CrowdStrike today announced it has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection for the seventh consecutive time. CrowdStrike was also positioned furthest right for Completeness of Vision and highest for Ability to Execute among all vendors evaluated for the fourth time in a row. CrowdStrike pioneered AI-native endpoint security and is defining the future of AI Detection and Response.
Seventh consecutive time named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection.
Positioned furthest right for Completeness of Vision and highest for Ability to Execute for fourth consecutive time.
CrowdStrike sensors detect more than 1,800 distinct AI applications across nearly 160 million unique application instances.
Charlotte AI usage growing more than 6x year-over-year with ARR more than tripling.
Named a Customers' Choice in 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Endpoint Protection Platforms with most 5-star ratings.
Customer includes Royal Caribbean Group.
"AI executes on the endpoint and is creating the largest security demand driver since enterprises moved to the cloud," said Michael Sentonas, president of CrowdStrike. "As agents take actions, access sensitive data, and interact with critical systems, they must be secured in real time, at the point of execution. We feel this recognition reflects our excellence in endpoint security today and how we are defining the next category of security for the AI era."
As AI agents gain autonomy and system-level privilege, the endpoint is the control point for modern security. It's where agents execute commands, access data, and trigger downstream workflows often indistinguishable from legitimate user activity. CrowdStrike secures AI at runtime on the endpoint – delivering real-time visibility and enforcement over AI behavior, automatically discovering AI applications and agents, and inspecting prompts and interactions to stop injection attacks, data leaks, and policy violations at the point of execution.
CrowdStrike sensors detect more than 1,800 distinct AI applications running on enterprise devices, representing nearly 160 million unique application instances across its customer base, the largest dataset of AI agent behavior in cybersecurity. Agent actions do not remain on the endpoint, and securing AI requires extending protection across organizations' AI infrastructure.
CrowdStrike's unified platform architecture extends continuous, risk-aware protection across human, non-human, and AI agent identities, cloud runtime environments, as well as SaaS applications and live browser sessions where work happens. In addition, Charlotte AI – with usage growing more than 6x year-over-year and ARR more than tripling – powers the agentic SOC, automating high-friction workflows and stopping breaches at machine speed across the enterprise attack surface.
"CrowdStrike introduced us to a new standard of endpoint security and has secured our innovation journey ever since," said Jairo Orea, global chief information security officer, Royal Caribbean Group. "As AI becomes central to how we operate, CrowdStrike gives us the visibility and control we need to adopt it confidently; they are the platform we trust to secure AI where it runs."
In January 2026, CrowdStrike was named a Customers' Choice in the 2026 Gartner Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer' for Endpoint Protection Platforms report, with the most 5-star ratings of any Customers' Choice vendor.
To learn more about CrowdStrike's recognition in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection, please visit our website and read our blog.
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.
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