CrowdStrike Dominates Forrester Wave for Managed Detection and Response Services
AUSTIN, Texas – Febuary 27, 2025 – CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has been recognized as a leader in the competitive Managed Detection and Response (MDR) landscape. The company earned the top spot in the Strategy category in The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection and Response Services, Q1 2025
, solidifying its position as a frontrunner in the industry.
Forrester wave Recognizes CrowdStrike’s Superior strategy and Capabilities
The Forrester Wave report highlights CrowdStrike’s strengths in several key areas. The company received the highest possible scores across multiple criteria within the Current Offering category.These included:
- Detection surface: Endpoint
- Detection surface: Identity
- Managed investigation
- Threat hunting
- Analyst experience
- Dashboards and reporting
This recognition underscores CrowdStrike’s commitment to providing thorough and effective MDR services to its clients.
addressing the Challenges of Modern Cybersecurity
Today’s cybersecurity landscape is characterized by increasingly refined threats and a shortage of skilled professionals. Security teams are often overwhelmed by the complexity and cost of managing numerous security tools.CrowdStrike aims to alleviate these challenges with its CrowdStrike Falcon® Complete Next-Gen MDR
offering.
This solution acts as a force multiplier for internal teams, optimizing security spending and streamlining operations. It combines elite security expertise with the power of the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform
and falcon Flex
, CrowdStrike’s flexible licensing model.
Cross-Domain Detection and Intelligence-Driven Threat Hunting
Modern adversaries are known for their speed,stealth,and ability to exploit vulnerabilities across various domains. They often target trusted identities, cloud misconfigurations, and supply chain weaknesses to infiltrate organizations undetected. To combat these threats, security teams require cross-domain detection, intelligence-driven threat hunting, and rapid response capabilities.
According to the Forrester report, CrowdStrike stands out in its ability to detect across endpoint, extended, and identity detection surfaces.
The report further notes that CrowdStrike via Falcon complete Next-Gen MDR knows how to detect, investigate, and find adversaries well before those adversaries want to be discovered.
Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR: Enhancing Security Team Efficiency
falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR
dramatically improves security team efficiency by accelerating the detection, investigation, and response to advanced threats across endpoints, cloud, identity, and third-party data sources. A key component of this solution is Charlotte AI Detection Triage
, CrowdStrike’s agentic AI-powered innovation.
This technology triages security decisions with over 98% accuracy1, eliminating more than 40 hours of manual work per week on average2. Charlotte AI is trained on millions of real-world triage decisions from Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR analysts, combining elite cyber expertise with AI-native platform technology.
Executive Perspective
Thomas Etheridge, chief global professional services officer at CrowdStrike, emphasized the company’s commitment to innovation, stating, CrowdStrike continues to define MDR, combining cutting-edge technology with elite cyber expertise to deliver unrivaled protection. We believe this recognition from Forrester is a testament to our relentless commitment to innovation, continually advancing our holistic approach to MDR with the best people, processes and technology the industry has to offer.
Industry Recognition and Accolades
crowdstrike’s MDR services have consistently garnered recognition from top analyst firms and industry reports. Recent accolades include:
- Customers’ Choice in the 2024 Gartner Peer Insights™ ‘Voice of the Customer’ Managed Detection and Response report
- Frost & Sullivan’s Company of the Year award in the MDR market
- Overall Leader in kuppingercole’s 2024 Leadership Compass for MDR
- Delivered the fastest mean-time-to-detect (MTTD), up to 11 times faster than competing vendors in MITRE Engenuity’s ATT&CK® Evaluations: Managed Services-Round 2
CrowdStrike’s MDR Dominance: A Cybersecurity Expert Interview
Is the cybersecurity industry finally reaching a tipping point where proactive, AI-driven threat hunting is no longer a luxury but a necessity?
Interviewer: Dr. Anya Sharma, welcome to World Today News. Your expertise in cybersecurity threat detection and response makes you uniquely qualified to comment on CrowdStrike’s recent success in the Forrester Wave for Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services. CrowdStrike secured the top spot, highlighting their strategy and capabilities. Can you elaborate on the significance of this achievement?
