Runtime-first cloud security becomes the market standard as AI workloads expose the limits of posture-only defense
CrowdStrike announced it has been named an Innovation and Growth Leader in the 2026 Frost Radar™: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) for the fourth consecutive time. Frost & Sullivan recognized CrowdStrike as “one of the largest and fastest-growing cloud security players in the market,” for its ability to unify posture, runtime protection, and cloud detection and response into a single platform that secures cloud workloads and AI infrastructure at the point of execution.
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Frost & Sullivan highlights CrowdStrike’s “core value proposition is its ability to correlate telemetry across cloud infrastructure, workloads, identities, applications, data, and AI services, giving customers a unified platform for prevention, detection, investigation, and response across major multi-cloud and hybrid environments.”
“Posture tools catalog risk, while runtime protection stops breaches. The market has made its choice, and organizations are consolidating on platforms that deliver both,” said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer at CrowdStrike. “As cloud environments grow more complex, CrowdStrike delivers security where threats materialize. We correlate every cloud risk to live adversary tradecraft and respond in seconds. That is what it means to stop breaches in the cloud.”
Setting the Standard for Modern Cloud Security
CrowdStrike cloud security surpassed $800 million in ending ARR, growing more than 35% year-over-year1 as AI-driven cloud environments continue to expand. Falcon Cloud Security’s ability to operate at runtime at scale continues to set it apart in the market.
Key report findings:
Real-Time, Runtime Protection
Frost highlights CrowdStrike’s “world-class runtime security” to “identify malicious activity in real time, which is different from other agentless scanning solutions that rely on delayed, snapshot-based scanning / analysis.”
Unified Architecture
The report noted CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security transforms the “CNAPP experience from isolated security modules into a proactive, context-rich risk management fabric.” Unified cross-domain visibility and real-time data correlation stops cloud threats before impact.
Pioneering Cloud Detection and Response
“As one of the pioneers in CDR, CrowdStrike is particularly strong in cloud threat detection & response… reducing detection latency to less than 15 seconds and enabling automated cloud response actions.”
Securing Cloud AI Deployments
Frost & Sullivan recognized CrowdStrike for “investing heavily in AI security, including AI applications and workloads, including support for major cloud AI environments and controls around model, data, and identity exposure.”
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