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CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security vs Mend.io comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Se...
Ranking in Application Security Tools
13th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Container Security (9th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (8th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (8th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (7th), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (4th), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (3rd)
Mend.io
Ranking in Application Security Tools
17th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (6th), Static Code Analysis (4th), Software Supply Chain Security (2nd)
 

Featured Reviews

Dario Bigi - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 28, 2023
Highly scalable, stable, and offers excellent technical support
I use Falcon Cloud Security as our primary EDR solution, integrated with Splunk for alert management. While Falcon effectively mitigates many threats automatically, we leverage it for targeted threat hunting when we observe unusual patterns or a high occurrence of specific tactics. This allows us…
KW
Jan 10, 2023
It improved our mean time to resolution and works seamlessly
Mend lets you create custom policies. They're not too complicated to set up, but it would be helpful if they had some preconfigured policies to match what we have in Azure DevOps. That would save us a lot of time. It's tedious to configure the policies manually, and I lack the capacity to do it right now. Other products have preconfigured packs and templates, and Mend doesn't. Also, the dashboard is busy. It's a little bit over-engineered. There's a lot of information, and the layout could be a bit cleaner. Maybe they could reduce the amount of visibility on the dashboard.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's easy to gather insights and conduct analysis about existing threats."
"The most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is its lightweight sensor, taking minimal space and not impacting server performance."
"The most valuable feature of Falcon Cloud Security is its comprehensive threat-hunting ability."
"The RTR feature stands out as particularly valuable to me due to its capability to log into machines."
"CrowdStrike utilizes signatureless technology, eliminating the need for regular signature updates on endpoint systems."
"There is a lot that it can do, but endpoint protection is the main thing about it. The fact that it uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to monitor and remediate the issues in real-time is probably the bread and butter of the product."
"The threat intelligence is the most vital feature"
"The solution has login features like multi factor authentication."
"It gives us full visibility into what we're using, what needs to be updated, and what's vulnerable, which helps us make better decisions."
"We use a lot of open sources with a variety of containers, and the different open sources come with different licenses. Some come with dual licenses, some are risky and some are not. All our three use cases are equally important to us and we found WhiteSource handles them decently."
"Attribution and license due diligence reports help us with aggregating the necessary data that we, in turn, have to provide to satisfy the various licenses copyright and component usage disclosures in our software."
"Its ease of use and good results are the most valuable."
"The solution boasts a broad range of features and covers much of what an ideal SCA tool should."
"We can take some measures to improve things, replace a library, or update a library which was too old or showed severe bugs."
"I am the organizational deployment administrator for this tool, and I, along with other users in our company, especially the security team, appreciate the solution for several reasons. The UI is excellent, and scanning for security threats fits well into our workflow."
"The reporting capability gives us the option to generate an open-source license report in a single click, which gets all copyright and license information, including dependencies."
 

Cons

"I would not say the tool's integration capabilities were straightforward because the complexity depends on the volume of the data."
"The threat intelligence and user behavioral analysis could be more comprehensive."
"One area for improvement in Falcon Cloud Security is the support portal."
"The UI part needs to be improved."
"The file integrity monitoring feature should be enhanced and offered more control"
"The CrowdStrike partner portal documentation could be improved to provide proper instructions for integrating their products."
"There should be cloud storage scanning. We would like to have cloud storage vulnerability and threat management on any cloud storage."
"The CrowdStrike dashboard currently lacks a username field."
"We specifically use this solution within our CICD pipelines in Azure DevOps, and we would like to have a gate so that if the score falls below a certain value then we can block the pipeline from running."
"I would like to see the static analysis included with the open-source version."
"It would be good if it can do dynamic code analysis. It is not necessarily in that space, but it can do more because we have too many tools. Their partner relationship support is a little bit confusing. They haven't really streamlined the support process when we buy through a reseller. They should improve their process."
"Needs better ACL and more role definitions. This product could be used by large organisations and it definitely needs a better role/action model."
"It should support multiple SBOM formats to be able to integrate with old industry standards."
"The solution lacks the code snippet part."
"The only thing that I don't find support for on Mend Prioritize is C++."
"The turnaround time for upgrading databases for this tool as well as the accuracy could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"CrowdStrike Falcon is very expensive."
"It's an expensive package but does what it says it will do."
"Its price is moderate."
"It's an expensive product"
"I am not the one who handled the pricing. A different team worked on it, but it is pretty expensive."
"The pricing is fair for what you get. I'd rate them a solid nine out of ten in terms of pricing."
"The pricing is reasonable, neither overly expensive nor excessively cheap, making it competitive compared to other market options."
"The price is not too high, it is okay."
"We are paying a lot of money to use WhiteSource. In our company, it is not easy to argue that it is worth the price. ​"
"The version that we are using, WhiteSource Bolt, is a free integration with Azure DevOps."
"Over the last two years, they have tried to add more and more features to their license packages, but the price is a little bit high, comparatively."
"This is an expensive solution."
"Mend is costly but not overly expensive. The license was quite expensive this year, but we managed to negotiate the price down to the same as last year. At the same time, it's a good value. We're getting what we're paying for and still not using all the features. We could probably get more out of the tool and make it more valuable. At the moment, we don't have the capacity to do that."
"It is fairly priced."
"The solution involves a yearly licensing fee."
"Pricing is competitive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security?
It's easy to gather insights and conduct analysis about existing threats.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security?
It's an expensive product. The solution costs around $60 for a single user on a yearly basis. I would rate the pricing a four out of ten.
What needs improvement with CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security?
I am not part of the current monitoring team, so I do not know how they feel about the tool. I am sharing information related to the tool based on the feedback and on my experience deploying it fou...
How does WhiteSource compare with SonarQube?
Red Hat Ceph does well in simplifying storage integration by replacing the need for numerous storage solutions. This solution allows for multiple copies of replicated and coded pools to be kept, ea...
How does WhiteSource compare with Black Duck?
We researched Black Duck but ultimately chose WhiteSource when looking for an application security tool. WhiteSource is a software solution that enables agile open source security and license compl...
What do you like most about Mend.io?
The best feature is that the Mend R&D team does their due diligence for all the vulnerabilities. In case they observe any important or critical vulnerabilities, such as the Log4j-related vulner...
 

Also Known As

CrowdStrike Falcon ASPM
WhiteSource, Mend SCA, Mend.io Supply Chain Defender, Mend SAST
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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Microsoft, Autodesk, NCR, Target, IBM, vodafone, Siemens, GE digital, KPMG, LivePerson, Jack Henry and Associates
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