The #1 global managed detection and response (MDR) provider and pioneer continues to dominate. Today, CrowdStrike was named a Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Detection and Response 2024 Vendor Assessment¹ among the 19 vendors evaluated in the report. 

CrowdStrike was also recently named a Leader in Frost & Sullivan’s 2024 Frost Radar: Managed Detection and Response.

The global demand for MDR continues to surge as businesses face a harsh reality: While many struggle to recruit the cybersecurity talent they need, adversaries are getting faster and stealthier. To stay ahead of emerging threats, organizations must operate at maximum efficiency and employ the right blend of skills, processes and cutting-edge technology. 

CrowdStrike Falcon® Complete delivers 24/7 managed detection and response, powered by the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® XDR platform. Operating as a seamless extension of customers’ teams, Falcon Complete combines advanced threat detection, investigation and response with industry-leading threat intelligence and threat hunting to accelerate mean-time-to-respond (MTTR), narrow the cybersecurity skills gap and thwart even the most sophisticated attacks.

As a pioneer in MDR, the emerging cloud detection and response (CDR) category and adversary intelligence, CrowdStrike is consistently recognized by customers, analysts and third-party awards programs for its industry-leading MDR offering. 

IDC MarketScape: CrowdStrike a Leader in WW MDR

CrowdStrike has been named a Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape for worldwide MDR report. CrowdStrike was also named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: U.S. Managed Detection Response Services 2021 Vendor Assessment.²

 

IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the circles. Vendor year-over-year growth rate relative to the given market is indicated by a plus, neutral or minus next to the vendor name.

The report noted…

“Falcon Complete offers a unique flat analyst operating model for MDR by eliminating analyst tiers and forming interchangeable “Fire Teams” — with each respective Fire Team capable of operating independently and delivering MDR services to customers 24×7. In this approach, every MDR security analyst is an experienced incident response expert capable of investigating and responding to any endpoint, cloud, identity, or multidomain threat they encounter. This model enables Falcon Complete to more efficiently and nimbly scale and balance resources across all Fire Teams while delivering positive security outcomes to every supported customer. The CrowdStrike Falcon platform and Falcon Complete MDR services are 100% cloud native and cloud delivered.”

Speed is a defining characteristic of Falcon Complete. With the fastest observed adversary breakout time down to just over two minutes in 2023, organizations are under immense pressure to quickly identify and stop attacks. 

“Falcon Complete’s multi-domain detection and response capabilities accelerate the time it takes to find and stop sophisticated, lateral-moving attacks.”

CrowdStrike’s elite security analysts and threat hunters deliver a seamless MDR service enriched with integrated threat intelligence and high-fidelity telemetry from the Falcon platform. This allows for faster and more effective detection and response to stop breaches. 

“IDC recognizes that there is a push ‘to the platform’ that is occurring in cybersecurity. This is worthy of mention as CrowdStrike has a wide depth and breadth of capabilities built into their Falcon platform that provides the technology muscle for their MDR offering.”

Frost & Sullivan: CrowdStrike Growth Leader in MDR

CrowdStrike was also named a Leader in the Frost Radar: Managed Detection and Response 2024. In the report, Frost & Sullivan named CrowdStrike the growth leader among 22 vendors evaluated and an “innovator and powerhouse” in the MDR sector.

“CrowdStrike delivers its services to companies of all sizes and across all industry verticals …. The company leverages its success in other security product and service domains, including endpoint security, cloud security, identity protection, XDR and more to power and cross-sell its MDR services while offering complimentary services that provide additional value for customers looking to address specific use cases.”

Our continued growth in MDR is accelerated by Falcon Complete for Service Providers, which allows service providers to enhance their offerings and provide their customers the highest level of protection powered by our industry-leading MDR service.

“In September 2023, CrowdStrike launched Falcon Complete for Service Providers, which allows MSSPs and MSPs to license the company’s Falcon Complete MDR service, leveraging its expert team and technology to deliver 24/7 monitoring and security to their customers. This program is flexible, allowing service partners to co-brand, white-label and customize the services they provide to unlock significant growth potential.”

Ranking CrowdStrike high in innovation, Frost & Sullivan called Falcon Complete a “world-class security service” in the MDR sector, also stating:

“CrowdStrike leverages its impressive R&D budget and expert understanding of the challenges and trends in the security space to hold on to its position as an innovator and powerhouse in the MDR sector and in the cybersecurity industry as a whole.”

Frost & Sullivan also noted CrowdStrike’s technology advantage of delivering Falcon Complete from the unified Falcon platform. This approach allows us to extend our MDR capabilities across endpoints, identities, cloud workloads and third-party data to deliver end-to-end response and remediation across key attack surfaces.

“CrowdStrike recently expanded its MDR portfolio, extending its 24/7 managed detection and response service to incorporate trusted third-party telemetry, data sources, and automated response actions. These integrations are powered by more than 20 CrowdStrike alliance partners, including Cisco, Fortinet, Mimecast, Proofpoint and Zscaler.”

