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Pangea / CrowdStrike Falcon AIDR

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AI spend and usageNo related approach

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Company scale

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  • $4.8B annual revenue (2026-01-31)
  • $52M known funding
  • 11-50 employees
  • Founded 2021

Company context

Acquired by public company CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) in September 2025

Pangea positions AI Guard and Prompt Guard across AI application guardrails, prompt injection, sensitive data leakage, malicious content, audit logging, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) guardrail workflows

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Vendor statements
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Evaluation requirements
19 in this research model
Unresolved requirements
10

Company intelligence

Who is behind the product

Company facts provide evaluation context. Each signal is kept separate because tenure, workforce, funding, and hiring answer different questions.

Founded2021
HeadquartersPalo Alto, California
OwnershipAcquired by public company CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) in September 2025
Employees11-50
Capital and scaleIndependent company

Pangea Cyber

Known funding
$52M

Series B · $26M · 2022-11-30

Current owner annual revenue
$4.8B

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (CRWD) · period ended 2026-01-31 · filed 2026-03-05

Operating scale
Pangea positions AI Guard and Prompt Guard across AI application guardrails, prompt injection, sensitive data leakage, malicious content, audit logging, and MCP guardrail workflows
Backing context
$26M Series B led by GV; approximately $52M total raised before acquisition, with Decibel, Okta Ventures, Ballistic Ventures, and SYN Ventures participating
Named investors

GV · Decibel · Okta Ventures · Ballistic Ventures · SYN Ventures

Founders and leadership2 people listed
  • Oliver Friedrichs

    Founder & CEO before acquisition

    Status not confirmed
  • Sourabh Satish

    Co-Founder & CTO before acquisition

    Status not confirmed
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Company tenure
2021
Workforce scale
11-50
Hiring activity
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Company sources and research limits9 linked public sources

Only company facts supported by retained public sources are shown. Missing values remain unknown, and company scale does not establish product effectiveness.

Company sourcePangea AI Guard and Prompt Guard launch postPangea says AI Guard and Prompt Guard defend AI data ingestion and inference pipelines from LLM threats such as prompt injection.Company sourcePangea AI Guard and Prompt Guard GA announcementPangea describes generally available AI Guard and Prompt Guard capabilities for sensitive-data leakage, malicious content, prompt injection, and AI visibility/access-control context.Company sourcePangea MCP guardrails blogPangea describes an MCP server pattern for invoking AI security guardrails around prompts, redaction, secure audit logging, IP/domain reputation, and tool/data-source outputs.Company sourceCrowdStrike Form 10-QCrowdStrike's quarterly filing records its September 26, 2025 acquisition of Pangea Cyber Corporation.Company sourcePangea Series B announcementPangea announced a $26M Series B and approximately $52M total funding.Company information sourcePangea company pageSupports the company facts shown in this profile.Company information sourcePangea company profileSupports the company facts shown in this profile.Company information sourcePangea LinkedIn company profileSupports the company facts shown in this profile.Regulatory filing10-K annual filingCrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (CRWD) · period ended 2026-01-31

Solution areas

These areas describe how the vendor approaches enterprise AI security. They do not establish product quality or fit.

AI application runtime protectionCore product focusAI data protectionCore product focusAction-taking agent safeguardsRelated coverageAI asset and configuration securityRelated coverage

Buyer context

  • Treat Pangea as an AI application guardrails and security-services application programming interface (API) candidate rather than a workforce shadow-AI discovery or browser/software as a service (SaaS) session control platform.
  • Public evidence supports prompt-injection defense, sensitive-data redaction, malware and malicious-entity scanning, audit logging for sensitive-data processing, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) guardrail workflows.
  • Public pages reviewed did not expose software as a service (SaaS) embedded-AI inventory, browser/session controls, non-human identity (NHI) lifecycle management, AI FinOps controls, or a current public AI Guard/Prompt Guard licensing unit.

Related frameworks

Where public vendor statements relate to framework requirements

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Current referenceCIS Critical Security Controls
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Current referenceCSA AI Controls Matrix
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Current referenceISO/IEC 42001
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Current referenceMITRE ATLAS
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Current referenceNIST AI RMF Playbook
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Current referenceNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
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Informative referenceOWASP Agentic AI Security Solutions Landscape
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Informative referenceOWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
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Current referenceOWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications
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Current referenceOWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
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Commercial Metadata
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Evaluation questions

What to verify beyond public claims

These questions come from security requirements with some public support. Use them as starting points for demonstrations, documentation review, customer references, or a buyer-observed pilot.

  1. 01
    Approved AI usage monitoring

    Approved AI workspace activity appears with user, workspace or tenant, model or provider, and timestamp.

