CrowdStrike Named a Leader in Proactive Security Platforms by Independent Research Firm

CrowdStrike ranks highest of all vendors in Strategy, leading the shift from chasing vulnerabilities to a unified system of action

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Proactive Security Platforms, Q3 2026 report.¹ CrowdStrike ranks highest of all vendors in the Strategy category, with maximum scores in four criteria including Innovation and Roadmap.

The report makes clear “This market has evolved from ASM collecting visibility to exposure management modernizing prioritization to action as the next frontier for proactive security platforms.” As frontier AI collapses the time to discover, chain, and exploit vulnerabilities, CrowdStrike leads that market shift. The company unifies exposure management, threat intelligence, SecOps, and AI-driven action on the Falcon platform to find risk across the attack surface, understand what matters, and act before adversaries can.

Forrester states “CrowdStrike’s vision is for proactive security teams to reduce adversary opportunities while SecOps teams stop adversary activities.”

"Frontier AI lets adversaries weaponize vulnerabilities at machine speed, faster than defenders using fragmented point tools can stop them,” said Uzi Krieger, GM of Cloud Security and Exposure Management at CrowdStrike. “Stopping breaches means knowing what the adversary will actually exploit and acting before they do. CrowdStrike unites the industry's best threat intelligence, attack path analysis, and agentic workflows on one platform, turning exposure into remediation as a single motion. This is the system of action the market is shifting to, and CrowdStrike is leading it.”

The Forrester report also states “Nearly every vendor believes organizations will need to leverage AI to defend against AI-based attacks,” while noting that “CrowdStrike’s strategy stands out for its success in delivering new innovations, now dynamically supported by its AgentWorks workflows.”

With Charlotte AI and AgentWorks, CrowdStrike delivers out-of-the-box AI agents and enables teams to build no-code custom agents to automate the most time-intensive workflows in risk assessment, prioritization, and remediation.

The vendor profile of CrowdStrike in the report concludes with “CrowdStrike is a strong choice for organizations that want a broad, integrated proactive security platform that combines SecOps and AI-driven workflows within a unified architecture.”

To learn more about CrowdStrike’s recognition in The Forrester Wave™: Proactive Security Platforms, Q3 2026, please visit our website and read our blog.

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About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.

Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft, and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting, and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.

Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity, and immediate time-to-value.

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¹ Forrester Wave™: Proactive Security Platforms, Q3 2026