CrowdStrike Named the Leader in 2025 Frost Radar for SaaS Security Posture Management

We're proud to announce that CrowdStrike has been recognized as the Growth and Innovation Leader in the 2025 Frost Radar™ for SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) for the second consecutive time. This recognition validates our commitment to providing security solutions for some of the most pressing threats modern organizations face.

Threat actors are exploiting business-critical SaaS applications that power modern businesses. "The rapid proliferation of SaaS applications has outpaced many organizations’ ability to maintain visibility and control, exposing critical security gaps and increasing the likelihood of data breaches due to insufficient SaaS-specific protections," Frost & Sullivan states.  

These blind spots are exactly what adversaries target. Threat actors with valid credentials can gain legitimate access to SaaS apps. What’s more, the rapid expansion of SaaS has created a sprawling identity ecosystem. Many security teams lack visibility into human and non-human identities, leaving excessive privileges, orphaned accounts, and risky integrations unchecked. Without full visibility and threat detection, adversaries can exploit these identities to gain access and operate undetected while exfiltrating data, establishing persistence, and moving across interconnected SaaS and hybrid environments.

CrowdStrike Falcon® Shield is a transformative approach to SaaS security that transcends traditional standalone SSPM solutions due to its fully native integration with the broader CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. Frost & Sullivan states Falcon Shield achieved exceptional year-over-year growth of over 219% in 2025, significantly outpacing the market. This growth is a testament to the strong demand for CrowdStrike’s approach to SaaS security.

SaaS Security Powered by the Falcon Platform

Frost & Sullivan recognizes how Falcon Shield’s integration with the unified, AI-native Falcon platform powers a fast and more comprehensive defense against SaaS threats. 

“CrowdStrike Falcon Shield’s unified architecture that combines SaaS, endpoint, and identity data into a single console enables unmatched correlation and contextual risk insights across the entire security stack,” Frost & Sullivan states. “By integrating with Falcon Identity Protection, it correlates identity security with SaaS telemetry to create unified profiles for HI [human identities] and NHI [non-human identities].” 

This “integration with Falcon’s broader modules deliver fast, orchestrated response workflows that reduce operational complexity and mean time to remediation, making it uniquely effective among SSPM solutions,” the report adds.

Frost & Sullivan also praised how CrowdStrike both secures AI agents and leverages agentic AI for SaaS security through the CrowdStrike® Charlotte AI™ agentic system: “Charlotte AI allows users to write natural language queries, gain threat intelligence insights, and receive security guidance and automated analysis,” with sophisticated automated remediation, the report states.

With CrowdStrike Falcon® Fusion SOAR, powered by Charlotte AI, organizations can configure workflow automation. Automated remediation is crucial for addressing threats like OAuth token abuse, as it enables security teams to rapidly revoke malicious authorizations and adjust identity-based access controls before adversaries can establish persistence.

This unified approach to SaaS security is critical when responding to sophisticated attacks. When adversaries like SCATTERED SPIDER target an organization, defenders need immediate correlation between compromised endpoints, suspicious identity activity, and anomalous SaaS behavior, all managed from a single console.

Falcon Shield: Integrations, Automation, and Scale

Falcon Shield boasts an industry-leading ecosystem of 180+ pre-built SaaS connectors, supported by a no-code Integration Builder that empowers customers to rapidly secure new or custom applications, enabling both seamless scalability and continuous protection.  

The breadth and depth of Falcon Shield is what truly sets it apart. It provides broad visibility into who (or what) can gain access, what they can do, and what information they can reach across all connected apps. At the same time, it goes beyond surface-level insights to provide granular control of all security-impacting configurations. This unique combination of breadth and depth empowers security teams to secure today’s rapidly evolving SaaS ecosystems with confidence.

Deep Contextual Visibility into Identities and Threats

Given the explosive growth of SaaS and NHI, Falcon Shield provides the protection organizations need. In addition to continuously monitoring SaaS configurations, Falcon Shield delivers identity threat detection and response (ITDR)-enabled attack path visualization, integrated security intelligence across domains, and advanced device-to-SaaS visibility leveraging endpoint posture, sophisticated API key analysis, SaaS-to-SaaS connectivity mapping, and governance. This enables contextual, identity-centric SaaS security that is unmatched by standalone SSPM.

This comprehensive visibility is essential for detecting and responding to modern attacks. When adversaries compromise identities — belonging to human, non-human, and AI agents — Falcon Shield correlates suspicious SaaS activity with endpoint and identity telemetry to reveal attack patterns that would remain invisible to most point products.

The Future of SaaS Security, Today

Organizations manage increasingly complex SaaS environments. As adversaries continue evolving their tactics, Falcon Shield is well positioned to provide comprehensive visibility and control, identity-centric threat detection, and unified operations across the SaaS stack.

Our recognition as the Growth and Innovation Leader reflects our commitment to staying ahead of emerging threats. With continued investment in securing AI agents, enhanced CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM integrations, and expanded shadow SaaS/AI detections leveraging cross-domain telemetry, Falcon Shield helps protect organizations against the threats of today and tomorrow.

The adversaries targeting your SaaS applications are sophisticated, relentless, and constantly evolving. Your SaaS security solution must be equally advanced and unified across your security stack. To learn why Falcon Shield is recognized as the leader in SaaS security, download the full report, see Falcon Shield in action, and contact a CrowdStrike representative today.

Additional Resources

• Learn more about Falcon Shield by visiting the product page.
• See how CrowdStrike performed in other industry reports.