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title: "CrowdStrike agrees to buy Fiddler AI, which helps monitor AI agents, for ~$400M, and Dreadnode, an automated security AI testing tool, for ~$95M, mostly in cash (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/crowdstrike-agrees-to-buy-fiddler-ai-which-helps-monitor-ai-agents-for-920a1800
published: 2026-11-03T14:50:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# CrowdStrike agrees to buy Fiddler AI, which helps monitor AI agents, for \~$400M, and Dreadnode, an automated security AI testing tool, for \~$95M, mostly in cash (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-03 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/crowdstrike-agrees-to-buy-fiddler-ai-which-helps-monitor-ai-agents-for-920a1800

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal : CrowdStrike agrees to buy Fiddler AI, which helps monitor AI agents, for \~$400M, and Dreadnode, an automated security AI testing tool, for \~$95M, mostly in cash — The deals come as companies deploy AI agents faster than some security teams can establish controls

In this story: [CrowdStrike](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/crowdstrike), [AI agents](https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/ai-agents)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261103/p17#a261103p17)

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