Gold Standard of MDR

As the pioneer of MDR, CrowdStrike remains the gold standard, delivering outcomes, not homework, for thousands of organizations worldwide. 

Falcon Complete received the highest detection coverage and was the only MDR to detect 99% of adversary techniques in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for Managed Security Services. And our best-in-class CrowdStrike Breach Prevention Warranty gives customers additional peace of mind knowing we stand behind our claims.

Thank you to the IDC MarketScape and Frost & Sullivan for the recognition and to all of the hardworking CrowdStrikers for delivering the best MDR service on the market! 

Additional Resources

• Download the excerpt for the 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Managed Detection and Response report.
• Generate your own tailored MDR business case using the CrowdStrike ROI Calculator for MDR.
• Learn why our customers routinely see over 403% ROI, as assessed in Forrester’s Total Economic Impact (TEI) of CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR.
• Discover the power of Falcon Complete MDR with the industry’s only end-to-end surgical remediation service — schedule your demo today.
• Contact CrowdStrike sales. 

 

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The industry’s first identity detection and response (ITDR) analyst report names CrowdStrike an Overall Leader and a “cyber industry force.”

In KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) 2024: IAM Meets the SOC, CrowdStrike was named a Leader in every category — Product, Innovation, Market and Overall Ranking — and positioned the highest for Innovation among all eight vendors evaluated. We received the top overall position in the report and a perfect 5/5 rating in every criteria, including security, functionality, deployment, interoperability, usability, innovativeness, market position, financial strength and ecosystem.

CrowdStrike pioneered ITDR to stop modern attacks with the industry’s first and only unified platform for identity protection and endpoint security powered by threat intelligence and adversary tradecraft — all delivered on a single agent. The market has continued to recognize our leadership, with CrowdStrike being positioned furthest to the right of all eight vendors evaluated in KuppingerCole’s report.

A Leader in Innovation

In 2023, 75% of attacks used to gain initial access were malware-free, highlighting the prevalence of identity-based attacks and use of compromised credentials. Since releasing CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Threat Protection in 2020, CrowdStrike has been constantly innovating on the product to deliver a mature solution that stops modern identity attacks.

In the report, CrowdStrike was positioned furthest to the right and highest in Innovation, demonstrating our commitment to delivering cutting-edge technology. “CrowdStrike is a cyber industry force, and its Falcon Identity Protection demonstrates real attention to detail where threats are related,” KuppingerCole states.

The cloud-native architecture of Falcon Identity Protection is another point of differentiation, delivering the speed and scale that businesses need, with minimal hardware requirements.

“Offered as a cloud-native SaaS service, Falcon Identity Protection component requires a minimal on-premises footprint, requiring only a lightweight Falcon sensor on the Active Directory (AD) domain controllers. This architecture also enables packet-level inspection and real-time alerting of suspicious events,” states the report.

CrowdStrike Focuses Where Threats Are

In our mission to stop breaches, CrowdStrike focuses where identity threats often originate: in Microsoft identity environments. This is reflected in the report, with KuppingerCole describing Microsoft environments as “the entry point to attack vectors.”

“Falcon Identity Protection excels at its deep coverage of Microsoft environments, including on-premises AD and Azure-based environments. The coverage ranges from aging AD protocols for domain controller replication, to password hash synchronization over AD Connect, to Azure based attacks on Entra ID,” states the report.

CrowdStrike’s protection of Microsoft identity stores extends into specific product features and services that KuppingerCole also highlighted in its report.

“Given CrowdStrike’s long history in InfoSec and SOC practices, Falcon Identity Protection offers unique features to help bridge identity administration performed by IT and identity security. It does this by providing guidance to InfoSec personnel who may not have deep knowledge of AD and Entra ID.”

With these features and our continuing emphasis on stopping identity-based attacks on Microsoft environments, KuppingerCole said CrowdStrike delivers “very strong protection for Microsoft environments” in its report.

Delivered from the Unified Falcon Platform

CrowdStrike firmly believes ITDR is a problem that cannot be addressed in isolation by point products. Of all of the vendors evaluated in the report, CrowdStrike is the only one that delivers identity security as a capability tightly integrated into a unified platform.

Our innovative approach of combining endpoint and identity protection into the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® platform with a single agent, powered with threat intel and adversary tradecraft, is key to stopping identity breaches in real time. The unified approach is shown to accelerate response time with projections calculating up to 85% faster detection of identity attacks and lower total cost of ownership, delivering up to $2 million USD in savings over three years.

Another CrowdStrike advantage is our extensive partner network that delivers industry-leading capabilities such as real-time response as part of Falcon Identity Protection.

“The company’s API ecosystem offers REST and GraphQL APIs for most of its functionalities, including real-time response to identity threats. This approach not only offers compliance with current tech standards but also portrays CrowdStrike’s forward-thinking strategy, promising near-term enhancements to further open up their platform.”

