CrowdStrike has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Extended Detection and Response Platforms, Q2 2026 report. CrowdStrike ranked highest of any vendor evaluated in the Current Offering category and received the highest possible scores across the Strategy criteria of Innovation and Community.

The Agentic SOC Stops AI-Accelerated Adversaries

Today’s AI-enabled adversary moves across domains in seconds, exploiting stolen identities and fragmented tools that leave analysts stuck in swivel-chair alert triage. Legacy security models cannot keep pace. CrowdStrike is leading the evolution of security operations. The company’s single-sensor, unified platform architecture delivers the foundation for the agentic SOC, elevating analysts from alert chasers to orchestrators of intelligent agents that stop breaches with machine speed and precision across the enterprise.

In CrowdStrike’s vendor profile in the report, Forrester states “AI agents are a clear differentiator, as they enhance the analyst experience. The product has built a strong approach to testing and validation to ensure its AI outputs are accurate.”

Recent acquisitions including SGNL for risk-aware, continuous identity security and Seraphic for browser runtime security extend the platform’s reach and unified security model across every surface where work happens and risk lives. The Forrester report noted that “customers speak highly of CrowdStrike’s acquisition strategy and ability to integrate acquisitions into a true platform.”

Securing AI Where It Executes

Enterprise AI adoption is creating the largest security demand driver since the move to the cloud, and AI executes on the endpoint. Forrester recognised how CrowdStrike’s “strongest features come from its native detection surface coverage, especially on the endpoint.”

As the pioneer of EDR, CrowdStrike is establishing AI Detection and Response (AIDR) as the defining security category of the AI era. CrowdStrike’s AIDR business has gone from zero to 250 percent sequential ARR growth in under two quarters – securing AI across every surface that it operates: data, models, prompts, agents, identities, infrastructure, and the interaction layer where they converge.

“AI has changed how adversaries operate. CrowdStrike has changed how defenders respond,” said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer, CrowdStrike. “CrowdStrike committed to one sensor, one console, one platform from day one, and that architectural advantage is why we can deliver the agentic SOC today and own AIDR, the defining security category of tomorrow. For us, Forrester’s recognition reflects what that foundation makes possible.”

Elia Zaitsev, Chief Technology Officer at CrowdStrike

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