CrowdStrike named leader in GigaOm XDR report for 2025

CrowdStrike has been recognised as a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for Extended Detection and Response (XDR).

The report highlighted CrowdStrike's performance in both the Key and Emerging Features categories, awarding the company perfect scores in Threat Detection, Cloud Security Integration, Unified Telemetry and Scalability.

According to the report, security teams are facing increasing challenges due to the growing number of enterprise data sources and the accelerated speed of cyber attacks.

In response, GigaOm noted CrowdStrike's "platform-first approach to security, emphasizing unified visibility and control across the enterprise attack surface."

CrowdStrike's Falcon platform was specifically cited for its single-agent, single-platform architecture. This approach is designed to unify data from both native and third-party sources, combine it with artificial intelligence-driven detection, and implement automated workflows. According to the report, this eliminates complexity across several domains, including endpoint, cloud, identity, data and next-generation Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems.

Perfect scores were assigned in multiple categories. For Cross-Domain Protection, GigaOm awarded Falcon 5/5 for Threat Detection and Unified Telemetry, noting, "the Falcon platform leverages first-party data and cross-domain analytics to link events across endpoints, identities, and cloud workloads and seamlessly integrates third-party telemetry via Falcon Next-Gen SIEM."

"This eliminates gaps between systems and gives security teams the speed and context to stop cross-domain threats."

For AI-Native Security Operation Centre (SOC) effectiveness, the report stated, "AI models are continuously trained to optimise detection, the Falcon platform prioritises high-risk alerts and groups them into incidents, and analysts use drill-down analysis and Charlotte AI for investigation to eliminate manual effort and accelerate response."

Cloud Security Integration was another category where CrowdStrike's solution was distinguished. The report singled out that, "CrowdStrike encompasses endpoint protection, detection and response, cloud security, identity protection, and threat intelligence within a single agent and management console," contrasting this with other vendors requiring additional cloud security modules.

The Scalability of CrowdStrike's platform, supported by its single-agent, cloud-native architecture, also received a perfect score. The GigaOm report found the architecture delivers "the ideal balance of security and performance, driving AI-native innovation across the enterprise."

The Falcon platform incorporates agentic AI advancements such as Charlotte AI Agentic Detection Triage, which is reported to deliver more than 98% accuracy in autonomous triage and save security teams over 40 hours of manual work per week.

The company's ongoing development in Falcon Identity Protection and Falcon Cloud Security aims to protect identity attack lifecycles and the infrastructure powering artificial intelligence in business environments.

Elia Zaitsev, Chief Technology Officer at CrowdStrike, commented on the report findings, stating: "CrowdStrike is the gold standard for modern cybersecurity platforms. This report validates our leadership position as the platform innovator for the AI-era. Our single, AI-native platform is built on a differentiated architecture that combines massive volumes of first-party data with seamless third-party extensibility."

"It's the foundation of the modern SOC – delivering speed, precision, and real-time response at scale. In an AI-driven world, only a truly unified platform can meet the moment. That's why organisations continue to choose CrowdStrike to stop the breach."