# CrowdStrike Named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Enterprises Vendor Assessment > Source: > Published: 2026-10-07 22:16:27.981049+00:00 CrowdStrike has been named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Enterprises Vendor Assessment. We believe this recognition reflects the strength of the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform and the proven endpoint capabilities CrowdStrike brings into the AI era: industry-leading protection at scale, consistent analyst recognition, measurable business value, and the trust of customers globally. What happens on the endpoint is changing rapidly. Humans, applications, and AI agents increasingly work side by side, executing commands, accessing data, using identities, interacting through browsers, invoking tools, and introducing software. This creates the agentic endpoint, where humans, AI agents, and AI-enabled adversaries converge. The threats endpoint security was built to stop have not disappeared. Ransomware, malware-free attacks, hands-on-keyboard activity, and credential abuse remain critical risks. But the attack surface has expanded. Supply chain attacks can introduce risk before code executes, while AI agents add a new source of activity, access, and autonomy. This demands the next evolution of endpoint security. Agentic endpoint security builds on proven prevention, detection, and response while extending protection across the agents, software, identities, and actions shaping activity at runtime. Knowing what happened is no longer enough. Security needs to understand who or what acted, the access and intent behind that activity, and whether it should be allowed to continue. ## Securing the Agentic Endpoint CrowdStrike is building on our proven endpoint security foundation, which consists of the Falcon sensor and our deep endpoint telemetry powering prevention, detection, and response, to protect the expanding range of endpoint activity. Our foundation stops advanced endpoint attacks, blocks supply chain attacks before malicious code executes, and provides the deep endpoint visibility needed to understand activity as it unfolds. As AI agents introduce a new source of activity and autonomy on the endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon® Guardian adds the agent-specific context and controls needed to understand and secure that activity. Falcon Guardian discovers approved and unknown agents, enforces AI governance policy, detects threats like prompt injection and malicious skills, and connects prompt-layer activity with OS-level telemetry so teams can trace AI agent actions through the processes they trigger. Because it runs on the same Falcon sensor customers already deploy, organizations can extend protection into AI agent activity without another endpoint sensor, separate console, or control plane. The same endpoint foundation that Falcon Guardian builds on also protects against malicious software before it executes. [CrowdStrike Real-Time Supply Chain Attack Protection](https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-extends-endpoint-security-to-stop-supply-chain-attacks/) blocks malicious npm and PyPI packages at download, before embedded code can run, whether downloaded by a human or an AI agent. This extends endpoint prevention further upstream in the attack chain.