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CrowdStrike Named an Innovation and Growth Leader in the 2026 Frost Radar™: Cloud and Application Runtime Security

wiredgorilla — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:00:07 +0000

As adversaries accelerate, CDR has become the defining capability of a cloud security strategy — the cloud equivalent of what EDR brought to endpoint protection. Identifying risk is no longer enough; organizations must be able to quickly act on it to stop today’s adversaries. This is where CrowdStrike leads.

Setting the Standard for Cloud Detection and Response

What sets CrowdStrike’s CDR apart is the intelligence behind it. Detection logic is informed by CrowdStrike’s threat intelligence team, which tracks more than 280 named threat groups, including cloud-focused threat actors. This helps ensure detections continuously evolve alongside attacker behavior rather than relying on static, predefined patterns.

As Frost & Sullivan notes, CrowdStrike “has moved beyond batch processing of logs into a streaming CDR architecture that ingests cloud control‑plane and workload telemetry as it is generated, applying a new real‑time detection engine, streaming analytics and adversary‑informed IOAs to detect malicious activity in seconds and orchestrates automated cloud‑native response actions via Falcon Fusion SOAR, which enables significant reduction in detection and response latency compared to snapshot‑based CNAPP engines.”

Underpinning this is CrowdStrike’s ability to correlate telemetry across cloud infrastructure, workloads, identities, applications, data, and AI services, which gives security teams unified context for prevention, detection, investigation, and response across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Security teams still relying on snapshot-based CNAPP engines risk missing active attacks as they unfold, which creates blind spots during the most critical moments of an incident.

From Cloud Detection to SOC Response

Detection depth alone isn’t enough. The harder problem is connecting cloud security findings to the SOC workflows and response processes that security teams rely on every day.

As Frost & Sullivan highlights, CrowdStrike “connects cloud activity, workload telemetry, identity context, and threat intelligence into a SOC-consumable detection and response workflow. By integrating CDR with Falcon XDR, NG-SIEM, Falcon Fusion SOAR, Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR, OverWatch, and Unified Cases, CrowdStrike extends cloud runtime security into the broader security operations environment, enabling faster cloud threat detection, investigation, prioritization, and remediation within existing SOC workflows, not through the management of separate cloud security operations, which is seen as a major differentiator of FCS.”

CrowdStrike Falcon® Complete managed detection and response (MDR) and CrowdStrike Falcon® Adversary OverWatch™ further extend this with elite managed detection and 24/7 human-led threat hunting.

The Cloud Security Platform Enterprises Consolidate On and Grow With

Frost & Sullivan recognizes CrowdStrike as “one of the fastest-growing vendors in the cloud security market,” a position backed by cloud security ARR surpassing $800 million USD and growing more than 35% year-over-year. That growth is driven in part by CrowdStrike’s single-sensor architecture. The same lightweight Falcon sensor that protects endpoints extends seamlessly to cloud workloads and containers, creating a natural consolidation path without additional sensors or separate infrastructure.

CrowdStrike® Charlotte AI™, trained on millions of real-world SOC decisions from the Falcon Complete MDR team, brings AI-powered triage, investigation, and response automation to cloud security today, reducing analyst burden and helping teams scale without proportional headcount growth. Looking ahead, CrowdStrike’s agentic SOC roadmap reflects a continued focus on improving response speed and helping teams operationalize cloud runtime security as their needs evolve.

What’s Next for Falcon Cloud Security

As Frost & Sullivan notes, CrowdStrike is “expected to further strengthen its innovation around runtime security, CDR, and SOC integration” with a roadmap spanning expanded Kubernetes detections, unified cloud detections, and broader AI workload security.

CrowdStrike remains committed to evolving Falcon Cloud Security as the platform that connects cloud risk, workload behavior, identity, and SOC workflows into a single operational fabric. In a world where adversaries move in seconds, detection and response must too.

Read the full report: Download the full report to learn why CrowdStrike was named a Leader in the 2026 Frost Radar: Cloud and Application Runtime Security and what it means for organizations’ cloud security strategies.

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CrowdStrike Named Leader in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection

wiredgorilla — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:00:15 +0000

CrowdStrike has once again been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection. This marks the seventh consecutive time we have received this recognition, and for the fourth time in a row, CrowdStrike is positioned both furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision and highest for Ability to Execute among all vendors evaluated in the report.¹

We believe this placement reaffirms our pioneering vision and execution, and demonstrates how our unified, AI-native platform is uniquely designed to stop today’s most sophisticated threats.

Organizations must modernize security operations to face an increasingly complex threat landscape shaped by AI. Agentic applications are becoming more widely adopted and introduce a new high-privilege attack surface. Securing them requires deep runtime visibility and control across endpoints, which we have delivered for more than a decade through the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform.

