CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR Reviews

There are a lot of useful features. First of all, it gives you complete details regarding any malicious activities. So you can replace the impact date or everything from where the file comes. CrowdStrike gives you the complete details of when a file comes to your network, how it's displayed on the other systems, etc. That's the feature most customers like as of now, and they are generally more interested in EDR solutions.

The only challenge is the price, as of now. It could be the only area of improvement for me. It's a little challenging to convince new customers when it comes to the price.

We've been working with CrowdStrike for almost a year — a premium protection solution. However, we provide our customers with whichever version they require, be it the complete solution, premium protection, or basic antivirus.

I would rate the stability of this solution an eight out of ten.

I would rate the scalability of this solution as a ten because it can be easily scaled up whenever needed. Our integration instance is intended for medium-sized clients, and the number of proactive customers who are currently using this solution is more than 2,000 to 3,000 users.

Our distributors provide excellent technical support, and we have experts in our systems. Generally, we don't require any help from OEMs or distributors because they are certified in cloud sites. But whenever we need any kind of help, the distributor provides quick response and mitigation.

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I would like to rate it eight out of ten. It was easy because everything is in the cloud, so you don't have to go through on-premises installation or anything. We just need to set up the cloud, and everything will restart and install that way.

Once we received the credentials from CrowdStrike, we had to set up and create policies such as moderate or high protection. All of these technical steps were taken care of by our technical teams, who are well-experienced and handle different projects.

I would rate pricing a five out of ten, where one indicates the low price and ten indicates the high price. Indian customers are price sensitive, and this solution is a little costlier compared to other solutions. However, customers are still willing to pay for it, but they always compare the price with other solutions since India is a price-sensitive market.

It is a little costlier than other solutions. There are no additional costs except for support costs, which are minimal and not an issue.

We're actually a reseller and a system integrator. We're evaluating several endpoint protection solutions for our customers.

In India, many customers are switching to EDR solutions like CrowdStrike. They prefer automated solutions over traditional legacy antivirus and don't want to invest in additional devices.

I always recommend my customers do a Proof of Concept (PoC) because once they go through the product details, features, and performance, we can convert them into CrowdStrike customers. So I always recommend doing the PoC.

We always recommend doing the PoC, which is like a demo. Overall, the solution is an eight out of ten because it's an automated solution, which is a significant improvement over traditional latency antivirus.

With CrowdStrike, the customer can put in data resources and other things which are automated. In traditional solutions, you would have to work on notifications, do lots of research, and collect logs, but in CrowdStrike, you can easily go through the process and get all the details from when the threat hits your system. It's much more convenient and efficient.

I primarily use the solution on the could to enhance my security posture. It's used to prevent malware from getting on our systems.

I'm looking at using their Spotlight feature. The solution is very good at revealing the vulnerabilities we might have. If there's anything on our system, it will reveal it, and we can address it. 

It is stable and reliable.

Technical support is helpful.

It's pretty easy to set up.

The solution can scale. 

The CSPM UI of the solution could be improved. The cloud solution is where there needs improvement done. The on-premises version is mostly fine. 

The licensing is a bit complex. People need to take some time to understand it to ensure they are getting the most out of the offering.

I've used the solution for three or four months. 

The solution is stable and reliable. My understanding is it is quite stable. I'd rate it nine out of ten for stability. 

The solution is very scalable. I'd rate it eight of nine out of ten. It can extend well. 

We have more than 400 users. We use it on the server side, not for end-user computing. 

We have been using the solution pretty regularly for monitoring. 

Support is very good. They were very helpful during setup. They got back to us pretty quickly. We haven't had any issues with them. 

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We did POCs with other solutions. However, we did not go live with anything other than Crowd Strike. We wanted a good cloud option and those Crowd Strike.

The initial setup is very easy. I'd rate it at a 7.5 out of ten. We did a POC with them before doing the full contract, and the support was very good. We had a few challenges, and support took care of it in a reasonable amount of time.

The deployment took a month or so since we had quite a number of things to handle and complete. 

Our infrastructure team manages the deployment and maintenance. We have not done a lot of maintenance as of now. We are still in learning mode. Likely down the road, we might need just one person to monitor the console and act on things as they arise. 

We handled the initial setup in-house, although we did get help from support occasionally. 

It is too early to say if there will be an ROI. When we run it for a year or so, we'll have a better idea of if we will see one. 

