3 November 2026
CrowdStrike launches a kill switch to shut down rogue internal AI agents
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- CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company, launched a tool that lets security teams stop AI agents, which are software that acts on its own, inside a company.
- The kill switch can block a stopped agent from restarting and cut off its access to the company's network and the AI models that drive its decisions.
- A human must decide to shut an agent down, and the tool is part of CrowdStrike's Falcon Guardian platform, which monitors AI agents.
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