Item: CrowdStrike Falcon
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with CrowdStrike Falcon

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use CrowdStrike Falcon as our EDR platform to protect the business against the risks that a modern technology business faces. We use CrowdStrike Falcon on all our linux servers due to its low footprint and memory usage, which enables us to not have to scale up our server sizes to facilitate the overhead that some other EDR solutions have.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Low memory footprint
Low CPU overhead
Comprehensive coverage
Good communication
Quick support for new operating system versions

Cons

Pricing

Return on Investment

Single management platform reduces operational overhead
CSPM feature has reduced AWS costs as has allowed turning off some of the paid Security Hub controls.

Innovative Uses

Detection of running a particular piece of software

Alternatives Considered

Sophos Cloud Optix, ESET PROTECT and Microsoft Defender XDR

CrowdStrike Falcon is an industry leader in this sector and is superior in its low overhead agent, having minimal impact on end-users. We plan to migrate our macOS fleet when our existing contract expires.

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

CrowdStrike Falcon is well suited to linux workloads where a low overhead is desired, compared to our previous vendor CrowdStrike Falcon allowed us to shrink our instance sizes as it reduced the memory overhead and CPU utilisation required.

CrowdStrike Falcon Feature Ratings

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CrowdStrike Falcon - low overhead EDR solution

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