CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Service Providers, Q3 2026 report1. CrowdStrike ranks highest of all vendors in both the Current Offering and Strategy categories.
“The industry is racing to operationalize threat intelligence with AI. But AI agents can only act with the right context, and no one understands the adversary like CrowdStrike,” said Adam Meyers, head of Counter Adversary Operations at CrowdStrike. “Every adversary we track and every breach we stop produces proprietary data. That data advantage is what turns intelligence into action.”
Forrester makes clear that “AI drives operationalization, but contextualization remains king.” The report explains that “the external threat intelligence service providers (ETISP) market recognizes the value of AI in operationalizing threat intelligence while acknowledging that the breadth and depth of threat intelligence visibility is core. With a few exceptions, most vendors address only a subset of threat intelligence use cases.”
We believe CrowdStrike is that exception. Forrester states “CrowdStrike’s strength is its platform-native intelligence, powered by proprietary endpoint telemetry that external vendors cannot access through partnerships or integrations.”
CrowdStrike tracks more than 290 named adversaries and the Falcon sensor generates nearly 7 trillion events daily. For 15 years, the company’s elite threat hunters, intelligence experts, and SOC analysts have produced expert-labeled data as a byproduct of stopping real-world attacks. This intelligence feeds CrowdStrike’s Threat AI to autonomously reason across threat data, hunt adversaries proactively, and take decisive action across the kill chain.
The report continues “CrowdStrike’s vision is to make Threat AI the decision-making core of the agentic security operations center (SOC) by unifying exposure management, vulnerability prioritization, attack surface management, and threat intelligence. Strong R&D investments, roadmap initiatives, and a broad security portfolio position the company well to execute on this vision.”
To learn more about CrowdStrike’s recognition in The Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Service Providers, Q3 2026, please visit our website and read our blog.
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1 Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Service Providers, Q3 2026 |
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About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.
Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft, and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting, and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.
Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity, and immediate time-to-value.
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