BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management vs CrowdStrike Falcon comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

BeyondTrust Endpoint Privil...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
Privileged Access Management (PAM) (5th), Anti-Malware Tools (12th)
CrowdStrike Falcon
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
112
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (3rd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (3rd), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (1st), Ransomware Protection (1st), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (3rd)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Privileged Access Management (PAM) category, the market share of BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management is 5.0% and it decreased by 22.2% compared to the previous year. The market share of CrowdStrike Falcon is 3.2% and it increased by 41.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Privileged Access Management (PAM)
Unique Categories:
Anti-Malware Tools
2.2%
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
11.0%
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
17.4%
 

Featured Reviews

YB
Apr 4, 2023
Good user management and command control features
There is always room for improvement. One thing that would be helpful is if it was easier to define which commands can be used. Currently, we use a program to automate all of this, but it's not a default feature of BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management. It can be a bit more difficult if we're not using our own script. We have a script that checks the day from the AD group to see if any users have certain privileges, and we execute it to make any necessary changes. We've automated the process by creating our own script. We run it four times a day. In the future release, I would like to see it easier to configure without adding all the scripts. It would be helpful if it had a user-friendly manual that allows you to change things easily. It would make BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management a lot easier to use.
VP
May 2, 2024
Helps protect our data, is stable, and reasonably priced
A popular choice for Data Loss Prevention is CrowdStrike Falcon. This is the primary function our clients leverage it for, as it offers industry-leading DLP capabilities CrowdStrike Falcon has helped our customers secure their confidential data. The DLP is the most valuable feature of…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product is secure."
"Scalability is good. I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten."
"The notable aspect is its ability to capture the application's behavior comprehensively and this thorough analysis is crucial for effective policy management."
"The most valuable feature is the asset discovery, which makes it very easy to locate and identify assets and pull them into the manager."
"The asset discovery feature is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's very easy to pull assets into the database of the solution manager."
"I'm a BeyondTrust partner and I have multiple deployments, four or five banks right now. The features that give us quite an edge compared to what our competitors are offering - like IBM or Thycotic - are the Session Management, that is quite a big one; also the recording of keystrokes. In addition, there is the password vaulting and state-of-the-art Password Management, which I haven't seen in other products."
"The implementation is quite easy because the documents are always online."
"Technical support is good."
"The key aspect of CrowdStrike Falcon is its behavioral detection approach."
"It has an extremely low footprint, so it has got minimum impact on the user end points in terms of CPU and memory usage."
"The most valuable features in CrowdStrike Falcon are the full EDR with antivirus, hunting, reporting, and RTR remote control."
"The OverWatch is the most valuable feature to me. It's a 24x7 monitoring service, and when they see anything suspicious in my environment, they will investigate."
"The features I like the most are the response time and the dashboard are both excellent."
"The most valuable features of CrowdStrike Falcon include Falcon Fusion workflows and endpoint detection capabilities."
"We are now able to find the root cause analysis on any threat. We can figure out where the issue came in versus just dealing with where it is at the moment."
"CrowdStrike Falcon's scalability is good. We have thousands of students using this solution."
 

