The arrival of Claude Mythos has sparked a “rethink moment” in cybersecurity, but only those partners with the ability to “think big” will benefit.
That’s the message of CrowdStrike Chief Business Officer Daniel Bernard, who spoke to IT Channel Oxygen following the $5bn-revenue endpoint security vendor’s European Partner Symposium.
Despite fuelling a dip in cyber stocks, the arrival of Claude Mythos Preview last month is playing into CrowdStrike’s hands by “waking the whole market up to the fact cybersecurity matters”, Bernard said.
“You’re talking to a company that’s on the right side of this,” Bernard said.
The launch of Claude Mythos Preview, as well as OpenAI Codex, have prompted concerns they could be used by attackers as well as defenders trying to find bugs in code.
Since then, CrowdStrike has launched Project QuiltWorks, a coalition designed to assess, prioritise, and continuously remediate the wave of vulnerabilities in production code now being discovered by frontier AI models.
Benard compared it to a “Y2K moment in security”, predicting that CrowdStrike will “patch more in the next year that we have in the last 30 or 40 years”.
“Once every – I don’t know – 15 to 30 years, you have this rethink moment, and all our partners are really well positioned with our tech stack – we’re built for this rethink moment,” he said.
“The customers are asking for the rethink moment, and the right kind of partners that have the ability to think big and who are really passionate about solving problems are really going to benefit from this revolution that’s going on right now.”
“There will be two kinds of partner”
The new AI threat landscape will call for “agentic SOCs” that draw on a combined workforce of humans and agents, Bernard said.
“All these things are whole new frontiers and domains for partners. There’s going to be two kinds of partner: those that dive head first into the world of AI and agentify their businesses, and those that try and sell it like they were placing legacy AV.”
Asked what his advice is for CrowdStrike’s partner base, Bernard urged partners to “align your org chart to your business goals with CrowdStrike”.
“If you’re not putting in the people with the dedicated focus and the agents, you’re not going to see the results,” he said.
“Two, those people need to understand this new wild world that’s coming into play, and I don’t think enough of the ecosystem understands.
“Everyone’s just busy trying to stay alive and deal with the chaos. But I need these partners to run their businesses, not be run by their businesses.
“There’s just a massive new foray of knowledge they need to amass.
“Solving vulnerabilities and patching is not a new thing. The way we may do it is going to evolve, and it’s going to be faster – but in many ways this is all a back-to-basics discussion. It’s just more attack surfaces, more data, more complexity, and more speed in solving the problem.”
Doug Woodburn is editor of IT Channel Oxygen
