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BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management vs CrowdStrike Falcon comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
Mixed reviews for BeyondTrust support, citing knowledgeable help but variable response times and lack of local Australian assistance.
Sentiment score
7.5
CrowdStrike Falcon's customer service is praised for prompt support but needs improvement in personalized attention and communication depth.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
4.0
BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management needs UI, integration, reporting, compatibility, pricing improvements, and enhanced support and user guidance.
Sentiment score
4.9
Users highlight needs for better dashboard, integration, performance, reporting, threat detection, pricing, and support in CrowdStrike Falcon.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.8
BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management offers exceptional scalability, effectively supporting large user bases with minimal performance impact and high stability.
Sentiment score
8.2
CrowdStrike Falcon is cloud-based, highly scalable, supports numerous endpoints, and easily adapts to businesses, ensuring extensive protection scalability.
 

Setup Cost

No sentiment score available
BeyondTrust offers flexible licensing with varying costs, seen as both expensive and valuable, especially for Mac clients.
Sentiment score
7.0
Enterprise buyers find CrowdStrike Falcon's robust security services offer great value despite slightly higher pricing compared to some alternatives.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.0
BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management is mostly stable, with occasional minor bugs, quickly resolved issues, and an eight out of ten rating.
Sentiment score
8.2
CrowdStrike Falcon is stable and reliable, effectively managing endpoints with minimal issues, though minor update bugs may occur.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.3
BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management enhances security with privilege control, risk reduction, and integration capabilities for efficient endpoint security management.
Sentiment score
8.1
CrowdStrike Falcon offers comprehensive endpoint protection with real-time threat intelligence, minimal impact, AI-driven detection, and 24/7 monitoring.
 

Categories and Ranking

BeyondTrust Endpoint Privil...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
Privileged Access Management (PAM) (4th), Anti-Malware Tools (9th)
CrowdStrike Falcon
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
122
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (3rd), Identity Management (IM) (5th), Threat Intelligence Platforms (2nd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (1st), Active Directory Management (2nd), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (1st), Attack Surface Management (ASM) (1st), Ransomware Protection (1st), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (3rd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Endpoint Security solutions, they serve different purposes. BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management is designed for Privileged Access Management (PAM) and holds a mindshare of 4.6%, down 6.0% compared to last year.
CrowdStrike Falcon, on the other hand, focuses on Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), holds 16.5% mindshare, up 12.9% since last year.
Privileged Access Management (PAM)
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
 

Featured Reviews

Marlin B Pohlman - PeerSpot reviewer
Admin rights can be granted and revoked within minutes and that is what everything comes down to, for us
The most important factor is the ability to invoke least privilege, which is required under 27701 and GDPR. We have used the solution to remove users' administrative rights and instead provide on-demand, token-based administrative rights. The latter is an option for a single, temporary increase in privileges for a trusted user for a specific time. We use it in a medical environment for HIPAA compliance or medical compliance in a GDPR case. For example, if you have a clinician who needs access to a specific piece of medical information, or if there is an administrator who needs to have administrator rights to a particular database for a limited period of time, we can give it and then revoke it. That's another reason the tool is useful. Also, the fact that we are able to add events straight from event logs and/or the database is important for crisis management and rapid reaction. This ability helps us meet our SLA requirements. In addition, we can elevate approved applications and actions without broad administrative rights. We can temporarily increase privilege based on tasks. If someone puts in a ticket, we increase their privilege for that ticket. We then watch to see if that ticket has been resolved and then we decrease it. Another feature of the platform is instant risk reduction solutions. We can do a risk metric with it, and we do that as part of our risk evaluation. We can increase and decrease privilege and we can actually show that in the ISO 13485 risk metric. And it provides a single solution for managing endpoint security preferences. It does a good job of that.
Chintan-Vyas - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to set up with good behavior-based analysis but needs a single-click recovery option
Most organizations are currently looking for a scheduled scan to meet their compliance needs. Other players like Symantec and Trend Micro, FireEye, et cetera, are still providing the signature-based regular scheduled scans also, which is not available in CrowdStrike. That is one parameter that we feel should be there in CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike is only working on the dynamic or the files under execution. CrowdStrike is not scanning the static files. The product could be more accurate in terms of performance. We'd like to have a single-click recovery option. With some machines getting corrupted by malware, we need an easy way to start with a blank slate if things happen. That one feature should be there in the EDR.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
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
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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.
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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?
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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, CrowdStrike Falcon Threat Intelligence, CrowdStrike Identity Protection, CrowdStrike Falcon Surface
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Aera Energy LLC, Care New England, James Madison University
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