
CrowdStrike earns recognition as a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Incident Response Services, showcasing its AI-driven, elite cybersecurity expertise.
CrowdStrike named Leader in 2025 IDC MarketScape for Incident Response.
Leverages AI and Falcon platform for rapid threat detection and response.
Elite IR team with global, 24/7 "follow-the-sun" expertise.
Pulse Services enhance ongoing client engagement and security maturity.
Addresses AI-weaponized threats targeting enterprise environments.
Trusted by top organizations for stopping breaches and building defenses.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Incident Response Services Vendor Assessment, announced on August 27, 2025. As adversaries increasingly use AI to scale and accelerate attacks, CrowdStrike’s combination of deep expertise, real-time visibility, and AI-driven innovation positions it as a top choice for organizations combating sophisticated cyber threats.
The IDC MarketScape highlights CrowdStrike’s integrated, cloud-native Falcon platform, which enables rapid detection, investigation, and remediation across diverse environments. “CrowdStrike offers a highly integrated, intelligence-driven, and cloud-native approach to cyber defense,” the report notes, emphasizing its ability to counter advanced persistent threats (APTs), ransomware, and insider threats effectively.
CrowdStrike’s incident response strategy leverages artificial intelligence and automation to enhance speed, accuracy, and consistency. Its elite IR team, composed of experts in digital forensics, malware analysis, and threat hunting, operates a “follow-the-sun” model across the Americas, EMEA, META, and APJ regions, ensuring 24/7 investigative support. “These capabilities enhance the speed, accuracy, and consistency of CrowdStrike’s response services,” the IDC MarketScape states.
The report praises CrowdStrike’s Pulse Services, a strategic enhancement to its incident response retainer model, offering real-time visibility and control. These expert-led micro-engagements help organizations reduce risk and advance security maturity proactively, marking a forward-thinking approach to cybersecurity consulting.
“Every breach is a moment of truth,” said Tom Etheridge, chief global services officer at CrowdStrike. “We believe being named a Leader by the IDC MarketScape reflects what the world’s top organizations already know – when it matters most, they turn to CrowdStrike to stop the attacker, uncover the root cause, and build stronger defenses for the AI era.” With over 100,000 hours of annual IR casework, CrowdStrike’s expertise is trusted globally to stop breaches and prevent future compromises.
CrowdStrike’s recognition as an IDC MarketScape Leader underscores its pivotal role in redefining incident response. By integrating AI, elite expertise, and proactive engagement, the company empowers organizations to stay ahead of evolving cyber threats in an AI-driven era.
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.