CrowdStrike Falcon vs Mimecast Threat Intelligence

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.

Read full review

Victor Rivera

Senior Information Technology Manager

Grupo VinteConstruction, 1001-5000 employees

View all 18 answers on this topic

Mimecast is well suited for any organization whether 20 users or 20,000. The pricing on it is more than reasonable and correlates to the number of users you will have running through it. This review is specific to their threat intelligence but they also offer a slew of other pieces that can work in conjunction with their main threat offering. For organizations who are on-premise, the Mimecast Threat Intelligence basically gives you peace of mind that even if you lose your own system for any reason your email can continue to flow and be used through the Mimecast front end. Compared so some other SaaS offerings the price is ridiculously low considering it is the main part of your arsenal for arguably the most important part of your infrastructure. It is hard for me to conceive a situation where it would not be a positive only an organization's infrastructure offerings....possibly in a business where there is actually not extra money to spend on extras? If your organization manages its own email then Mimecast is appropriate for you.

Read full review

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Construction Company, 51-200 employees

View all 2 answers on this topic

Feature Rating Comparison

CrowdStrike Falcon

Mimecast Threat Intelligence

Anti-Exploit Technology

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Centralized Management

Hybrid Deployment Support

Infection Remediation

Vulnerability Management

Malware 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.

Read full review

Randy Munroe

Information Security Analyst

Randall-ReillyMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

View all 18 answers on this topic

URL protection policies work well
Impersonation protection features help cut down on emulated spam and phishing attempts

Read full review

Verified User

Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

View all 2 answers on this topic

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.

Read full review

Mark Sauer

Director of Information Technology

TransPakPackage/Freight Delivery, 1001-5000 employees

View all 18 answers on this topic

The system is so good I could only think of two flaws and that is after using it for 4 years. The first being that although they have a great web-based management utility the pages themselves render/work slowly such that it sometimes takes a bit of time to click around.
Mimecast offers an Outlook plugin or web-based method to search through old archived emails. Both are significantly slower than if you had them in a local file of some kind. It's the negative side of going to the cloud for this process but does cause some users to complain.

Read full review

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Construction Company, 51-200 employees

View all 2 answers on this topic

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.

Read full review

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees

View all 13 answers on this topic

Mimecast Threat Intelligence 6.9

Based on 4 answers

I have always received the assistance needed, except for the fact that when Mimecast support responds to a case, they do not provide any context. So if you have 4 cases open, you have no idea which case they are responding to. Definitely a shortcoming of the threat intel would be their support, not so much the product.

Read full review

Verified User

Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

View all 4 answers on this topic

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.

Read full review

David Reyes

Sr Systems Engineer

InnovaSystemsComputer Software, 201-500 employees

View all 18 answers on this topic

When we decided to take the plunge on a SaaS offering like Mimecast we reviewed one other company that offers similar protection and archiving capabilities. Proofpoint seems to be a capable competitor and I guess one if one goes with them they will see similar savings and results however we saw no tangible reason to risk by going with the competitor when pricing was so reasonable on the known services we would get with Mimecast.

Read full review

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Construction Company, 51-200 employees

View all 2 answers on this topic

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.

Read full review

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Security & Investigations Company, 1-10 employees

View all 18 answers on this topic

Saves time and manpower as the console can easily be managed by 1 person
Using the continuity feature could potentially save an email outage from preventing an organization from conducting business.

Read full review

Verified User

Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

View all 2 answers on this topic

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

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

—

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Mimecast Threat Intelligence Editions & Modules

—

Additional Pricing Details

—

Rating Summary

CrowdStrike Falcon

Mimecast Threat Intelligence

CrowdStrike Falcon

Mimecast Threat Intelligence

CrowdStrike Falcon vs Mimecast Threat Intelligence