Check Point CloudGuard vs. CrowdStrike Falcon

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Check Point CloudGuard
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Check Point CloudGuard is a comprehensive cloud security platform used to prevent threats and prioritize risks in the cloud across applications, network, and workloads.N/A
CrowdStrike Falcon
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
CrowdStrike offers the Falcon Endpoint Protection suite, an antivirus and endpoint protection system emphasizing threat detection, machine learning malware detection, and signature free updating. Additionally the available Falcon Spotlight module delivers vulnerability assessment with no performance impact, no additional agents, hardware, scheduled scans, firewall exceptions or admin credentials.
$59.99
per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)
Pricing
Check Point CloudGuardCrowdStrike Falcon
Editions & Modules
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Falcon Go (Small Business)
$59.99
per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)
Falcon Go (Small Business)
$59.99
Falcon Pro
$99.99
per endpoint/month (for 5-250 endpoints, billed annually)
Falcon Enterprise
$184.99
per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Check Point CloudGuardCrowdStrike Falcon
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Check Point CloudGuardCrowdStrike Falcon
Considered Both Products
Check Point CloudGuard
Chose Check Point CloudGuard
We have performed all research and evaluation for all competitive players as well we did POC for every product. Based on our comparison chart, we found Check Point Cloud Guard Native Security Platform much better and works extremally well compared to all other peers. It has a …
Chose Check Point CloudGuard
First and foremost reason of our client selecting CheckPoint CloudGuard Posture Management / Dome9 was because they already had CheckPoint Firewalls which are in active use e.g. R75.40 and R82.x products.
Customization Vs these other Vendors is another great asset
Reporting is …
Chose Check Point CloudGuard
Dome9 is a comprehensive security and compliance orchestration platform that provides end-to-end security life cycle management across accounts, regions, and clouds. Using Dome9 we can monitor our security baselines are applied to all our cloud accounts, also we can prevent …
Chose Check Point CloudGuard
We are also piloting Trend Micro Cloud App Security, but we don't have enough data to make a fair comparison, but from what I've seen, Check Point offers a much more comprehensive platform.
Chose Check Point CloudGuard
Most products have their pros and cons but Dome9 does everything Evident.io and Redlock can do and more. Evident was a good tool but merging the two products into one complicated things.
Chose Check Point CloudGuard
Much more useful for the cloud, and less costly, at least when you already had some checkpoint products in use.
CrowdStrike Falcon
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
I have evaluated Cortex XDR and SentinelOne Singularity alongside CrowdStrike Falcon, and while all three are capable enterprise-grade solutions, Falcon ultimately stood out due to its cloud-native architecture, broader modular coverage, and stronger identity-focused detection. …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
It was just a legacy AV program onboarded during initial setup days. As the org. As it expanded, its threat landscape also grew, and we needed a next-gen solution to protect against evolving threat vectors. Falcon EDR was the one that solved all these in a single place.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
The POC they did for us convinced us of everything we could achieve with CrowdStrike Falcon and how advanced the integration with other solutions was.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike Falcon blows the competition out of the water. The depth of granular detail that is provided about each endpoint is unmatched.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike Falcon provides advanced threat hunting techniques and advanced threat and endpoint detection response
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike is a very easy tool to manage. There is only one agent that is needed to deploy. This makes management much easier.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
Depends on your network architecture.. NDR can be very expensive. EDR works on almost all network architectures, even those segmented networks. However if you rely on centralized switch and older style of network architecture, NDR should be asses and considered, especially if …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
different solution. Where CrowdStrike gives us endpoint visibility and control, Darktrace gives us network visibility and control
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
Because it was a leader when we were shopping and many other agencies suggested that
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
We were a former Arctic Wolf customer and feel like they worked more as a team with us. Cylance is what we're looking at possibly migrating to.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
It stacks on top. We love the ease of use, the third-party integration, having AI, and the CrowdStrike team was way more helpful with our team, so that adoption was within a couple of months. We also compared prices, and the value was higher, with a faster ROI, which helps our …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
There really wasn't a question. CrowdStrike is best in class and really doesn't have an equal in this space, any other threat protection vendor is a compromise in some area, and even though we are paying for the premier service, we can feel comfortable and protected with our …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
