CrowdStrike Leads in 2025 KuppingerCole ITDR Leadership Compass

11/10/2025 – 09:43 AM

CrowdStrike named Overall Leader, ranked highest in innovation of any vendor for securing every identity – human, non-human, and AI agent – across the full hybrid identity lifecycle

AUSTIN, Texas – CrowdStrike (CRWD) has solidified its position as a frontrunner in identity threat detection and response (ITDR), earning the title of Overall Leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass report. The cybersecurity firm distinguished itself with the highest innovation rating among all vendors evaluated, underscoring its proactive approach to securing a myriad of identities, including human users, non-human entities like service accounts, and increasingly prevalent AI agents, across hybrid environments.

According to KuppingerCole Senior Analyst Alejandro Leal, CrowdStrike’s recognition stems from its “strong integration of identity detections within the Falcon platform.” He emphasized the necessity of platform-centric strategies, such as CrowdStrike’s, to furnish comprehensive visibility throughout the identity stack, thereby enabling robust security for both human and non-human identities amidst escalating automation and scaling efforts. This unified approach addresses a crucial need as organizations grapple with the expanding attack surface presented by diverse digital identities.

The KuppingerCole report highlights several key strengths of CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform:

AI-Powered Protection: CrowdStrike’s AI-driven approach employs a classification framework that differentiates between human and non-human identities, incorporating AI-driven behavioral and attribute-based models for enhanced security. This capability is particularly relevant in an era where AI agents, possessing persistent access and “superhuman” capabilities, are becoming prime targets for malicious actors.

Hybrid Environment Security: The Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security platform offers extensive visibility into identity environments, encompassing Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, Ping, AWS IAM Identity Center, and SaaS applications through Falcon Shield. This broad coverage is essential for organizations operating in complex hybrid environments where identity management is often fragmented across different systems.

Unified Privileged Access Management (PAM): CrowdStrike’s Falcon Privileged Access distinguishes itself by extending ITDR into cloud PAM with Just-in-Time (JIT) access controls. This functionality is designed to eliminate standing privileges within Entra ID and Active Directory environments, mitigating the risk of privilege escalation attacks. Built on the unified Falcon platform, it streamlines security operations, reducing complexity and minimizing the protection gaps often associated with piecemeal security solutions.

Platform Consolidation: The Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security platform caters to security teams seeking to consolidate ITDR with endpoint and cloud defense within a unified platform. It empowers enterprises to leverage advanced AI-driven correlation and automated response capabilities at scale. This consolidation not only simplifies security management but also enhances threat detection accuracy and response effectiveness.

The criticality of identity security has escalated, as adversaries increasingly target human and non-human identities, SaaS credentials, and AI agents. Each agent poses a significant risk, acting as a superhuman identity with continuous access, thereby dramatically expanding the avenues susceptible to attack. CrowdStrike contends that Falcon® Next-Gen Identity Security offers comprehensive protection across the entire hybrid identity attack chain, encompassing initial access prevention, modern PAM, ITDR, and agentic identity protection. The integration of phishing-resistant MFA, enhanced privileged access controls, and identity-driven case management further reinforces CrowdStrike’s ability to consolidate security controls and effectively protect human and AI agent identities.

“Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security closes the gaps that fragmented legacy solutions create,” stated Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer at CrowdStrike. “In the modern agentic era, only CrowdStrike keeps customers secured everywhere identity is under attack.” He added that as AI permeates deeper into business operations, securing these agentic identities will be paramount for maintaining overall cybersecurity posture, particularly as they operate with broader access privileges. The company emphasizes that its single-agent, cloud-native platform gives it a distinct advantage in this new landscape, allowing for quicker threat detection and response across the expanding threat landscape.

CrowdStrike’s leadership position in the ITDR space reflects the growing market demand for comprehensive identity-centric security solutions. As businesses continue to embrace cloud technologies and AI-driven automation, protecting identities becomes an even more critical component of an effective cybersecurity strategy. The company’s Falcon platform is designed to scale with this evolving threat landscape, providing enterprises with the tools they need to secure their digital assets and intellectual property.

Learn more about the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR). To learn more about Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security.

About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike (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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