We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon and WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"The main thing is that I feel safe. Because the processes that have been used to get a handle on the attackers are much better than other competitors"
"NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"It notifies us if there's any suspicious file on any PC. If any execution or similar kind of thing is happening, it just alerts us. It doesn't only alert. It also blocks the execution until we allow it. We check whether the execution is legitimate or not, and then approve it or keep it blocked. This gives us a little bit of control over this mechanism. Fortinet FortiEDR is also very straightforward and easy to maintain."
"This is stable and scalable."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"The EDR and XDR features have been most valuable."
"Its integration capability is valuable. It integrates easily with any OS."
"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."
"At this point what is most valuable is the interface, which is easy to navigate."
"I like the feature called RTC, the remote time connector."
"I like the Overwatch feature the most."
"Easy to use, intelligent, and stable threat detection software."
"The CS falcon agent is a lightweight agent compared with other agents of EDR products."
"WatchGuard is very user-friendly. It provides us with all of the security services we need."
"The tool provides automated responses."
"When you download the executable file from the internet, it automatically sandboxes to make sure it's not doing anything incorrectly."
"The interface is very good."
"The most valuable feature, in my opinion, is the dimension logging platform and the network traffic filtering."
"WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response is a reliable solution."
"The analytics are important because if there is an abnormality then it provides that information to us."
"The most valuable feature is the correlation of logs from different devices."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"They can include the automation for the realtime updates. We have a network infrastructure with remote sites. Whenever they send updates, they are not automated. We have to go into the console and push those updates. I wish it was more automated. The update file is currently around 31 MB. It could be smaller."
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location."
"CrowdStrike should provide better visibility in its reporting. There should be more forensic details about detected threats."
"The dashboard does not have the facility to export the reports in a PDF format, which I can quickly share with internal stakeholders."
"They don't really have anything when it comes to scanning attachments."
"The console is not user-friendly or visually appealing and has room for improvement."
"Technical support could be better than what is currently offered."
"Tighter integration around XDR could be included."
"The support for different OS versions needs improvement because sometimes due to business conditions, updating our OS is impossible."
"Falcon could be improved with more function on the mobile end of things and better optimization with mobile devices."
"WatchGuard should offer more visibility into user activity. For example, we should have more details when WatchGuard denies a user access to a port."
"The solution is a bit confusing and there are unusual complications with setup."
"The administrative UI/UX could be significantly improved."
"It can have a couple of false positives, but after you add them to your allow list, it works fine. It could have better Mac support. I am pretty sure it doesn't have much support for Mac. It can be installed on a Mac, but it is not that good."
"The ease of detecting where an issue is should be improved."
"The website must provide more information on the product."
"The reporting isn't so good. If they worked to improve this aspect of the solution, it would be much stronger."
"This product needs to be fully integrated with the firewall. Currently, it only sends logs to the cloud and asks the firewall to correlate them."
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CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 107 reviews while WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response is ranked 27th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 12 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CrowdStrike Falcon writes "Easy to set up with good behavior-based analysis but needs a single-click recovery option". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response writes "Offers deployment simplicity, especially for firewalls and firewall configuration and good documentation available ". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, whereas WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response is most compared with Darktrace, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Trend Vision One, Bitdefender GravityZone EDR and Huntress. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response report.
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