CrowdStrike named Overall Leader, ranked highest in innovation of any vendor for securing every identity – human, non-human, and AI agent – across the full hybrid identity lifecycle

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced it has been named the Overall Leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR). CrowdStrike ranked highest in innovation among all vendors evaluated and was named a product and market leader as a unified solution securing every identity – human, non-human, and AI agent – across the full hybrid identity lifecycle.

“CrowdStrike was recognized as the Overall Leader in the ITDR Leadership Compass, earning the highest rating for innovation, particularly for its strong integration of identity detections within the Falcon platform,” said Alejandro Leal, Senior Analyst, KuppingerCole. “Platform approaches like CrowdStrike’s, which provide unified visibility across the identity stack, are essential for securing both human and non-human identities as organizations automate and scale.”

Key report findings and comments include:

AI-Powered Human and AI Agent Protection

CrowdStrike’s AI-driven approach “offers a classification framework to distinguish between human and non-human identities, including service accounts and AI agents, applying AI-driven behavioral and attribute-based models.”

Securing Hybrid Environments

“The Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security platform provides visibility into identity environments spanning Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, Ping, and AWS IAM Identity Center, as well as SaaS applications through Falcon Shield.”

Unified Privileged Access Management

“A differentiator is Falcon Privileged Access, which extends ITDR into cloud PAM with Just-in-Time access controls designed to eliminate standing privileges in Entra ID and Active Directory environments.” Built on the unified Falcon platform, it eliminates complexity and protection gaps created by bolt-on or multi-tool approaches.

Platform Consolidation

“Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security is also suited for security teams seeking to consolidate ITDR with endpoint and cloud defense under a single platform, as well as enterprises pursuing advanced AI-driven correlation and automated response at identity scale.”

Identity is the front line of modern attacks, with adversaries exploiting human and non-human identities, SaaS credentials, and now, AI agents. Each agent represents a superhuman identity with persistent access, dramatically expanding the attack surface. Only Falcon® Next-Gen Identity Security protects today’s entire hybrid identity attack chain, unifying initial access prevention, modern privileged access management (PAM), ITDR, and agentic identity protection. With new phishing-resistant MFA, enhanced privileged access, and identity-driven case management, CrowdStrike is accelerating consolidation of fragmented controls to secure every human and AI agent identity from a single, unified platform.

“Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security closes the gaps that fragmented legacy solutions create,” said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer at CrowdStrike. “In the modern agentic era, only CrowdStrike keeps customers secured everywhere identity is under attack.”

To learn more about the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), visit here. To learn more about Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security, visit here.

About CrowdStrike

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.

Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.

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