We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon and VirusTotal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike and others in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)."Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"Impressive detection capabilities"
"The ease of deployment and configuration is valuable. It's very easy compared to other vendors like Sophos. Sophos' configuration is complex. Fortinet is a lot easier to understand. You don't need a lot of admin knowledge to do the configuration."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"I get alerts when scripts are detected in the environment."
"The CS falcon agent is a lightweight agent compared with other agents of EDR products."
"It's ability to do threat hunting is really great, quite robust, and even allows you to do hygiene stuff."
"It has an extremely low footprint, so it has got minimum impact on the user end points in terms of CPU and memory usage."
"The detection is very effective."
"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 features I like the most are the response time and the dashboard are both excellent."
"Its integration capability is valuable. It integrates easily with any OS."
"We have a small IT Team, and this allows us to get sleep at night, knowing that someone else is taking care of any incidents that occur."
"It can scan the dark web and find if an email ID has been compromised. This is another area that we have not explored yet."
"With VirusTotal, I can check for any hash, malware, file, domain, IP URL, or malicious URL, and Kaspersky stays clean."
"The product is easy to use with coding, such as Python or Java, via its API."
"The most valuable feature is the worldwide malware information database."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"The solution is not user-friendly."
"Detections could be improved."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"Intelligence aspects need improvement"
"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"
"The support needs improvement."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"I would like to see the machine learning feature enhanced."
"In a future release, I would like to see more integrations for data breaches and security features."
"Falcon could include more integrative features."
"CrowdStrike Falcon by itself does not supply in-depth reporting."
"Any kind of integration that you want to do, such as using the API to connect to a SIEM, is complex and it will be expensive to do."
"I would like to see a more accurate integration and an option to check the local machine."
"I would also like to see the endpoint firewall component produce some level of logging and feedback."
"Unfortunately, native applications are not supported."
"VirusTotal has predefined reports, but there is a lot of manual effort involved."
"The platform could improve in the areas of endpoints and networks."
"VirusTotal is hard to understand because you need to know Google Docs to create queries, and it doesn't have documentation for that."
"I would like to see an improved user interface and some automation."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 107 reviews while VirusTotal is ranked 8th in Anti-Malware Tools with 4 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while VirusTotal is rated 8.8. 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 VirusTotal writes " Helps businesses collect threat data while keeping privacy in mind and apable of detecting, blocking, and removing viruses and malware". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, whereas VirusTotal is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Cuckoo Sandbox, MetaDefender, Recorded Future and Hatching Triage.
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