As artificial intelligence, automation and digital platforms reshape markets, the need for an agentic enterprise — one that can anticipate, respond and adapt faster than rigid legacy structures — has never been more urgent.
To meet that need, Salesforce Inc. and CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. have joined forces to bring trust and security into sharper alignment. Salesforce focuses on embedding trust across its platform, while CrowdStrike strengthens enterprise defenses with AI-powered threat detection and real-time resilience, according to Marla Hay (pictured, right), senior vice president of product management at Salesforce.
“Our customers are really in the midst of a transformation into becoming agentic enterprises,” Hay said. “Security and trust are really at the foundation of becoming an agentic enterprise, and we are absolutely thrilled to be partnering with one of the industry leaders in security in order to help provide our customers and our security tools with CrowdStrike security tools, the ability to have a holistic picture of their environment and their ecosystem in order to create that trusted foundation for an agentic transformation.”
Hay and Daniel Bernard (left), chief business officer of CrowdStrike, spoke with theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Rebecca Knight at Fal.Con, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. The conversation focused on how the two companies aim to accelerate the shift toward the agentic enterprise. (* Disclosure below.)
How secure integration supports the agentic enterprise
Salesforce and CrowdStrike’s partnership aims to accelerate secure digital transformation and support the rise of the agentic enterprise — one that is intelligent, adaptive and resilient in the face of real-world threats. Attackers increasingly exploit valid credentials through third-party software-as-a-service, according to Bernard.
“We run our business on Salesforce … we’re a Salesforce shop,” he said. “In an interesting way, the adversary brought us together if you look at the proliferation of agentic identities. We have an SSPM solution. It’s our Adaptive Shield acquisition; it’s now Falcon Shield … on AppExchange. It’s super relevant, where together we’re going to go to customers and help them secure their third-party software risk.”
As digital transformation gains momentum, Salesforce has become a central hub for enterprise operations, relationships and sensitive data, according to Hay. That prominence makes it a high-value target for cyberattacks. To counter emerging threats, CrowdStrike’s Falcon Shield integrates directly into Salesforce, using AI-powered analytics and behavioral monitoring to stop breaches in real time.
“There’s really three places where we’re doing this integration,” Hay said. “The first is through the Salesforce Security Center. We’re bringing Falcon Shield and Security Center together. The second is through bringing Charlotte AI into Agentforce for Security. Agentforce for Security is Salesforce’s internal security agents for our customers, and they’ll now be able to get threat detection. All of that will be available through Slack as a mechanism, because that’s where our customers already are. They’re already operating in Slack every day.”
Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Fal.Con:
(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Fal.Con. Neither CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
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