As AI and autonomous agents proliferate across enterprise environments, the endpoint has become the definitive control point for modern security. CrowdStrike pioneered endpoint detection and response (EDR), and we believe this recognition from Gartner proves our unified platform is best positioned to define cybersecurity’s next evolution of AI detection and response (AIDR).

Figure 1. 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection

Endpoint Is the Epicenter: Innovation for the AI Era

Today’s AI agents often operate directly on the endpoint with elevated permissions and minimal human oversight, posing a significant challenge for many organizations’ security architectures.

In order to limit the blast radius of compromised devices, credentials, and autonomous actions, organizations must be able to enforce continuous zero standing privileges (ZSP) for both human and AI identities. Permissions designed for legacy workflows cannot be governed at machine speed without ZSP principles in place. CrowdStrike enables this AI-era security model by enforcing dynamic, risk-aware access controls designed to operate at machine speed, fortifying identity security on the endpoint as a growing number of identities puts organizations at risk.

From our endpoint foundation, CrowdStrike secures where work happens with robust browser protection across managed and unmanaged devices. CrowdStrike Falcon® Secure Access extends runtime protection directly into the browser to secure agentic activity where it increasingly operates. CrowdStrike also delivers unified visibility across shadow SaaS with CrowdStrike Falcon® Shield, as well as cloud infrastructure to help organizations govern and secure AI systems, data, and agents wherever they reside. With specialized CrowdStrike® Charlotte AI™ agents to automate investigations and response workflows at scale, CrowdStrike empowers security teams to stop breaches at machine speed.

These capabilities demonstrate our commitment to innovating and protecting the future of endpoint security as technology and adversary techniques continue to rapidly evolve.

Securing Agentic Applications

As agentic applications increasingly execute actions on and from enterprise endpoints, organizations require deep runtime visibility and control to safely adopt AI at scale. CrowdStrike sensors on endpoints around the world currently detect more than 1,800 distinct AI applications running on enterprise devices, representing nearly 160 million unique application instances across our customer base.²

These agentic applications execute terminal commands, modify files, access sensitive data, and trigger downstream workflows autonomously. Their behavior is often indistinguishable from legitimate user activity. As the critical intersection where human intent (prompts) meets AI execution, the endpoint must be rigorously defended. By anchoring security directly at the point of execution, CrowdStrike delivers the deep visibility, control, and real-time protection needed to face today’s threats.

The comprehensive protection delivered by the Falcon platform helps ensure organizations can confidently reduce AI-driven risk, protect against the abuse of legitimate tools, and outpace adversaries trying to exploit the AI attack surface.

A Customers’ Choice for Endpoint Protection

In our opinion, the most meaningful validation comes directly from the organizations we protect every day. With 97% of customers willing to recommend the Falcon platform, based on 800 responses as of November 2025, CrowdStrike stands out as the only vendor named as a 2026 Gartner® Customers’ Choice for Endpoint Protection Platforms every year since the report’s inception.³ We believe this consistent customer trust year after year demonstrates why leading enterprises worldwide choose CrowdStrike to secure their businesses.

CrowdStrike secured another critical technical validation in the recent 2025 MITRE ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluations, where we achieved 100% detection and 100% protection with zero false positives in MITRE’s most demanding cross-domain platform evaluation to date.⁴ We believe this recognition from industry analysts, independent testing firms, and the customers who rely on our technology daily validates our continued innovation in endpoint protection.

Read the Full Report

Download the full report to learn why CrowdStrike was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection and what it means for organizations’ security strategies.

¹ Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection, Deepak Mishra, Evgeny Mirolyubov, Nikul Patel, 26 May 2026.

² CrowdStrike internal data

³ Gartner, Voice of the Customer for Endpoint Protection Platforms, Peer Editors, January 23, 2026

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CrowdStrike Named a Leader in Identity Threat Detection and Response

wiredgorilla — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:00:11 +0000

Two recent industry reports validate CrowdStrike’s leadership in the identity threat detection and response (ITDR) market:

Frost & Sullivan has named CrowdStrike its 2026 Company of the Year for Identity Threat Detection and Response
GigaOm has positioned CrowdStrike as a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2026 GigaOm Radar for Identity Threat Detection and Response

Identity is the front line of modern cyberattacks. Today’s adversaries log in and use legitimate identities to move laterally, escalate privileges, and operate inside legitimate sessions as trusted users. They are moving fast — the fastest eCrime breakout time recorded in 2025 was 27 seconds — and they’re gaining an advantage over security teams who can’t keep pace.

The requirements for identity security have changed, fueled by AI agents transforming business processes and operating with machine speed and elevated privileges. Identity risk has become continuous, yet traditional identity tools still rely on static access and fragmented controls. Organizations relying on these legacy models struggle to correlate risk in real time or stop attacks before they escalate.

