We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon and CylancePROTECT based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"Impressive detection capabilities"
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"I get alerts when scripts are detected in the environment."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The solution offers great stability."
"The most valuable feature is the indicator of compromise, which show you what file was either quarantined or removed."
"Everything is automatic. I install the sensor and renew the service. Periodically, I get a notice that they've shut something down."
"The managed services are distinguished, responsive, dynamic, flexible, and assertive when taking action."
"The most useful feature is that we do not need to install or keep signature files. Regular scanning that consumes a lot of computer resources is not needed."
"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."
"It helps us to identify the threats according to the behavior of any process that is running on any particular system. It helps immensely to identify any malicious behavior on any endpoints."
"This solution consistently releases improvements. They have communicated their next two years of development which is powerful and covers all of our needs."
"The CylancePROTECT agent is very low on CPU usage, so it has virtually no adverse impact on my servers, desktops, or workstations."
"The initial setup of CylancePROTECT is very easy."
"The most valuable feature of CylancePROTECT is the support."
"The solution is pretty easy to scale."
"The solution’s AI is its most valuable feature."
"Centralized dashboard online which can be used for managing a huge product."
"It secures different entry points into the network."
"On the management side, we liked the way it displays things."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"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."
"Intelligence aspects need improvement"
"The EDR console should have more extensive reporting. You shouldn't need to purchase FortiAnalyzer. It should be included in the EDR part. The security adviser cloud platform could be improved with more options for exclusive or intensive rules for devices."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"The content-filtering features for children could be improved. We have young grandchildren aged 12 and 8. My daughter, their mother, wants to keep them from getting in trouble on the net. She looked at all these other solutions from Google, Microsoft, etc., and she couldn't figure out how to make any of those work. I told her that I bet CrowdStrike could handle this. Sure enough, CrowdStrike can do exactly that. It's the same solution that the Defense Department gets. It works, but it's a little complicated to implement. It could be simpler to set the policies."
"I have experience with a product called SentinelOne, which has a feature that allows for the customization of query languages. I would like to see such a feature for CloudStrike."
"They need to strengthen the forensic capabilities of this product, for e-discovery."
"In the future release of CrowdStrike Falcon, they should add a sandbox feature."
"We encounter occasional issues, such as when disabling network access for a host that uses CrowdStrike."
"Basically, they don't cover legacy OS or applications. That's the only issue we're concerned about"
"I would like CrowdStrike to provide some correlation in the threat analysis, so we can visualize things better."
"The Integration with tools, SOC tools, could be better."
"It was not effective. There were a lot of false positives, even when we use Adobe, and everybody uses Adobe, which is not a threat."
"Reporting is an area with shortcomings in CylancePROTECT that needs to be improved."
"The solution’s technical support could be improved."
"It should have better support for Windows and Mac."
"The stability could be improved."
"The security scripting needs improvement. It needs deeper security for scripting."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required. The product's price should be more competitive."
"Having worked with SentinelOne, Cylance is good, however, it probably needs to add a feature similar to SentinelOne's rollback functionality. With this feature, if you get infected, with a click, you can go back to the pre-infection state. If Cylance could add this functionality to their offering as well, that would be ideal."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 107 reviews while CylancePROTECT is ranked 23rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 41 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while CylancePROTECT is rated 8.0. 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 CylancePROTECT writes "Ensures advanced AI-driven threat detection to provide robust endpoint security, effectively preventing both known and unknown threats with minimal impact on system performance". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, whereas CylancePROTECT is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Trellix Endpoint Security and Symantec Endpoint Security. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. CylancePROTECT report.
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I had a great experience having deployed CrowdStrike to tens of thousands of endpoints. It's easy to deploy and operationalize. It has provided protection against threats that other engines did not catch based on its powerful heuristics and AI.
CrowdStrike does invest heavily in R&D and provides advisory services on endpoint protection.
I never used Cylance. We installed CrowdStrike on 6/6/19 and aside from a test file have had zero hits. CrowdStrike has some additional features available (at a cost). One that I am looking at is device control for USB storage devices for policy enforcement. Syslogs are being absorbed by my SIEM as well.