The pricing is pretty contextual. It's hard to give a general price. 

We did look at other options and found Crowd Strike offered a very good cloud option. 

I am a customer. 

We are using the latest version of the solution. 

I'd advise others to do a lot of research and do a POC so that they are aware of what they will be getting and what they will be signing up for. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

My organization is a cybersecurity company using CrowdStrike Falcon for incident response and forensic analysis. Twenty-five employees are using it now

CrowdStrike has improved our operations in many ways. Three of our clients recently got hit by ransomware. Using Falcon Complete, we contained and fixed the issue and helped them get things back to normal.

I like Falcon's AI functionality and vulnerability management. That has been so helpful. Falcon Complete can manage vulnerabilities, quarantine threats, and do all kinds of forensic incident analysis. It's a lightweight solution that only uses 1% of the CPU, which is a game changer. Other EDRs have had high CPU usage.

Falcon could use more SIEM capabilities, like a central place to monitor all our clients.

We have been using CrowdStrike Falcon for nearly two years now.

I rate Falcon 10 out of 10 for stability. 

I rate CrowdStrike Falcon 10 out of 10 for scalability. 

We were using McAfee Endpoint Security, but we later partnered with CrowdStrike, so we started using Falcon. The McAfee solution was limited. CrowdStrike EDR has a good dashboard that lets us see what's happening and the processes on my machines. It has better quarantining and remediation.

Setting up Falcon was straightforward. We deploy it on the cloud and on-prem, depending on the client. You can deploy it in under five minutes with an adequate internet connection.

The number of people needed to deploy the solution varies. It only requires one person if we are using Active Directory. However, we typically do it manually with four people to do it, so it's faster for us to reach the organization's endpoints.

We evaluated Trend Micro and a few other EDRs. We found from the ratings that CrowdStrike was more effective than other EDRs. In addition, we have some solutions from other vendors like AlienVault OSSIM and Darktrace because those are the main players in our market.

Typically, we use the solution for detection, as we outsourced the response element to an MSSP. It also gives us visibility into security threats and allows us to find and eliminate them. For issues that outweigh our capacity, we escalate to our third-party MSSP.

The detection and investigation capabilities are my favorite parts of the solution. It has good threat intelligence and threat-hunting features.  

I want better integration with other security solutions; integrating with third-party apps wasn't as seamless as I expected.

I've been using the solution for one to two years. 

The solution is stable. 

I can't say because our usage remained flat; we didn't up or downscale.

On a scale of one to ten, I put the difficulty of the initial setup at five, right in the middle.

CrowdStrike offers training at an additional cost, so many organizations wouldn't want that route.

I rate the solution eight out of ten.

My advice is to be clear in the negotiation phase about your expectations, the strengths and weaknesses of the solution, and how much of the implementation CrowdStrike will be doing for you. It's good to keep in mind what the required integrations are based on existing infrastructure to understand what is and isn't feasible in the integration.

We don't use the solution internally, but our clients' use cases are primarily EDR and endpoint protection, with peripheral use cases including web app protection.

CrowsStrike Falcon Complete is a good solid endpoint protection solution; it has a good engine and is on par in terms of efficacy with SentinelOne, and with Microsoft Defender for endpoint protection. 

I prefer to put a pound into the prevention and an ounce into the cure, but CrowdStrike put more focus into the EDR. This works as a business model for them, as they get a lot of customers purchasing their MDR services, usually SMBs lacking the staff to leverage the EDR tool themselves adequately. We have many such customers. I would much rather see more refinement and investment into the prevention side of the equation, though CrowdStrike has a good engine. The solution is as effective as SentinelOne and Windows Defender for Endpoint; it's an excellent endpoint protection solution.

I would like to see more integration capabilities and expansion into vulnerability management. I'd like to see it go beyond that into unified endpoint management, a unified security solution that doesn't just tell me what's wrong; it helps me fix it operationally.

We have been a reseller of the solution since 1989.

The solution is very stable. 

It is a very scalable solution, there is no question about that. 

The technical support is good; it's not bad and not the best.

The setup is relatively complex. Post-setup, the maintenance is light, but deployment is more complicated compared to some competitors, including SentinelOne or Cylance. Falcon Complete requires more tuning.

Once the product is implemented, I would say most of our customers require around a quarter of an FTE for maintenance. 

This product is one of the more expensive ones on the market. 

