We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon and Check Point Harmony Endpoint 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 machine-learning capabilities, optimal resource utilization, and precise threat detection. Check Point Harmony Endpoint provides a sophisticated defense against ransomware and phishing attacks. CrowdStrike Falcon could benefit from adding a sandbox feature and more detailed firewall management options. The solution is praised for its forensic analysis and VPN connectivity. Users say Check Point could improve its endpoint vulnerability management and threat-hunting features.
Service and Support: CrowdStrike Falcon's customer service is considered prompt and helpful. While several users lauded Check Point support for its problem-solving skills, others said there is room for improvement.
Ease of Deployment: CrowdStrike Falcon's setup is considered to be simple and efficient, with deployment times ranging from a few days to a month. While there may be some challenges during installation, they are generally manageable. Setting up Check Point Harmony Endpoint is uncomplicated, and one admin is usually enough for the job. It may take time to configure the solution due to the wide range of available blades.
Pricing: Some users find CrowdStrike Falcon costly and think the price should be lowered to make it more competitive. Users generally find the price of Check Point Harmony Endpoint to be reasonable and competitive. They perceive it as more cost-effective than other solutions, though some said it could be lower.
ROI: CrowdStrike Falcon offers cost savings by decreasing the required number of engineers and eliminating the need for onsite servers. Check Point Harmony Endpoint provides a comprehensive and economical solution, and customers say the product has helped them grow.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Check Point Harmony Endpoint over CrowdStrike Falcon. Check Point Harmony Endpoint provides a robust defense against ransomware and phishing attacks. While CrowdStrike Falcon receives praise for its lightweight design, user reviews indicate that Check Point Harmony Endpoint offers a more comprehensive and effective solution for endpoint security.
"The main thing is that I feel safe. Because the processes that have been used to get a handle on the attackers are much better than other competitors"
"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."
"Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"The graphical interface is very easy to use and intuitive, which greatly facilitates the work and greatly facilitates the work and the location of threats on the users' computers."
"It has a great ability to detect threats and keep us safe."
"It provides remote access for the staff and increases their productivity."
"Resource overheads have been reduced and we are overall more secure as a business."
"SandBlast Agent is always working in the background collecting sensitive data, forensics, and notifying users whenever there is a chance of a brute-force attack into our systems. Otherwise, it has been protecting our data at various geographies along with the endpoints that we set up on the cloud. They have been able to filter out or thwart any attacks from the very word, "Go," and make our work very safe and smooth."
"The SandBlast agent is the most valuable feature for Check Point Endpoint Security. We've found that the Check Point SandBlast agent is mature."
"The real-time threat prevention capabilities stand out as a fortress against malware, ransomware, and evolving cyber threats, offering a proactive defense that safeguards our organization's critical assets."
"It's a scalable product as it is a cloud offering."
"At this point what is most valuable is the interface, which is easy to navigate."
"The OverWatch is the most valuable feature to me. It's a 24x7 monitoring service, and when they see anything suspicious in my environment, they will investigate."
"The automatic alert feature is the most important feature of the solution."
"The CrowdStrike Falcon agent is very lightweight. Users never complain about their PCs getting stuck and things like that."
"The detection is very reliable. Also, OverWatch is a great feature."
"The managed services are distinguished, responsive, dynamic, flexible, and assertive when taking action."
"The scalability is good."
"CrowdStrike Falcon offers a comprehensive dashboard that is highly effective in protecting against and blocking external infiltration attempts."
"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 dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"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."
"FortiEDR could add a separate scanning dashboard. In incident management, we prefer to remove the endpoint system from the environment and scan the system. We typically use Symantec for that, but if we want to use FortiEDR for that, then we need a scanning tab to clarify things."
"The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"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"
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"Check Point offers solutions with only a few features for our company's customers' sites."
"The application control and URL filtering features are not very strong."
"Enhanced behavioral analytics would provide a deeper understanding of endpoint activities, fortifying our defenses against sophisticated cyber adversaries."
"The product updates are a manual process for my administrator and can take several hours out of his day."
"If the IT department is used to "cloning" endpoints (making images) you are going to have a hard time trying to install the product and you are going to end up reading a lot of Check Point documents."
"They could improve memory consumption."
"There was a learning curve for our general population of employees (the user)."
"I still don't have a clear opinion of the possible improvements that the tool may need. There are still functionalities that I have not been able to try completely and I would like to spend more time using the tool before offering an opinion to the IT Central community on this point."
"We have had to open a case with the technical support to get some issues and bugs resolved."
"The performance could be better."
"The skillsets needed to run CrowdStrike Falcon are extensive if you want to get the most value out of the tool."
"The Integration with tools, SOC tools, could be better."
"CrowdStrike should provide better visibility in its reporting. There should be more forensic details about detected threats."
"CrowdStrike Falcon by itself does not supply in-depth reporting."
"The GUI can use improvement, it's cloud-based so sometimes the interface can be a bit slow. The interface could use a little bit more speed."
"It can be expensive depending on the features you select."
Check Point Harmony Endpoint is ranked 8th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 102 reviews while CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 105 reviews. Check Point Harmony Endpoint is rated 8.8, while CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Check Point Harmony Endpoint writes "Excellent anti-ransomware protection, zero-day phishing protection, and web browsing filtering". 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". Check Point Harmony Endpoint is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, whereas CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business. See our Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs. CrowdStrike Falcon report.
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