Independent Research Firm Names CrowdStrike A Leader in Endpoint Security
CrowdStrike scores highest of all vendors in Strategy; receives top ranked score in Threat Detection category
Sunnyvale, CA — September 23, 2019 — CrowdStrike® Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD), a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, today announced that Forrester Research, Inc. named CrowdStrike as a Leader in the The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security Suites (ESS), Q3 2019 report. CrowdStrike received the highest ranking of all vendors in the Strategy category and achieved the highest scores possible within 17 of the criteria. According to the report, “CrowdStrike has the most fully featured endpoint security suite with an EDR lineage.”
As today’s security leaders look to integrate threat prevention, detection and response in the increasingly complex threat landscape, it’s critical that solutions extend visibility and offer flexibility in a variety of changing IT environments. As such, Forrester’s research assessed vendors on a weighted scale that ranks capabilities across multiple categories, with a score of “5.0” being the highest. CrowdStrike Falcon received a 5.0 across 13 of the 19 criteria within the Current Offering category.
CrowdStrike received the highest score possible in the following criteria:
- Malware prevention
- Attack remediation
- Detection efficacy
- User experience impact
- External integrations
- Mobile
- Malicious behavior protection
- Threat hunting
- Behavioral analysis
- Threat intelligence