CrowdStrike has been named the "strongest overall leader" in the 2026 Frost Radar: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms for the fourth consecutive time. CrowdStrike scored highest of all vendors in Growth and Innovation, driving the market shift from posture-only point protection to runtime-first platforms.
CrowdStrike named Frost Radar leader in CWPP for fourth consecutive time.
Scored highest in Growth and Innovation among all vendors.
Runtime-first security becomes standard for cloud and AI workload protection.
Unified architecture extends runtime security across endpoints and cloud workloads.
Falcon sensor enables cloud workload protection without additional agents.
Recognized for cloud detection and response and AI security innovation.
Adversaries now move across containers, Kubernetes, identities, and cloud control planes inside a single intrusion, abusing valid credentials to blend into legitimate activity. Legacy cloud security was built to scan for misconfigurations on a schedule, not stop an adversary operating at machine speed. Frost & Sullivan highlighted CrowdStrike's "ability to operationalize workload protection through a mature integrated endpoint, identity, cloud, and SOC operational fabric…giving security teams a single architecture for posture visibility, vulnerability management, runtime protection, threat detection, and response."
The report highlights CrowdStrike's Cloud Runtime Leadership, noting that "CWPP and cloud runtime remain the bedrock of CrowdStrike's Falcon Cloud Security platform business…giving CrowdStrike strong competitive advantage in a CWPP market that is shifting from periodic vulnerability and posture assessment toward active runtime defense, real-time cloud threat detection, and faster incident response." CDR and AI Security were cited as key innovation areas, with CrowdStrike's "innovation increasingly tied to cloud runtime security, CDR, AI security, and extending to application runtime context." The Unified Architecture allows CrowdStrike to extend runtime security across endpoints and cloud workloads using the same lightweight Falcon sensor, enabling organizations to adopt cloud workload protection without additional agents.
"Cloud and AI workloads are multiplying faster than legacy security can follow, and adversaries are exploiting the gap at machine speed," said AJ Shipley, chief product officer, CrowdStrike. "Posture tools tell you what is exposed. Only runtime tells you what an adversary is actually doing. Falcon Cloud Security unifies proactive and runtime protection with adversary intelligence to stop breaches across AI workloads, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments."
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike, 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.
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