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(Sharecast News) - Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike said on Thursday that it has agreed to buy identity security start-up SGNL.
It said the deal will accelerate its leadership in Next-Gen Identity Security, enabling access for human, non-human (NHI), and AI identities to be continuously granted and revoked based on real-time risk.
"With SGNL, CrowdStrike will extend dynamic authorisation across SaaS and hyperscaler cloud access layers," it said. "The combination of dynamic privilege and access coupled with Falcon platform intelligence sets a new standard for agentic identity security."
CrowdStrike noted that identity security is rapidly becoming one of cybersecurity's largest and fastest-growing segments. According to IDC, the identity security market is expected to grow to about $56bn in 2029 from $29bn in 2025.
George Kurtz, chief executive and founder of CrowdStrike, said: "AI agents operate with superhuman speed and access, making every agent a privileged identity that must be protected.
"With SGNL, CrowdStrike will deliver continuous, real-time access control that eliminates the known and unknown gaps from legacy standing privileges. We're disrupting the premise of modern privilege and access - for every identity, human or machine. This is identity security built for the AI era."
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