Cybersecurity Research

CrowdStrike Named a Leader in Forrester's Proactive Security Platforms Report

CrowdStrike · 24 Sept 2026

Key Takeaway SMBs should look beyond vulnerability severity scores alone and focus on which exposures are most likely to be exploited when prioritising security fixes.

CrowdStrike has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Proactive Security Platforms, Q3 2026, receiving the highest Strategy score in the evaluation along with maximum marks in the Innovation and Roadmap categories. Forrester's report notes that the security market is shifting away from simply identifying vulnerabilities, since finding exposures has become easier, but understanding which assets are at risk, which flaws attackers are likely to exploit, and how to prioritise fixes remains a major challenge for security teams.

CrowdStrike's Falcon Exposure Management aims to address this by combining exposure data with threat intelligence, exploit prediction, and attack path analysis, helping teams prioritise and act more quickly. It is built into the wider CrowdStrike Falcon platform used for threat detection and response. Forrester also highlighted positive customer feedback on CrowdStrike's Charlotte AI and AgentWorks tools, which provide both ready-made and custom AI agents to automate time-consuming risk assessment and remediation tasks.

The report also points to CrowdStrike's ExPRT.AI exploit prediction feature, which distinguishes between a vulnerability's severity score and its actual likelihood of being exploited. This distinction matters because attackers often choose vulnerabilities that are practical for them to use, not necessarily those with the highest severity ratings.

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