CrowdStrike Named a Leader in Managed Detection and Response (MDR) in Europe by Independent Research Firm

CrowdStrike announced it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection And Response Services In Europe, Q3 2025 report. CrowdStrike ranked highest of any vendor evaluated in both the Strategy and Current Offering categories, with the highest scores possible in key criteria including endpoint detection surface, cloud detection surface, identity detection surface, managed response: manual and automated, threat hunting, analyst experience, vision, and innovation.

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Adversaries are weaponizing AI to move faster, scale operations, and target the systems reshaping enterprise environments, overwhelming security teams already strained by a widening skills gap. CrowdStrike Falcon® Complete Next-Gen MDR is a force multiplier for the SOC, combining the power of the AI-native Falcon® platform with a team of world-class cyber experts to deliver AI-accelerated threat detection, investigation, and response across endpoints, cloud, identities, and third-party data sources. The report highlights CrowdStrike’s “highly differentiated vision for MDR, emphasizing threat hunting, identity-centric security, and comprehensive visibility to make detection faster and more accurate,” and strength in innovation, noting: “The company has demonstrated strong innovation capabilities with its advances in using AI for playbook generation, detection, and response.”

Charlotte AI extends the power of agentic AI to cybersecurity services. Charlotte AI is trained on millions of real-world triage decisions from Falcon Complete analysts, creating a powerful feedback loop where human expertise sharpens Charlotte AI’s capabilities and Charlotte AI enhances analyst decision-making. By unifying AI-powered real-time detection, expert-informed investigation, and automated response within a single native architecture, CrowdStrike gives security teams the speed, scale, and expertise to stop breaches in the AI era.

“European organizations are under immense pressure as adversaries weaponize AI to outpace defenders,” said Tom Etheridge, chief global professional services officer at CrowdStrike. “CrowdStrike continues to redefine MDR in Europe by combining AI-native technology with world-class cyber expertise to help security operations centers scale up, fortify systems, react faster to an evolving threat landscape, and stop breaches before they happen. For us, this recognition validates the outcomes we deliver every day to keep European enterprises safe.”

Industry Recognition: The MDR of Choice

This recognition adds to CrowdStrike’s growing list of recognition as an industry leader in MDR, including:

• The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection and Response Services, Q1 2025 – ranked highest of all vendors in the Strategy category and received the highest possible scores in managed investigation and threat hunting.
• 2025 Frost Radar™: Global Managed Detection and Response – named a Leader for the second consecutive year, with the highest scores of all vendors in both Innovation and Growth.
• Customers’ Choice in the 2024 Gartner Peer Insights™ ‘Voice of the Customer’ Managed Detection and Response report.
• Frost & Sullivan’s Company of the Year award in the MDR market.
• Overall Leader in KuppingerCole’s 2024 Leadership Compass for MDR.

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