I'd rate the product an eight out of ten because there's always room for improvement in my mind. There are enough other solutions in the market space that are on par with the features and capabilities of CrowdStrike that bump it down from a nine to an eight. It's a pretty level playing field.

Most of my customers are small to medium size businesses. They don't have the people, the knowledge or the time to spend on complex setups and tuning. Any solution has to be simple out of the gate, easy to understand, and it has to be quick to deploy. Therefore, many of my clients use the implementation and managed services, and I have firsthand experience of some issues that can cause. Companies may hold off on more complicated features or configurations they don't fully understand, sometimes even permanently. This isn't unique to Falcon Complete; there are many solutions with features that are never fully leveraged by some clients. The issue is when the solution is not as effectively deployed and configured as possible because it's not a small investment.

When it comes to this solution, my advice is to shop around. CrowdStrike is an excellent brand with an outstanding reputation, but it's also the most expensive or one of the most expensive solutions. If price is a concern, other solutions can do the same job for you or be just as effective. Falcon Complete has few features that make it a big market differentiator nowadays. It makes sense if you need the product's specific features or have the staff to fully leverage the EDR without paying for the MDR.

The most valuable feature is that it has a zero-day approach. It does not work with the signature itself. It looks into what is happening on an endpoint and protects you better against threats that are not yet known but are captured in a signature. It provides far better detection than when it is only signature-based. You get much quicker protection against any new threat. This is the most important feature of the CrowdStrike solution.

They have very good knowledge of how to hunt for threats. It is all about the intelligence you put into a solution for detection. It is about making sure that if you see a number of things, you can interpret them correctly and take the right action against them. They're one of the best vendors because they come from that background. 

They are doing very well in continuously improving their product. The only thing is that it is completely cloud-based, and some customers don't really like that type of approach, but you can only provide such a solution when you have cloud-based intelligence. On the other end, we know that it is sometimes a breaking point for some of the customers. They could potentially have an on-prem or hybrid solution. Any antivirus needs to have its features updated. If there could be a relay between them, it would be helpful, but that's very hard to do. So, you either accept that approach and have the benefit with this little disadvantage. 

I have been working with this solution for three years.

We don't see any specific limitations on that at the moment. 

We have large implementations, and we don't really see any issues with the scalability of the solution. It seems to be able to scale up fairly quickly within the environment.

Their support is top-notch. They're very dedicated. Their experts are online when you need them. 

It is very straightforward. It takes very limited time to set it up. People get used to it very quickly.

Being a cloud-based solution, you don't really have to do a lot of installation. They have their own cloud. It is maintaining itself. There are automatic updates. That's one of the reasons why you want to go to the cloud-based approach. It is very easy in terms of maintenance.

I would advise anyone interested in such a solution to try it out. It is very easy to try it out. 

It is an absolute requirement to get an EDR solution in place. You should go with the ones that really have the most advanced capabilities for threat hunting. It is best to go with the experts. They've had some competition from Microsoft, which is not a bad solution, but Microsoft is not a security expert. CrowdStrike knows very well how to identify threats and link them to specific behavior. That's what you really want to have in there, and that's their strength. One of the reasons why they're still leading is that they are the only ones who can say, "We manage your network, and we would give you money back if we could not detect the issues upfront." That's one of their strong points.

If they don't do any specific scanning, they will adapt themselves to that. If it is a new system, they would need to learn that. If there is something new in there, it could be harder for them to detect it because they don't yet know the behavior, and they have to learn about it. That's the only negative element I see in it. 

They're doing quite a bit of work in improving it. They are doing a good job in evolving the product. I don't see any specific needs at this given moment on that. You could ask a lot, but in the end, you still need to make sure that the core is functioning well. They should stick with what they do best. Evolve that but not start doing everything. That's because it will not work. I'd rather have them stick to their niche.

I would rate it a nine out of 10.

We primarily use the solution for security purposes. We use it to protect our endpoints and prevent any kind of malicious attacks on our company.

In terms of Endpoint security, we feel very secure. Sandboxing is in a place where we can analyze everything before releasing anything into the production environment. It has really helped in terms of how we can prevent the malware from spreading across Endpoints, especially in these scenarios where work from home is common and where users are directly connected to a potentially insecure network.

The best part of CrowdStrike is the integration with various other tools and technologies such as, for example, Mimecast. We use Mimecast for email security and detection via Crowdstrike. If we have a backend integration of Mimecast logs with Crowdstrike, that's an excellent way for us to secure email.

