CrowdStrike named a leader in Forrester's attack surface report

CrowdStrike has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Attack Surface Management Solutions, Q3 2024. This evaluation placed CrowdStrike at the top of the Current Offering category and awarded the company the highest possible score in the Market Presence category.

The company attributes its leadership position to its AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform. CrowdStrike explained that this recognition is a result of customers consolidating their cybersecurity tools onto the CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management platform, in place of multiple, fragmented vulnerability management tools.

According to CrowdStrike, their Falcon Exposure Management provides comprehensive visibility and AI-driven vulnerability prioritisation across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments. This has reportedly led to a 98% reduction in critical vulnerabilities, empowering organisations to reduce risk and automate responses proactively. The Forrester report states that CrowdStrike "showcases exemplary approaches to innovation" through new features like ITOps and GenAI enhancements, and offers "a superb analyst experience."

Built on ExPRT.AI, CrowdStrike's patented technology for risk-based vulnerability prioritisation, the company's recent innovations include Network Vulnerability Assessment for continuous sensor-based scanning and Attack Path Analysis. These features identify cross-domain exposures and attack paths to critical assets, enabling security teams to predict adversary behaviour and strengthen high-risk areas.

Raj Rajamani, head of products at CrowdStrike, highlighted the importance of understanding and managing risk in increasingly complex IT environments. "As organisations operate increasingly complex IT environments, understanding and managing risk across every attack path is critical – stopping breaches starts with proactive security," he said. Rajamani believes that being recognised by Forrester as a leader underlines Falcon platform's capacity to consolidate disparate security tools and data sources, providing a more effective approach for organisations to identify and address their most critical vulnerabilities.