CrowdStrike Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Proactive Security Platforms, Q3 2026

CrowdStrike received the highest Strategy category score in the evaluation and the highest possible scores in the Innovation and Roadmap criteria.

CrowdStrike has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Proactive Security Platforms, Q3 2026. We received the highest Strategy category score in the evaluation and maximum scores in both the Innovation and Roadmap criteria.

This evaluation reflects how the market is evolving. Proactive security is moving beyond traditional vulnerability management. While discovering vulnerabilities has become easier, security teams have a harder time understanding the assets and resources each exposure puts at risk, which exposures attackers are likely to use, and how they should prioritize remediation.

Forrester describes this shift in its report: “This market has evolved from ASM [attack surface management] collecting visibility to exposure management modernizing prioritization to action as the next frontier for proactive security platforms.” 

CrowdStrike is leading the industry in this direction with a unified approach that brings visibility, prioritization, validation, and remediation together. CrowdStrike Falcon® Exposure Management combines exposure data with CrowdStrike’s threat intelligence, exploit prediction, and attack path analysis so teams can prioritize and act faster. It’s delivered through the same AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® platform that organizations use to detect, investigate, and stop threats.

CrowdStrike’s Strategy category score was the highest among all providers in the evaluation. Forrester recognized CrowdStrike’s success in delivering new innovations and gave CrowdStrike 5/5 scores in the Innovation and Roadmap criteria. 

Customers that Forrester interviewed offered positive feedback on CrowdStrike® Charlotte AI™ and AgentWorks, the latter of which Forrester says positions CrowdStrike’s roadmap to deliver ahead of customer needs.