We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon and ESET PROTECT Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like 365 Defender's advanced threat hunting. The dashboard is user-friendly with templates for site policies, etc. The most important use case is evaluating the risk links and applications."
"Many people don't realize that Microsoft Azure, Exchange Online, and the security and compliance portal all sync together. For instance, within the Azure portal you can set security restrictions and policies to help secure your tenants... The good part of it is that these products have already been integrated. When you sign on as an admin you have global admin rights and that gives you access to all these features."
"It's a very scalable tool that can be used in a very small environment or in a very large environment. Everything can be managed from a simple dashboard and can be scaled up or down depending on the customer's environment."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that Microsoft Defender XDR is easy to integrate with other Microsoft platforms or products."
"Microsoft 365 Defender is a good solution and easy to use."
"My clients like Defender's file integrity monitoring. They're monitoring Windows and Linux system files."
"The unified view of the threat landscape on a central dashboard is the most valuable feature."
"The common and advanced security policies for threat hunting and blocking attacks are valuable."
"Among CrowdStrike Falcon's most valuable capabilities are its UEBA and SOAR functionalities, along with its seamless integration with any other SIEM solution."
"The most valuable feature is the machine learning that they use to check certain patterns in the endpoint devices. It checks the whole ecosystem or entire environment."
"We are now able to find the root cause analysis on any threat. We can figure out where the issue came in versus just dealing with where it is at the moment."
"The EDR and XDR features have been most valuable."
"CrowdStrike Falcon's most valuable feature is the fact that it's not getting in the way of our workforce and their workflow."
"The automatic alert feature is the most important feature of the solution."
"Enables us to understand what processes are running on the system, what registry keys have been enabled."
"The most valuable features in CrowdStrike Falcon are the full EDR with antivirus, hunting, reporting, and RTR remote control."
"The product enabled Zero-Day Protection for our environment. We never encountered any issues regarding threats."
"The most valuable feature of ESET Protect is the security while accessing any transaction, such as online banking systems. When I access a banking website a new browser opens which is more secure, which I find very useful."
"The solution provides EDR. You can customize how you prepare the endpoint for clients and the dashboard alerts."
"ESET PROTECT Enterprise is reliable."
"It's helped us with restrictions and knowing which users we can provide permissions to and which users we need to restrict."
"We can easily manage resources, disable or enable clients and update them."
"The solution provides EDR. You can customize how you prepare the endpoint for clients and the dashboard alerts."
"ESET is better in some ways than other vendors because it fulfills many areas where we'd otherwise have to use different products."
"Since all of our databases are updated and located in the cloud, I would like additional support for this."
"Microsoft tends to provide too many features, which makes the solution prone to bugs."
"There is definitely scope for improvement in the automation area. Because the solution is a SaaS platform, we don't have the overall ability to automate stuff.... There is no direct way to go ahead because it's a SaaS platform."
"The solution could improve by having better machine learning and AI. Additionally, the interface, documentation, and integration could be better."
"The support from Microsoft could improve. There are times I have to wait for a response from a qualified specialist."
"Advanced attacks could use an improvement."
"The Defender agent itself is more compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11. Other than these two lines, there are so many compatibility issues. Security is not only about Microsoft. The core technical aspects of it are quite good, but it would be good if they can better support non-Microsoft solutions in terms of putting the agents directly into VMware and other virtualization solutions. There should be more emphasis on RHEL and other operating systems that we use, other than Windows, in the server category."
"A simple dashboard without having to use MS Sentinel would be a welcome improvement."
"I've found that CrowdStrike's technical support could benefit from increased technical expertise."
"They need to strengthen the forensic capabilities of this product, for e-discovery."
"CrowdStrike should add support for ransomware protection."
"I think there's an opportunity to enhance the AI or at least the traps to say, if something changes from this baseline, let us know and flag it."
"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."
"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."
"Too many false positives."
"In a future release, I would like to see more integrations for data breaches and security features."
"Its automation can be improved."
"The availability and sustainability could also be improved."
"ESET Protect could improve the performance. The performance of the home computers and laptops becomes slow due to their heavy software load. It would be a benefit to make a lighter version of the software which does not have any impact on the performance of the computer's hardware."
"In terms of management accounts, there's a lot of manuals that seem to be mixed up. Sometimes, it's a little bit confusing."
"The tool is complex and expensive."
"I would like to see more in managing mobile devices in an on-premise solution. The latest news I've heard is that ESET drops mobile management module development for the on-prem version. It's moving to the cloud. Like in endpoint client protection, I would also like to see more of the vulnerability management features and additional app control functionality in ESET Protect."
"The solution can be quite technical and therefore is challenging for new users."
"Sometimes, the connection to the machine requires troubleshooting."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 1st in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 107 reviews while ESET PROTECT Enterprise is ranked 16th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 11 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while ESET PROTECT Enterprise is rated 9.0. 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 ESET PROTECT Enterprise writes "Constantly improving their online resources to make it easier for new users to work with it". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security, Trend Vision One and Fortinet FortiEDR, whereas ESET PROTECT Enterprise is most compared with Wazuh, ESET Endpoint Protection Platform, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Avira Antivirus. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. ESET PROTECT Enterprise report.
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