CEO of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike George Kurtz told CNBC's Jim Cramer on Thursday that his company is ready to take on "adversarial AI," or antagonists — often outside of the country — who use AI technology to hack into systems for nefarious purposes. Kurtz stressed that his company has been working to fight these adversaries for some time, and that their intelligence and strength should not be underestimated. "Nation-state adversaries are using the same technologies — generative AI and other techniques — to try and defeat systems," he said. "So, it's one of those areas you have to have the best AI, you have to have the best data set, which we believe this kind of human-annotated information that we have to be able to train our generative AI algorithms, but yeah — it's an arms race, and we think we're positioned well." The legacy technologies were not capable of stopping breaches, he said, adding that many of their incident response engagements are Microsoft customers.

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Persons: CrowdStrike George Kurtz, CNBC's Jim Cramer, —, Kurtz, it's, CrowdStrike's Organizations: U.S . Department of Defense, Microsoft