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CrowdStrike has been recognized as the Overall Leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR). The company achieved the highest rating for innovation among all vendors evaluated and was named a leader in both product and market categories. The recognition highlights CrowdStrike's unified platform approach to securing the entire hybrid identity lifecycle, covering human, non-human, and now AI agent identities against modern threats.
CrowdStrike was named the Overall Leader in the KuppingerCole ITDR Leadership Compass.
The company received the highest possible rating for innovation.
The Falcon platform secures human, non-human, and AI agent identities.
It provides unified visibility across Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, and cloud IAM.
A key differentiator is its integrated Privileged Access Management (PAM) for the cloud.
The platform is designed for organizations seeking to consolidate security tools.
The KuppingerCole report emphasized that CrowdStrike's platform approach is essential for securing identities as organizations automate and scale. The Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security platform provides comprehensive visibility into diverse identity environments, including Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, Ping, and AWS IAM. This unified visibility is critical for detecting and responding to threats that exploit identity, which is now the primary front line for cyberattacks.
Alejandro Leal, Senior Analyst at KuppingerCole, commented on the findings, stating, “CrowdStrike was recognized as the Overall Leader in the ITDR Leadership Compass, earning the highest rating for innovation, particularly for its strong integration of identity detections within the Falcon platform. Platform approaches like CrowdStrike’s, which provide unified visibility across the identity stack, are essential for securing both human and non-human identities."
A significant focus of the recognition is CrowdStrike's ability to address the emerging threat of AI agents. The report notes that CrowdStrike's AI-driven approach offers a framework to classify and secure these "superhuman identities," which possess persistent access and dramatically expand the attack surface. The platform's integrated capabilities, such as Falcon Privileged Access, extend ITDR into cloud PAM with Just-in-Time access controls, eliminating the risks associated with standing privileges.
Elia Zaitsev, Chief Technology Officer at CrowdStrike, underscored the platform's advantage, saying, “Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security closes the gaps that fragmented legacy solutions create. In the modern agentic era, only CrowdStrike keeps customers secured everywhere identity is under attack.” This leadership position reinforces the industry shift towards consolidated, platform-based security solutions that can protect against evolving identity-centric threats.
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.
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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