A Forrester study finds that organizations replacing legacy tools with CrowdStrike achieved a 273% ROI, with payback in under six months.
CrowdStrike said a new Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting found that organizations modernizing endpoint security with CrowdStrike achieved a 273 percent return on investment over three years, with a payback period of less than six months.
The commissioned study, based on interviews with CrowdStrike customers, found that a composite organization replacing legacy endpoint security tools with CrowdStrike realized nearly $5 million in total quantified benefits over three years. Those gains were driven by reduced breach risk, lower operational and labor costs, and simplified security management.
“The endpoint is a primary risk and productivity point in today’s enterprise, yet many organizations are still relying on security tools built for a different threat era,” said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer at CrowdStrike. “This study shows that modern endpoint security isn’t just more effective—it’s more economically rational.”
Among the key findings, Forrester quantified $1.7 million in avoided breach-related costs over three years due to reduced endpoint-related risk. Organizations also reported a 95 percent reduction in endpoint security management labor by consolidating tools around CrowdStrike’s single, lightweight endpoint sensor, significantly cutting alert noise and false positives.
The study noted that CrowdStrike’s cloud-native architecture supports security consolidation at scale, allowing organizations to extend protection across identity, next-generation SIEM, and cloud security without additional agents or disruptive deployments.
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Customer interviews highlighted operational improvements alongside financial gains. One enterprise security manager in the oil and gas sector said the move to CrowdStrike simplified management and enabled expansion across multiple security modules. A healthcare cyber defense leader cited the ease of scaling beyond endpoint detection and response from a single deployment, while a retail CISO pointed to faster, more effective investigations enabled by improved visibility across the enterprise.
CrowdStrike said the findings underscore the business case for replacing legacy endpoint security tools with modern, cloud-native platforms that reduce risk while delivering measurable economic returns.
