We compared Tanium and CrowdStrike Falcon based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Tanium and CrowdStrike Falcon offer robust endpoint security solutions with unique strengths. Tanium provides comprehensive visibility, strong security measures, and powerful analytics capabilities, while praised for its customer service but faces concerns over pricing and performance. On the other hand, CrowdStrike Falcon is commended for its threat detection, reliable protection, and seamless integration, with reasonable pricing and positive ROI, but users call for improvements in user interface, reporting, and integration options.
Features: Tanium's valuable features include comprehensive visibility into endpoints, effective security measures, efficient endpoint management, and powerful analytics. In comparison, CrowdStrike Falcon excels in robust threat detection, advanced machine learning technology, and proactive threat hunting capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: Tanium's setup cost is higher compared to other products in the market, requiring additional resources and time. Users find the licensing complex and require negotiation. On the other hand, CrowdStrike Falcon's setup cost is straightforward and hassle-free, requiring minimal effort. Users appreciate the flexible and customizable licensing options., Tanium's ROI is highlighted by improved efficiency, cost savings, and increased productivity through streamlined IT operations, enhanced security measures, and centralized management. Meanwhile, CrowdStrike Falcon delivers positive results with enhanced cybersecurity capabilities, cost savings, and increased productivity through real-time monitoring and user-friendly interface.
Room for Improvement: Tanium users have highlighted the need for better system performance, improved documentation, and more customization options. In comparison, users of CrowdStrike Falcon have suggested enhancing the user interface, reporting capabilities, integration options, and addressing detection issues and customer support efficiency.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews show that the duration required to establish a new tech solution varies for both Tanium and CrowdStrike Falcon. Tanium users reported spending three months on deployment and an additional week on setup, while some CrowdStrike Falcon users mentioned needing a week for setup and deployment. It is important to carefully evaluate the context in which these terms are used to determine if they refer to the same period or should be evaluated separately., The customer service for Tanium product is highly praised by users, who appreciate the helpful and responsive assistance provided by the knowledgeable and professional support staff. On the other hand, users also found the customer service for CrowdStrike Falcon to be responsive, knowledgeable, and reliable.
The summary above is based on 60 interviews we conducted recently with Tanium and CrowdStrike Falcon users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"This is stable and scalable."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"The stability is very good."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"The most valuable features of CrowdStrike Falcon include Falcon Fusion workflows and endpoint detection capabilities."
"Regarding features, I appreciate its integration capabilities with identity providers...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"At this point what is most valuable is the interface, which is easy to navigate."
"I value the overall behavior analysis of CrowdStrike. The engine of this product is what drew us to this solution."
"The features I like the most are the response time and the dashboard are both excellent."
"The most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon is its accuracy."
"Its integration capability is valuable. It integrates easily with any OS."
"The interrogation piece was the most valuable feature because it was very detailed."
"I would say Tanium is the best tool for vulnerability management."
"Tanium’s linear-chain architecture is valuable."
"I'm not so familiar with the tool but I like the interaction of the console to the picture. Patching is the primary model I have been focusing on for the last couple of weeks. So I have created a proof of concept environment and have been checking the available features."
"The solution is scalable and helps to understand how infrastructure works. It helps to improve the health of the organization."
"Tanium's most valuable feature is its instant discovery aspect."
"The product is granular and can build complex roles compared to other EDR vendors."
"I like the fact that you can create patching campaigns depending on the area of your network that you want to address first. I like the ability it has to make several campaigns that work in parallel."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"The only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"We've had a lot of false positives; things incorrectly flagged that require manual configuration to allow. Even worse, after we allow a legitimate program, it sometimes gets flagged again after an update. This has caused a lot of extra work for my team."
"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"
"They don't really have anything when it comes to scanning attachments."
"It is cloud-based, and this does make some weary of the data being held on the cloud. Privacy requirements must be taken into account."
"If CrowdStrike can further expand its support for XDR compatibility, that would give it an edge over all the other competing new products."
"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."
"We sometimes get false positives."
"Falcon could include more integrative features."
"The dashboard area must be improved. We have integration with Splunk, and we are creating a dashboard there. Their dashboard area must be up to date. It should have more details and more options to create the reports and things like that."
"An improvement would be to extend support to legacy and unsupported servers."
"I would like to have more integrations and custom plugins to input. Integration is always a big deal in a lot of different environments."
"Tanium’s scalability could be improved."
"The solution lacks mobility."
"The solution can give a lot of false positives."
"Any movement into a SaaS solution has challenges since the processes and data flows are not well defined. Hence, you need to build it at the same time."
"The most painful thing is the interface. It's a bit unclear sometimes."
"Tanium's limitations should be improved because although it is a great tool, it is limited to only a few classes during a session."
"It is not really additional functions, or the features that are needed, rather the complexity would be reduced based on the number of modules required to put together a comprehensive operational security and risk compliance model."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 107 reviews while Tanium is ranked 36th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 15 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while Tanium is rated 7.4. 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 Tanium writes "Useful tool for vulnerability management and deploying applications, needing improvement in its OS upgrade". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Tanium is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Qualys VMDR, ServiceNow Discovery and Tenable Security Center. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. Tanium report.
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