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CrowdStrike’s commissioned Total Economic Impact study by Forrester Consulting shows that organizations modernizing endpoint security with CrowdStrike achieved a 273% return on investment over three years, a payback period of under six months, and $5 million in quantified benefits through reduced breach risk and simplified operations.
CrowdStrike announced the results of a Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, which examined the value realized by organizations replacing legacy endpoint security solutions with CrowdStrike. The composite organization—based on interviews with four actual customers—achieved a 273% return on investment over three years, with benefits totaling $5 million and a payback period of less than six months.
“The endpoint is a primary risk and productivity point in today’s enterprise, but many organizations are still relying on legacy endpoint security built for a different threat era,” said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer at CrowdStrike. “Our Forrester study shows that modern endpoint security isn’t just more effective, it’s more economically rational. Replacing legacy endpoint approaches with CrowdStrike reduces breach risk, simplifies operations, and delivers measurable ROI that makes the decision to modernize clear.”
The study highlights how CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform drives both economic and operational advantages through endpoint consolidation and modernization.
Organizations reported substantial cost savings from reduced technology and labor expenses, streamlined security operations, and accelerated deployment during expansions or acquisitions. Forrester quantified $1.7 million in avoided breach-related costs over three years, reflecting a meaningful decrease in endpoint-driven breach risk.
A standout operational improvement came from the single, lightweight endpoint sensor. This design reduced endpoint security management labor by 95% and dramatically lowered alert noise and false positives. Security analysts could focus on genuine threats, speeding investigations without requiring additional staff.
The cloud-native architecture of Falcon supports effortless scaling. Organizations expanded protection to modules such as identity protection, next-generation SIEM, and cloud security without new deployments or operational interruptions, enabling long-term consolidation and efficiency.
Interviewed customers emphasized practical advantages in diverse industries:
“[Our legacy provider] was very hard to manage and we wanted to go to something simpler. Then we looked at CrowdStrike, did the proof of concept, we liked it, and we decided to go all in. We have their Endpoint product, Identity product, and then some of the other SIEM solutions as well.” – Enterprise Security Manager, Oil & Gas
“I was pleasantly surprised by how, from just that single agent deployment, we were able to expand past EDR with little to no effort and there weren’t additional deployments.” – Director of Cyber Defense, Healthcare
“The visibility that we get in CrowdStrike is second to none. Being able to query and do those types of investigations across your enterprise at a moment’s notice in five minutes is just really handy.” – CISO, Retail
These experiences underscore CrowdStrike’s ability to simplify endpoint security while delivering strong protection and measurable business value.
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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