CrowdStrike Reportedly Paying $495 Million for AI Security Firms Fiddler, Dreadnode

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CrowdStrike agrees to buy Fiddler AI, which helps monitor AI agents, for ~$400M, and Dreadnode, an automated security AI testing tool, for ~$95M, mostly in cash (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal) wsj.com

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