CrowdStrike has been named a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2025 GigaOm Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) Radar Report, recognizing the power of CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection to detect and stop today’s identity-based threats.
Identity compromise is among the most common, easily conducted, and potentially damaging vectors for cyberattacks as adversaries target on-premises, cloud, and hybrid identities. In 2024, 79% of detections CrowdStrike observed were malware-free, indicating adversaries are using hands-on-keyboard techniques to blend in with legitimate user activity and impede detection. Access broker advertisements, which often sell valid credentials, were up 50% year-over-year, and valid account abuse accounted for 35% of cloud detections.
ISPM is critical to detect and stop these evolving threats. Unlike traditional identity and access management (IAM) tools that focus on access provisioning and authentication, ISPM solutions assess the appropriateness, risk, and alignment of identity access after it’s granted. The GigaOm ISPM Radar Report evaluates top ISPM solutions based on their ability to continuously assess and improve the security posture of both human and non-human identities.
Falcon Identity Protection scored highest in Emerging Features, including NHI Security Posture, Generative AI for Identity Insights, and AI-Driven Behavioral Analytics. These high scores can be attributed to its ability to assess risk, automate remediation, and deeply integrate within ecosystems to unify visibility across human and non-human identities.
This recognition builds on CrowdStrike’s earlier placement as a Leader and Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar for Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR). Together, these accolades validate CrowdStrike’s comprehensive identity security approach, which combines proactive posture management (ISPM) with real-time threat detection and response to stop identity-based attacks across the entire identity security lifecycle.
Let’s take a closer look at what makes Falcon Identity Protection stand out.
A Unified Platform to Stop Modern Identity Attacks
Falcon Identity Protection delivers ISPM capabilities across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments, the last with the help of CrowdStrike Falcon® Shield SaaS security. It identifies and protects against misconfigurations, use of compromised credentials, and overprivileged accounts for both human and non-human identities. With Falcon Identity Protection, organizations can discover potential identity attack paths across endpoint, identity, and cloud.
Falcon Identity Protection is fueled by the power of the unified CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform. Its identity signals are correlated with endpoint, cloud, and threat intelligence data across the platform to discover and prioritize the most urgent threats.
“The platform prioritizes risks by combining telemetry from endpoint security, cloud security, data protection tools, adversary tradecraft intelligence, and dark web credential monitoring to deliver rich, contextual insights,” GigaOm states in its report.
As the most complete Platform Play in the GigaOm ISPM Radar, the Falcon platform enables deep ecosystem integration to power a comprehensive security posture. Falcon Identity Protection natively integrates across the Falcon platform and hundreds of third-party security tools, including on-premises and cloud-based identity providers and multifactor authentication (MFA) solutions. This provides end-to-end visibility and seamless workflows across the identity and security stack.
When risks or threats are detected, Falcon Identity Protection automates response. Policy-based remediation stops threats by blocking access, enforcing multifactor identity verification, and more without manual intervention. With CrowdStrike Falcon® Fusion SOAR, our no-code SOAR engine, customers can use over 150 automated actions to respond to identity incidents.
“Prevention and mitigation of identity risks is done through policy enforcement and automated remediation utilizing the no-code SOAR engine, Falcon Fusion,” the report states.
CrowdStrike Leads the Industry in Identity Protection
Falcon Identity Protection is built for modern enterprises that demand comprehensive, unified, and automated identity security. With adversaries increasingly abusing valid credentials and evading detection, organizations need more than basic IAM tools. They need real-time, risk-based identity protection that works across their entire environment.
Being named the most complete Platform Play — and a Leader and Fast Mover — by GigaOm validates CrowdStrike’s commitment to delivering identity security that stops breaches. From unified visibility and contextual risk prioritization to automated remediation and deep ecosystem integrations, Falcon Identity Protection empowers organizations to proactively stop identity-based attacks and secure access at scale.
Download the 2025 GigaOm ISPM Radar Report to learn more about how Falcon Identity Protection is redefining identity security for the modern enterprise.
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