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Cortex Xpanse vs CrowdStrike Falcon comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Cortex Xpanse
Ranking in Attack Surface Management (ASM)
8th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
CrowdStrike Falcon
Ranking in Attack Surface Management (ASM)
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.3
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), Ransomware Protection (1st), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (3rd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (2nd)
 

Featured Reviews

Mostafa-Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 12, 2023
The solution has an easy-to-use user interface that provides quarterly reports about an environment
The customer bought a license for Cortex Xpanse and Cortex XSOAR to customize the policies for vulnerability remediation Cortex Xpanse has an easy-to-use user interface. It has two models:  1. You can get quarterly reports about your environment.  2. If you have a yearly subscription, real-time…
Chintan-Vyas - PeerSpot reviewer
May 29, 2022
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Cortex Xpanse has an easy-to-use user interface."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its firewall and antivirus."
"CrowdStrike Falcon is effortless to use, and it's a cloud-specific platform. You only need to deploy the light agents on the licensed endpoints, and you're ready to work. Your dashboards will tell you the number of the endpoints being protected and the incidents. There are also incident dashboards with alerts that will tell you about the details."
"The product provides good monitoring features."
"CrowdStrike displays a threat score when it detects an infection. This is helpful because not all detections are the same. It will classify them as ransomware, malware, phishing, etc. This feature helps us prioritize and cross-check with other EDR tools."
"The most valuable feature is that we don't need to re-image machines as much as we had to."
"There's almost no maintenance required. It's very low if there's any at all."
"The most valuable feature is the activity dashboard because it gives you a holistic view of your environment from a security standpoint."
"It has definitely minimized resources. When everything was on-prem, there was a lot more work maintaining it. One of the big value tickets: I don't have lists of hundreds of exceptions for certain applications that I have to maintain, add, delete, and move. The very nature of the product has lessened my workload considerably."
"The most valuable feature is the machine learning that they use to check certain patterns in the endpoint devices. It checks the whole ecosystem or entire environment."
 

Cons

"Cortex Xpanse needs to add dark-web scanning."
"There is an issue with the old versions of Cortex, and so when we have an older one with Windows or any OS, we have a problem with its connectivity with the cloud."
"The detection time has room for improvement."
"There is room for improvement in managing multiple customer IDs."
"The solution should have included remote wipe capability out of the box."
"The tool is more expensive than other products in the market."
"We sometimes get false positives."
"CrowdStrike Falcon could be enhanced by extending its security capabilities to include NDR and XDR."
"We can't do scanning audits or device blocking or application control."
"The ability to receive text alerts natively in the console would be kind of cool."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's cost is too high."
"Cortex Xpanse is cheaper than other solutions."
"The price of CrowdStrike Falcon could be better. It is very expensive, we pay approximately $900 per month for the licenses. There are not any additional fees."
"Our licensing fees were between $50,000 and $60,000 per year, which was pretty expensive for a small business."
"As I'm part of the technical team, not the budgeting team, I don't have information on CrowdStrike Falcon pricing."
"CrowdStrike Falcon can be more expensive than some competitors, and its base price doesn't cover every feature."
"This solution has a very competitive price."
"The pricing of CrowdStrike Falcon is competitive."
"Years ago, when we bought CrowdStrike, you got everything it had. I was a little concerned when they broke this out into a la carte modules where you can buy EDR, Spotlight, etc., picking and choosing off the menu. I was a little worried that the solution would get watered down. However, I realized in my previous organization when we had the full suite that there were a bunch of features in it that we didn't have time to operationalize. So, I warmed up to it. I get the whole, "Look, you can pick and choose. Okay, everybody buys a steak, but do you want mashed potatoes, or do you want lobster mac and cheese?" So, you can pick the sides that you want, so you can buy the solution that you want and operationalize versus paying a lot of money and getting a bunch of things, but not using 60 percent of the tools in the box."
"The pricing on CrowdStrike is per license. It was about $42 per seat yearly."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cortex Xpanse?
Cortex Xpanse has an easy-to-use user interface.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cortex Xpanse?
Cortex Xpanse is more expensive than the firewall tools from Sophos. The tool's cost is too high. Cortex is more expensive than Sophos, Kaspersky, or any other solutions. We chose Cortex XDR becaus...
What needs improvement with Cortex Xpanse?
I use Cortex Xpanse and Sophos for endpoint security purposes. With Cortex Xpanse, there is an issue with connectivity in the cloud. Sometimes, the machine cannot be uninstalled easily or installed...
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Also Known As

No data available
CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon Threat Intelligence, CrowdStrike Identity Protection, CrowdStrike Falcon Surface
 

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