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CrowdStrike has been named the only Leader and Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM). The recognition places CrowdStrike at the forefront of SaaS security, highlighting its Falcon Shield solution as the most innovative and complete platform in the sector. This distinction underscores the company’s advancements in protecting both human and non-human identities as organizations increasingly adopt SaaS and AI-driven technologies.
Why it matters
With the rapid proliferation of SaaS applications and AI agents across enterprises, the attack surface for cyber threats has expanded significantly. Misconfigurations and the growing number of privileged identities present new opportunities for adversaries seeking to infiltrate organizations. CrowdStrike’s unified approach to SaaS security aims to address these evolving risks, offering protection against identity-based threats, unauthorized access, and misconfigurations that could otherwise lead to costly breaches.
Details
The GigaOm Radar Report praised CrowdStrike’s Falcon Shield for its comprehensive capabilities, including privileged access management, real-time threat detection and response, and extensive SaaS integration. CrowdStrike achieved perfect scores in key categories such as SaaS support, policy management, third-party risk assessment, identity threat detection and response, scalability, cost-effectiveness, and ecosystem integration.
Falcon Shield supports over 175 prebuilt integrations, enabling continuous application discovery and configuration monitoring across critical business platforms. The report also highlighted Falcon Shield’s ability to provide visibility into third-party risk and the management of both human and non-human identities. When risks are detected, automated policy responses—such as disabling users or revoking OAuth access—can be initiated in real time using the Falcon Fusion SOAR module.
GigaOm emphasized CrowdStrike’s innovation in the AI era, particularly its GenAI tools that monitor SaaS applications, enforce security standards, manage AI settings to prevent data leakage, and detect shadow AI applications. These capabilities are further enhanced by Charlotte AI, CrowdStrike’s next-generation AI-driven security assistant.
Background
The adoption of SaaS platforms has transformed enterprise IT environments, but it has also introduced new security challenges. Each SaaS application brings a range of configuration options and potential vulnerabilities. As adversaries increasingly target SaaS and AI environments, organizations require integrated solutions that can provide holistic visibility and automated threat response.
CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform consolidates SSPM, SaaS DLP, cloud security, identity security, and endpoint protection into a single console. This unified architecture allows for automated, real-time policy enforcement and threat correlation across security domains. The recent acquisition and rapid integration of Adaptive Shield in 2024 further strengthened CrowdStrike’s SaaS security offerings, supporting organizations of all sizes, including managed service providers (MSPs).
What’s next
CrowdStrike continues to advance its Falcon platform, with an aggressive roadmap for further innovation in SaaS and AI security. The company aims to enhance its capabilities in protecting identities, configurations, and data across evolving enterprise environments. As organizations face increasingly sophisticated threats, CrowdStrike’s focus on unified, automated security solutions positions it to help customers stay ahead of the threat landscape and minimize risk across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments.
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