CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced it has been named the Innovation and Growth Leader in the 2025 Frost Radar™: Global Managed Detection and Response for the second consecutive year, scoring highest of all vendors on both indices. Frost & Sullivan recognized the combination of CrowdStrike’s industry-leading AI-native Falcon® platform and elite cyber expertise to deliver 24/7 detection, investigation, hands-on remediation, and proactive threat hunting across the entire attack surface.
Validating CrowdStrike’s approach, the Frost Radar report notes: “CrowdStrike shows an understanding of the most important megatrends in the MDR space: expanding proactive security capabilities; extending visibility, actionability, and integration throughout the ecosystem; and embedding AI directly into the SOC on a deeper level.”
As cyber threats grow faster and more sophisticated, the skills gap continues to widen. CrowdStrike Falcon® Complete Next-Gen MDR delivers the AI-powered technology and cyber expertise modern organizations need to stop breaches. Acting as a force multiplier to internal security teams, Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR delivers AI-accelerated threat detection, investigation, and response across endpoints, cloud, identities, and third-party data sources.
CrowdStrike strengths highlighted in the Frost Radar include:
- Comprehensive Visibility Across Multiple Environments: The report noted that CrowdStrike “stands out for its extended coverage of the environment.” Its single-agent platform architecture and Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM bring together native and third-party data with AI-driven automation and industry-leading threat intelligence, delivering end-to-end visibility and protection across the entire attack surface.
- AI-Native SOC: Frost highlights CrowdStrike’s “experience in AI implementation” and “strategic investments to take the SOC to a new level.” Trained on trillions of daily security events and frontline intelligence, CrowdStrike AI continually learns and adapts to prevent, detect, and respond to evolving threats. Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR analysts now leverage Charlotte AI to triage alerts and accelerate analysis, combining expert human oversight with intelligent automation to stop breaches more efficiently.
- Customer-First Culture: The report cites the quality of CrowdStrike’s world-class security experts as a “differentiator in the MDR market,” noting that “the culture of accountability, transparency, and excellence permeates across all of CrowdStrike’s levels.” Frost also reflects strong customer sentiment, stating “CrowdStrike’s customers highlight the rapid and effective incident response capabilities of the team, which galvanized their loyalty and support.”
“CrowdStrike pioneered the MDR category and continues to set the standard with relentless innovation and a deep commitment to keeping customers ahead of modern threats,” said Tom Etheridge, chief global services officer at CrowdStrike. “We believe this recognition – leading both the Innovation and Growth indices – validates our outcomes based approach to MDR, combining cutting-edge AI-powered technology with elite security expertise to stop breaches.”
This recognition adds to CrowdStrike’s growing list of accolades as the industry leader in MDR, including Frost & Sullivan’s 2024 Company of the Year in MDR, a Customers’ Choice award in the 2024 Gartner Peer Insights™ ‘Voice of the Customer’ Managed Detection and Response report, and the designation of Overall Leader in KuppingerCole’s 2024 Leadership Compass for MDR.
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