Top executives from CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, SentinelOne and other major vendors spoke with CRN about new AI-powered products launched at RSAC.
Among the hundreds of cybersecurity vendors showcasing new products at RSAC 2026, several companies stood out by unveiling multiple major announcements during the show—signaling the continuing acceleration of the industry in response to the growth of AI.
This week at RSAC, CRN sat down with top executives at five cybersecurity vendors—CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, SentinelOne, Proofpoint and Arctic Wolf—which used the conference to launch multiple new products focused on AI and agentic capabilities.
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The array of product debuts at RSAC 2026 come as partners and customers continue to grapple with the far-reaching impacts of AI on security. The growing adoption of AI agents, in particular, has created massive new cyber risk that organizations are looking to vendors and the channel to help address.
What follows are the details on five cybersecurity companies making big AI moves at RSAC 2026.
CrowdStrike
At RSAC 2026, CrowdStrike unveiled an array of new products for securing AI usage as well as launching new AI- and agentic-powered capabilities for cyber defense. A major theme of the announcements is the return of the endpoint as a focal point for security enforcement, given that endpoint devices are where AI is being accessed and used, according to CrowdStrike co-founder and CEO George Kurtz.
“The endpoint is really the manifestation of where AI takes place,” Kurtz said in an interview with CRN this week. As a result, Falcon endpoint protection is re-accelerating as a growth business for CrowdStrike, as shown by the company’s latest two quarters of results, he noted.
In the era of widespread AI usage, organizations “need to observe what’s happening on the endpoint, they need to put governance around it and they need to protect it. And that’s what we’re delivering,” Kurtz said. “We’re in the best position to be able to do that, because we’re already doing that for humans. And now we’re doing that for agents.”
CrowdStrike’s major RSAC 2026 announcements included general availability for its Falcon AI Detection and Response (AIDR) offering, AI agent discovery and shadow AI governance. The cybersecurity giant also launched its new Falcon Data Security offering, featuring AI-driven classification for sensitive data and protection of sensitive GenAI data, and updated Falcon Cloud Security to help with countering AI-driven cloud attacks.
CrowdStrike also debuted the next AI-enhanced generation of its MDR (managed detection and response) offering with the launch of Agentic MDR, as well as unveiling Flex for Services, which brings the vendor’s Falcon Flex subscription model to services from CrowdStrike and partners. Additionally, the company announced that it will now support Microsoft Defender for Endpoint within Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, the vendor’s AI-powered SIEM (security information and event management) platform.
Palo Alto Networks
As part of its major product launch this week connected to RSAC 2026, Palo Alto Networks unveiled the next generation of its AI security platform with the debut of Prisma AIRS 3.0. The new version of the offering features a number of new capabilities for discovery and assessment of AI agent activities, according to Lee Klarich, chief product and technology officer at Palo Alto Networks.
Many of the enhancements in Prisma AIRS 3.0 are “oriented toward AI becoming more agentic in nature,” Klarich said in an interview with CRN this week. “So you saw us add to model scanning and the ability to look at other aspects of the supply chain. You saw us talk about additional protection mechanisms which are oriented toward agentic attacks, which are different than traditional AI applications. And we’re also expanding the posture capabilities to assess the posture of these agentic platforms.”
Palo Alto Networks also previewed a forthcoming Prisma AIRS capability, AI Agent Gateway, “which will allow us to actually sit in the flow of agent-to-agent communication and secure that traffic,” he said. “Because there, the key is not only do we have to be able to control that traffic—we also have to be able to inspect it, secure it and inject identity into that using the CyberArk agentic identity. But the gateway becomes the place to inject that and enforce that.”
Other major announcements from Palo Alto Networks this week included the debut of the next generation of its enterprise Prisma Browser, with updates including added flexibility around utilization of AI tools and expanded discovery and enforcement for AI activity.
The cybersecurity giant also launched an SMB-focused version of its secure browser, the Prisma Browser for Business, providing a simplified way for small businesses to protect against browser-based threats. Such threats increasingly include risks related to AI application usage, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said during a briefing with media outlets. “We think that part of the market is most susceptible” to threats and risks related to AI adoption in browsers, Arora said.
