CrowdStrike Crowned Leader in 2025 IDC CNAPP Report

CrowdStrike announced its recognition as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform 2025 Vendor Assessment.

The company views this as a validation of its innovation and leadership in securing modern hybrid environments, offering the only CNAPP with unified, real-time protection across cloud, identity, and endpoint.

Adversaries exploit hybrid complexity and fragmented cloud tools, overwhelming security teams with false alerts and limited visibility. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, built into the Falcon platform, unifies protection with code-to-cloud visibility, AI-driven risk insights, and real-time threat response.

The IDC MarketScape noted,

“CrowdStrike Falcon provides proactive unified cloud security posture management (USPM) that leverages threat intelligence, end-to-end attack paths, and ExPRT.AI to reduce alert noise and attack surface. Falcon delivers reactive security in forms of cloud workload protection (CWP) and cloud detection and response, enhanced by threat intelligence, allowing SOC teams to detect and respond to active threats across hybrid clouds, stopping adversary activity.”

“Modern cloud adversaries don’t stay in one lane – they move fluidly across cloud, identity, and endpoint to evade detection and achieve their objectives,”

Said Elia Zaitsev, Chief Technology Officer at CrowdStrike.

“Too many tools marketed as CNAPPs stop at posture, offering static risk visibility without the ability to detect or respond to active threats. Falcon Cloud Security was built from day one to deliver real-time detection, runtime protection, and cross-domain correlation in a single platform. We believe the IDC MarketScape’s recognition validates that architecture – one designed to meet the speed, scale, and complexity of today’s cloud attacks.”

This recognition further strengthens CrowdStrike’s position as the industry benchmark for unified cloud security, following top rankings in the 2025 Frost Radar for Cloud and Application Runtime Security, the 2024 GigaOm Radar for CNAPP, and the Frost Radar for CNAPP for the third year in a row.