ITDR has rapidly become a critical security layer as the market shifts toward a continuous identity model that detects threats and continuously verifies and enforces access in real time. CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen Identity Security advances the market beyond static access controls and gives agentic enterprises the protection they need.

These recognitions signal that the ITDR market is converging. CrowdStrike is defining where it’s going.

Frost & Sullivan: Validating a Unified, Continuous Identity Model

Frost & Sullivan’s recognition of CrowdStrike as Company of the Year for ITDR highlights how identity security must be delivered as a unified, continuous, real-time control system.

“CrowdStrike’s unified, cloud native platform that delivers end-to-end identity visibility, just-in-time privileges, behavioral analytics, and automated response across human and non-human identities enables a significant competitive advantage,” Frost & Sullivan states in its write-up.

The analysis emphasizes CrowdStrike’s ability to deliver:

Continuous, real-time visibility across human, non-human, and AI identities
Behavioral, context-driven detection
Zero standing privileges through needs-based, context-aware access
Automated response and remediation at machine speed

The result is full end-to-end identity security. With CrowdStrike Falcon® Fusion SOAR workflows, customers can automatically reset compromised passwords, remediate risky accounts in batches, and enforce conditional access or privilege controls based on real-time risk scores. Customers gain real-time visibility into AI and SaaS agents, including permissions, data access, and activity, and can monitor how these identities interact with sensitive systems and datasets over time.

Frost & Sullivan emphasizes the benefits of CrowdStrike’s platform approach. Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security is delivered from the unified CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, which is built on a cloud-native architecture that treats identity as a first-class security signal alongside endpoint and cloud data. Because its capabilities are delivered through one platform, organizations can avoid the complexity of integrating multiple tools and operationalize ITDR best practices in days.

The impact of the Falcon platform is quick and measurable. Frost & Sullivan highlights a real-world deployment of Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security in which an organization immediately discovered 45,000 unused accounts, 2,500 compromised passwords, 42,000 stealth admin accounts, and 48,000 accounts with privileged escalation paths, which collectively represent massive standing risk.

“By consolidating fragmented tools, reducing operational complexity, and providing high fidelity detections with machine speed response, CrowdStrike delivers superior price/performance value and a consistently strong customer experience,” Frost & Sullivan says.

GigaOm: Leadership Defined by Execution and Momentum

While Frost & Sullivan validates CrowdStrike’s model, GigaOm highlights our execution. CrowdStrike’s recognition as a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2026 GigaOm Radar for Identity Threat Detection and Response reinforces our market leadership and innovation velocity.

CrowdStrike achieved high scoring in Key Features with 4.6/5, Emerging Features with 4.3, and Business Criteria with 4.7. GigaOm’s analysis highlights several key strengths including:

Non-Human Identity Security

Identity threats are evolving as organizations adopt more SaaS applications and autonomous AI agents, each of which is backed by human and non-human identities with persistent access to systems, applications, and sensitive data.

CrowdStrike secures every identity type across every environment, with comprehensive non-human identity discovery across cloud, on-premises, AI agent platform, and SaaS. It shares context including linked accounts, privileges, and cloud resource access; detects anomalies and behavioral deviations; and provides risk scoring for non-human identities. The outcome is full protection across the modern identity attack surface.

AI-Enhanced SecOps

CrowdStrike operationalizes AI as a core part of detection and response. CrowdStrike® Charlotte AI™ performs agentic triage and investigation, while Falcon Fusion SOAR automates response.

As stated in the GigaOm report: “CrowdStrike’s Charlotte AI is a deeply integrated AI copilot with agentic capabilities powered by generative AI and specialized agents. It supports natural language queries across Falcon data, automated detection triage, priority and confidence scoring, and step-by-step response guidance.”

Charlotte AI supports advanced automation through tight integration with Falcon Fusion SOAR, which is also natively integrated into the Falcon platform and provides a no-code automation and orchestration engine that enables teams to automate end-to-end response workflows. Falcon Fusion SOAR offers over 1,500 automated actions, including first-party and third-party actions that can be executed either via CrowdStrike or through integrations with other tools.

The Future of ITDR Is Continuous Identity

Across both reports, a clear pattern emerges. The top priority for identity security is continuously securing access. Organizations must continuously verify access, evaluate risk using real-time signals, dynamically adjust and revoke privileges, and immediately connect detection and enforcement.

These recognitions reflect where the market is going. CrowdStrike’s advantage is the Falcon platform was built for this shift. It already unifies identity, endpoint, cloud, and SaaS security and enriches it with real-time telemetry, threat intelligence, and AI. As identity security becomes a continuous control system, CrowdStrike is the best-equipped to drive the market forward.

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