligence, and OT security together to give defenders the visibility and context they need to stop threats wherever they operate. This gives CrowdStrike a powerful foundation for the AI era: deep security context across the environments that defenders are responsible for protecting.

Bringing the Best of AI to the Defender

Organizations aren’t betting their future on a single model, cloud, or application. They want the best technology for their business and the freedom to choose it. The same approach must apply to cybersecurity. 

That’s why CrowdStrike is building an open AI ecosystem around the Falcon platform. Our work with Anthropic is one example. Claude is available within CrowdStrike® Charlotte AI™, where it brings Anthropic’s frontier AI capabilities together with CrowdStrike’s deep security context and expertise.

The Critical Infrastructure Defense Program extends that relationship into one of cybersecurity’s highest-stakes environments. Through this program, CrowdStrike will have access to Anthropic’s technical guidance, frontier cybersecurity research, and a community of leaders who are focused on critical infrastructure and creating new opportunities to share what works and accelerate defensive innovation.

AI is moving too quickly for security innovation to happen in silos. No single company will secure the AI era alone. Winning requires bringing the best of AI and cybersecurity together, and putting that advantage in the hands of defenders.

Learn more about Anthropic’s Critical Infrastructure Defense Program.