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CrowdStrike has released the findings of a commissioned Total Economic Impact study by Forrester Consulting, which found that organisations modernising endpoint security with CrowdStrike achieved a 273 per cent return on investment, with payback in under six months.
The study, based on interviews with CrowdStrike customers, found that replacing legacy endpoint security delivered nearly US$5 million in quantified benefits over a three year period.
Those benefits were driven by reduced breach risk, lower technology and labour costs, and simplified security operations, according to Forrester.
“The endpoint is a primary risk and productivity point in today’s enterprise, but many organisations are still relying on legacy endpoint security built for a different threat era,” Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer at CrowdStrike, said in a statement.
“Our Forrester study shows that modern endpoint security isn’t just more effective, it’s more economically rational. Replacing legacy endpoint approaches with CrowdStrike reduces breach risk, simplifies operations, and delivers measurable ROI that makes the decision to modernise clear.”
Interviewed organisations reported a significant reduction in endpoint-related breach risk after migrating to CrowdStrike, with Forrester quantifying US$1.7 million in avoided breach-related costs over three years for the representative organisation.
Operational efficiency was another major contributor to the reported return on investment. By deploying CrowdStrike’s single endpoint sensor, organisations reduced the labour required to manage endpoint security by 95 per cent, while also cutting alert noise and false positives.
According to the study, this allowed security analysts to focus on higher-value investigative work and accelerate response times without increasing headcount.
The report also highlights the architectural benefits of CrowdStrike’s cloud-native approach. Forrester noted that Falcon’s single-sensor design enables organisations to extend protection beyond endpoint security into adjacent areas such as identity protection, next-generation SIEM and cloud security without additional deployments or operational disruption. This ability to scale security capabilities through modular expansion was cited as particularly valuable for organisations undergoing growth, mergers or acquisitions.
CrowdStrike positioned the findings as further evidence that endpoint security modernisation is no longer solely a defensive technology decision, but a business and financial one. With endpoints continuing to serve as a primary entry point for attackers, the company argued that legacy tools not only increase cyber risk but also impose hidden operational and productivity costs.