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CrowdStrike recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave report: Extended Detection and Response Platforms for Q2 2026

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CrowdStrike has been recognized as a leader in the independent study The Forrester Wave™: Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Platforms for the second quarter of 2026. Based on the evaluation results, the company received the highest score among all providers in the ‘Current Offering’ category, as well as maximum scores for the ‘Innovation’ and ‘Community’ criteria in the ‘Strategy’ category.

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Agentic SOC

A new approach to cybersecurity operations

Modern AI cyber threats are evolving faster and becoming more complex. Attackers can move between different environments within seconds, exploiting stolen credentials and vulnerabilities of disparate security tools. In such conditions, traditional protection approaches no longer provide the necessary response speed.

The CrowdStrike platform architecture, built on a single agent and centralized management console, lays the foundation for a modern Agentic SOC — a security operations center where analysts work alongside intelligent AI agents. This approach allows for the automation of incident detection, analysis, and response, reducing response time to threats and improving the cybersecurity teams’ efficiency.

Forrester’s report also highlights CrowdStrike’s AI agents as one of the platform’s key advantages, as well as the company’s approach to testing and validating AI models, which ensures high accuracy in their work.

Additionally, analysts gave positive feedback on the platform’s development strategy through the acquisition of specialized companies. The integration of SGNL solutions for continuous digital identity protection and Seraphic for browser protection during execution expanded the platform’s capabilities, providing a unified security model for endpoint devices, cloud environments, digital identities, and browsers.

The report also emphasizes that one of CrowdStrike’s strongest points is its extensive coverage of proprietary threat detection mechanisms, especially at the endpoint level. This becomes particularly significant against the backdrop of the active implementation of corporate AI solutions, which create new cybersecurity demands.

As one of the pioneers of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) technology, CrowdStrike is actively developing a new direction, AI Detection and Response (AIDR), aimed at protecting artificial intelligence systems. The company’s solutions provide data protection, model security, prompt security, AI agents, digital identities, infrastructure, and interactions between all AI ecosystem components.

CrowdStrike’s recognition in The Forrester Wave EDR report confirms the company’s strong position in the XDR solutions market and its focus on developing modern cybersecurity platforms capable of effectively countering threats in the age of artificial intelligence.

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