CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection Delivers $1.26M in Benefits with 6-Month Payback, Study Reveals
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global leader in cybersecurity, has unveiled the findings of a commissioned Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting. The study highlights that organizations using CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection achieved a 310% return on investment (ROI), with $1.26 million in total benefits over three years and a payback period of under six months. These results underscore the platform’s ability to reduce breach risks, replace legacy point solutions, and deliver unified visibility and protection across identities, endpoints, and cloud environments.
The Growing Threat of Identity-Based Attacks
In today’s threat landscape, adversaries are increasingly sophisticated, leveraging identity and cloud as trusted entry points to infiltrate systems and move laterally. According to the study, 75% of attacks to gain initial access are now malware-free, highlighting the critical need for robust identity protection. Disjointed tools often create gaps in visibility, leaving organizations vulnerable to identity-based attacks.
Falcon Identity Protection, an integrated module of the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, addresses these challenges by providing comprehensive protection across the entire attack surface. The Forrester study revealed that none of the interviewed organizations experienced a breach after implementing Falcon Identity Protection, showcasing its effectiveness in stopping identity-based threats.
Key Findings from the Forrester TEI Study
The study highlights several significant benefits of Falcon Identity Protection, including:
- Significant ROI with Advanced Identity Security:
Organizations achieved $1.26 million in benefits over three years by leveraging Falcon Identity Protection’s advanced capabilities, such as misconfiguration detection, overprivileged account analysis, and lateral attack path prevention. Additionally, customers reported lower cyber insurance premiums due to robust identity controls, including extended multi-factor authentication (MFA) coverage. - Reduced Operational Costs with Unified Protection:
By consolidating identity, cloud, and endpoint security on the Falcon platform, organizations saved $167,000 over three years. This was achieved by eliminating legacy point tools and reducing labor costs, enabling security teams to operate more efficiently. - Real-Time Detection and Response:
Falcon Identity Protection was the first to detect simulated attacks during penetration tests, demonstrating its ability to identify and respond to threats in real time. - Enhanced SOC Efficiency:
Incident volume declined significantly—sometimes by more than 90%—due to Falcon Identity Protection’s prevention capabilities and reduction in false positives. This allowed SOC teams to focus on strategic tasks, resolve incidents faster, and improve work-life balance, leading to better retention and operational stability.
Customer Testimonials
Organizations across industries have praised Falcon Identity Protection for its effectiveness and efficiency:
- “The alerts are near real-time, more actionable, and don’t have a lot of false positives. Previously, it sometimes took four hours when now, we know in less than 10 minutes.” – VP of Information Security, Pharmaceutical
- “We run an organization that’s highly distributed. We have over 1,000 locations around the globe, both franchises and managed. [Falcon Identity Protection] protects all of it.” – Director of Cyber Security Risk and Compliance, Hospitality
- “Falcon Identity Protection is the icing on the cake…if a bad guy ends up on an endpoint, the machine is automatically isolated.” – Director of Cyber Security Risk and Compliance, Hospitality
Why Organizations Trust Falcon Identity Protection
Falcon Identity Protection integrates seamlessly into the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, providing unmatched visibility into Active Directory activity, account configurations, and privileged account protections. By unifying identity, endpoint, and cloud security, it reduces complexity, lowers costs, and delivers the unified protection needed to stay ahead of modern adversaries.
As the study highlights, “Falcon Identity Protection’s threat analysis includes both direct identity-related threats as well as threats across attack paths to identify lateral movement that impacts security areas beyond identity to focus on protecting critical assets.”
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) is a global cybersecurity leader that has redefined modern security with its advanced cloud-native platform. The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform protects critical areas of enterprise risk, including endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the Falcon platform delivers hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting, and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.
Built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform offers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity, and immediate time-to-value.
Take Action Against Identity-Based Threats
With identity-based attacks on the rise, organizations need proactive and comprehensive solutions to protect their critical assets. CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection delivers unmatched ROI, operational efficiency, and real-time threat detection to stop breaches before they occur.
To learn more about the Total Economic Impact study and how Falcon Identity Protection can benefit your organization, visit the CrowdStrike website or read more on the CrowdStrike blog.
