CrowdStrike Falcon vs McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Likelihood to Recommend

It's a great solution with a massive deployment scenario with a lot of endpoints, and where the time is an issue and you need to be protected ASAP - thanks to its cloud-based architecture you will be up and running in almost 10 minutes (literally). There are no signatures, further refinements, or additional hardware and servers required. An always or almost always offline [scenario] is not well-suited for Falcon Pro.

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Victor Rivera

Senior Information Technology Manager

Grupo VinteConstruction, 1001-5000 employees

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McAfee is a good solution if you're in a medium/large company and if you're looking for a solution that can be customized and expanded. I also recommend if you have the most common log sources on your environment, since McAfee supports the major log sources (but lack a lot of small vendors).In my opinion, I wouldn't recommend McAfee for small companies, since it's not that easy to manage and maintain.

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Verified User

Consultant in Professional Services

Computer & Network Security Company, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

CrowdStrike Falcon

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Anti-Exploit Technology

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Centralized Management

Hybrid Deployment Support

Infection Remediation

Vulnerability Management

Malware Detection

CrowdStrike Falcon

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Centralized event and log data collection

Correlation

Event and log normalization/management

Deployment flexibility

Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools

Custom dashboards and workspaces

Host and network-based intrusion detection

Pros

Ransomware protection. We ran a ransomware simulation with obfuscated executables to hide malware signatures and CrowdStrike found and stopped 15 out of 15.
Malware/adware detection. Packaged adware in official installers are instantly blocked without interfering with the install of the primary application.

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Randy Munroe

Information Security Analyst

Randall-ReillyMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

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McAfee Enterprise Security Manager has a large library of pre-made correlations that reduces the amount of work needed to make it functional.
This is a core McAfee product that is still getting support.
It has a substantial amount of compatibility and integration with other products.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

We get false positive detections when we run an email signature script for our users. These false positives can be a distraction. We've implemented a whitelist for those behaviors, but had some difficulty in figuring out how to configure CrowdStrike to recognize these executions since the file name and hash were always different (the executing file was firstname_lastname.exe, and that was too Vague to whitelist.

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Mark Sauer

Director of Information Technology

TransPakPackage/Freight Delivery, 1001-5000 employees

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If there is a requirement to integrate into other vendor products i.e. (log sharing) then this was very cumbersome.
Integration of vulnerability scanning that is available in other vendor products would be a good addition.
When integrating all of Intel's products a third party consultancy is usually required, where other vendor products can be configured without this additional cost.

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Philip Clarke

IT Systems/Security Manager

R&QInsurance, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

CrowdStrike Falcon 8.6

Based on 13 answers

When I receive support, it is always useful and informative. However, the support doesn't get back to me in the most timely manner. Often, by the time I hear back from support I have already resolved the issue. But for bigger issues, that need more in-depth help the support team has been incredibly valuable.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees

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McAfee Enterprise Security Manager 6.7

Based on 2 answers

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager overall is a great tool. It is effective in today's setting, wherein lots of potential threats are lurking. Its operations within the network are seamless. Users won't even notice that a SIEM is working in the background. But in today's trend, most of the businesses is heading towards the migration to cloud, which McAfee should improve its integration with.

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Brandon Macapelit, CISA

IT Auditor

Unilab IncPharmaceuticals, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Overall I found CrowdStrike Falcon's EDR capabilities superior to their competitors. Also, the user interface has taken its time to mature and is very intuitive and has a natural flow. Policy configuration and assignment as well as the features and settings within the config were more complete and met all our requirements. Lastly, the agent plays nice with everything else running on systems. We hardly ever have issues of Falcon interfering with users or services, and false positives are kept at a minimum.

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David Reyes

Sr Systems Engineer

InnovaSystemsComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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We selected McAfee Enterprise Security Manager because the pricing is competitive in the industry. It is very reliable. The vendor offers good support in real time. Offers the results that we have been looking for. The ability to get the logs may be of last 2 years in a matter of seconds. The ability to retain logs for a very long time.

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Neil Johnson

CIO (Chief Information Officer)

UK Flooring Direct Ltd.Consumer Goods, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

CrowdStrike has cut our security costs.
Has given us more insight into our end points.
It has helped with our older PC's CPU usage.
Cut our cost and time from managing multiple platforms down to managing one platform with better insight than what we had with multiple security platforms.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Security & Investigations Company, 1-10 employees

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McAfee Antivirus is not a leader in the field and I don't recommend this product.
HIPS and Encryption are easy to manage.
Great tool for enterprise deployments.

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Alex Waitkus, CISSP-ISSAP, OSCP

Security Architect

Securicon, LLCComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

CrowdStrike Falcon Editions & Modules

Edition

Falcon Pro	$6.99¹
Falcon Enterprise	$14.99²
Falcon Premium	$17.99²

per endpoint/month (for 5-250 endpoints, billed annually)
per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

CrowdStrike Falcon

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

CrowdStrike Falcon

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager