CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security Delivered a 264% Return on Investment Over Three Years, with a Payback Period of Under Six Months

As businesses accelerate their transition to cloud-native architectures and AI-driven operations, the financial and operational efficiency of security platforms has become a critical metric. A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study reveals that CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security sets a new benchmark, delivering a 264% ROI.

By unifying cloud security posture management and runtime protection, CrowdStrike enables organizations to eliminate tool sprawl, reclaiming valuable time and focus for security teams while stopping breaches at the point of execution.

AUSTIN, Texas – April 22, 2026 – CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced the findings of a commissioned Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of CrowdStrike.

The study found that a composite organization representative of interviewed customers that deployed CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security achieved a 264% return on investment (ROI) by unifying posture management and runtime protection on a single platform that secures cloud workloads and AI infrastructure at the point of execution.

The composite organization achieved a payback period of under six months and $13.8 million in total quantified benefits over three years.

The study highlighted how “Falcon Cloud Security connects posture, runtime, and threat intelligence across infrastructure, applications, data, identity, and AI — merging fragmented signals into adversary-informed detections that stop real-world attacks.”

Adversaries don't wait for posture reports to be generated and actioned; they are weaponizing frontier AI models to move from vulnerability discovery to exploitation near-instantaneously. Securing cloud workloads and AI systems requires real-time protection at the point of execution. We believe Forrester’s study shows that CrowdStrike eliminates complexity, stops breaches before impact, and delivers measurable ROI in months, not years.

Real-Time, Unified Cloud Security Drives Measurable Outcomes

Key findings achieved by the composite organizations demonstrate clear economic and operational value by securing the cloud with CrowdStrike, including:

• Economic Value from Unified Cloud Security: Falcon Cloud Security delivered $13.8 million in total benefits over three years, driven by reduced cloud risk at scale, lowered total cost of ownership, and consolidated point products across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Cost and Risk Reduction with Runtime Security: Interviewed organizations reported a 45% reduction in cloud risk, saving nearly $2 million in costs by detecting and stopping breaches before impact.
• Speed, Operational Efficiency, and Productivity Gains: By consolidating telemetry across cloud infrastructure, workloads, identities, applications, data, and AI services, organizations achieved a 30% reduction in mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR), delivering $5.9 million in productivity gains.
• Securing AI Deployments at Scale: CrowdStrike secures cloud-based AI applications, services, and large language models (LLMs) across the AI lifecycle. The study noted how CrowdStrike monitors data movement across GenAI tools to identify and stop AI data exposure in real time.