CrowdStrike Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Service Providers, Q3 2026

The security problem is no longer just one of scale and scope. It is one of speed.

Defenders are responsible for an expanding attack surface across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, AI, and unmanaged infrastructure, while adversaries move across those domains with increasing speed. AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, exploitation, reconnaissance, and interactive intrusion activity, compressing the time security teams have to understand what is happening and respond.

At the same time, the threat intelligence market remains fragmented. Forrester notes that most providers address only a subset of threat intelligence use cases, often forcing enterprises to combine multiple solutions to achieve the visibility and capabilities they need.

That fragmentation creates an incomplete picture. When adversary intelligence, external risk, telemetry, exposure, and hunting context live across separate systems and providers, security teams are left stitching together pieces of the threat before they can act.

What they need is a comprehensive view that brings those signals together so they can understand what matters to their environment and act with the speed the threat demands.

Highest in Current Offering: Platform-Native Intelligence for Deeper Context

CrowdStrike received the highest Current Offering score in the evaluation.

Forrester identifies CrowdStrike’s strength as its platform-native intelligence, powered by proprietary endpoint telemetry that external vendors cannot access through partnerships or integrations. It also describes CrowdStrike’s deep and dark web coverage as extensive and highly contextualized.

CrowdStrike combines that telemetry with original adversary intelligence, incident response insights, CrowdStrike Falcon® Adversary OverWatch™ threat hunting, malware analysis, infrastructure collection, and deep and dark web sources.