  2. 02
    Approved AI usage monitoring

    Prompt, model, or admin activity can be exported or correlated for the selected approved AI platform.

  3. 03
    Controls for unapproved AI use

    A policy blocks, coaches, redirects, or contains a test interaction with an unapproved AI destination.

  4. 04
    Controls for unapproved AI use

    The control event records policy reason, user, destination, action, and timestamp.

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    Sensitive-data protection for generative AI

    Sensitive prompt, response, or file test data is detected and classified during an AI interaction.

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    Sensitive-data protection for generative AI

    A policy redacts, blocks, coaches, or records the sensitive data event before it leaves the approved path.

  7. 07
    Generative AI application security

    A test large language model (LLM) application event records prompt, application programming interface (API), model, retrieval, or tool interaction context.

  8. 08
    Generative AI application security

    A prompt-injection or unsafe-output test is detected, blocked, or flagged by the guardrail or large language model (LLM) firewall.

Detailed security-requirement research18 evaluation items · supporting evidence and open research are shown separatelyExpand
Security requirementPublic supportRelated frameworksWhat to verify
AI-feature discovery in business applications

Inventory software as a service (SaaS) applications that embed AI features, expose enterprise data to AI capabilities, or create AI-driven data movement.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A software as a service (SaaS) app with an embedded AI feature appears in the software as a service (SaaS) AI inventory with app, provider, and feature context.

Browser and business-application controls

Apply session-level controls in browser and software as a service (SaaS) workflows, including uploads, downloads, copy/paste, sharing, and identity-aware access decisions.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A session-level policy controls upload, download, copy, paste, sharing, or form submission in a browser or software as a service (SaaS) workflow.

Generative AI application security

Protect enterprise-built large language model (LLM) applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, prompts, application programming interfaces (APIs), model calls, tools, and production runtime behavior.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test large language model (LLM) application event records prompt, application programming interface (API), model, retrieval, or tool interaction context.

AI governance, risk, and compliance

Inventory AI systems and owners, translate policy and regulatory obligations into governed workflows, assess risk, manage approvals and exceptions, and retain audit evidence across the AI lifecycle.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test AI system is registered with owner, intended use, risk tier, lifecycle state, and applicable obligations.

AI assurance and adversarial testing

Test models, applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and agents before release and continuously thereafter using adversarial probes, evaluation suites, attack simulation, and security release gates.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A controlled test campaign exercises an AI model, application, or agent against named AI attack classes.

AI model and supply-chain security

Discover, inventory, scan, validate, and monitor models, datasets, model artifacts, registries, dependencies, and AI development assets for tampering, unsafe serialization, provenance gaps, or malicious content.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test model or AI artifact appears in inventory with origin, version, hash or provenance, and deployment context.

AI gateway, tool-connection, and runtime controls

Mediate model, agent, tool, application programming interface (API), connector, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic through an enforcement point that applies identity-aware policy, content controls, routing, rate limits, and auditable allow or deny decisions.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A model, agent, tool, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) request passes through a named policy enforcement point.

Non-human identity and service-account security

Inventory, least privilege, credential hygiene, monitoring, and lifecycle management for non-human identities, workloads, service accounts, application programming interface (API) keys, and machine credentials.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test service account, agent identity, or non-human identity appears in inventory with owner and privileges.

AI agent identity and permissions

Register AI agents as accountable identities, bind them to owners and delegating users, authorize task- and tool-level access, issue short-lived credentials, review access, and revoke or suspend agent authority.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test agent is registered with a unique identity, accountable owner, purpose, and permitted resources.

AI coding-agent and workstation security

Discover and govern AI coding agents, integrated development environment (IDE) assistants, command-line agents, skills, hooks, extensions, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, filesystem access, commands, network activity, secrets, and software-supply-chain actions on developer workstations and build environments.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test coding agent and its skills, hooks, extensions, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools appear in an attributable inventory.

Licensing model

Publicly discoverable commercial model such as per user, per seat, per app, per token, per integration, or enterprise platform license.

No supporting claim found
Commercial MetadataCSA AI Controls Matrix

The vendor can map the sourced commercial model to per-user, per-seat, per-app, per-token, per-integration, or platform packaging.

Public sources

Vendor statements and quoted evidence

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AI governance, risk, and complianceSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Pangea AI Guard claims customizable security recipes, centralized usage summaries, tamper-resistant activity logging, attribution, webhooks, and audit trails for AI application events.

