CrowdStrike Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection for Seventh Consecutive Time
CrowdStrike positioned furthest right for Completeness of Vision and highest for Ability to Execute among all vendors evaluated for fourth time in a row
AUSTIN, Texas – May 27, 2026 – CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced it has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection1 for the seventh consecutive time. CrowdStrike was also positioned furthest right for Completeness of Vision and highest for Ability to Execute among all vendors evaluated for the fourth time in a row.
CrowdStrike pioneered AI-native endpoint security and is defining the future of AI Detection and Response. AI has triggered an endpoint renaissance, with agents executing, deciding, and acting on the endpoint with system-level privilege at machine speed. CrowdStrike's endpoint business has accelerated for consecutive quarters as enterprises move to secure AI where it runs.2
“AI executes on the endpoint and is creating the largest security demand driver since enterprises moved to the cloud,” said Michael Sentonas, president of CrowdStrike. “As agents take actions, access sensitive data, and interact with critical systems, they must be secured in real time, at the point of execution. We feel this recognition reflects our excellence in endpoint security today and how we are defining the next category of security for the AI era.”
Securing AI on the Endpoint
As AI agents gain autonomy and system-level privilege, the endpoint is the control point for modern security. It’s where agents execute commands, access data, and trigger downstream workflows often indistinguishable from legitimate user activity. CrowdStrike secures AI at runtime on the endpoint – delivering real-time visibility and enforcement over AI behavior, automatically discovering AI applications and agents, and inspecting prompts and interactions to stop injection attacks, data leaks, and policy violations at the point of execution.
CrowdStrike sensors detect more than 1,800 distinct AI applications running on enterprise devices, representing nearly 160 million unique application instances across its customer base, the largest dataset of AI agent behavior in cybersecurity.3 Agent actions do not remain on the endpoint, and securing AI requires extending protection across organizations' AI infrastructure.
CrowdStrike’s unified platform architecture extends continuous, risk-aware protection across human, non-human, and AI agent identities, cloud runtime environments, as well as SaaS applications and live browser sessions where work happens. In addition, Charlotte AI – with usage growing more than 6x year-over-year and ARR more than tripling4 – powers the agentic SOC, automating high-friction workflows and stopping breaches at machine speed across the enterprise attack surface.
“CrowdStrike introduced us to a new standard of endpoint security and has secured our innovation journey ever since,” said Jairo Orea, global chief information security officer, Royal Caribbean Group. “As AI becomes central to how we operate, CrowdStrike gives us the visibility and control we need to adopt it confidently; they are the platform we trust to secure AI where it runs.”
In January 2026, CrowdStrike was named a Customers’ Choice in the 2026 Gartner Peer Insights™ ‘Voice of the Customer’ for Endpoint Protection Platforms report, with the most 5-star ratings of any Customers’ Choice vendor.5
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About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.
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1Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection, Deepak Mishra, Evgeny Mirolyubov, Nikul Patel, 26 May 2026
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5Gartner, Voice of the Customer for Endpoint Protection Platforms, Peer Contributors, January 23, 2026
