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CrowdStrike Falcon vs Lookout comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

CrowdStrike Falcon
Ranking in Threat Intelligence Platforms
1st
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
121
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (3rd), Identity Management (IM) (5th), Active Directory Management (3rd), 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 (1st)
Lookout
Ranking in Threat Intelligence Platforms
19th
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
41st
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Secure Web Gateways (SWG) (25th), Mobile Data Protection (7th), Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) (12th), Mobile Threat Defense (2nd), ZTNA as a Service (14th), ZTNA (12th), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) (17th)
 

Featured Reviews

SD
Jul 23, 2024
Prevent privilege escalation with highest credentials but have issues with updates
As customers, we always update our systems whenever a new release is available, with clients connecting directly to the Internet for these updates. We have an agent who manages these updates on the clients, but as an organization, we don’t have control over them. CrowdStrike should assess the impact on endpoints before releasing such updates. Our organization now seeks AI-based stock monitoring to prioritize thousands of alerts generated across various platforms. The AI integration is still in its early stages, so we would like to see Falcon develop tools that can integrate with multiple platforms and help identify the highest-priority alerts.
AP
May 23, 2023
User-focused design makes it easy to understand, and operations running in background provide peace of mind
In any of the discussions that we've had with their technical teams, they have been very knowledgeable and helpful in certain aspects. They have a lot of partnerships, from what we can tell, and that does start to make the waters a little bit murky. They have third parties that provide functionality and there is a concern that we're going to be bounced around between five different groups to get help for a problem. If you describe it incorrectly, all of a sudden you're with a group that can't help you and they have to forward you to another group. They have been very responsive and super helpful when it comes to any of the issues we've identified. Still, that concern about being bounced around between multiple partners detracts from the overall experience.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The stability is very good."
"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."
"The feature I like the most is the solution's detection."
"The product's deployment phase is easy."
"I have found the connection to search the hosts for detections very useful in CrowdStrike Falcon."
"We have seen a reduction to the performance hit to our operating systems."
"The most valuable features of CrowdStrike Falcon include Falcon Fusion workflows and endpoint detection capabilities."
"The most valuable aspects of CrowdStrike Falcon for me are its device observability, identification, and software and OS recognition."
"On the outside, the main differentiation is because Lookout ingest. They have ingested basically all of the apps for the last ten years and all the versions of all the apps, and we have that in a corporate database that allows us to do very large-scale machine learning and analysis on that data set. That's not something that any of the competitors really have the capability to do because they don't have access to the data set. A lot of the apps you can no longer get them because that version of the app is five or six years old, and it just doesn't exist anywhere anymore, except within our infrastructure. So, the ability to have that very rich dataset and learn from that dataset is a real differentiator."
"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"The solution is stable."
"The protection offered by the product is the most valuable feature. It detects vulnerabilities or traps on our users' phones and then prompts them to clean up their devices. Tools we used previously would only discover, which required us to gather information on the backend, so Lookout is a welcome upgrade."
 

Cons

"The pricing structure should allow for some flexibility."
"I'm concerned about the recent issue that involved a faulty update."
"Enhancements in reporting and forensic analysis could benefit the product."
"There are some areas where some customers would prefer a different service."
"Basically, they don't cover legacy OS or applications. That's the only issue we're concerned about"
"This solution is relatively expensive."
"The management reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"The solution should have included remote wipe capability out of the box."
"From the analysis that we've done, they do seem to be maybe a step behind in trying to enter the market with a new solution. But when they do pick up, they do come out with some good products."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide API to customers so we can query our data and use it in our cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now."
"The stability depends on the service from where you access it. Because sometimes, the place you are in, you have Gateway. You don't have Gateway. The gateway is overutilized. At the end, you need to go through their gateways. And this is the key point here. You have a tracking point. If it's not well orchestrated, and it scales up as you add more to the existing team, you will suffer"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"CrowdStrike Falcon's price is good."
"The pricing on CrowdStrike is per license. It was about $42 per seat yearly."
"I would like them to further reduce the price, because it is quite pricey at the moment."
"We have a yearly subscription and find the price to be good. I'd give it a rating of four out of five for price, we got a good discount."
"CrowdStrike is well priced. On a yearly basis, it costs between $60 and $100 per user."
"The pricing could be reduced. If it was more reasonable that would be great."
"CrowdStrike Falcon can be more expensive than some competitors, and its base price doesn't cover every feature."
"CrowdStrike is a reasonably priced tool."
"The pricing is fair; it's comparable to our previous solution, and we carried out multiple POCs and POVs (proof of value). The product is worth the money we pay for it."
"Lookout is definitely on the lower end when it comes to price point and that seems to be the only differentiator. The technology is in place in this space and it's really about who is coming in at the better price point now."
"In terms of feature performance versus cost, they're a good value."
"The licensing costs are good. Prisma has much more options and support for security, but it has a higher cost. For example, Lookout costs 2/3rd of Prisma's licensing price."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

Comparing CrowdStrike Falcon to Cortex XDR (Palo Alto)
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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?
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 ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Lookout?
The licensing costs are good. Prisma has much more options and support for security, but it has a higher cost. For example, Lookout costs 2/3rd of Prisma's licensing price. The solution comes with ...
What needs improvement with Lookout?
The solution could improve identity integration as well. Zero trust, it's a good start as a zero-trust solution. Moreover, Lookout should work on multi-cloud integration and on increasing the numbe...
 

Also Known As

CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon Threat Intelligence, CrowdStrike Identity Protection, CrowdStrike Falcon Surface
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