CrowdStrike Named an Innovation and Growth Leader in the 2026 Frost Radar™: Cloud and Application Runtime Security

___ Blog Featured Recent Video Category Start Free Trial CrowdStrike Named an Innovation and Growth Leader in the 2026 Frost Radar™: Cloud and Application Runtime Security For the second consecutive time, Falcon Cloud Security is recognized as a Leader for its adversary-informed, real-time cloud detection and response and ability to connect cloud security to the SOC. June 11, 2026 • Karishma Asthana • Cloud & Application Security We're proud to announce that Frost & Sullivan has named CrowdStrike a Leader for the second consecutive time in the 2026 Frost Radar™: Cloud and Application Runtime Security (CARS). Building on last year's recognition, CrowdStrike scored highest on both the Growth and Innovation indices. This is a reflection of our differentiated approach to cloud detection and response (CDR) — CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security combines adversary-informed detection logic with native SOC integration to detect and respond to active cloud threats. As adversaries accelerate, CDR has become the defining capability of a cloud security strategy — the cloud equivalent of what EDR brought to endpoint protection. Identifying risk is no longer enough; organizations must be able to quickly act on it to stop today’s adversaries. This is where CrowdStrike leads. Setting the Standard for Cloud Detection and Response What sets CrowdStrike's CDR apart is the intelligence behind it. Detection logic is informed by CrowdStrike's threat intelligence team, which tracks more than 280 named threat groups, including cloud-focused threat actors. This helps ensure detections continuously evolve alongside attacker behavior rather than relying on static, predefined patterns. As Frost & Sullivan notes, CrowdStrike “has moved beyond batch processing of logs into a streaming CDR architecture that ingests cloud control‑plane and workload telemetry as it is generated, applying a new real‑time detection engine, streaming analytics and adversary‑informed IOAs to detect malicious activity in seconds and orchestrates automated cloud‑native response actions via Falcon Fusion SOAR, which enables significant reduction in detection and response latency compared to snapshot‑based CNAPP engines." Underpinning this is CrowdStrike's ability to correlate telemetry across cloud infrastructure, workloads, identities, applications, data, and AI services, which gives security teams unified context for prevention, detection, investigation, and response across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Security teams still relying on snapshot-based CNAPP engines risk missing active attacks as they unfold, which creates blind spots during the most critical moments of an incident. From Cloud Detection to SOC Response Detection depth alone isn't enough. The harder problem is connecting cloud security findings to the SOC workflows and response processes that security teams rely on every day. As Frost & Sullivan highlights, CrowdStrike “connects cloud activity, workload telemetry, identity context, and threat intelligence into a SOC-consumable detection and response workflow. By integrating CDR with Falcon XDR, NG-SIEM, Falcon Fusion SOAR, Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR, OverWatch, and Unified Cases, CrowdStrike extends cloud runtime security into the broader security operations environment, enabling faster cloud threat detection, investigation, prioritization, and remediation within existing SOC workflows, not through the management of separate cloud security operations, which is seen as a major differentiator of FCS."  CrowdStrike Falcon® Complete managed detection and response (MDR) and CrowdStrike Falcon® Adversary OverWatch™ further extend this with elite managed detection and 24/7 human-led threat hunting. The Cloud Security Platform Enterprises Consolidate On and Grow With Frost & Sullivan recognizes CrowdStrike as "one of the fastest-growing vendors in the cloud security market," a position backed by cloud security ARR surpassing $800 million USD and growing more than 35% year-over-year. That growth is driven in part by CrowdStrike's single-sensor architecture. The same lightweight Falcon sensor that protects endpoints extends seamlessly to cloud workloads and containers, creating a natural consolidation path without additional sensors or separate infrastructure. CrowdStrike® Charlotte AI™, trained on millions of real-world SOC decisions from the Falcon Complete MDR team, brings AI-powered triage, investigation, and response automation to cloud security today, reducing analyst burden and helping teams scale without proportional headcount growth. Looking ahead, CrowdStrike's agentic SOC roadmap reflects a continued focus on improving response speed and helping teams operationalize cloud runtime security as their needs evolve. What's Next for Falcon Cloud Security As Frost & Sullivan notes, CrowdStrike is "expected to further strengthen its innovation around runtime security, CDR, and SOC integration" with a roadmap spanning expanded Kubernetes detections, unified cloud detections, and broader AI workload security. CrowdStrike remains committed to evolving Falcon Cloud Security as the platform that connects cloud risk, workload behavior, identity, and SOC workflows into a single operational fabric. In a world where adversaries move in seconds, detection and response must too. Read the full report: Download the full report to learn why CrowdStrike was named a Leader in the 2026 Frost Radar: Cloud and Application Runtime Security and what it means for organizations’ cloud security strategies. Additional Resources Try Falcon Cloud Security free for 15 days. Read the Cloud Detection and Response Survival Guide for the SOC. Download the CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report. 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