SentinelOne
At RSAC 2026, SentinelOne unveiled several new products and capabilities for protecting AI usage as well as utilizing agentic capabilities for threat investigation. The goal of the updates is to continue deepening SentinelOne’s monitoring of AI usage while also doing more to enable human operators around securing the new AI and agentic technologies, according to SentinelOne co-founder and CEO Tomer Weingarten.
While many vendors see securing AI as primarily a technological discipline, “I think it’s really more of a shift of how you bring together visibility and observability—but all the way to the human operator,” Weingarten said in an interview with CRN this week. “And I think that’s the fabric we’re essentially trying to solve.”
SentinelOne is doing that through the lens of its core endpoint Singularity security platform as well as through its Prompt Security offering for securing AI, he said. SentinelOne’s Prompt Security capabilities allow partners and customers to “monitor generative AI usage in the deepest way possible”—and ultimately, to deliver dramatically improved visibility for human operators, Weingarten said.
Key announcements from SentinelOne at RSAC 2026 included a new Prompt Security offering that protects AI usage within on-premises environments, including sovereign and air-gapped data centers. The Prompt Security On-Premise offering provides self-hosted AI security, with discovery for unsanctioned “shadow AI” usage and real-time redaction of sensitive data.
Meanwhile, SentinelOne also debuted capabilities for protecting agents and agentic workflows (Prompt AI Agent Security) along with its new Prompt AI Red Teaming offering and general availability for agentic investigations with Purple AI Auto Investigation. Additionally, SentinelOne announced a partnership with LevelBlue, an MSSP that spun out of AT&T in 2024, focused around delivery of MDR and SIEM.
Proofpoint
At RSAC 2026, Proofpoint announced that it’s extending its capabilities for AI-powered DSPM (data security posture management) to on-premises environments as a way to protect the entire enterprise IT deployment. For the many partners and customers seeking to enable AI adoption right now, the move enables teams to provide data access at the proper privilege level no matter where it’s located, according to Proofpoint CEO Sumit Dhawan.
“All your data is protected, regardless of where the data is—using our agentic AI technology that discovers, classifies and protects it,” Dhawan said in an interview with CRN this week. “And then our AI security ensures that you have both visibility and guardrails over all the AI actions.”
Other major updates announced at RSAC included the launch of AI data access governance capabilities for providing unified visibility into which AI systems can access sensitive data.
The company also announced that it’s combining its Secure Email Gateway and API-based email security into a single architecture. Proofpoint had heard from partners and customers that combining gateway and API would provide a massive advantage, providing the ability to “look at both external and insider communication in a uniform fashion,” Dhawan said. “We’ve become the only player to do that.”
Arctic Wolf
At RSAC 2026, Arctic Wolf announced the launch of what it’s calling the “world’s largest agentic SOC” (Security Operations Center). The debut of the Aurora Agentic SOC will deliver improved AI-driven security outcomes along with substantial reductions in cost and complexity, according to Arctic Wolf CEO Nick Schneider.
The system will leverage the new Aurora Superintelligence Platform, also announced this week, which “combines a proprietary knowledge graph along with our swarm of agents” to handle key security tasks, Schneider said in an interview with CRN this week. The Aurora Agentic SOC is “now operating at massive scale across a platform that’s ingesting north of 10 trillion cybersecurity events a week and delivering superior outcomes now to our customers,” he said.
Ultimately, the Aurora Agentic SOC enables autonomous agents to perform core SOC workflows while human experts are kept in the loop for oversight and validation as well as more advanced decision-making, according to Schneider.
The result is greater speed, efficiency and “a more effective outcome in a highly observable way”—so that it’s clear what both the agents and the human operators are doing, he said.
For both MSP partners and the broader channel, Schneider said, “this is a way for them to embed AI agents and the agentic frameworks into their customer environments—in a way that can provide those customers outcomes that they otherwise might not be able to achieve.”