Dr. Sharma: thank you for having me. CrowdStrike’s top ranking is incredibly meaningful, signifying a major shift in the MDR landscape. The forrester Wave is a highly respected benchmark, and their recognition validates CrowdStrike’s approach to proactive threat hunting and advanced threat detection. Organizations are increasingly recognizing that reactive security measures are insufficient in today’s complex threat environment. This win shows a strong market validation for the AI-driven, holistic approach to MDR, emphasizing the importance of predictive capabilities, real-time detection, and swift response to sophisticated cyber threats.
Interviewer: The report praised CrowdStrike’s strengths across various criteria, including detection surfaces (endpoint and identity), managed investigation, threat hunting, analyst experience, and dashboards and reporting. Could you delve deeper into what makes their approach so effective?
Dr. sharma: CrowdStrike’s success stems from its integrated platform approach. This means they do not just collect endpoint data, but bring together identity signals, data from cloud-based applications and services, and external threat intelligence feeds. That holistic view of an organization’s security posture is exceptionally powerful at preventing threats.Their focus on managed investigation and threat hunting goes beyond mere alert triage, actively seeking out and neutralizing adversaries frequently enough before they fully materialize a breach. This proactive approach is crucial because modern attackers deploy highly sophisticated techniques to evade detection, often thru stealthy attacks taking advantage of cloud misconfigurations, exploited credentials or vulnerabilities in the supply chain. The ease and quality of the reporting and dashboards provided enables better decision making by the clients’ internal teams, improving their security operations.
Interviewer: CrowdStrike’s Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR solution plays a central role in their success. How does this solution differ from traditional MDR offerings, and what are its key advantages?
Dr. Sharma: Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR differentiates itself through its robust utilization of artificial intelligence. Unlike traditional MDR, which often relies heavily on manual analysis and response, CrowdStrike leverages AI for automated threat detection, triage, and response. This significantly speeds up detection velocity — the time from discovering a malicious action to responding to it — and frees up human analysts to focus on more complex threats. their charlotte AI Detection Triage system,for example,boasts over 98% accuracy,dramatically reducing the manual workload of analysts. The platform’s integrated approach minimizes detection fatigue and allows for rapid identification and response to cross-domain threats (endpoint, cloud, and identity). This increases visibility across organizational perimeters,providing a strong advantage.
Interviewer: The report explicitly mentions CrowdStrike’s capability to detect threats across endpoint, extended, and identity detection surfaces. Why is this cross-domain visibility so critical in today’s threat landscape?
Dr. Sharma: Modern cyberattacks are rarely limited to a single vector. Attackers frequently enough employ a multi-stage approach, leveraging vulnerabilities across different surfaces—endpoints, cloud environments, user identities—to achieve their objectives. Thus, a thorough security strategy demands cross-domain detection to provide a full picture of the attack. CrowdStrike’s ability to seamlessly integrate and correlate data from these diverse sources provides a major advantage, effectively enabling much faster mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) and mean-time-to-respond (MTTR). This capability helps prevent escalation and ultimately mitigates the impact of a security incident.
Interviewer: For organizations considering adopting an MDR solution, what are some key factors they shoudl consider, and how can they select a provider best suited to their needs?
Dr. Sharma: choosing an MDR provider requires careful consideration:
Assess your organization’s risk profile: Identify your critical assets and potential vulnerabilities.
Evaluate the provider’s technology: Look for strong AI capabilities and cross-domain visibility.
Review the provider’s expertise and experience: Seek a provider with a proven track record, especially regarding threat hunting and incident response.
Consider the provider’s pricing model: ensure it aligns with your budget and operational requirements.
* Check customer reviews and testimonials: Gain insights into the provider’s performance and reputation.
Interviewer: Dr. Sharma, thank you for shedding light on CrowdStrike’s achievement and providing valuable insights for our readers. This discussion highlights the critical shift towards proactive threat hunting and the importance of AI-driven MDR solutions in modern cybersecurity.
What are your final thoughts for organizations seeking robust and reliable cybersecurity solutions?
Dr. Sharma: The shift towards proactive,AI-driven cybersecurity is undeniable. Organizations must prioritize solutions that provide comprehensive threat detection, response, and proactive threat hunting across all touchpoints. It’s no longer sufficient to have a reactive approach; organizations need to move to build a holistic and proactive security posture that utilizes AI to improve defenses and enhance security team efficiency.
We encourage you to share your thoughts and experiences in the comments below. Do you agree that AI-driven MDR is the future of cybersecurity? What other approaches do you think are critical for enhancing overall security posture? Let’s discuss!