Item: CrowdStrike Falcon
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with CrowdStrike Falcon

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Deployed CS Falcon in a higher education research environment. We needed to leverage a tool that can build a models and be on the advancement of technology due to the nature of higher education and BYOD. We installed the CS Falcon on all machines and worked with the CS team to build a Gov Cloud for research equipment that required a different set of cloud protocols.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Monitoring
Notification
Device Management

Cons

Have an executive dashboard
better reporting cadence
ability to tag devices with end user names

Return on Investment

Positive Impact on Travel Safety
Positive Impact on ROI
Ease of use
Ease of deployability

Innovative Uses

the use of unique CIDs
Building out segmented folders
testing new agents
testing new policies

Alternatives Considered

VMware Carbon Black Endpoint and Symantec Advanced Threat Protection

Is better and the ease of use and cost was spot on.

Key Insights

Do you think CrowdStrike Falcon delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with CrowdStrike Falcon's feature set?

Yes

Did CrowdStrike Falcon live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of CrowdStrike Falcon go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy CrowdStrike Falcon again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

CS Falcon is suited for nearly all scenarios and deployment. The only challenge would be if devices contain protected data the need for the Gov Cloud installation would be necessary. This can split up your installation base but isn't anything that is very difficult to manage.

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Crowdstrike Falcon in Higher Ed

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