AI Detection & Response (AIDR)
Secure AI before it becomes an attack path
AI is no longer limited to generating content or answering questions.
AI agents can rationalise, access data, use tools, execute commands and act with the permissions of the users and systems they operate through. As organisations introduce more AI into everyday operations, development and enterprise workflows, the attack surface is expanding with it.
The challenge is knowing what AI is being used, which agents are operating, what they can access and what happens when an attacker manipulates their behaviour.
Red Helix AI Detection & Response (AIDR) is a managed security service designed to give organisations visibility, governance, runtime protection and response across their AI environment.
Powered by CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian, AIDR helps discover shadow AI, protect sensitive data, detect AI-specific threats such as prompt injection, and monitor AI agents at runtime and investigate what happens from the initial prompt to the resulting action.
AI has created a new attack surface
Traditional security controls were not designed to understand how AI agents operate. The problem is now the growing gap between what organisations know about their AI environment and what their AI systems can do.
AIDR closes that gap by bringing AI activity into the security operation, connecting AI interactions and agent behaviour with the wider security environment.
What is AI Detection & Response?
AI Detection & Response (AIDR) is a cybersecurity service that helps organisations discover, govern, monitor and secure AI systems, AI agents and AI activity at runtime.
AIDR extends traditional security capabilities into the AI layer, providing visibility into:
Understand what AI tools and agents are being used across the organisation.
Monitor prompts, responses and AI activity for security risks and policy violations.
Identify agents operating across endpoints and understand what they can access and do.
Detect threats including prompt injection, malicious agent behaviour and unauthorised activity.
Connect AI behaviour with the actions that follow, helping security teams understand the full chain of events.
Investigate and contain malicious AI activity before it develops into a wider security incident.
Discover the AI, you don’t know you have
AI adoption rarely waits for security approval. Employees experiment with public AI tools. Developers introduce coding assistants and autonomous agents. Teams build AI-powered workflows and connect models to enterprise data.
This creates shadow AI: AI applications, agents and services operating outside established security visibility and governance.
Red Helix helps identify known and unknown AI activity and provides context around:
- Which AI applications and agents are in use
- Where AI agents are operating
- Who is using or deploying them
- What security status they have
- What users, systems and resources they interact with
- Where unmanaged AI risk is concentrated
CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian continuously discovers known and shadow AI agents across endpoints, providing visibility into where they operate, who deployed them and their security status.
Protect sensitive data from AI exposure
AI creates new opportunities for data leakage. Confidential information can be entered into public AI services e.g., credentials, source code, customer information, and intellectual property can be exposed through AI interactions. Agents can also access and process sensitive information as part of automated workflows.
AIDR helps identify and protect sensitive information within AI interactions, applying security controls designed to prevent confidential data from being exposed to unauthorised AI systems.
Rather than relying solely on users to recognise what should not be shared, AIDR provides an additional security control around AI activity.
| Prompt injection | Identify malicious instructions designed to manipulate AI behaviour. |
| Jailbreaks and model manipulation | Detect attempts to bypass intended AI safeguards or alter model behaviour. |
| Malicious agent behaviour | Identify activity that deviates from an agent's expected purpose. |
| Unauthorised AI activity | Identify AI applications and agents operating outside established controls. |
| Malicious or unauthorised tool interactions | Monitor how agents interact with connected tools and resources. |
99% detection efficacy
Secure AI agents at runtime
AI agents fundamentally change the security equation because they can act autonomously.
An agent may access files, execute commands, interact with applications, retrieve information or trigger downstream processes using the permissions available to it.
If that agent is compromised or manipulated, its permissions can become the attacker’s permissions.
Runtime security provides visibility and control while those actions are taking place.
Powered by CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian, Red Helix AIDR helps organisations:
- Discover: Identify AI agents operating across the environment.
- Understand: See who deployed an agent, where it operates and what it can access.
- Monitor: Observe AI activity and agent behaviour at runtime.
- Detect: Identify prompt injection, malicious behaviour and policy violations.
- Investigate: Reconstruct agent activity and understand what happened.
- Respond: Contain malicious AI activity and prevent threats from spreading.
CrowdStrike positions the endpoint as a critical control point for AI agent security because that is where agents execute, access resources and perform actions.
Red Helix AIDR powered by CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian
Red Helix AI Detection & Response combines CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian technology with the expertise of our UK-based Security Operations Centre.
Falcon Guardian provides the underlying technology for discovering AI agents, governing AI use, protecting sensitive data, detecting AI-specific threats and securing AI activity at runtime.
Falcon Guardian telemetry can also flow natively into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, allowing AI activity to be correlated with wider security data rather than forcing organisations to build a separate AI monitoring environment.
Red Helix provides the managed security capability around that technology. Our SOC monitors AI activity alongside the wider security environment, investigates suspicious behaviour and supports response when AI becomes part of a security incident.
With Red Helix AIDR, powered by CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian, organisations can adopt AI with greater visibility and control without treating innovation itself as the threat.
FAQs
AI Detection & Response is a cybersecurity capability designed to discover, govern, monitor and protect AI systems, agents and interactions, while detecting and responding to threats at runtime.
CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian is CrowdStrike’s flagship AI Detection and Response solution. It provides AI visibility, governance, runtime protection, investigation and response across the AI estate.
Shadow AI is the use or deployment of AI applications, agents or services outside an organisation’s established security visibility or governance.
AI agents can access data, use tools and take autonomous actions with user permissions. Runtime security provides visibility and control over those actions as they occur.
Prompt injection is an attack technique that introduces malicious instructions into an AI interaction to manipulate a model or agent into producing unintended outputs or taking unintended actions.
AIDR detects malicious AI interactions and prompt injection techniques, helping prevent manipulated AI systems from exposing data or taking unsafe actions.
AIDR applies security controls to AI interactions to identify and prevent sensitive information from being exposed to unauthorised AI systems.
Red Helix delivers AIDR as a managed security service, combining CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian technology with monitoring, investigation, threat hunting and response from our UK-based SOC.
Red Helix AIDR keeps your data protected, your people informed, and your AI adoption safe, compliant and fully governed.
Discover the AI you already have, control what it can do, detect when it is compromised, and respond before the impact spreads. Get in touch today.
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