CrowdStrike Named Overall Leader in KuppingerCole’s 2025 ITDR Leadership Compass
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has been recognized as the Overall Leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR). The company earned the highest innovation score among all vendors evaluated, solidifying its position as a unified solution for securing every identity—human, non-human, and AI agents—across the full hybrid identity lifecycle. This recognition underscores CrowdStrike’s leadership in addressing the evolving challenges of modern identity security.
A Unified Approach to Identity Security
In today’s digital landscape, identity has become the new front line of cyberattacks. Adversaries exploit human identities, service accounts, SaaS credentials, and now AI agents, which represent superhuman identities with persistent access. These elements collectively expand the attack surface, making it critical for organizations to adopt comprehensive solutions that protect across the entire hybrid identity stack.
CrowdStrike’s Falcon® Next-Gen Identity Security platform addresses this challenge by unifying initial access prevention, modern privileged access management (PAM), ITDR, and agentic identity protection into a single, cohesive solution. By consolidating fragmented controls, the platform eliminates complexity and protection gaps often created by bolt-on or multi-tool approaches.
“A platform approach like CrowdStrike’s, which provides unified visibility across the identity stack, is essential for securing both human and non-human identities as organizations automate and scale,” said Alejandro Leal, Senior Analyst at KuppingerCole. “CrowdStrike’s strong integration of identity detections within the Falcon platform highlights its innovative capabilities.”
Key Strengths Highlighted in the Report
The report identifies several key strengths that set CrowdStrike apart:
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. By applying behavioral and attribute-based models, the platform delivers advanced threat detection and response tailored to the unique characteristics of each identity type.
Securing Hybrid Environments
The Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security platform provides unparalleled visibility into identity environments spanning Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, Ping, AWS IAM Identity Center, and SaaS applications through Falcon Shield. This broad coverage ensures organizations can secure their hybrid ecosystems effectively.
Unified Privileged Access Management
A standout feature is Falcon Privileged Access, which extends ITDR into cloud Privileged Access Management (PAM) with Just-in-Time access controls. Designed to eliminate standing privileges in Entra ID and Active Directory environments, this capability reduces risk while maintaining operational efficiency. Built on the unified Falcon platform, it streamlines workflows and enhances protection without introducing unnecessary complexity.
Platform Consolidation
For security teams seeking to consolidate tools, Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security integrates ITDR with endpoint and cloud defense under a single platform. This consolidation simplifies operations and enables advanced AI-driven correlation and automated response at scale, empowering enterprises to address threats more effectively.
Addressing Modern Identity Challenges
As organizations increasingly rely on automation and AI agents, the need to secure these identities has never been more urgent. AI agents, with their persistent access and ability to perform tasks autonomously, introduce new vulnerabilities that traditional solutions struggle to address. CrowdStrike’s platform is uniquely positioned to tackle these challenges by protecting the entire hybrid identity attack chain.
With innovations such as phishing-resistant Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), enhanced privileged access controls, and identity-driven case management, CrowdStrike accelerates the consolidation of fragmented identity security tools. This unified approach ensures every human and AI agent identity is protected from a single platform, reducing overhead and improving overall resilience.
“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.”
Why This Matters
The recognition from KuppingerCole highlights CrowdStrike’s commitment to innovation and its ability to deliver cutting-edge solutions that meet the demands of today’s dynamic threat landscape. As adversaries continue to target identities to gain unauthorized access and escalate privileges, organizations must adopt platforms capable of providing comprehensive protection across all identity types.
CrowdStrike’s leadership in ITDR reflects its deep understanding of these challenges and its ability to leverage AI and machine learning to stay ahead of emerging threats. By offering a unified platform that secures both traditional and modern identity paradigms, CrowdStrike empowers enterprises to defend against sophisticated attacks while simplifying their security operations.
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.