Cons

"What's bothering me, which is true of all of them, is that sometimes, the error codes that come up don't necessarily get reflected in the searches within their support sites or they're out of date. I would rather search by an error code than type in the text and search for it by text because the error code means that it is programmatic, and it is known. It might not be desired, but it at least is not unexpected. If you don't have an error code, you just get an anomalous error, and if it is lengthy, it can be difficult to search and find the specific instance you're looking for. This is something I would like all of them to improve. BeyondTrust, CyberArk, Centrify, and Thycotic could do some improvements in staying up to date and actually allowing you to search based on the product version. They are assuming that everybody is on their way to release. They put out a new release, but it is not reflected on the support site, which makes no sense to me, especially when they revamp all the error codes. They all have been guilty of this in some way."
"There are three types of endpoints. If we need to use them in the solution, then we need to purchase the licenses separately. The tool needs to improve its licensing."
"A valuable enhancement could be the capability to deploy agents directly through the console."
"If you don't get the implementation right at the outset, you will struggle with the product."
"The help system should be improved to provide a quick help guide with each tab within the solution, which explains what each particular function does."
"There is room for improvement in having the solution align more with standards. We're always shoehorning the product into the standards. It's not that it doesn't work for standards, it does. But Quick Start Policies are pretty close to what we need. The vendor needs to keep looking at GDPR, 27001, and 27701. That's why our clients buy the product."
"It keeps on breaking every now and then. It is not yet mature. Every time something new comes up or we run into some new issues, the culprit is BeyondTrust because the agents and the adapter are not mature. The new development process goes on, and they're not able to handle things. It should be mature. It shouldn't break every now and then."
"Their technical support could be more responsive and helpful."
"Falcon could be improved with more function on the mobile end of things and better optimization with mobile devices."
"Crowdstrike Falcon XDR can improve the integration. There are some locks on the cloud to on-premise integrations."
"I would also like to see the endpoint firewall component produce some level of logging and feedback."
"It can be expensive depending on the features you select."
"The console is not user-friendly or visually appealing and has room for improvement."
"It is cloud-based, and this does make some weary of the data being held on the cloud. Privacy requirements must be taken into account."
"As the company has grown, the technical support has felt less personal."
"CrowdStrike Falcon could improve by having an easier way to search and use the interface for extracting queries from the data. The interface could improve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It was very expensive."
"I'm sure everyone should have the cluster environment, which means more expensive, anyway, cheaper than the other solutions."
"What BeyondTrust was providing was user-based licensing which was a great benefit from the client point of view. Recently, I don't know why, the licensing model has been changed, and that is the reason that they have lost a bit of their edge when it comes to the PAM, against our competition. The asset-based licensing, from the user's point of view, is not beneficial. The licensing should be based on the users. The greater the number of users, the greater will be the load and the greater the scalability problems. I presume that is why the licensing model has changed."
"PowerBroker for a Mac client is three times the price of the Windows version."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
"The product’s licensing is different for Windows, Linux, and Mac. The tool’s licensing is yearly."
"It is relatively more cost-effective compared to the competing product."
"This solution is expensive compared to its competitors."
"The price is fixed with no room for negotiation."
"Our company pays approximately US$ 65,000 annually for 900 machines."
"I would like them to further reduce the price, because it is quite pricey at the moment."
"The price of CrowdStrike Falcon is expensive and should be reduced."
"The pricing of CrowdStrike Falcon is competitive."
"I do not have experience with the cost or licensing of the product."
"This solution offers annual subscriptions. The pricing for this solution could be reduced."
"The cost of CrowdStrike Falcon in Latin America seems high relative to the economic conditions in the region."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions are best for your needs.
787,061 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Looking for recommendations and a pros/cons template for software to detect insider threats
This is an inside-out --- outside-in --- inside-in question, as an insider can be an outsider as well. There is no short answer other than a blend of a PAM tool with Behavioral Analytics and Endpo...
What do you like most about BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management?
The solution's least privilege enforcement has helped us ensure access is given to only the required people.
Comparing CrowdStrike Falcon to Cortex XDR (Palo Alto)
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto vs. CrowdStrike Falcon Both Cortex XDR and Crowd Strike Falcon offer cloud-based solutions that are very scalable, secure, and user-friendly. Cortex XDR by Palo Alto offers ...
How does Crowdstrike Falcon compare with Darktrace?
Both of these products perform similarly and have many outstanding attributes. CrowdStrike Falcon offers an amazing user interface that makes setup easy and seamless. CrowdStrike Falcon offers a cl...
How does Microsoft Defender for Endpoint compare with Crowdstrike Falcon?
The CrowdStrike solution delivers a lot of information about incidents. It has a very light sensor that will never push your machine hardware to "test", you don't have the usual "scan now" feature ...
 

Also Known As

BeyondTrust PowerBroker, BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management for Windows, BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management for Mac, BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management for Linux, BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management for Unix, Avecto Defendpoint
CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike Falcon XDR
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Aera Energy LLC, Care New England, James Madison University
Information Not Available
Find out what your peers are saying about CyberArk, Delinea, BeyondTrust and others in Privileged Access Management (PAM). Updated: June 2024.
787,061 professionals have used our research since 2012.