CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) continues to solidify its leading position in cloud-native application protection, highlighted by its recent recognition as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform 2025 Vendor Assessment. This acknowledgment reflects CrowdStrike’s ongoing innovation in providing robust, real-time cybersecurity solutions specifically designed to secure complex hybrid environments that blend cloud, identity, and endpoint protection.
Today’s sophisticated cyber adversaries thrive on exploiting the vulnerabilities inherent in fragmented security tools across hybrid infrastructures, leading to operational blind spots, alert fatigue, and delays in threat response. CrowdStrike addresses these critical issues through its flagship product, CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security, which integrates seamlessly into the broader Falcon platform. Falcon Cloud Security delivers unified visibility and control from development to runtime, offering organizations precise, AI-driven threat prioritization and the ability to detect and respond instantly, effectively thwarting threats as they emerge.
The IDC MarketScape emphasized key strengths of Falcon Cloud Security, particularly highlighting its unique combination of proactive and reactive security capabilities. Proactively, CrowdStrike Falcon provides unified cloud security posture management (USPM), driven by sophisticated threat intelligence and AI-powered analytics via ExPRT.AI, significantly reducing false positives and efficiently minimizing attack surfaces. Reactively, Falcon excels through advanced cloud workload protection (CWP) and cloud detection and response mechanisms. These capabilities empower security operation centers (SOCs) to swiftly identify, understand, and neutralize threats across complex hybrid cloud landscapes.
Elia Zaitsev, CrowdStrike’s Chief Technology Officer, underscored the evolving nature of cloud threats, noting that attackers now routinely maneuver across various domains—cloud, identity, and endpoint—to evade detection and maximize their impact. Zaitsev stressed that unlike traditional security products, Falcon Cloud Security was engineered from the outset for integrated, real-time threat management and cross-domain visibility, an approach that directly addresses the intricate demands of modern cloud environments.
IDC MarketScape particularly praised CrowdStrike’s practical benefits, citing customer appreciation of Falcon Cloud Security’s support for shift-left strategies, allowing vulnerabilities and configuration issues to be addressed early and efficiently. Users also valued the intuitive interface of the Falcon console, describing it as an invaluable “single pane of glass” for monitoring and managing continuous security operations. Furthermore, CrowdStrike’s comprehensive maturity assessment model equips organizations with robust health-check data and comparative benchmarks, enabling strategic evaluations of security effectiveness across diverse metrics, including asset coverage, configuration compliance, credential management, and license utilization.
This latest accolade further strengthens CrowdStrike’s status as an industry benchmark in unified cloud security, building upon its consistent high rankings in notable industry analyses such as the 2025 Frost Radar™ for Cloud and Application Runtime Security, the GigaOm Radar for CNAPP (2024), and Frost Radar™ for CNAPP (2024)—recognitions it has received consecutively for three years. As cloud threats evolve, CrowdStrike remains committed to delivering holistic and proactive cybersecurity solutions that equip organizations to confidently navigate the complexities of the modern threat landscape.
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