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CrowdStrike agrees to acquire AI-agent monitoring firm Fiddler, following Vanta's Pillar deal

According to a post on X by @insightpartners, Insight Partners announced CrowdStrike's deal to acquire Fiddler, a company that monitors AI agents and is building a control plane for AI. No deal terms were given. The announcement follows Vanta's purchase of Pillar Security, which Calcalist puts at $150 million, about 16 times what Pillar had raised. The source describes big security companies racing to own tools that watch and stop AI agents.

Source: Scobleizer News Pulse (X) · x.com Found via Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer News Pulse · a post on X, not independently verified Published 2026-11-09T21:30:00+00:00 Detected 2026-11-10T02:17:25+00:00
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According to a post on X by @insightpartners, Insight Partners announced CrowdStrike's deal to acquire Fiddler, a company that monitors AI agents and is building a control plane for AI. No deal terms were given. The announcement follows Vanta's purchase of Pillar Security, which Calcalist puts at $150 million, about 16 times what Pillar had raised. The source describes big security companies racing to own tools that watch and stop AI agents.

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Insight Partners announced CrowdStrike’s deal for Fiddler, which monitors AI agents and is building a control plane for AI, with no terms given. It follows Vanta’s purchase of Pillar Security, which Calcalist puts at $150 million, about 16 times what Pillar raised. Big security companies are racing to own the...

For businesses running AI agents, these deals suggest that monitoring and control tools are moving into larger security platforms. Security teams and AI builders should watch whether CrowdStrike and Vanta fold these products into their existing offerings. Investors can also track whether the undisclosed Fiddler terms become public and how they compare with the Pillar valuation.

Business readers can use this as a signal of where capital, competition, or market attention is moving.

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