The initial setup is straightforward. 

The stability and performance have been pretty good overall. 

The solution has proven to be very easy to implement and easy to manage.

It is very simple to use and not overly technical. 

The product gives us very low false positives. 

Considering the recent SolarWinds attacks in November or December last year, we were looking for something that could secure the EDR first tokens. It would be helpful if that was on offer.

They need to continuously integrate with other security tools such as CyberArk or Mimecast, to cover the entire IT infrastructure. They should keep in mind that there is a risk in the ADFS web environment. From an Endpoint perspective, it's all good, however, they need to explore the origins via something like Crowdstrike.

The customization could be improved upon. As of now with the area first and web security tokens, we don't see the EDR. We are looking for some solution that can provide EDR solution on the EDR first web environment.

We've been using the solution since 2017. It's been about three years or so. We've used it for a while.

The stability is very good. We don't see anything currently that can negatively impact the Endpoint as the agent is installed, however, the processing does not consume the CPU or memory. It's giving us great anti-malware detection along with a very good performance on the Endpoint as well.

The solution is fairly easy to scale, as it's not specific to any domain we can implement CrowdStrike on a standalone server, or multi-forest. In terms of scalability, it can support the multi-cloud strategy as well.

We have about 12,000. places in which the solution is being used. It's on 9,000 devices as a user Endpoint, which is Windows 10, and approximately 3000 servers.

We do intend to increase usage. Every year is we see a5% to 10% increase in usage.

We get a lot of proactive support from Crowdstrike. Before anything enters our environment, we get a lot of information from our account manager and there is an annual assessment as well. Overall, it's very good in terms of how they provide us with support services.

The initial setup is usually straightforward. We don't see any challenges with the implementation in general, however, there are a few connectivity issues when the ports are not open from our internal network to the Crowdstrike servers. Otherwise, it's very easy.

We always get pressured to reduce the cost, however, considering the importance of security, it's worth paying the current rate. Overall it's a good investment when it comes to security practices.

When we started off with this POC, we were exploring Carbon Black alongside Crowdstrike. Taking into consideration the overall scalability and compatibility in our environment, we decided to go for Crowdstrike.

We are customers and end-users.

We don't have the agent or on-premise servers. This solution is SaaS and we don't need those in order to use it. 

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten considering the experience we've had over the last three years. The only downside is, in certain cases, that we still see the same gaps we have seen in SolarWinds. CrowdStrike is aware of those and is aware of what they need to do. As the first step, for example, what I've seen in the last six months is the integration with Mimecast which is quite a positive development. 

If you look at the Gartner or other rating agencies, where you can compare the features of Crowdstrike versus others leaders such as Trend Micro or Carbon Black, CrowdStrike is shown to be easy to implement, easy to manage, and very simple to use. You don't need a core skillset to manage a Crowdstrike in your environment. It's very friendly. At the same time, it gives very accurate results. You'll get fewer false positives.

We provide service to our customers based on their XDR requirements, such as multi-platform solutions or whatever they have. We use the solution to provide security for those integrated solutions and service their XDR platforms.

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete will reduce the cost of an IT team. You just download the agent and install the license. It's as simple as that.

Also, because of the prevention the solution provides, our clients can see the threats and they can prevent them at the initial stage.

The XDR features are the most valuable in the solution.

And it is very easy to manage the licenses centrally because these are cloud licenses. There is no need for manual data reports. If the internet is connected, the updates and everything can be automatically downloaded, and they can just click and monitor things.

I would like to see them introduce DLP.

We are a partner for this solution and we have been working with it for more than four years.

The stability is fine. We haven't seen any issues.

We used to use McAfee and Kaspersky. We switched because CrowdStrike has very user-friendly licensing for both the customer and the partner.

We haven't seen any challenges at the time of deployment. It is a cloud solution and is deployed per our customer's requirements. For example, if the customer has an Azure environment, we deploy it for Azure. And if they have on-prem services, we deploy it for those services.

Most of the time it is a remote implementation.

We have not seen any challenges regarding its maintenance.

Our clients definitely see return on investment from CrowdStrike.

The pricing is a little bit higher than other OEM competitors in the market, like SentinelOne and Trend Micro. In the Indian market, it is 10 percent higher.

Instead of maintaining on-prem licenses, we suggest CrowdStrike for better performance and better prevention of threats.