CrowdStrike Named the Frost Radar™ Leader in Cloud and Application Runtime Security for Second Consecutive Time
CrowdStrike ranked highest in Growth and Innovation among all vendors as runtime-first security becomes the standard for cloud and AI workload protection
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced it has been named the Growth and Innovation Leader in the 2026 Frost Radar™: Cloud and Application Runtime Security for the second consecutive time, scoring highest of all vendors evaluated. As AI workloads and frontier model risk expose the limits of posture-only defense, organizations are turning to runtime-first security on the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform to stop breaches in real time.
Frost & Sullivan highlighted “CrowdStrike’s growth in runtime security is supported by the broader market shift from posture-centric cloud security toward runtime detection and response” and noted this shift aligns “directly with CrowdStrike’s strengths in cloud workload protection, real-time CDR, and integrated response.”
“Posture management surfaces risks. Runtime security stops breaches. The market is choosing platforms that deliver both,” said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer, CrowdStrike. “As adversaries weaponize frontier AI models to collapse the window between vulnerability and exploit, CrowdStrike delivers real-time protection at the point of execution, stopping breaches before impact.”
