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CrowdStrike Falcon pros and cons

Vendor: CrowdStrike

4.3 out of 5

125 reviews
96% willing to recommend

4,541 followers

Pros & Cons summary

CrowdStrike Falcon offers reliable threat detection with real-time responses and robust integration for enhanced security management. Its scalability suits diverse IT environments with minimal impact on system resources. Users appreciate its comprehensive threat intelligence, but improvements are needed in log management and technical support. While installation and pricing require refinement, its lightweight architecture is an advantage. Support for native applications and forensic capabilities needs enhancement along with integration for certain on-premises devices.

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PROS

CrowdStrike Falcon is praised for its excellent threat detection and blocking capabilities, providing confidence in network security.

The lightweight agent ensures minimal impact on system performance, maintaining efficiency without affecting CPU and memory usage.

The integration capabilities with various platforms like Splunk and BigQuery offer enhanced functionality and ease of use.

The managed services and comprehensive reporting features are highly valued, offering dynamic and responsive support.

CrowdStrike Falcon's scalability and ability to manage thousands of endpoints efficiently is impressive, supporting business growth without issues.

CONS

Management of log aggregation in CrowdStrike Falcon needs improvement.

Technical support is slow, especially for after-sales service.

CrowdStrike Falcon's pricing is considered high compared to competitors.

False positives occur frequently, impacting threat assessment accuracy.

Integration capabilities, especially with on-premises devices, require enhancement.

CrowdStrike Falcon Pros review quotes

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Jeffrey-Anderson

Security Analyst II at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 11, 2021

I like the dashboard nature of it. Everything is clickable, linkable, and information is easy to obtain and find. How it presents that information is probably the biggest win as far as the information correlation aspect. The presentation of it is very good.

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EH

Chief Information Security Officer at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 23, 2021

As long as the machine is connected to the Internet, and CrowdStrike is running, then it will be on and we will have visibility; no VPNing in or making some type of network connection. CrowdStrike always there and running in the background; for us, that is big. We wanted something that could give us data as long as the machines connected to the Internet and be almost invisible to the employees.

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JM

Information Security Analyst at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 10, 2021

The 10 hours a week that we are freeing up from having to manage and monitor our AV solution has really allowed us to focus on other areas of the business. This has been a huge return on investment.

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MG

Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect at Swagelok Company

Mar 4, 2021

Probably the most valuable thing to me is the real-time response piece. The fact that I can connect to an endpoint as long as it is on the Internet, no matter where it is globally. I can remove files from the endpoint, drop files on the endpoint, stop processes, reboot it, run custom scripts, and deploy software. Pretty much no other tool can do all that.

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NC

IT Security Analyst at U.S. Venture, Inc.

Mar 17, 2021

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.

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MK

Associate Director - Infrastructure Engineering at AFT

Jul 12, 2020

The UI is simple and self-explanatory. Everything is easy to understand.

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reviewer1540044

Chief Security Officer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Mar 25, 2021

The OverWatch is the most valuable feature to me. It's a 24x7 monitoring service, and when they see anything suspicious in my environment, they will investigate.

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AS

Adam Shusterman

Cyber Security Engineer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 25, 2021

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.

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Trainee Engineer at COMPASS IT Solutions & Services Pvt.Ltd.

Aug 9, 2024

It's really good because it can detect anything.

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reviewer1392531

Dy General Manager at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees

Aug 2, 2020

There's almost no maintenance required. It's very low if there's any at all.

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Jeffrey-Anderson

Security Analyst II at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 11, 2021

I would like them to improve the correlation of data in the search algorithms. When we run an investigation, malware, phishing, etc., I want to look at multiple endpoints at once to correlate that data to see the likenesses, e.g., how are they not alike or what systems and processes are running across those systems? I don't want to have to run the same search in their Spotlight module five, 10, 15, or 100 times to get 100 different results, copy that data out, and then correlate it on my own. In a very simple way, I want to be able to load up a comma-delimited list giving me the spotlight data on these X amount of hosts, letting me search for it quickly. We have had to go back to CrowdStrike, and say, "Our search are taking far too long for even one host." They did bump up the cores and that did improve performance, but it is still kind of slow to get that Spotlight data. That is probably our biggest pain point. I think that needs some help. I understand this kind of information access is probably not the easiest thing to do. It is probably a big ask depending on how their back-end is setup.

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EH

Chief Information Security Officer at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 23, 2021

I would love to see more investment in Insight because CrowdStrike have an opportunity to potentially displace some of the vulnerability management vendors with the visibility they can see over time. I want to see them continue to evolve, e.g., what other things can they disrupt which are operational things we have to continue to do as an organization.

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JM

Information Security Analyst at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 10, 2021

It would be nice if they did have some sort of Active Directory tie-in, whether that be Azure or on-prem. Sometimes, it is difficult for us to determine if we are missing any endpoints or servers in CrowdStrike. We honestly don't have a great inventory, but it would be nice if CrowdStrike had a way to say this is everything in your environment, Active Directory-wise, and this is what doesn't have sensors. They try to do that now with a function that they have built-in, but I have been unsuccessful in having it help us identify what needs a sensor. So, better visibility of what doesn't have a sensor in our environment would be helpful.

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MG

Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect at Swagelok Company

Mar 4, 2021

A year and a half ago or more, if you put in a support request by email, then it wasn't timely addressed. It could be a day to three days before you received a response, which was a bit frustrating. There was a lot of customer feedback around this issue, which has been greatly refined.

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NC

IT Security Analyst at U.S. Venture, Inc.

Mar 17, 2021

I would like to see a little bit more in the offline scanning ability. This just comes from my background in what I have done in other positions. They only scan on demand, so I always have this fear that we sometimes maybe email out a dormant virus and can be held liable for that. That is something where I would like to see a little bit more robustness to the tool.

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MK

Associate Director - Infrastructure Engineering at AFT

Jul 12, 2020

Basically, they don't cover legacy OS or applications. That's the only issue we're concerned about

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reviewer1540044

Chief Security Officer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Mar 25, 2021

If we have a dashboard capability to uninstall agents, I think that would be great.

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AS

Adam Shusterman

Cyber Security Engineer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 25, 2021

There are some aspects of the UI that could use some improvement, e.g., working in groups. I build a group, then I have to manually assign prevention policies, update policies, etc., but there is no function to copy that group. So, if I wanted to make a subgroup for troubleshooting or divide workstations into groups of laptops and desktops, then I have to manually build a brand new group. I can't just copy a build from one to another. Additionally, in order to do any work within a group, I have to first do the work on the respective prevention policy page or individual policy page, then remove the group if the group is assigned to a different prevention policy, remove the prevention policy, and then add the new one in. So, it can get a little hectic. It would be easier if I could add and remove things from the group page rather than having to go into the policy pages to do it.

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Trainee Engineer at COMPASS IT Solutions & Services Pvt.Ltd.

Aug 9, 2024

I'm concerned about the recent issue that involved a faulty update.

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reviewer1392531

Dy General Manager at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees

Aug 2, 2020

The solution needs to have integration with on-premises security devices and security facilities. That means all the security products, including the perimeter firewall, the DMZ.

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