- George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, described how cybersecurity tech company Charlotte AI is using generative AI to create this new tool.
- “Virtual security assistants” can help automate the work of cybersecurity analysts.
Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz spoke to CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday about the company’s focus on using automation and generative artificial intelligence to launch Charlotte AI, a “virtual security analyst.”
“Generative AI is a new form of artificial intelligence, and essentially Charlotte AI is our, our virtual security analyst,” Kurtz said. “And the reason we’re so excited about this is because it’s not just a conversation with Charlotte providing CrowdStrike’s collective wisdom, but actually Charlotte doing something on your behalf.”
Kurtz explained that Charlotte AI can help automate the duties of a security operations center (SOC) analyst, or someone who handles cybersecurity duties on a day-to-day basis. The program aims to reduce the mundane work done by analysts, tasks that would otherwise take hours, to minutes, he said.
According to Kurtz, analysts can have a conversation with Charlotte AI and ask questions about security threats in the environment, how it applies to their industry, what assets are at risk, how to fix those assets — and even generate a report about the situation.
“We can’t run automation with our platform,” Kurtz said, “but it’s really going to take the collective wisdom of CrowdStrike, 12-plus years in the business, all the threats we’ve seen, all the attacks. We’ve stopped, and then all these analysts to make the best decisions.” Let’s make it available to help and then automate the work for them.”