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

CrowdStrike has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Augmented Identity Security Solutions 2026 Vendor Assessment.

Identity has become a critical attack surface. Adversaries exploit valid credentials to move laterally, escalate privileges, and operate undetected. Human, non-human, and AI agent identities continue to multiply across organizations, both expanding the attack surface and introducing new security challenges. AI agents in particular can autonomously access applications, invoke tools, and take action at machine speed, fundamentally changing how organizations must approach identity security.

Traditional identity security, built around static access decisions and periodic checks, can no longer keep pace. Organizations need continuous visibility into identity risk and the ability to enforce access decisions in real time.

We believe CrowdStrike’s recognition as a Leader validates our approach to Continuous Identity, which brings together identity visibility, threat detection, privileged access, and real-time enforcement on the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. With innovations like the recent CrowdStrike Agentic Identity Provider, we’re extending our approach to secure AI agents with verifiable identities and tightly scoped, just-in-time access.

Identity Security for the Modern Enterprise

CrowdStrike capabilities demonstrate the value of Continuous Identity, from unified visibility and real-time risk intelligence to dynamic enforcement across the enterprise:

• Unified endpoint and identity visibility: Identity attacks do not stay in one domain, and neither does our view of them. The CrowdStrike Falcon® sensor sees local and bypass authentication, network telemetry decrypts NTLM and SMB exchanges, and the identity graph updates in real time.  By correlating endpoint and identity signals, CrowdStrike helps security teams identify suspicious behavior across the attack path and respond with greater context.
• Rapid deployment: The Falcon platform brings identity and endpoint security together through one console and one sensor, which establishes identity visibility and coverage in hours to days. Policy templates, simulation, and audit modes support staged rollouts, which helps organizations operationalize identity security while minimizing disruption.
• Real-time identity risk intelligence: CrowdStrike’s unified risk score updates in under a minute, includes blast radius, and feeds every downstream enforcement control with reevaluation after authentication and midsession intervention. These capabilities help security teams understand identity risk in context, prioritize threats, and make enforcement decisions. By connecting identity signals with security context from across the Falcon platform, CrowdStrike helps turn visibility into action.
• Enforcement that keeps up with the session: CrowdStrike enforces zero standing privileges with auto-approved just-in-time elevation, bidirectional enforcement, post-authentication risk reevaluation, and mid-session intervention. This is Continuous Identity in practice: Access is continuously evaluated as risk changes, and privileges are adjusted or revoked when conditions warrant.
• Standards participation: CrowdStrike leads working groups on CAEP, Shared Signals, RISC, and AuthZEN. These initiatives support interoperability and the exchange of identity risk signals across systems, helping organizations extend continuous identity security throughout their environments.

Together, these capabilities bring Continuous Identity to life, connecting visibility, risk intelligence, and real-time enforcement to help organizations stop identity-driven attacks.

CrowdStrike Agentic Identity Provider

CrowdStrike’s approach to Continuous Identity goes beyond point-in-time authentication. By unifying identity posture management, threat detection, privileged access, and real-time enforcement on the Falcon platform, organizations can continuously assess identity risk, reduce standing privileges, and dynamically adjust or revoke access as risk changes.

As AI agents operate autonomously across enterprise environments, this approach is even more critical. CrowdStrike Agentic Identity Provider extends our Continuous Identity vision to AI agents with cryptographically verifiable identities, short-lived and tightly scoped access, and accountability by linking agent actions to the human or workload behind them.

The Future of Identity is Continuous

Identity security can no longer rely on point-in-time decisions. As human, non-human, and AI agent identities expand, organizations need continuous visibility into risk and the ability to enforce access in real time.

CrowdStrike is redefining identity security by moving beyond traditional approaches:

• Static access becomes real-time control.
• Fragmented tools become a unified platform.
• Implicit trust becomes continuous, risk-based enforcement.

We believe CrowdStrike’s recognition as a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape reinforces our vision for Continuous Identity and our commitment to securing every identity and stopping identity-driven attacks.

Read the IDC MarketScape excerpt to explore the research.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Augmented Identity Security?

Augmented Identity Security is an operating model that shifts identity management from static, periodic authentication to continuous, real-time risk evaluation. By fusing endpoint, directory, cloud, and runtime telemetry, augmented identity platforms continuously inspect session behavior, identify anomalous privilege escalation, and dynamically adjust or revoke access across human, machine, and AI agent identities.

How does the Falcon sensor simplify identity security rollouts?

Unlike legacy tools requiring dedicated domain controllers or network proxy infrastructure, Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security delivers immediate identity visibility and threat prevention through the existing single Falcon agent, which establishes coverage in hours to days.

How does CrowdStrike Agentic Identity Provider protect AI agent identities?

CrowdStrike Agentic Identity Provider extends our Continuous Identity vision to AI agents with cryptographically verifiable identities, short-lived and tightly scoped access, and accountability by linking agent actions to the human or workload behind them.

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