Sharpening Enterprise Defence
How seven mission-ready AI agents are changing managed security
At Fal.Con Europe 2025, CrowdStrike showed the world how agentic AI is fundamentally reshaping how security operations run. The conversation has moved firmly beyond straightforward process automation, towards actionable intelligence that can work independently from people – while collaborating with them securely and enabling real-time analysis.
At the centre of this evolution are AI agents. These are specialised digital operators that handle complex, repetitive, and high-volume tasks across Falcon – CrowdStrike’s unified security platform for the AI era. For Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), these agents unlock new efficiency and scalability while strengthening customer outcomes.
Why mission-ready matters
Mission-ready agents are purpose-built AI models, trained to perform specific SOC functions. This could range from analysing malware to generating correlation rules. Each agent accelerates detection, investigation, and response by compressing hours of previously manual work into seconds of automated activity.
Agentic AI enables security teams to deputize key processes and accelerate manual work to agents that can reason, make decisions, and act autonomously in line with pre-defined security requirements, operational workflows, and compliance frameworks.
As part of their launch, CrowdStrike has introduced seven mission-ready agents to the market, designed to address core use cases within the SOC:
The Seven Agents
- Exposure Prioritisation – Enables the business to focus on the threats that matter most by ranking vulnerabilities based on real adversary behaviour and business risk.
- Malware Analysis – Automatically inspects suspicious files, writes reverse-engineering reports, and recommends mitigations.
- Hunt – Emulates human threat hunting workflows, scanning across telemetry for anomalies and indicators of compromise.
- Search Analysis – Combines natural-language and structured queries to surface exposures and insights in real time.
- Correlation Rules Generation – Builds new detection logic automatically, based on emerging patterns.
- Data Transformation – Normalises, enriches, and routes telemetry to the right destinations in real time.
- Workflow Generation – Orchestrates multi-step responses, from isolation to patching, without human input.
Each agent is designed to accelerate decision-making and reduce repetitive workloads. Crucially, they are also ready to deploy right now, bringing the vision of a more agile, scalable SOC completely to life.
What it means for MSSPs
These agents have game-changing potential. Mission-ready agents are a chance to expand service capability without increasing workload – performing routine analysis and correlation at speed and enabling analysts to focus on threat validation, client relationships, and proactive defence.
This approach enhances performance and profitability. Service providers can manage more customers, deliver faster outcomes, and maintain consistent quality through automation that operates 24/7.
It also strengthens differentiation. MSSPs equipped with agentic capabilities can offer customers a new kind of value, in the form of continuous intelligence and protection underpinned by the same human insight that clients already trust.
Customise and integrate to scale the agentic advantage
The Charlotte AI AgentWorks environment is a powerful resource for partners to build their own agents based on securely integrated, third-party data sources. The ability to bring in data flexibly allows providers of managed security services to tailor automations and agentic use cases specifically to industries, workflows, or compliance frameworks.
Mission-ready agents are a gamechanger for partners
Bespoke agents can support and enable targeted, high-impact solutions. Partners can create tools to automate identity investigations that are tailored to customer environments, or build agents to monitor OT networks in manufacturing. AgentWorks provides a low-code interface that makes it practical and fast for partners to prototype, test, and deploy agents – without long development cycles or expensive overheads.
This capability is about turning providers of services into innovators themselves. Partners can move beyond technology consumption and actively shape how it’s applied in the interests of customers and the wider security landscape.
Become an orchestrator of AI-powered defences
Mission-ready AI agents are a turning point for managed security. They enable SOCs to act faster, scale more broadly, and make smarter decisions. Automations remain underpinned by the same human oversight and judgement that founds current customer confidence – providing the best of both worlds.
Fal.Con Europe 2025 showed us a vision for the future of security that is profoundly different and more collaborative – where humans and machines work together towards proactive, intelligent threat defences.
For our own partner network, there is a great opportunity to explore and use CrowdStrike’s agentic platform to build and deliver services that are more predictive, efficient, and valuable to clients.
To learn how to bring agentic AI into your managed services portfolio, connect with the Ignition Technology team today:
