We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon and MetaDefender based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"This is stable and scalable."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"It notifies us if there's any suspicious file on any PC. If any execution or similar kind of thing is happening, it just alerts us. It doesn't only alert. It also blocks the execution until we allow it. We check whether the execution is legitimate or not, and then approve it or keep it blocked. This gives us a little bit of control over this mechanism. Fortinet FortiEDR is also very straightforward and easy to maintain."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"I like FortiClient EMS. FortiEDR has a lot of great features like lockdown mode, remote wipes, and encryption. I can set malware outbreak policies and controls for detecting abnormalities. You can also simulate phishing attacks."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ability to customize it and to reduce its size. It lets you run in a very small window in terms of memory and resources on legacy cash registers."
"It has an extremely low footprint, so it has got minimum impact on the user end points in terms of CPU and memory usage."
"CrowdStrike Falcon is effortless to use, and it's a cloud-specific platform. You only need to deploy the light agents on the licensed endpoints, and you're ready to work. Your dashboards will tell you the number of the endpoints being protected and the incidents. There are also incident dashboards with alerts that will tell you about the details."
"The most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon for me is its unified sensor, applicable across all models."
"The detection is very effective."
"I like the detection rates of mobile threats."
"The UI is simple and self-explanatory. Everything is easy to understand."
"The most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon is its accuracy."
"Overall, what I found most valuable in CrowdStrike Falcon is its good mechanism. It also has a good reporting feature. CrowdStrike Falcon is an invaluable tool because, through it, you can take quick action, for example, when an OS is missing specific patches."
"I like the simplicity, the way it works out of the box. It's pretty easy to run and configure. The integration of the network devices with the ICAP server was easily done."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"The only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"The solution is not user-friendly."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"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"
"Unfortunately, native applications are not supported."
"In the six months that I have been using CrowdStrike, it has not been able to detect anything."
"If CrowdStrike can further expand its support for XDR compatibility, that would give it an edge over all the other competing new products."
"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."
"The malware analysis could be improved, as that's what we use the solution for the most and that change would make it a better EDR tool."
"The current database schema presents challenges and has potential for improvement."
"We would like to be able to perform on-demand scanning, rather than relying on the scheduler."
"CS Falcon sensing capabilities for non-domain machines should be enhanced since the agent doesn't detect the neighbor's IP Address and/or any anomaly which was identified in the network for the non-domain machine."
"The documentation is not well written, and I often need to talk with support."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 107 reviews while MetaDefender is ranked 17th in Anti-Malware Tools with 1 review. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while MetaDefender 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 MetaDefender writes "Blocks malicious files , has a low false-positive rate". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, whereas MetaDefender is most compared with VirusTotal, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Symantec Content Analysis and Forcepoint ZT CDR (Zero Trust Content Disarm & Reconstruction).
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