CrowdStrike Named a Leader in the Inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies

Key Terms

agentic adversary disruption technical

Agentic adversary disruption is a deliberate interruption to business operations or markets caused by a purposeful, often hostile actor—such as hackers, competitors, activists, or state-backed groups—acting with intent and planning. For investors it matters because these targeted actions can damage revenue, raise costs, or undermine confidence much like a planned roadblock that forces customers to take a long detour; understanding the risk helps assess a company’s vulnerability and potential financial impact.

threat intelligence technical

Threat intelligence is actionable information about cyber risks—who might attack, how they operate, and what systems or data are vulnerable—gathered from monitoring networks, software behavior, and public reports. For investors it matters because strong threat intelligence helps a company prevent disruptions, avoid costly breaches and fines, and protect reputation, much like a weather forecast and neighborhood watch help a community prepare for storms and deter crime.

kill chain technical

A kill chain is a step-by-step model describing how a cyberattack unfolds, from initial access to data theft or system damage. Think of it as a burglar’s route through a house—reconnaissance, breaking in, moving between rooms, and stealing valuables—so defenders can spot and interrupt the attacker at any stage. For investors, understanding a company’s exposure along the kill chain indicates how vulnerable its operations, customer data, and revenue are to hacking, regulatory fines, or reputational harm.

continuous threat exposure management (ctem) technical

Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is an ongoing program that identifies, ranks and reduces an organization’s security weaknesses by continuously scanning systems, testing defenses and tracking fixes until risks are lowered. For investors, CTEM is like a building’s routine maintenance: it helps prevent costly breaches, regulatory fines and business disruption, and therefore protects a company’s cash flow, reputation and long‑term value.

siem technical

SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) is a software system that gathers and analyzes security-related data from across a company's computers and networks to spot suspicious activity, like a central security dashboard that flags and explains alarms from many sensors. For investors it matters because a strong SIEM helps prevent costly breaches, supports regulatory compliance, and can reduce financial and reputational risk; for vendors it can be a key revenue and growth area.

soar technical

Soar describes a rapid, large increase in a stock’s price, trading volume, or a company’s reported metric, like revenue or user growth. It matters to investors because a sudden jump can signal strong positive news or shifting sentiment—think of a balloon quickly rising—which can create profit opportunities but also higher short-term risk and volatility that may prompt buying, selling, or closer scrutiny.

xdr technical

Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) describes a disease-causing microbe that no longer responds to most approved drugs used to treat it, leaving only a few or sometimes no reliable treatment options. For investors, XDR matters because it can reshape healthcare demand and regulatory priorities—driving urgent need for new diagnostics, therapies, or vaccines while increasing costs, clinical trial complexity, and commercial opportunity or liability for companies in the healthcare and biotech sectors.

sase technical

SASE, or Secure Access Service Edge, is a modern technology that combines network security and access management into a single, cloud-based service. It ensures that users can safely connect to company resources from anywhere, much like having a secure, virtual gatekeeper that protects digital information. For investors, SASE matters because it reflects how organizations are adopting advanced security measures to support flexible, remote work environments and protect valuable data.

CrowdStrike positioned furthest right for Completeness of Vision among all vendors evaluated

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced it has been named a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies¹. CrowdStrike positioned furthest right for Completeness of Vision among all vendors evaluated. As adversaries weaponize AI to collapse the defender's window of response, CrowdStrike transforms threat intelligence into agentic adversary disruption, delivering intelligence at the point of decision-making, at the speed of the threat.

“CrowdStrike pioneered adversary-driven intelligence, using frontline findings to stop real-world attacks,” said Adam Meyers, head of counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike. "By combining the industry's deepest understanding of adversary operations with agentic systems that reason across threat data and exposure risk, hunt adversaries proactively, and take decisive action across the kill chain, CrowdStrike accelerates outcomes and stops breaches."

From Static Threat Intel Reports to Agentic Adversary Disruption

CrowdStrike sets the industry standard for adversary intelligence, tracking over 280 of the world’s most sophisticated nation-state, eCrime and hacktivist groups. In our view, the Gartner inaugural report based on the Cyberthreat Intelligence category confirms what adversary behavior has already made clear: threat intelligence is no longer a reporting discipline, it is an operational one. CrowdStrike's agentic threat intelligence drives a market transformation, delivering agents that reason across adversary behavior, hunt proactively, and disrupt attacks across the kill chain at machine speed.

Threat AI, the industry's first agentic threat intelligence system, reasons across threat data, hunts adversaries proactively, and takes decisive action across the kill chain, pursuing and disrupting adversaries at machine speed and accelerating threat response at the speed of the AI-enabled adversary. CrowdStrike's expanding fleet of AI agents transforms finished intelligence into agentic adversary disruption, exposing adversary tradecraft and closing critical gaps at the speed of the adversary.

The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform brings detection and response, intelligence, and exposure management together in one platform. The same data used to detect a threat informs the agentic intelligence that explains it, identifies exposed assets and attack paths, and helps organizations operationalize Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) as part of adversary-driven defense, disrupting the adversary without handoff.

CrowdStrike's Threat Intelligence & Hunting capabilities are continuously informed by real-world decisions from CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations' team of elite threat hunters and intelligence experts. Powered by trillions of daily security events and industry-leading expertise, the Falcon platform operationalizes agentic threat intelligence at scale, connecting external threat activity to internal exposure risk and enabling real-time action across SIEM, SOAR, XDR, cloud and SASE environments to stop breaches.

Download the Gartner report to learn more about CrowdStrike’s recognition in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies.

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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.

Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft, and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting, and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.

Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity, and immediate time-to-value.

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¹Gartner, 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies, Jonathan Nunez, Jaime Anderson, Carlos De Sola Caraballo, May 4, 2026.

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