CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) announced results from a Forrester Consulting study that found organizations using CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security achieved a 264% return on investment over three years with a payback period of under six months.

The Total Economic Impact study examined a composite organization representative of interviewed customers and found $13.8 million in total quantified benefits over three years. The study was commissioned by CrowdStrike and conducted by Forrester Consulting.

According to the study, organizations achieved a 45% reduction in cloud risk, saving nearly $2 million in costs by detecting and stopping breaches before impact. The platform also delivered a 30% reduction in mean time to detect and mean time to respond, resulting in $5.9 million in productivity gains.

The study highlighted that Falcon Cloud Security unifies posture management and runtime protection on a single platform for securing cloud workloads and AI infrastructure. Organizations reported consolidating telemetry across cloud infrastructure, workloads, identities, applications, data and AI services.

"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," said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer at CrowdStrike.

The study included interviews with customers from telecommunications and smart manufacturing sectors. One telecommunications security leader noted the platform allowed understanding of cloud sprawl that was previously unattainable and reduced time for collaborative incident containment.

CrowdStrike's cloud security platform monitors data movement across generative AI tools to identify and stop AI data exposure in real time, according to the study findings.