CrowdStrike Named A Leader in Endpoint Detection and Response by Independent Research Firm
CrowdStrike receives the highest possible scores in 14 criteria and the top ranking in the Current Offering and Market Presence Categories
Sunnyvale, CA — July 5, 2018 — CrowdStrike® Inc., the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, today announced that Forrester Research, Inc. named CrowdStrike a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Detection And Response, Q3 2018 report. As Forrester states[1], “CrowdStrike understands and articulates the problem of combating sophisticated actors better than anyone.” Just weeks ago, CrowdStrike was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security Suites, Q2 2018 report[2]. CrowdStrike is the sole vendor named a Leader in both Endpoint Security and Endpoint Detection and Response reports.
The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Detection And Response, Q3 2018 report identified the 12 most significant EDR vendors to evaluate strengths and weaknesses based on 20 criteria grouped into three high-level segments: Current Offering, Strategy and Market Presence. In Forrester’s evaluation, CrowdStrike was the top ranked vendor in the Current Offering and Market Presence categories and tied for the top ranking in the Strategy category. CrowdStrike received the highest score possible in 14 criteria:
- Current offering: Performance Impact, Asset Management, Audit Capabilities, Behavioral Analysis, Threat Hunting, Custom Alerting, Containment Actions, Alert Management, Time to Deploy and Solution Effectiveness
- Strategy: Product Vision and Market Approach
- Market presence: Number of Customers and Total Deployed Endpoints