CrowdStrike to Acquire Identity Security Startup SGNL in $740 Million Deal

CrowdStrike announced its agreement to acquire SGNL, a leading identity-first security company, for $740 million.

The acquisition marks a significant strategic move to strengthen CrowdStrike’s Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security platform.

Address the growing complexity of protecting human, non-human, and AI agent identities in modern cloud environments. The identity landscape has transformed dramatically in recent years.

Expanding the Identity Attack Surface

The rapid adoption of cloud identity providers, combined with the explosive growth of SaaS and AI-powered applications, has created an expansive attack surface that traditional security approaches cannot adequately defend against.

Non-human identities, including service accounts, API keys, and AI agents, now operate autonomously across distributed cloud access paths.

Often functioning as high-privilege accounts with critical access to data, applications, and computing resources.

SGNL brings critical capabilities to CrowdStrike’s platform, particularly its runtime access enforcement layer that operates between identity providers and cloud resources.

Rather than relying on static access policies, SGNL will enable continuous, context-aware authorization that dynamically grants or revokes access based on real-time risk assessment.

This approach eliminates standing privileges entirely; access is granted only when needed and immediately revoked when conditions change.

The integration will leverage CrowdStrike’s comprehensive threat intelligence and risk signals across the Falcon platform.

Enabling organizations to respond instantly to suspicious activities, such as unusual login locations or compromised endpoints.

The acquisition strengthens CrowdStrike’s ability to create a unified identity control plane spanning all identity types.

SGNL will consolidate telemetry from identity providers, SaaS applications, cloud environments, and enterprise context sources into a single intelligence platform.

Just-in-time access capabilities will expand beyond Active Directory and Entra ID to include AWS IAM, Okta, and other cloud identity systems.

This acquisition reflects CrowdStrike’s broader commitment to securing the AI era. By integrating SGNL’s dynamic authorization capabilities with Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security, the platform will address the unique challenges posed by the proliferation of machine and AI agent identities.

The combined solution delivers comprehensive protection across the entire hybrid identity lifecycle while preventing identity-based attacks before they occur. The deal is expected to close, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval.

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