We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon and Cynet based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: CrowdStrike Falcon stands out for its minimal impact on system performance, optimal resource utilization, and precise detection of threats. Cynet offers strong ransomware protection and an intuitive interface. CrowdStrike Falcon could benefit from adding a sandbox feature and more detailed firewall management options. Cynet needs to expand device support and add customization options. Users suggest improving network monitoring and strengthening integration with other tools.
Service and Support: CrowdStrike Falcon's customer service has been commended for its promptness and assistance. Cynet's customer service is consistently lauded for its excellence. They have a dedicated support team that is available round the clock, and they also have a contingency plan for urgent incidents.
Ease of Deployment: CrowdStrike Falcon's setup is considered to be simple and efficient, with varying deployment times ranging from a few days to a month. While there may be some challenges during installation, they are generally manageable. Cynet’s setup is highly efficient, with the ability to configure thousands of devices quickly.
Pricing: Some users find CrowdStrike Falcon costly and think the price should be lowered to make it more competitive. Customers generally view Cynet's pricing and licensing experience as affordable and a good value for its features.
ROI: CrowdStrike Falcon offers cost savings by decreasing the required number of engineers and eliminating the necessity for onsite servers. Cynet yields an excellent ROI by preventing cyberattacks and safeguarding sensitive data.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer CrowdStrike Falcon because it efficiently uses system resources and offers a comprehensive analysis of endpoint devices. Users appreciate its accuracy, behavior analysis, and detection capabilities. CrowdStrike Falcon offers more features such as ransomware protection and added antivirus defense.
"The product is very easy to use."
"The comprehensiveness of Microsoft's threat detection is good."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is probably the aggregation and correlation of the different telemetry points with Defender for Identity, Defender for Endpoint, and Defender for Cloud Apps. All of these various things are part of that portal. We've wanted that single pane of glass for years."
"There is also one dashboard that shows us the status of many controls at once and the details I can get... It gives a great overview of many areas, such as files, emails, chats, and links. Even with the apps, it gives you a great overview. In one place you can see where you should look into things more deeply..."
"The most valuable feature is the network security."
"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."
"The product integrates security into one tool instead of having third-party security tools."
"Scalability is good. We have had no issues with it."
"The most valuable features of CrowdStrike Falcon include Falcon Fusion workflows and endpoint detection capabilities."
"CrowdStrike displays a threat score when it detects an infection. This is helpful because not all detections are the same. It will classify them as ransomware, malware, phishing, etc. This feature helps us prioritize and cross-check with other EDR tools."
"It has definitely minimized resources. When everything was on-prem, there was a lot more work maintaining it. One of the big value tickets: I don't have lists of hundreds of exceptions for certain applications that I have to maintain, add, delete, and move. The very nature of the product has lessened my workload considerably."
"Probably the most valuable thing to me is the real-time response piece. The fact that I can connect to an endpoint as long as it is on the Internet, no matter where it is globally. I can remove files from the endpoint, drop files on the endpoint, stop processes, reboot it, run custom scripts, and deploy software. Pretty much no other tool can do all that."
"I have found the connection to search the hosts for detections very useful in CrowdStrike Falcon."
"The most valuable aspects of CrowdStrike Falcon for me are its device observability, identification, and software and OS recognition."
"Its integration capability is valuable. It integrates easily with any OS."
"Cynet's most valuable features are laptop and server performance, internal network monitoring, and external firewall lock management."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the reality graphical user interface."
"The visibility it gives is excellent."
"The initial setup is simple and user-friendly."
"I have found the continued support and pretty much all the features to be valuable. They all stand out as being positive. It continues to detect unusual activity when it's supposed to, and so far we haven't had any issues."
"In terms of incident response, Cynet can contain attacks, offer a trial period to customers, and uninstall if not continued. The most valuable aspect is its integration capabilities, covering endpoints and network data for a comprehensive view of threats."
"The initial setup is very fast and very easy."
"I like the Cynet Correlator™ feature."
"The price should be adjustable by region."
"The patching capability should be there. Patching is something that you cannot do even though you see the vulnerabilities present in your environment. For patching, you have to depend on another solution."
"The solution could improve by having better machine learning and AI. Additionally, the interface, documentation, and integration could be better."
"Defender also lacks automated detection and response. You need to resolve issues manually. You can manage multiple Microsoft security products from a single portal, and all your security recommendations are in one place. It's easy to understand and manage. However, I wouldn't say Defender is a single pane of glass. You still need to switch between all of the available Microsoft tools. You can see all the alerts in one panel, but you can't automate remediation."
"At times, when we have an incident email and we click on the link for that incident, it opens a pop-up, but there is nothing. It has happened a couple of times."
"I would like more of the features in Defender for 365 to be included in the smaller licenses. Even if I buy a small license and don't need everything, security shouldn't be a question. Security is one of the main aspects of all projects from our side, so it would be nice to have more features in the smaller licenses."
"At times, there may be delays in the execution of certain actions and their effects."
"My client would like the solution to be more customizable without using code. You can only build on the default console, but we're not allowed to change it."
"CrowdStrike Falcon sometimes wrongly flags things as malicious. Let's say a user is active on Chrome only. Sometimes, our cross-segmenting will fetch from the backend data and show that it is malicious because of memory or CPU utilization."
"The console is a little cluttered and at times, finding what you're looking for is not intuitive."
"The dashboard does not have the facility to export the reports in a PDF format, which I can quickly share with internal stakeholders."
"The Integration with tools, SOC tools, could be better."
"The product could be more accurate in terms of performance."
"The ability to receive text alerts natively in the console would be kind of cool."
"The portal can be clunky to navigate at times and has room for improvement."
"The management of the solution could improve."
"Most of their times are in Greenwich Mean Time. I would like to see more local time zones."
"A support center in Asia is needed."
"The solution just needs to keep maturing and they need to keep up with the threat landscape to ensure they're protecting clients well as time passes."
"The solution lacks URL filtering."
"Cynet fails to deploy the same technology in mobile devices."
"Compliance reports need to improve."
"I'd like to see more data loss prevention within the product."
"Sometimes, it is necessary for me to make important changes to a hard drive of a computer, and because Cynet does not allow me to do that, I have to go to the console and remove the computer from the security group just for Cynet. After that, I have to wait for 10 or 15 minutes for that to take effect. I would like to be able to disable Cynet locally. I shouldn’t have to go to the console to find the PC and then take it out of the group and then add it again to the group. I should locally be able to disable Cynet on a computer with a password or something like that, but it is currently not possible."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 1st in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 107 reviews while Cynet is ranked 9th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 35 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while Cynet 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 Cynet writes "Provides memory protection, device control, and vulnerability management". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security, Trend Vision One and SentinelOne Singularity Complete, whereas Cynet is most compared with SentinelOne Singularity Complete, ESET Endpoint Protection Platform, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Stellar Cyber Open XDR. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. Cynet report.
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