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Can CrowdStrike's New 'AI Kill Switch' Shut Down Rogue AI Agents?

CrowdStrike's "Falcon Guardian" protects Windows systems by enforcing policy, restricting unauthorized applications and blocking USB devices, notes Gartner.
And now CrowdStrike says they're giving security teams "the ultimate human control over AI agents" with — an "AI Kill Switch... a defender can terminate it where it runs, block it from launching again, and cut off its enterprise network access."


"When you deploy agents with a kill switch, you stay in control," said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike... "The AI Kill Switch puts power in the hands of the people to realize AI safety...." In the case of a rogue agent, the AI Kill Switch will give the security decision-maker the final control: terminate the agent at its root, where it runs. It starts on the endpoint, where the Falcon sensor already operates, and builds on what Falcon Guardian already sees: what an agent is told to do, what it communicates, and what it executes... An authorized administrator triggers the action, and every action is recorded in the audit trail.


CrowdStrike also announced it's acquiring Fiddler AI, a company it describes as "a leader in AI agent observability and explainability" that will give their Falcon platform "pre-deployment evaluation, continuous behavioral accountability, and agent explainability."

Together with the Falcon Guardian innovations announced today, CrowdStrike will deliver comprehensive AI security and AI safety: Guardian secures agents from attack and misuse; Fiddler validates they behaved as intended. "Every company is deploying agents and asking the same thing: what are agents actually doing?" said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike. "When a regulator or your board asks what an agent did, saying 'the model did it' is not an answer. Fiddler is the flight recorder for every agent: the observability to explain exactly what an agent did and why. This level of agent visibility and control enables AI safety."

AI agents are goal-seeking. They hit an obstacle, find another path. An agent can hold valid credentials and approved tools and still make unsupported decisions, ignore instructions, or claim work it never completed. They don't have to be compromised to create risk. AI observability gives enterprises visibility into agent behavior. Explainability goes further, showing why agents make decisions and where things go wrong. Enterprises have to be able to say what an agent actually did, and why, a conversation they will increasingly have with auditors, regulators, boards, and heads of risk.


CrowdStrike is promising pre-deployment evaluation for "accuracy, task completion, and policy compliance," as well as agent traceability and behavioral accountability ("Detect behavioral drift, hallucinations, and unintended actions in production, and show exactly what happened.") It's announcement also touts auditable governance: "Track agent decisions and actions across first-party, third-party, and coding agents, providing evidence for compliance and audits."


And CrowdStrike also acquired Dreadnode, the company behind an automated AI security testing platform, to "continuously test every AI model, application, and agent for security weaknesses before deployment."

"Enterprises are deploying AI faster than they can prove it is secure," said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike. "A model can be jailbroken, an agent can be manipulated, and most organizations have no way to find those flaws until the AI is already in production. With Dreadnode, CrowdStrike will give every enterprise the power to trust AI and deploy faster, with confidence."



Quartz notes that CrowdStrike's push "follows legislative efforts to require shutdown capabilities in AI systems" Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the Kill Switch Act after OpenAI disclosed an incident in which rogue models circumvented a sandboxed testing environment and accessed Hugging Face. The bill would require AI companies to maintain the ability to shut down, throttle or suspend their models.

In short, the new capabilities "lets security teams terminate an AI agent, block it from restarting, and cut off its network access," writes CSO Online. But they add that a kill switch "should be viewed as an emergency brake, not a rewind button, said Apeksha Kaushik, senior principal analyst at Gartner."

She added that it may prevent additional actions, but it might not necessarily reverse all the data that has already been accessed, every system that has already been changed, all communications that have already been sent, or transactions that have already been initiated. Its effectiveness will also depend on how quickly abnormal behavior is detected, which environments are covered, and whether the agent or security infrastructure has been compromised.

An AI Kill Switch looks promising from the details provided, but its actual effectiveness will come in after it is used extensively in live systems, warn analysts. Also, it may be a good starting point, but it cannot be viewed as a standalone solution to enterprise AI security. "CISOs would need a more integrated approach that brings together AI discovery tools to identify unauthorised agents, runtime monitoring to track agent behaviour, robust identity and access management, and incident response and recovery mechanisms," added [Devroop Dhar, co-founder at Primus Partners].

He noted that equally important is the need for stringent AI security testing and clearly defined policies governing what agents can access and execute. There should be no ambiguity around permissions, access controls or the boundaries within which these agents are allowed to operate. The objective should be to ensure that security controls are built into the entire AI agent lifecycle rather than relying on a kill switch to intervene after something goes wrong. Dhar added that enterprise AI agents often have access to sensitive systems, databases, applications, credentials, and APIs. A compromised or misdirected agent could therefore become a point of vulnerability. The challenge is compounded by the fact that such activity may go undetected for some time, making it difficult for organisations to identify and contain the threat.