Requests to the AI Guard APIs and their processing results are logged in your Pangea project’s audit trail.
AI assurance and adversarial testingNo supporting claim found

Pangea AI Guard and Prompt Guard materials reviewed did not provide a public product claim for automated adversarial testing, repeatable attack suites, model or agent red teaming, or release-gate evaluation.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
AI model and supply-chain securityNo supporting claim found

Pangea AI Guard materials reviewed did not provide a public product claim for model artifact scanning, provenance, signing, dependency inventory, tamper analysis, or registry release controls.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
AI gateway, tool-connection, and runtime controlsSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Pangea AI Guard claims application programming interface (API) and gateway-integrated enforcement across prompts, model responses, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) ingestion, agent plans, tool inputs, and tool outputs using configurable block, report, redact, encrypt, and defang actions.

Recipes can be configured to block, report, redact, encrypt, or defang sensitive or malicious content.
AI agent identity and permissionsNo supporting claim found

Pangea AI Guard materials reviewed did not establish agent identity registration, distinct agent credentials, delegated authorization, ownership, rotation, revocation, or agent access-review lifecycle.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
AI coding-agent and workstation securityNo supporting claim found

Pangea AI Guard materials reviewed did not establish governance of coding-agent commands, developer-workstation files or networks, integrated development environment (IDE) extensions, skills, hooks, secrets, or package actions.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
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Unapproved AI use discoveryNo supporting claim found

Pangea materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for discovering and monitoring workforce shadow AI tools, accounts, domains, models, users, or unapproved employee AI usage.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
AI-feature discovery in business applicationsNo supporting claim found

Pangea materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for software as a service (SaaS) AI inventory, embedded software as a service (SaaS) AI feature discovery, or third-party AI service provider monitoring.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Approved AI usage monitoringSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Pangea says its Secure Audit Log service should track access to and processing of sensitive data inside generative AI applications.

Pangea’s Secure Audit Log service should be used to track access to, and processing of sensitive data.
Controls for unapproved AI useSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Pangea claims Prompt Guard analyzes user and system prompts to block jailbreak attempts and organizational limit violations.

Pangea Prompt Guard analyzes user and system prompts to block jailbreak attempts and organizational limit violations.
Sensitive-data protection for generative AISource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Pangea claims AI Guard scans and sanitizes prompts and uploaded files, removes malicious content, and redacts sensitive information.

AI Guard scans and sanitizes all prompts and uploaded files of malware, leaked credentials, and malicious IPs and domains, and automatically redacts sensitive information with over 75 classification rules out of the box and support for custom data classification rules.
Browser and business-application controlsNo supporting claim found

Pangea materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for browser extension, enterprise browser, software as a service (SaaS) session controls, upload/download/copy/paste controls, or identity-aware browser/software as a service (SaaS) policy.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Generative AI application securitySource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Pangea claims Prompt Guard detects and stops direct and indirect prompt injection attacks and jailbreak attempts in AI applications.

Pangea Prompt Guard detects and stops direct and indirect prompt injection attacks and jailbreak attempts in AI applications.
Action-taking agent monitoringSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Pangea claims traffic through its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, including user prompts from the large language model (LLM) and outputs from tools and data sources, can be checked by configured guardrails.

All traffic through the MCP server—user prompts from the LLM and outputs from tools and data sources—would be checked by configured guardrails.
Agent-to-agent communication securitySource checkedRelated public context only

Pangea claims its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server can call guardrail services for malicious prompt checks, redaction, secure audit logging, and IP/domain reputation checks.

With Pangea’s new open-source MCP server, organizations can directly call Pangea AI security guardrail services that check for malicious prompts or prompt injection attempts as well as redact sensitive information, implement secure audit logging, check IP addresses and domains for malicious reputations, and perform WHOIS / geolocation lookups.
Non-human identity and service-account securityNo supporting claim found

Pangea materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for AI-agent identity inventory, service-account ownership, scoped credentials, secrets rotation, least privilege, or non-human identity (NHI) lifecycle management.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
AI cost and usage controlsNo supporting claim found

Pangea materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for AI spend attribution, model cost routing, budget enforcement, rate limits, runaway token controls, anomaly detection, or AI return on investment (ROI) reporting.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Licensing modelNo supporting claim found

Pangea materials reviewed did not provide a public per-user, per-seat, per-app, per-token, usage-based, or enterprise AI Guard/Prompt Guard licensing model.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Approved AI platform contextSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Pangea claims AI Guard and Prompt Guard defend AI data ingestion and inference pipelines from large language model (LLM) threats alongside authorization and audit logging services.

These new services equip customers to defend AI data ingestion and inference pipelines from LLM threats like prompt injection and, in combination with Pangea’s existing suite of security services like authorization and audit logging, offer the industry’s most comprehensive set of security guardrails for AI applications.