CrowdStrike announced it has earned recognition as the Growth and Innovation Leader in the 2026 Frost Radar. Cloud Runtime Security and Application Runtime Security report. The company secured the highest score among all evaluated vendors. As a result, CrowdStrike received this recognition for the second consecutive year.
The achievement highlights growing demand for Cloud Runtime Security solutions. Organizations increasingly face risks from AI workloads and frontier AI models. Therefore, many enterprises now prioritize runtime protection alongside posture management.
According to Frost & Sullivan, CrowdStrike continues benefiting from the industry’s shift toward runtime-focused security. Furthermore, the report noted that organizations are moving away from posture-only approaches.
Frost & Sullivan stated that “CrowdStrike’s growth in runtime security is supported by the broader market shift from posture-centric cloud security toward runtime detection and response” and noted this shift aligns “directly with CrowdStrike’s strengths in cloud workload protection, real-time CDR, and integrated response.” CrowdStrike delivers Cloud Runtime Security through the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. Consequently, organizations can identify and stop threats during execution rather than after exposure.
“Posture management surfaces risks. Runtime security stops breaches. The market is choosing platforms that deliver both,” said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer, CrowdStrike. “As adversaries weaponize frontier AI models to collapse the window between vulnerability and exploit, CrowdStrike delivers real-time protection at the point of execution, stopping breaches before impact.”
Frost Highlights Runtime Detection and Unified Security Architecture
The report identified CrowdStrike’s leadership in cloud runtime protection. Frost & Sullivan highlighted the company’s “clear advantage” in delivering faster cloud threat detection, investigation, prioritization, and remediation. Additionally, the report emphasized CrowdStrike’s ability to integrate security processes within existing SOC workflows. As a result, organizations avoid managing separate cloud security operations.
Frost also recognized CrowdStrike as the pioneer of Cloud Detection and Response. The report stated that “CrowdStrike’s most differentiated capability is CDR” and highlighted its “real-time detection architecture.” According to the report, this architecture reduces detection latency from minutes to seconds. Moreover, it enables automated cloud response actions that improve security outcomes.
Another key differentiator involves CrowdStrike’s unified platform architecture. The company combines posture management with detection and response capabilities within a single Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). The report described CrowdStrike’s “core value proposition” as its “ability to correlate telemetry across cloud infrastructure, workloads, identities, applications, data, and AI services.” Consequently, security teams gain a centralized platform for prevention, detection, investigation, and response across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
CrowdStrike Strengthens Protection for AI Workloads
As organizations accelerate AI adoption, cybersecurity continues to become a critical part of AI infrastructure. Therefore, protecting AI workloads remains a growing priority. Frost & Sullivan recognized CrowdStrike’s recent AI-focused innovations. The report noted that this progress strengthens CrowdStrike’s position in connecting cloud risk, workload behavior, and AI workload exposure.
Furthermore, the platform enables better risk management and threat detection through a unified approach. By integrating AI workload visibility with runtime security controls, CrowdStrike helps organizations reduce cyber risk while supporting secure AI deployment.
The recognition reinforces CrowdStrike’s leadership in cloud security, runtime protection, and AI workload defense. As enterprises face increasingly sophisticated threats, the company continues delivering real-time security capabilities designed to stop breaches before they cause damage.
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Source: Businesswire
