CrowdStrike Recognized as Frost & Sullivan’s Company of the Year for Cloud Security Innovation

CrowdStrike Secures Dual Frost & Sullivan “Company of the Year” Awards, Reinforcing Cloud Runtime Security Leadership

AUSTIN, Texas — CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan with its 2026 Company of the Year award for Cloud Workload Security (CWS) and its 2025 Company of the Year award for Global SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM), marking a second consecutive year for both prestigious honors. These accolades underscore CrowdStrike’s dominant position in cloud runtime security, encompassing cloud workloads, SaaS platforms, and the burgeoning field of AI security through its unified platform.

In an era of accelerating cloud adoption driven by AI, the digital attack surface is expanding at an unprecedented rate, often outpacing the capabilities of traditional security frameworks. The proliferation of AI workloads and AI-enhanced SaaS applications necessitates robust, real-time protection mechanisms. This evolving threat landscape is prompting security teams to move away from disparate, posture-focused tools towards integrated, runtime-centric security solutions. Frost & Sullivan’s recognition highlights CrowdStrike’s success in addressing this critical need with its unified, runtime-first approach to cloud security.

Frost & Sullivan observed, “By integrating runtime defense, comprehensive code-to-cloud visibility, and sophisticated SOC-grade detection and response capabilities, CrowdStrike delivers a level of protection and operational efficiency that significantly surpasses the offerings of fragmented or posture-only cloud security solutions.”

Key insights from the Frost & Sullivan reports reveal:

**Setting the Benchmark for Cloud Runtime Security**
CrowdStrike has been lauded for its unified, runtime-powered cloud security platform, which effectively reduces operational complexities while providing deep visibility, real-time threat prevention, and scalable protection across diverse multi-cloud and hybrid environments. The reports emphasize the indispensable role of runtime protection in thwarting cloud security breaches.

**Securing the Cloud for the AI Revolution**
The analysis acknowledges CrowdStrike’s prowess in extending cloud runtime protection to safeguard AI workloads and SaaS environments, particularly as AI continues to expand the cloud attack surface. The reports underscore CrowdStrike’s ability to secure AI infrastructure, detect and manage AI-related risks, and deliver the unified visibility and runtime defense essential for organizations to confidently adopt AI at scale.

**Dominance in SaaS Security Posture Management**
Frost & Sullivan has identified CrowdStrike as a leader in the global SSPM market, commending its capacity for continuous, intelligence-driven SaaS security. By correlating SaaS security findings with endpoint and identity telemetry, CrowdStrike’s integrated strategy exposes and neutralizes risks that often elude traditional posture-only SSPM solutions, solidifying SaaS security as a critical component of the modern cloud security posture.

The CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security solution offers industry-leading pre-runtime and runtime protection across the entire cloud workload lifecycle. As an integral part of the broader CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, it unifies cloud, endpoint, identity, and data protection, providing the end-to-end visibility and automated defense required to prevent breaches in complex hybrid environments and for rapidly evolving AI workloads. Furthermore, CrowdStrike Falcon® Shield extends this integrated approach to SaaS environments, delivering real-time protection for human, non-human, and AI agent identities, applications, and data.

“The cloud continues to be a primary theater of operations for cyber adversaries, who frequently exploit the blind spots created by fragmented security strategies,” stated Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer at CrowdStrike. “These ‘Company of the Year’ recognitions from Frost & Sullivan strongly validate CrowdStrike’s leadership position as organizations increasingly consolidate their security on the Falcon platform to streamline operations and secure cloud workloads, SaaS environments, and AI initiatives at scale.”

**About CrowdStrike**
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global leader in cybersecurity, has revolutionized modern security with its advanced cloud-native platform designed to protect critical enterprise risk areas, including endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, and data.

The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and sophisticated AI, leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tactics, and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver highly accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting capabilities, and prioritized vulnerability observability.

Built from the ground up for the cloud with a single, lightweight agent architecture, the Falcon platform ensures rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity, and immediate time-to-value.

CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.

To learn more about Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 Company of the Year for Cloud Workload Security (CWS) and the 2025 Company of the Year for Global SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM), please visit the CrowdStrike website.

For additional information on CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, please visit the product page on the CrowdStrike website.

© 2026 CrowdStrike, Inc. All rights reserved. CrowdStrike and CrowdStrike Falcon are trademarks of CrowdStrike, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. CrowdStrike may also use the brands of third parties to identify their products and services.