CrowdStrike Named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Augmented Identity Security Solutions

Identity has emerged as a critical attack surface as adversaries increasingly exploit valid credentials to move laterally, escalate privileges, and operate undetected. The proliferation of human, non-human, and AI agent identities across organizations has expanded this attack surface while introducing new security challenges, particularly as AI agents can autonomously access applications and take action at machine speed.

Traditional identity security approaches, built around static access decisions and periodic checks, can no longer keep pace with these evolving threats. Organizations now require continuous visibility into identity risk and the ability to enforce access decisions in real time to effectively protect their environments.

Continuous Identity Approach

CrowdStrike's recognition as a Leader validates its approach to Continuous Identity, which brings together identity visibility, threat detection, privileged access, and real-time enforcement on the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. The company has recently introduced innovations like the CrowdStrike Agentic Identity Provider to extend this approach to securing AI agents with verifiable identities and tightly scoped, just-in-time access.

The Falcon platform demonstrates several key capabilities that implement Continuous Identity, including unified endpoint and identity visibility that correlates signals across the attack path, rapid deployment through a single console and sensor, and real-time identity risk intelligence that updates in under a minute with blast radius information.

CrowdStrike's enforcement capabilities maintain zero standing privileges through auto-approved just-in-time elevation, bidirectional enforcement, post-authentication risk reevaluation, and mid-session intervention. The company also participates in working groups on CAEP, Shared Signals, RISC, and AuthZEN to support interoperability and identity risk signal exchange across systems.

Securing AI Agents

As AI agents operate autonomously across enterprise environments, CrowdStrike has extended its Continuous Identity vision through the Agentic Identity Provider. This solution offers cryptographically verifiable identities for AI agents, short-lived and tightly scoped access permissions, and accountability by linking agent actions to the human or workload behind them.