We performed a comparison between Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra and Crowdstrike Falcon based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Because Bitdefender offers fewer features and offers weaker support, Crowdstike Falcon ultimately wins out in this comparison.
"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."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"he solution is an anti-malware product that integrates well with other vendor products such as firewalls, SIEM, etc. It captures threat intelligence and gives you better visibility. The product also has sandboxing features."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"The cloud management is easy and useful, especially in our case when we have multiple offices in different locations."
"The solution's deployment is very easy and flexible."
"What I have found to be valuable is after every new release of the solution there are more features. At the time that we bought Bitdefender GravityZone, it was their top solution. We went from their Enterprise version to Elite, Elite HD, Ultra, and now there is an Ultra Plus available."
"Bitdefender GravityZone EDR's installation is straightforward."
"Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra has many features, such as VPN, web filtering, and email filtering. The product has many good reviews, and I like how straightforward it is to implement. It's also easy to access and use."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The advantage of the solution is that it has a console on the cloud and you can update the clients."
"This solution has made the lives of the IT staff much easier, compared to the previous one."
"The solution can scale easily."
"CrowdStrike enables the infrastructure managers to visualize all the events and get information about the network."
"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."
"The threat intelligence is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is that we don't need to re-image machines as much as we had to."
"It's ability to do threat hunting is really great, quite robust, and even allows you to do hygiene stuff."
"Scalability is good. We have had no issues with it."
"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."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"The security should be strong for the cloud. Some applications are on-prem and some are on the cloud. Fortinet should also have strong security for the cloud. There should be more security for the cloud."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"The only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra should include more advanced features than their competitors in the market for the auto-detection of viruses and threats within the environment."
"The main area for improvement is the dashboard of the cloud console, where we manage security policies and groupings. It needs to be more flexible and informative."
"The one thing I'd say about their complete MDR product is that it's too expensive, which is why I prefer to use an alternative SOC and integrate Bitdefender to a different SOC on their own."
"If we could directly push the agent to the script, it'll be very good."
"Areas for improvement would be performance and pricing."
"We would like to see a more advanced dashboard."
"Bitdefender GravityZone EDR doesn't have an official office in Saudi Arabia, which is important if the vendor wants to gain or be closer to their customers."
"In terms of improvement of the solution, it could have better features. For example, having a firewall within. This way we would only need one solution."
"This solution could be improved with greater scope for admins to make changes to the solution."
"The solution could improve by providing more types of reports because it's in the detection span you cannot re-export anything. If it could be exported to a CSV file directly there it would help a lot. I currently need to do this by API to get what I need."
"In a future release, I would like to see more integrations for data breaches and security features."
"The pricing is a bit too high."
"The pricing structure should allow for some flexibility."
"Whenever there is a feature release (upgrade) where we push to all the endpoints, it causes something to be blocked without us knowing."
"The price is too high."
"As the company has grown, the technical support has felt less personal."
Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is ranked 14th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 54 reviews while CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 105 reviews. Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is rated 8.6, while CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Bitdefender GravityZone EDR writes "High-quality threat intelligence, including encryption and mobile device protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CrowdStrike Falcon writes "Easy to set up with good behavior-based analysis but needs a single-click recovery option". Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, Intercept X Endpoint and Datto Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), whereas CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint. See our Bitdefender GravityZone EDR vs. CrowdStrike Falcon report.
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