CrowdStrike Named the Only Leader and Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM)

August 12, 2025 at 14:58 PM EDT

CrowdStrike recognized for delivering the most innovative and complete platform for SaaS security, earning the highest scores in Key Features and Business Criteria among all evaluated vendors

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced it is the only vendor named both a Leader and an Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM). The report recognized CrowdStrike as the most innovative and complete Platform Play, with the highest scores among all vendors in Key Features and Business Criteria. CrowdStrike earned perfect 5/5 scores across critical evaluation areas, including SaaS Support, Policy Management, Third-Party Risk Assessment, Identity Threat Detection and Response, Enterprise Security Infrastructure Integration, Scalability, Cost, and Ecosystem.

This recognition underscores the competitive advantage of CrowdStrike’s unified approach to SaaS security, securing every identity – human, non-human, and AI agent – to stop SaaS breaches and prevent cross-domain attacks. GigaOm highlighted that “CrowdStrike's single-platform architecture is comprehensive, consolidating SSPM, SaaS DLP, cloud security, identity security, and endpoint protection into a single console, enabling automated, real-time policy responses to swiftly stop attacks.”

Adversaries increasingly exploit trusted identities to infiltrate organizations undetected, making SaaS environments a top target. With hundreds of SaaS applications in use across enterprises, even minor misconfigurations or excessive permissions create entry points for infiltration and lateral movement. At the same time, the explosion of AI agents in SaaS environments is rapidly expanding the attack surface, with more identities holding persistent, high-risk privileges that adversaries can exploit across identity, endpoint, and cloud systems. To address this emerging risk, CrowdStrike recently expanded Falcon Shield support for OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance API, enabling visibility and governance over autonomous GPT-based agents like Codex and custom GPTs.

The AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® platform delivers the unified protection organizations need to secure this modern threat landscape. CrowdStrike Falcon® Shield delivers complete SaaS Security Posture Management, protecting identities, configurations, and data across SaaS applications. Combined with Falcon® Identity Protection and Falcon® Cloud Security, CrowdStrike secures every human and non-human identity – from initial access to privilege escalation and lateral movement – across SaaS, cloud, and on-prem environments.

CrowdStrike Falcon platform differentiators recognized by GigaOm include:

Complete SaaS Visibility: GigaOm emphasized that Falcon Shield discovers SaaS applications and provides “visibility into SaaS threats, including misconfigured apps, excessive permissions, identity compromise, and unauthorized data access,” with over 175 pre-built integrations.
Automated Threat Response: GigaOm highlighted Falcon® Fusion, CrowdStrike’s no-code SOAR engine, for delivering “automated, real-time policy responses,” such as “disabling users or revoking OAuth app access” to contain threats before they escalate.
GenAI and Autonomous Agent Control: CrowdStrike provides comprehensive protection for GenAI, AI agents, and embedded AI tools in SaaS environments. GigaOm noted that CrowdStrike is enhancing these capabilities through Charlotte AI, with “GenAI tools that can monitor SaaS applications, enforce standards, manage AI settings to prevent data leakage, and identify shadow AI apps.”
Power of the Platform: GigaOm noted that CrowdStrike “delivers a comprehensive platform for those wishing to consolidate SSPM into a broader stack, including endpoint management, ITDR, and other SaaS-related security disciplines, all of which can be covered by the extensive Falcon platform.”

“Modern attacks frequently start with adversaries exploiting fragmented identity controls across SaaS, cloud, and endpoint environments to gain access, escalate privileges, and move laterally, often without detection,” said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer at CrowdStrike. “SaaS has become one of the most exposed and least governed layers of the enterprise. Attempting to secure it in isolation leaves gaps adversaries can exploit. Organizations need a unified platform that correlates identity, configuration, and behavioral signals across security domains to deliver real-time protection. GigaOm’s recognition validates CrowdStrike’s leadership in delivering that platform purpose-built to protect every identity across the modern attack surface.”

To learn more about the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for SSPM, visit here and read our blog.

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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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