CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. introduced Falcon IQ at the opening of its Fal.Con 2026 conference in Las Vegas, a product that automates the assessment and remediation work of its Project QuiltWorks coalition using a fleet of more than 50 artificial intelligence agents. The tool runs on Falcon Foundry and Charlotte AI AgentWorks, the no-code agent-building platform CrowdStrike debuted last year, with Nvidia Corp. Open Nemotron models validating and ranking code vulnerabilities before fixing them in runtime. Until now, the assessment portion of QuiltWorks was a manual, expert-led service sold as a 12-month subscription. CrowdStrike is pitching Falcon IQ to its partners as a volume play, allowing them to handle more engagements at a lower cost by automating the slowest parts of the process.
Project QuiltWorks, launched in April, was built around software flaws that frontier AI models are surfacing faster than security teams can patch. Discovery work runs on models from OpenAI Group PBC and Anthropic PBC, with Accenture PLC, Ernst & Young Global Ltd., IBM Corp. and Kroll LLC handling remediation, and Amazon Web Services Inc. joining in the July quarter for cloud infrastructure coverage. Falcon IQ now correlates customer telemetry with CrowdStrike threat intelligence and findings from Falcon OverWatch, its managed threat hunting service, then maps results against a services catalog loaded in by the partner. The output is an attack narrative, investment priorities, and a remediation roadmap, with recommendations pointing both at Falcon platform tuning and at partner services matched to the exposure. A co-branded dashboard tracks remediation progress, with the partner鈥檚 name on the findings.
The QuiltWorks data side is also expanding, with a dozen new security vendors now feeding Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, including Abnormal AI Inc., Netskope Inc., Zscaler Inc., Rubrik Inc. and HackerOne Inc., along with Artemis Security, AttackIQ Inc., ExtraHop Networks Inc., Horizon3.ai Inc., Picus Security Inc., SafeBreach Inc. and Terra Security. The Falcon Onum real-time pipeline layer handles ingestion, filtering data to cut storage costs by as much as 50% and analyzing it before it lands in the platform, which surfaces attack paths earlier. Onboarding new sources is handled by native Charlotte AI agents, as is exposure prioritization. CrowdStrike Chief Business Officer Daniel Bernard tied the expansion to a shrinking window between disclosure and exploitation, saying frontier models can discover and exploit vulnerabilities at machine speed.
Falcon is also heading to the Snowflake Marketplace, where Snowflake Inc. customers can pay for it using pre-committed capacity under the Marketplace Capacity Drawdown program, avoiding a fresh purchasing cycle. Once deployed, analysts can query Snowflake tables through federated search without moving records, and those tables can feed Next-Gen SIEM for correlation. Falcon Onum will route security telemetry out to Snowflake and other destinations, with Snowflake Chief Security and Trust Officer Mayank Upadhyay saying the collaboration lets security teams investigate against data they already trust.
On the infrastructure side, Falcon now runs on Google Cloud, starting with U.S. regions, with plans to add more for data localization compliance. Protection across AI agents, endpoints, identities, cloud and data still runs through a single sensor, console and data layer. Google Cloud Vice President Brian Goldstein said data sovereignty and cybersecurity remain critical to enterprise multi-cloud and AI strategy. The move follows CrowdStrike鈥檚 extension of its Cloud Detection and Response service to Google Cloud in April, joining Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
The announcements came as CrowdStrike reported its fiscal second quarter on Aug. 26, with the stock rising more than 10% in late trading that day on earnings and revenue beats. Net new annual recurring revenue climbed 51% to $332.8 million, exceeding the company鈥檚 guidance. Founder and Chief Executive George Kurtz called it the best quarter in CrowdStrike鈥檚 history.
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