The Future of Identity Security

With this report, CrowdStrike is the proven leader in identity threat protection, parallelling our industry leadership in endpoint security, cloud security, managed detection and response, threat intelligence and risk-based vulnerability management.

Thanks to all of the CrowdStrike customers that use our platform every day to stop breaches. We’re committed to delivering the best technology and services on the market for you!

Additional Resources

• Read the report, KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) 2024: IAM Meets the SOC.
• Register for a complimentary Identity Security Risk Review.
• Read this blog: “CrowdStrike Extends Identity Security Capabilities to Stop Attacks in the Cloud.”
• Visit the Falcon Identity Protection product page to learn more. 

As adversaries become faster and stealthier, they relentlessly search for vulnerable assets to exploit. Meanwhile, your digital footprint is expanding, making it increasingly challenging to keep track of all of your assets. It’s no wonder 76% of breaches in 2023 were due to unknown and unmanaged internet-facing assets.

Against this backdrop, it’s more critical than ever for organizations to maintain a continuous and comprehensive understanding of their entire attack surface. This is where CrowdStrike Falcon® Exposure Management comes in:

In the field of exposure management, the value of external attack surface management (EASM) cannot be overstated. In short, EASM helps organizations identify known and unknown internet-facing assets, get real-time visibility into their exposures and vulnerabilities, and prioritize remediation to reduce intrusion risk.

Integrated into Falcon Exposure Management are the robust EASM capabilities of CrowdStrike Falcon® Surface, which uses a proprietary real-time engine to continuously scan the internet, and map and index more than 95 billion internet-facing assets annually. This gives organizations a vital “outside-in” perspective on the exposure of these assets and helps security teams prioritize and address vulnerabilities — not based on generic vulnerability severity scores but based on real-world adversary behavior and tactics from CrowdStrike® Counter Adversary Operations threat intelligence.

The EASM capabilities of Falcon Exposure Management are best-in-class. But don’t just take it from us. Here’s what CrowdStrike customers had to say.

93% Willing to Recommend CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike is the only vendor named Customers’ Choice in the 2024 Gartner “Voice of the Customer” Report for External Attack Surface Management, with 93% of respondents saying they are willing to recommend CrowdStrike.

The “Voice of the Customer” is a document that synthesizes Gartner Peer Insights’ reviews into insights for IT decision makers. Here’s a sampling of the individual reviews and ratings on the Gartner Peer Insights page:

“Falcon Surface is the EASM you need.”

“The tool gives critical insight into your attack surface helping to show what you don’t know.”

“Strategic assessing for internet exposed assets.”

“A market analysis of external vulnerability analysis was carried out and after testing the product we were convinced to purchase it for the company.”

“Effective ASM solution byte per byte.”

“Easy and continuous vulnerability assessment, effective risk prioritization, accuracy on remediations guidance.”

Our mission is clear: to stop breaches. Understanding and reducing risk is critical to stopping the breach, and we thank our customers for their support and validation of the unified CrowdStrike Falcon® XDR platform as the definitive cybersecurity platform.

Falcon Exposure Management: A Critical Component of the Falcon Platform

Organizations are embracing cybersecurity consolidation to reduce cost and complexity while improving security outcomes. Understanding the reduction of cyber risk across the modern attack surface is a critical component of any organization’s cybersecurity strategy. 

Falcon Exposure Management unifies real-time security data from Falcon Surface for EASM, CrowdStrike Falcon® Discover for asset, account and app discovery, and CrowdStrike Falcon® Spotlight for vulnerability management. CrowdStrike received a Customers’ Choice distinction in the 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Vulnerability Assessment. 

With AI-powered vulnerability management and a comprehensive visual mapping of all connected assets, Falcon Exposure Management dramatically speeds up detection and response times, transforming reactive operations into proactive cybersecurity strategies to stop breaches before they happen. Integration with real-time threat intelligence correlates exposures with adversary behavior to help prioritize based on business impact and the likelihood of real-world exploitation. 

While traditional approaches to exposure management use disjointed products, only CrowdStrike delivers Falcon Exposure Management from the Falcon platform, making it fast and easy for customers to deploy the exposure management capabilities that customers love using the single lightweight Falcon agent and single console.

By deploying Falcon Exposure Management on the Falcon platform, organizations can realize incredible benefits such as a projected 200% faster CVE prioritization to respond quickly to critical vulnerabilities, up to 75% reduction in attack surface to lower the risk of a breach and up to $200,000 USD in annual savings by consolidating point products.

 

*Based on 32 overall reviews as of December 2023.

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Additional Resources

• Read the 2024 Gartner “Voice of the Customer” Report for EASM.
• Visit the Falcon Exposure Management website to learn more.
• Schedule a Falcon Exposure Management demo.
• Register for a hands-on workshop: Empowering Proactive Protection with Falcon Exposure Management.
• Watch the Falcon Exposure Management “Internet Exposure Identification” demo.
• See Falcon Exposure Management in action.
• Read the Falcon Exposure Management data sheet.