CrowdStrike to Acquire SGNL: Redefining Zero Trust for the Agentic Era

A Continuous Identity Approach: Stopping the Threats of Tomorrow, Today

The level of activity in identity over the course of the last twelve months has been nothing less than transformative, but not all strategies are created equal. While identity is a pillar of enterprise security strategies, there has historically been a considerable disconnect between SecOps and access management. SGNL was built from the ground up to address this gap, to connect critical data into the context of access decisions in real time, unlocking the full potential of identity to drive security outcomes. Whether at the point of an access request or in the midst of a session, SGNL continuously adapts and eliminates risks as it emerges.

Example of SGNL enabling dynamic access to critical cloud infrastructure.

The rapid adoption of AI is pushing the traditional static approaches utilized by PAM vendors to their breaking point. Enterprises need to contextualize access decisions at unprecedented speed to safely unlock the productivity gains of AI agents. With their dynamic architecture, SGNL enables organizations to deploy and manage agents without compromising their zero trust standards.

Example of SGNL managing access policies to sensitive data between MCP clients and servers.

An Identity Security Platform Emerges

CrowdStrike stops breaches, an always on, continuous mission. An analytics powerhouse, CrowdStrike processes more than a trillion events a day with sub second latency – their platform has never been static. CrowdStrike’s first act in identity began with threat detection, deploying sensors to domain controllers to help detect and respond to threats against active directory. The second act came in the form of cloud-based identity visibility, posture, and detections. Between the two, CrowdStrike is the most complete identity threat detection offering on the planet by a strong margin. However, identity threat detection is a small component of the overall identity stack, albeit a highly differentiated offering that identity native vendors have struggled with, and without a differentiated offering in access management CrowdStrike’s reach was limited.

The integration of SGNL enables CrowdStrike to merge detection and access management within a consolidated platform delivering threat driven, continuous identity. This new paradigm embeds security analytics into the identity stack to enable zero trust purpose built for the agentic era.

Threat driven continuous identity enables dynamic access and enforcement over critical data

Congratulations to Scott Kriz, Erik Gustavson and the SGNL team – you are truly a team built for this mission. Brightmind is extremely proud to have been a part of your journey. Together with CrowdStrike, we know you will transform identity security.

Link to the press release: CrowdStrike to Acquire SGNL to Transform Identity Security in the AI Era