CrowdStrike Named a Frost Radar™ Leader in Cloud and Application Runtime Security

CrowdStrike has been named an innovation and growth Leader in the inaugural 2025 Frost Radar™: Cloud and Application Runtime Security (CARS), positioned highest on the Innovation Index among all vendors evaluated. This marks another milestone in our mission to stop breaches with the industry's most unified and comprehensive cloud runtime protection. 

Today’s cloud attacks rarely occur in isolation. They are typically part of cross-domain attacks that traverse identities, endpoints, and the cloud. For many SOC teams, cloud environments and applications represent unfamiliar terrain and add a more dynamic attack surface to an already challenging security landscape. Organizations require robust cloud detection and response (CDR) to outpace today’s adversaries and protect their cloud and hybrid environments as threats continue to evolve. 

CrowdStrike pioneered CDR and continues to innovate to secure hybrid cloud environments. Frost & Sullivan recognized CrowdStrike as the only CNAPP delivering unified, real-time protection across cloud, identity, and endpoint — a core requirement for stopping cloud breaches as adversaries target hybrid environments and chain attacks that exploit cloud workloads, applications, and identities. We provide advanced cloud security with real-time threat correlation, all delivered through the unified CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. 

Frost & Sullivan highlights CrowdStrike’s advanced runtime protection, CDR capabilities, and integrated platform approach: “Its extensive platform support [and] seamless integration with its XDR, threat intelligence and MDR services, make Falcon Cloud Security a leading choice for organizations seeking real-time cloud threat management,” its report states.

A Pioneer in Cloud Detection and Response

CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security delivers advanced runtime protection in addition to 24/7 managed CDR, which combines AI-powered detection with elite human expertise. It’s built to protect the entire cloud estate, including infrastructure, workloads, applications, SaaS, identities, AI models, and data.

Frost & Sullivan calls CrowdStrike “a pioneer in cloud detection and response” and describes Falcon Cloud Security as “an integrated suite of key security functions designed to secure cloud environments.” CrowdStrike’s CDR is built on the foundation of our cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) solution with excellent runtime protection capabilities. Falcon Cloud Security correlates runtime activity with cloud context to expose attacks as they unfold, empowering SOC teams to detect and stop adversaries before they move laterally or escalate privileges.

Figure 1. 2025 Frost Radar™: Cloud and Application Runtime Security

Frost & Sullivan also praised CrowdStrike’s ability to correlate cloud events with endpoint and identity telemetry within the Falcon platform. This cross-domain approach, enriched with threat intelligence and 24/7 managed threat hunting, enables security teams to understand the full adversary attack path. Combined, these capabilities “help provide end-to-end visibility and protection across all layers,” Frost & Sullivan states. CrowdStrike’s adversary-based threat intelligence powers advanced behavior analytics and AI/ML to build a vast repository of indicators of attack, which detect and stop advanced threats including malware-free attacks.

“Combined with AI-driven anomaly detection, trained on an abundance of data from in-house threat intelligence and customer environments, its CDR helps identify subtle signs of attacker behavior early,” Frost & Sullivan says of CrowdStrike. 

At the heart of our solution is the Falcon sensor, delivering unparalleled visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This visibility is amplified by our extensive threat intelligence network, which tracks 255+ adversaries and publishes an average of 16.5 million indicators of compromise weekly. When combined with integration across our endpoint security, threat intelligence, and managed detection and response (MDR) offerings, Falcon Cloud Security: Cloud Runtime Protection provides organizations with a unified defense against cross-domain threats.

“By using the same agent for the entire platform, Falcon Cloud Security can protect servers and monitor container runtime behavior and cloud workload activity, providing high-fidelity data from inside the OS,” Frost & Sullivan says. “This unified agent approach, combined with agentless scanning for cloud configs, enables real-time response actions across both hybrid cloud environments and the multiple layers of the cloud stack.”

Cloud Runtime Protection Built for the Future

CrowdStrike's leadership is built on a foundation of proven security excellence and our unwavering mission to stop breaches. By drawing from real-world attack scenarios and maintaining a cross-domain, adversary-focused approach, we've developed runtime protection capabilities that address the sophisticated tactics of today's threat actors.

Frost & Sullivan describes CrowdStrike as “highly rated and positioned” for our “long term vision, solution stability, scalability and clear roadmap.” This showcases our position as a trusted long-term partner in cloud runtime protection, with the vision and capabilities to continuously advance CDR technologies as threats evolve. 

With our unified platform approach, extensive threat intelligence, and proven track record of stopping breaches, CrowdStrike continues to set the standard, helping organizations confidently secure their cloud environments against today's most sophisticated threats.

Read the full report: 2025 Frost Radar™: Cloud and Application Runtime Security

Additional Resources

• Learn more about CrowdStrike Falcon CDR.
• Deep-dive into best practices for stopping cloud breaches with the Cloud Detection and Response Survival Guide for the SOC.
• See CrowdStrike in action against LABYRINTH CHOLLIMA in our new Demo Showcase.
• See how CrowdStrike performed in other industry reports.