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.
$6.99
per endpoint/month (for 5-250 endpoints, billed annually)
Symantec Advanced Threat Protection
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Symantec Advanced Threat Protection is a single unified solution that uncovers, prioritizes, and
remediates advanced attacks. The product fuses intelligence from endpoint, network, and email
control points, as well as Symantec’s massive global sensor network, to stop threats that evade
individual security products. It leverages existing Symantec Endpoint Protection and
Symantec Email Security.cloud investments, so it does not require the deployment of any new
agents. It includes functionality…
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Pricing
CrowdStrike Falcon
Symantec Advanced Threat Protection
Editions & Modules
Falcon Pro
$6.99
per endpoint/month (for 5-250 endpoints, billed annually)
Falcon Enterprise
$14.99
per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)
Falcon Premium
$17.99
per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)
We moved on from Symantec and compared with Sophos - the impact (performance) to the endpoint is very minimal - our engineers always fight new security tools. During testing, they were running CrowdStrike for 2 weeks when they asked when we would install the new EDR tool to …
Before choosing CrowdStrike Falcon, we evaluated alternative solutions such as Symantec and McAfee. However, CrowdStrike Falcon's cloud-native approach, advanced threat hunting capabilities, and real-time visibility into endpoint activities set it apart as the optimal choice …
CrowdStrike Falcon provides a single solution to complex problems along with the ability to contain a machine and remotely execute programs using admin dashboard and administrator capabilities
Since CrowdStrike is a cloud-native platform, it reduces the need to maintain many servers on-premise and worldwide architecture. McAfee uses very high CPU and RAM resources on endpoints and servers. Identity protection feature is a huge step towards zero trust implementation.
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Director
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
Is better and the ease of use and cost was spot on.
I was not part of the selection process; however after speaking with the team that did make the call, the following where the key scenarios or features that ultimately made the decision.
The number one decision from the support team was the client deployment and management of …
CrowdStrike was superior in every way to Symantec. This extends from the ease of use of the system to the helpfulness of the sales team. We struggled for years with a large amount of false positives and difficulty managing the Symantec software. Within weeks of pushing out …
Evaluated SEPM but ended up going with Falcon. The response time is immediate with great customer service and tech support. Falcon has more features and also supports USB control. It is way more advanced in product functions and user interface.
Frankly, the other products were too expensive to make the change from Symantec so we continued with the tried and true protection. We don't have the funding to move to a more expensive product and the manpower that it would take to implement a new solution.