CrowdStrike Named a Leader in GigaOm Radar for Ransomware Prevention

CrowdStrike named a Leader and Outperformer in ransomware prevention, highlighted for a platform approach that delivers “comprehensive ransomware detection, prevention, and protection”

December 16, 2024

| | Endpoint Security & XDR

Ransomware continues to be one of the most pervasive and costly cyber threats facing organizations worldwide. More than 40% of organizations surveyed by ESG research experienced a successful ransomware attack in the previous 12 months, and 32% were successfully attacked more than once.

The consequences of failing to protect against ransomware can be devastating for any business. Beyond financial loss, victims can suffer operational downtime, reputational damage and potential regulatory fines. In today's business environment, the message is clear: Ransomware resilience is no longer optional — it’s a fundamental business necessity.

GigaOm recently named CrowdStrike a Leader and Outperformer in its 2024 GigaOm Radar for Ransomware Prevention, offering the latest proofpoint of CrowdStrike’s ability to protect customers from damaging ransomware. Here, we explore CrowdStrike’s unique approach to ransomware prevention with the CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform.

2024 GigaOm Radar for Ransomware Prevention

The 2024 GigaOm Radar for Ransomware Prevention positions CrowdStrike as both a Leader and Outperformer, highlighting the Falcon platform's advanced capabilities and seamless integration across all operating systems and business sizes. The report emphasizes the Falcon platform’s strengths in preventing ransomware at every stage of the attack lifecycle.

In its report, GigaOm rated CrowdStrike a perfect 5/5 stars in 10 decision criteria, including response automation, ease of management and cost. CrowdStrike received the top average scores among all 12 vendors evaluated.

Figure 1. 2024 GigaOm Radar for Ransomware Prevention Figure 1. 2024 GigaOm Radar for Ransomware Prevention

GigaOm noted in its report that a broad platform approach is often required to protect customers from ransomware — and CrowdStrike delivers. “CrowdStrike offers a broad security platform that covers endpoint protection, identity protection, cloud security, IT automation, next-gen SIEM and more. [The] Falcon platform enables comprehensive ransomware detection, prevention, and protection,” the report states.

GigaOm also highlighted these CrowdStrike strengths:

  • Predictive analytics: “CrowdStrike gathers a wide range of telemetry, pulling information from its broad customer base and its own extensive intelligence facilities, as well as from third parties, to gain insight and information. Human threat hunters then add additional intelligence and context, which is provided to customers to help them identify potential risk areas. This is bolstered by Charlotte AI, which helps make it easier for customers to query large data sets and simplify the building of threat responses.”
  • Security ecosystem integration: “The CrowdStrike Marketplace offers an extensive set of integrations across a wide range of existing security tools, including SIEM, XDSR, cloud identity platforms, and email security, as well as IT service management tools like Jira and ServiceNow. This helps customers easily bring CrowdStrike into their existing security workflows.”
  • Response automation: “CrowdStrike Falcon® Fusion SOAR enables organizations to build sophisticated responses to threats. It allows analysts to define end-to-end automated workflows with ease using an intuitive UI, prebuilt workflow templates and customized scripts to execute almost any action directly on protected endpoints.” 

How CrowdStrike Stops Ransomware with the Falcon Platform

CrowdStrike delivers industry-leading ransomware protection through the Falcon platform, which combines AI-powered threat detection, behavior-based analytics, identity protection and proactive threat hunting from CrowdStrike Falcon® Adversary OverWatch. This integrated approach stops ransomware at every stage, from initial delivery to lateral movement and privilege escalation — tactics attackers use to navigate networks and identify vulnerable targets.

The Falcon platform analyzes millions of endpoint telemetry data points in real time, detecting ransomware tactics like unauthorized encryption, credential misuse and anomalous behaviors. By focusing on indicators of attack, it identifies the methods and intent behind ransomware activity, including unknown and fileless variants. Volume shadow copy protection ensures recovery options remain intact, preventing the erasure or corruption of critical backup files.

CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection and Falcon OverWatch add robust layers of defense by detecting identity-based attacks, suspicious authentication patterns and stealthy adversary movements. Together with Falcon Fusion SOAR’s automated responses — such as isolating endpoints or rolling back malicious changes — the Falcon platform provides unmatched visibility and comprehensive protection, disrupting ransomware campaigns before they can escalate.

CrowdStrike Protects Customers Against Ransomware

The rising threat of ransomware demands immediate action from organizations of all sizes. When it comes to ransomware prevention, nobody does it better than CrowdStrike.

This GigaOm report is the latest independent report validating CrowdStrike’s leadership in ransomware prevention. Last year, CrowdStrike’s ransomware defense capabilities were tested by SE Labs against highly sophisticated ransomware scenarios. For the second consecutive year, CrowdStrike achieved a 100% ransomware prevention rate, earning a perfect score and reinforcing our position as the market leader.

With results like these, it’s clear the Falcon platform continues to deliver unmatched protection and set the standard for comprehensive ransomware defense.

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