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Trump over mogelijke nieuwe perschef Witte Huis: was een grapje

WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - Het aanbod aan Dana White, baas van de Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), om perschef in het Witte Huis te worden, was maar een grapje. Dat zei de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zondag.

Trump schreef zaterdag op Truth Social dat hij White het aanbod had gedaan, maar het was niet duidelijk of het om een serieus aanbod ging. CNN berichtte op basis van een ingewijde dat White het aanbod had afgeslagen. Op Truth Social smeekte de president White om de baan "alsjeblieft" aan te nemen. Hij omschreef White als "een gewelddadige vechter en krijger".

Het Witte Huis heeft sinds het vertrek van Katie Zacharia vorige maand geen woordvoerder meer. Haar positie werd aan het wankelen gebracht toen discussie ontstond over de vraag of ze terecht de titel van advocaat had gebruikt.


Paus waarschuwt voor te streng bezuinigingsbeleid in Argentinië

BUENOS AIRES (ANP/RTR/AFP) - Paus Leo heeft in Argentinië president Javier Milei opgeroepen om het leven van alle burgers te verbeteren en oog te hebben voor de grenzen van de macht.

De kerk heeft kritiek geuit op het strenge bezuinigingsbeleid van de regering-Milei, dat vooral de armsten in het Zuid-Amerikaanse land heeft geraakt. Volgens paus Leo moet "de economie ten dienste staan van personen" en niet andersom.

De paus wees er ook op dat het goed is dat burgers leren samen te leven met mensen die anders denken dan zij zelf.

De kerkvorst begon zijn bezoek aan Zuid-Amerika in Argentiniës buurland Uruguay en zal tot woensdag in Argentinië blijven. Hij bezoekt er vier steden. Daarna gaat hij naar Peru.

Argentijnse katholieken hebben verheugd gereageerd op zijn bezoek. Leo's voorganger, de Argentijn Franciscus, bezocht zijn geboorteland tijdens zijn pontificaat niet. De laatste keer dat een paus Argentinië aandeed, was bijna veertig jaar geleden.


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Trump says he was ‘only kidding’ about making UFC’s Dana White next press secretary

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Weer voor Rotterdam 🌕 - 09-11-2026 01:15 CET...

Weer voor Rotterdam 🌕 - 09-11-2026 01:15 CET

In één oogopslag:
• 6.9°C · Helder 🌕 | Min 4.3°C / Max 10.5°C

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 4.3°C, Max 10.5°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1018.4 hPa ↘️ -3.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↖ 131°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 6.6°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1021.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 183°
• 03:00: 6.3°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1021.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 182°
• 04:00: 5.7°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1020.7 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↑ 158°
• 05:00: 5.4°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1020.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 163°
• 06:00: 5.1°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1020.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 160°
• 07:00: 5.2°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1019.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 161°
• 08:00: 5.3°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1019.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 160°
• 09:00: 6.0°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1019.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.8 km/u (1.9 m/s), richting: ↖ 150°
• 10:00: 7.1°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1019.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.6 km/u (2.1 m/s), richting: ↖ 151°
• 11:00: 8.2°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1019.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ↖ 138°
• 12:00: 9.3°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1019.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ↖ 126°
• 13:00: 10.0°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1018.2 hPa ↘️ -0.9 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.6 km/u (2.1 m/s), richting: ↖ 128°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• dinsdag 10 november: Min 2.8°C, Max 8.6°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1011.9 hPa ↘️ -6.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.2 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ← 76°
• woensdag 11 november: Min 4.3°C, Max 6.9°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 7.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 39%, 🧭 1003.6 hPa ↘️ -8.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 37°
• donderdag 12 november: Min 0.9°C, Max 8.9°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1004.3 hPa ↗️ +0.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.4 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↓ 350°
• vrijdag 13 november: Min 5.0°C, Max 9.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1012.8 hPa ↗️ +8.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.4 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 330°
• zaterdag 14 november: Min 2.4°C, Max 9.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.8 hPa ↗️ +9.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↖ 144°
• zondag 15 november: Min -0.4°C, Max 5.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1013.2 hPa ↘️ -8.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.7 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↖ 122°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 6.9°C (Helder)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 4.1°C (-2.8°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 178°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 16.2 km/h (4.5 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 91%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1021.7 hPa ↘️ -1.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:51 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 17:00

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 75 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 21.9 μg/m³
• PM10: 26.4 μg/m³

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