
The race to secure artificial intelligence has turned into one of the defining battles of 2025, and CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) just raised the stakes with a $290 million acquisition of Madrid-based data observability startup Onum.
The deal, announced on Aug. 27., comes as AI-driven cyberattacks multiply, lessening the time defenders have to react, and as CrowdStrike co-founder and CEO George Kurtz told Fortune, the battle is shifting into "good versus evil" fought through technology.