Sentinelone is bit complicated language use in there console in compare to CrowdStrike Falcon. CrowdStrike Falcon have much big modules and features but sentinelone don't. CrowdStrike Falcon have one single unified agent and in sentinelone bit confused in selection of agent …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike is by far the superior product as we have had zero problems since installing compared to Trend where is positively failed us. We switched and again have had zero issues with the product and it protects our environment as it should without much interaction.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
Falcon EDR is a popular cloud-native endpoint security solution that businesses employ to protect against contemporary cyberthreats.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike Falcon is way ahead of Symantec, and covers features that defender XDR doesn't, even if you purchase all the addons. I think the only real competitors are Sentinel One, maybe Palo Alto or Huntress, or Carbon Black.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
In my opinion, CrowdStrike Falcon provides superior detection and prevention capabilities over Jamf Protect. At the time we purchased (2017) CrowdStrike Falcon was more advanced than SentinelOne and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike Falcon is far superior in all aspects. I love the features and support they provide.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike Falcon is an industry leader in this sector and is superior in its low overhead agent, having minimal impact on end-users. We plan to migrate our macOS fleet when our existing contract expires.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
We felt that CrowdStrike had a more comprehensive security tool set and the overall cost for CrowdStrike was less than those other solutions.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
Advance detection capability.Overwatch threat hunt team which proactively hunts your environment Interactive sandbox. Reduced false positives & ease of whitelisting to granular level.AI and ML can analyze events to identify subtle patterns that might indicate malicious …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
In my opinion,
CrowdStrike Falcon does a better job of detection than Carbon black in all forms. Compared to SentinelOne XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon does a better job of finding potential threats even though the machine learning based detection cause more False Positives than the …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
It is superior on the following two: Advanced threat detection because AI and ML can analyze vast amounts of data to identify subtle patterns that might indicate malicious activity, even zero-day attacks (previously unknown threats).Reduced false positives because it can help …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
It’s provides all of what the other solutions offered individually and at a better price.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
At the time of purchase CrowdStrike provided the best featureset and value proposition for the organisation. The cloud first nature of the product and the mix of heuristic and behaviour based detection technologies was better than anything else that we looked at.
Features
Check Point CloudGuardCrowdStrike Falcon
Endpoint Security
Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Product A and Product B
Check Point CloudGuard
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Ratings
CrowdStrike Falcon
8.8
Ratings
3% above category average
Anti-Exploit Technology00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Centralized Management00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Infection Remediation00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Vulnerability Management00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Malware Detection00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
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User Ratings
Check Point CloudGuardCrowdStrike Falcon
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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10.0
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Usability
8.0
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10.0
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Support Rating
8.2
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10.0
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In-Person Training
-
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9.0
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Implementation Rating
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10.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Scenarios most suited - 1) All the Cyber Security focused development environments 2) Definitely a must for Financial Clients since it deals with live money transactions - Hence it is imperative to keep the Network and tech asset environment secure, and compliant to standards 3) IAM is another area where it plays an IMP part - For eg one of our healthcare clients where they wanted to restrict access 4) Dashboards are also great, we can share the results to GISO/CISO level folks - Custom dashboard feature
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CrowdStrike Falcon is ideal for large, cloud-native enterprises that prioritize advanced behavioral detection and have a mature SOC to manage their intelligence. However, its cloud-reliant architecture makes it a poor fit for air-gapped or offline networks. Additionally, small organizations with limited staffing may find it difficult to manage, while teams that require integrated SOAR and vulnerability management might be discouraged by the need for additional licensing to unlock those capabilities.
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Pros
  • Advanced Threat protection via Check Point CloudGuard proven ThreatCloud intelligence feeds for malicious IP's is a nice feature.
  • We have not set up the cloud bots auto-remediation functionality yet, but from initial testing, it looks to be something worth utilizing.
  • Having reporting tie in's with our ServiceNow asset management platform is very handy.
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  • The Log analysis is very detailed and easy to use.
  • Prevent and block all type of malwares.
