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CrowdStrike Falcon vs Palo Alto Networks WildFire

CrowdStrike Falcon
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48 Ratings
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
16 Ratings

CrowdStrike Falcon

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Score 8.9 out of 100

Based on 48 reviews and ratings

Palo Alto Networks WildFire

16 Ratings
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Score 6.8 out of 100

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Likelihood to Recommend

CrowdStrike Falcon

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 | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Palo Alto Networks WildFire

Palo Alto Networks Wildfire is well suited for pretty much anywhere that you need the latest and greatest network security. It is extremely good at protecting you from the latest malware threats that might pose a potential problem for your network/endpoints. We've been very please since we installed it and I would say cost of the Palo Altos is the only drawback. If money were no object I'd go with a Palo Alto with Wildfire every time. But unfortunately in some smaller branches it just doesn't make financial sense.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Feature Rating Comparison

Endpoint Security

CrowdStrike Falcon
8.9
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
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Anti-Exploit Technology
CrowdStrike Falcon
8.9
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
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Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
CrowdStrike Falcon
9.3
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
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Centralized Management
CrowdStrike Falcon
9.2
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
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Hybrid Deployment Support
CrowdStrike Falcon
7.8
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
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Infection Remediation
CrowdStrike Falcon
9.0
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
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Vulnerability Management
CrowdStrike Falcon
8.6
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
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Malware Detection
CrowdStrike Falcon
9.3
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
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Pros

CrowdStrike Falcon

  • 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 | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Palo Alto Networks WildFire

  • This is could base and easily manageable for our collocation. While working within the could can review in live time potential treats that it has reported from other devices.
  • Worked very well with existing Palo Alto devices.
  • Another huge plus is the simplicity of managing and ease of scalability.
  • Its cost is competitive with similar/like products available.

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Daniel J. Lewis | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cons

CrowdStrike Falcon

  • 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 | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Palo Alto Networks WildFire

  • Local WF appliance is lacking in term of functionality like no bare metal analysis in local solution.
  • No new features coming to local WF appliances.
  • No built-in integration with GlobalProtect Agent.
  • Cloud WF does not have the option for specific regions to be used (compliance).
  • Cloud side does not have alarming option for [degraded] performance.
  • Lack of forensics (needs additional product or integration).

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Likelihood to Renew

CrowdStrike Falcon

No score
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Palo Alto Networks WildFire

Palo Alto Networks WildFire 10.0
Based on 1 answer
It works very well and takes care of protecting us from threats new and well-known. It's been a game changer in terms of threat detection & prevention.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Usability

CrowdStrike Falcon

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Palo Alto Networks WildFire

Palo Alto Networks WildFire 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Easy to use and works well. For the most part it's set it and forget it, but there's also some flexibility for high security environments and those with extra privacy concerns.

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Support Rating

CrowdStrike Falcon

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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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Palo Alto Networks WildFire

Palo Alto Networks WildFire 9.0
Based on 2 answers
PAN support is very good. You can get the reasonable and timely support on any conditions. When the product is already integrated with the PAN firewalls, you can choose the severity levels based on the effect. The customer service/TAC is very helpful, they even have additional recommendations of advises for product usability. Local partners are also assisting the cases and give their expertise.

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Alternatives Considered

CrowdStrike Falcon

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 | TrustRadius Reviewer
David Reyes
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Palo Alto Networks WildFire

We wanted a single device to handle numerous jobs, such as antivirus, antimalware, vulnerability detection, url filtering, etc. Palo Alto provides this, while TippingPoint IPS is a more dedicated product. Caveat: I used TippingPoint over 5 years ago, so things may have changed.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment

CrowdStrike Falcon

  • 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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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Palo Alto Networks WildFire

  • Unknown file analysis helps with identifying malware that may not have a current signature.
  • Additional visibility into files transferred across networks.

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Alex Waitkus, CISSP-ISSAP, OSCP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alex Waitkus, CISSP-ISSAP, OSCP
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Pricing Details

CrowdStrike Falcon

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
  1. per endpoint/month (for 5-250 endpoints, billed annually)
  2. per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)
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Palo Alto Networks WildFire

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Palo Alto Networks WildFire Editions & Modules

—
Additional Pricing Details
—

Rating Summary

Likelihood to Recommend

CrowdStrike Falcon
8.9
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
7.5

Likelihood to Renew

CrowdStrike Falcon
—
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
10.0

Usability

CrowdStrike Falcon
—
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
10.0

Support Rating

CrowdStrike Falcon
8.6
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
9.0

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