CrowdStrike scores highest of all vendors on the Innovation Index as the only CNAPP recognized for unified, real-time protection across cloud, identity and endpoint
CrowdStrike announced it has been named an innovation and growth Leader in the inaugural 2025 Frost Radar™: Cloud and Application Runtime Security, scoring highest of all vendors on the Innovation Index. Frost & Sullivan recognized CrowdStrike as the only CNAPP delivering unified, real-time protection across cloud, identity and endpoint – a core requirement for stopping cloud breaches as adversaries increasingly target modern hybrid environments.
CrowdStrike pioneered Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) and continues to innovate to secure hybrid cloud environments and counter the speed and complexity of today’s adversaries. As attackers evolve tradecraft and chain attacks across cloud workloads, applications and identities, CrowdStrike has advanced cloud security with application runtime protection and real-time threat correlation – delivered through a single, unified platform. Frost & Sullivan notes this approach has driven “tremendous” growth, recognizing CrowdStrike as “one of the fastest-growing players in the CNAPP market.”
Frost & Sullivan highlights CrowdStrike’s leading approach to securing the cloud: “CrowdStrike delivers CDR by correlating runtime activity with cloud context to expose active attacks as they unfold, enabling SOC teams to stop the breaches. Combined with AI-driven anomaly detection, trained on an abundance of data from in-house threat intelligence and customer environments, its CDR helps identify subtle signs of attacker behavior early.”
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Key report findings include:
- Pioneering Cloud Detection and Response: CrowdStrike was named as a “pioneer in CDR,” building on its CWPP leadership to deliver real-time visibility and rapid threat detection, with “excellent runtime capabilities.”
- End-to-End Protection from Code to Runtime: Frost & Sullivan recognized Falcon® Cloud Security as “an integrated suite of key security functions” that delivers “enhanced visibility, vulnerability management, pre-runtime and runtime protection” across multi-cloud environments. By fusing telemetry from Falcon® ASPM with runtime signals, organizations can detect risk earlier and automate response across the application lifecycle.
- Cross-Domain Visibility and Real-Time Correlation: The Falcon platform enables security teams to correlate cloud, identity and endpoint signals in real time, enriched with threat intelligence and 24/7 managed detection – helping SOC teams understand and stop the full adversary attack path.
- Adversary-Driven Defense: Frost & Sullivan highlights how “adversary-based threat intelligence, advanced behavior analytics and AI/ML,” enable Falcon Cloud Security to detect sophisticated threats like fileless and non-malware attacks before impact.
- Unified Agent and Agentless Response: The report noted that “by using the same agent for the entire platform, Falcon Cloud Security can protect servers and monitor container runtime behavior and cloud workload activity,” while “agentless scanning for cloud configurations enables real-time response across both hybrid cloud environments and all layers of the cloud stack.”
As a native part of the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, Falcon Cloud Security provides real-time protection across cloud, identity and endpoints through a unified platform. Built on the same lightweight agent that powers CrowdStrike XDR, Falcon Cloud Security combines AI-driven detection, advanced runtime protection and 24/7 managed CDR to protect the entire cloud estate – from infrastructure and workloads, to applications, SaaS, identities, AI models and data.
“Without runtime protection, you can’t stop breaches in the cloud,” said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer, CrowdStrike. “Adversaries aren’t confined to one domain – they move across clouds, identities and endpoints in seconds. CrowdStrike closes those gaps with a unified platform built for real-time detection and response. This recognition from Frost & Sullivan validates our approach: securing the full cloud lifecycle, from build time to runtime, with the speed and precision today’s SOC teams demand.”
Source: Businesswire