“What people don't necessarily realize is that even with zero vulnerabilities, which I hope the industry can get there, you're still going to have breaches. Because a lot of what we see people today doing is they're not necessarily breaking in. They're logging in.”
No Priors · AI Research & Frontier Labs · October 2026
A host floated the hope that mostly agent-written code could end up more secure than human-written software. The CrowdStrike CEO agreed it would help, but said identity is the bigger problem, and that the long tail of legacy software won't be fixed overnight.
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…you know, you've got to use the advantages you have. The defender knows their own systems. The defender has the architectural diagrams. The defender has the code, right? So how do you put all of that into something that you can dramatically increase your probability of outsmarting the offensive AI?
…a limited number of them with limited capacity, and we're all trying to move very quickly. But if you can scale at the speed of compute or your willingness to spend and agents have infinite patience, like maybe we could actually end up with more secure software over time. It's an interesting hope.
…I have my own developer license. I build my own sort of apps and things like Claude. And I have my own security agent that reviews the code. And it's like, well, Claude just created the code, but then Claude is now with its security app going, well, that code is insecure. Well, you just created it. Like, why just do that in the first part? You know, maybe there's some optimization, but I think what people don't necessarily realize is that even with zero vulnerabilities, which I hope the industry can get there, you're still going to have breaches. Because a lot of what we see people today doing is they're not necessarily breaking in. They're logging in. There's such an issue around identity. But at the end of the day, if we can get better code and we can have less vulnerabilities and we can ripple that through, that'll be great. The challenge is it's such a long tail. You take Microsoft as an example. Just because of all of the compatibility that they want to maintain going backwards, backward compatibility, there's things that never kind of…
You've been running CrowdStrike for 15 years. And before that, you were an entrepreneur. Security, I've always loved security because we're never, as a business person, it's both an interesting and important mission. As a business person, this problem is not going away. Right. But I feel many CEOs…
Yeah, I'm happy to jump into that. So, first, I think you have to recognize it's a different operating model and cadence. You know, we've got thousands and thousands of people, right? And when you think about some of the AI native companies that just started, they have a handful of people. You…
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