  • Great threat intelligence which is very up-to-date with the recent cyber attacks
  • very user friendly in access and management
  • Automated feature of detecting, taking action and closing incidents using fusion workflow.
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Cons
  • Support Services - Support during implementation
  • Proof-of-concept - Needs to more detailed
  • Troubleshooting multi-cloud/ vendor issues
  • Should contain all the compliance standards - NIST, HIPPA, FedRAMP
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  • The Dashboard can become overwhelming at times, too much information to absorb
  • Computers that may have made it out into the field without the endpoint sensor are very difficult to find
  • As with all systems that rely on machine learning false positives occurr
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Likelihood to Renew
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Crowdstrike has a large suite of tools built for helping the engineers triage and respond to security event whenever identified. The ability to customize the security policies and implement more granular policies to different devices based on the functionality is unmatched. Crowdstrike provides so much of ability in a decent budget which ascertains the value for money or ROI.
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Usability
Is easy to use, and the standad configuration is well prepared.
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I think it is a complete and very trustful XDR platform, with very few False Positives. It is very well supported by highly skilled professionals on all levels: from pre-sales engineers, Customer Account Managers and support engineers.
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Support Rating
Checkpoint support is great. They provide great SLAs and they comply with service times accordingly.
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Support is generally pretty fast and gets right to the issue. We haven't had to use them much, fortunately, but the issues and questions we've had are usually answered quickly. The customer success manager/account manager you're assigned will also follow up with you on a regular cadence to ensure you're getting the most out of the subscription. There's not a whole lot of room to improve, other than the general confusion about what is/what is not covered in custom packages you're subscribed to. The initial purchase took much longer because of a package name changes and realignments of different modules into those packages.
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In-Person Training
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There is limited amount of learning that can be completed in an in-person training available. In my opinion, the self-paced learning provided by Falcon portal is more useful over in-person training. The support from Falcon is great and useful to overcome difficulties, if any.
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Online Training
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The training provided by Crowdstrike Falcon is complete in terms of the depth of technical knowledge and teaches the users about going through with the platform. There are lots of jargons for different tools that Crowdstrike Falcon has and this training teaches them all which helps in managing the platform better. Plus, the regular knowledge checks are also very helpful for the end user.
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Implementation Rating
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Alternatives Considered
We have performed all research and evaluation for all competitive players as well we did POC for every product. Based on our comparison chart, we found Check Point Cloud Guard Native Security Platform much better and works extremally well compared to all other peers. It has a robust architecture and has really good features.
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I have evaluated Cortex XDR and SentinelOne Singularity alongside CrowdStrike Falcon, and while all three are capable enterprise-grade solutions, Falcon ultimately stood out due to its cloud-native architecture, broader modular coverage, and stronger identity-focused detection. Cortex XDR performs very well in environments already heavily invested in the Palo Alto ecosystem, particularly for network-to-endpoint correlation, but it introduces additional complexity and infrastructure overhead. SentinelOne excels in autonomous remediation and offline protection, especially with ransomware rollback, but is more endpoint-centric and comparatively limited in native identity and exposure-risk context. CrowdStrike Falcon provided the best overall balance by combining NGAV, EDR, identity protection, exposure management, threat intelligence, and managed hunting within a single lightweight agent and unified console, enabling better scalability, faster investigations, reduced tool sprawl, and stronger protection against modern identity-driven attacks, making it the most aligned choice for our security and operational objectives.
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Return on Investment
  • Having one single pane of glass dashboard helps cut downtime for one tech to assess the overall health of the cloud.
  • The cost was a little high, and the setup time was longer than expected to leverage the functionality we paid for fully.
  • Overall a good product so far
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  • Due to some of the difficulties with Support and Sales, we are likely looking to change to another vendor. We sometimes don't feel like customers.
  • When the bluescreen incident occurred (worldwide outage) in July 2024, we were unable to contact support due to the high volume of calls at the same time. We had to figure out how to remediate it ourselves, which we did, and recovered before the vendor's official release of fixes. It shook my confidence in them.
  • The product itself performed well over the last 2 years, which has kept us safe and productive. The product is good.
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