We performed a comparison between BigFix and CrowdStrike Falcon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I get alerts when scripts are detected in the environment."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ability to customize it and to reduce its size. It lets you run in a very small window in terms of memory and resources on legacy cash registers."
"It is very easy to set up. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, with ten being very easy to set up."
"Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"This is stable and scalable."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"What I like most is that it is a powerful solution."
"DOWNLOADING-PATCHES; It has also helped to reduce network traffic when it comes to downloading patches. By only having to download the patch once to the central location and then utilizing the relay structure to then download the patch to a specific site and then everything gathering at local, it greatly reduces the bandwidth of multiple endpoints."
"The most valuable feature is the patching."
"Before we had BigFix, we had problems with some malware. BigFix allows us to immediately patch all instances of endpoints that were vulnerable to antivirus and initiate scans. That's key."
"Software distribution and patch management are the most valuable."
"The most valuable point is when you deploy an application, you have to make sure that the application has been deployed to all computers and that is working perfectly. This solution works well at deployments."
"It is a one-stop tool that allows you to do everything. It supports reporting, vulnerability management, patch management, and configuration. All things can be done in one tool."
"The patch management and the BigFix Inventory have been the most valuable features."
"The detection is very reliable. Also, OverWatch is a great feature."
"From what we have seen, it is very scalable. We have recently acquired a company where someone had a ransomware attack when we joined networks. Within the course of just a few days, we were able to easily get CrowdStrike rolled out to about 300 machines. That also included the removal of that company's legacy anti-malware tool."
"As an EDR tool, we can integrate log management and event management. The solution deals with threats automatically, that's the advantage."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The automatic alert feature is the most important feature of the solution."
"The stability is good; we haven't experienced any glitches or bugs."
"Overall, what I found most valuable in CrowdStrike Falcon is its good mechanism. It also has a good reporting feature. CrowdStrike Falcon is an invaluable tool because, through it, you can take quick action, for example, when an OS is missing specific patches."
"The CrowdStrike Falcon dashboard is good, and we haven't had any problems with it."
"I think cloud security and SASE are areas of concern in the product where improvements are required. The tool's cloud version has to be improved in terms of the security it offers."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"Intelligence aspects need improvement"
"The only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"The tool should be more friendly in terms of Web UI and should be having better vulnerability scanning mechanisms so a third-party application is not required to fulfill that aspect."
"The product lacks AI, ML, and IIT."
"I'd like to see better API integration with BigFix. We have some tremendous API capability inside of CyFIR and the ability to take textual search results, for example, and bring that back into the BigFix dashboard. This would be of extreme interest to us and our customers."
"The remote software installation could be better."
"I would like the dashboard to be improved to show the problematic machines and good machines."
"Relay selection and availability needs improvement as an incorrect relay selected can cause network chokes."
"BigFix should improve its compatibility with other platforms, such as Linux."
"Around the scalability concern, I would like to see the ability to run teamed, clustered, or hierarchical root servers, in order to provide a more robust, high availability system. The single monolithic root server model does somewhat bother me."
"They need to strengthen the forensic capabilities of this product, for e-discovery."
"This solution could be improved with greater scope for admins to make changes to the solution."
"Basically, they don't cover legacy OS or applications. That's the only issue we're concerned about"
"I've found that CrowdStrike's technical support could benefit from increased technical expertise."
"We would like to be able to perform on-demand scanning, rather than relying on the scheduler."
"This solution is relatively expensive."
"Sometimes CrowdStrike changes the GUI, and they need to be better at informing us and providing guidance concerning that."
"In the six months that I have been using CrowdStrike, it has not been able to detect anything."
BigFix is ranked 15th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 91 reviews while CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 107 reviews. BigFix is rated 8.6, while CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of BigFix writes "Very stable and easy to deploy with excellent patch compliance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CrowdStrike Falcon writes "Easy to set up with good behavior-based analysis but needs a single-click recovery option". BigFix is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and ManageEngine Endpoint Central, whereas CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint. See our BigFix vs. CrowdStrike Falcon report.
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