Item: CrowdStrike Falcon
Rating: 6
Author: Darren Clarke

Overall Satisfaction with CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Falcon Crowd Strike as a competitor to Sophos when looking for replacements, it was so extremely sophisticated and advance it was a major competitor. It was going to be used by the whole of the group across 3 sites in the uk to be our main form of AV. It helps us become more cyber secure.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Zero Day Protection
Management Portal
Support Given by crowdstrike

Cons

Cost point was too high
Deployment couldn't uninstall sophos as part of the installation
Some times a bit complicated to get your head round

Return on Investment

Reduced our Cyber Risk
Single pain of glass management meant that we had more time to do other things
Light Weight Agent meaning replacement hardware wasn't needed.

Alternatives Considered

Panda Adaptive Defense 360, Sophos Intercept X and Sophos Mobile

Panda and Crowd Strike were two products that blew me away when looking for a replacement for Sophos one we had the renewal quote. Crowdstrike handled Zero day malware amazingly. The only problem we had was the price point at the time, functionality was pretty much the same but Crowd Strike at the time was focused on the anti malware side of thing Panda had a little bit more flexibility for us as a business. I would not turn away from Crowdstrike again and will look at it when we are due for renewal again.

Products Replaced

Likelihood to Recommend

All in all we found crowdstrike to be a key competitor to Sophos Endpoint Security, its zero day protection was one of the top in the market and even on the gartner quadrant it was quite high. the only issue was that it was quite highly priced, if your are a huge business it more than pays for it self but a slightly smaller its not as viable.

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