Bartley Richardson, Chief AI and Autonomous Systems Officer at CrowdStrike, recently took the stage at Fal.Con 2026 to announce CrowdStrike’s Cyber Superintelligence Lab. The lab brings together our AI researchers, offensive operators, and incident responders to build defensive model and harness capabilities for the agentic era.
How are they doing it? “To build the best defense, you have to understand the best offense,” Bartley says.
The first initiative to come from the lab is SafeMind, a system that combines offensive and defensive security models with runtime harnesses to execute autonomous security workflows. Red Tempest, on the offensive side, emulates real adversaries targeting live virtual machine (VM) environments. The CrowdStrike Falcon® sensor takes this telemetry and feeds it into Blue Solano, the defensive environment, to improve it. The fortified defensive model then faces Red Tempest again.
“We wanted to build the best defensive capability that would auto-patch, auto-remediate, auto-deliver content, to work inside of environments,” Bartley explains in this episode, which goes far beyond SafeMind.
Tune in to hear Bartley, Adam, and Cristian dig into the AI advantages for adversaries and defenders, scaling cyber defense in the enterprise, and their predictions for the future of AI.
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How are they doing it? “To build the best defense, you have to understand the best offense,” Bartley says.
The first initiative to come from the lab is SafeMind, a system that combines offensive and defensive security models with runtime harnesses to execute autonomous security workflows. Red Tempest, on the offensive side, emulates real adversaries targeting live virtual machine (VM) environments. The CrowdStrike Falcon® sensor takes this telemetry and feeds it into Blue Solano, the defensive environment, to improve it. The fortified defensive model then faces Red Tempest again.
“We wanted to build the best defensive capability that would auto-patch, auto-remediate, auto-deliver content, to work inside of environments,” Bartley explains in this episode, which goes far beyond SafeMind.
Tune in to hear Bartley, Adam, and Cristian dig into the AI advantages for adversaries and defenders, scaling cyber defense in the enterprise, and their predictions for the future of AI.
🔗 Links:
🎧 Spotify: https://cs.link/uissX
🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://cs.link/uissY
🎧 Our site: https://cs.link/uissZ
📣 Connect With Us:
► X:
https://twitter.com/CrowdStrike
► Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/crowdstrike
► LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/crowdstrike
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#CrowdStrike #AdversaryPodcast