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."Microsoft 365 Defender is a good solution and easy to use."
"In Microsoft 365 vendor products, monitoring and connectivity across all Microsoft and third-party connectors enable viewing of all activity within those environments."
"I have found the ability to delete unwanted threats beneficial."
"Setting up Microsoft 365 Defender is easy. It's a user-friendly solution that provides threat protection. It has good stability and scalability."
"We can use Defender to block and monitor for security purposes without needing multiple other products to do different tasks."
"Microsoft 365 Defender is simple to upgrade."
"The attack simulation is excellent; initially, this feature wasn't very robust, but Microsoft improved what we could achieve with it. We can now customize our practice phishing emails and include our company logo, for example. Attack simulation also helps integrate with third-party solutions where applicable and provides an overview of our security architecture through testing. The summary includes areas for improvement in our protection and what steps we need to take to get there."
"Microsoft 365 Defender's most valuable feature is the ability to control the shadow IP."
"I like the overall reports of this solution. They are crisp, and to the point."
"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."
"CrowdStrike Falcon's most valuable features are the lightweight agent which has absolutely zero performance issues. There is no performance deterioration on the laptop on the network. It is a signature-less antivirus and anti-malware solution, it doesn't depend on signatures which better protects the systems."
"As an EDR tool, we can integrate log management and event management. The solution deals with threats automatically, that's the advantage."
"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 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."
"The most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon is crowdsourcing intelligence."
"The EDR and XDR features have been most valuable."
"The product enabled Zero-Day Protection for our environment. We never encountered any issues regarding threats."
"I like the dynamic groups feature. They give the ability to filter endpoint machines by any parameter, software, or hardware inventory, and that's a significant advantage when you need to, for example, automate a secondary firewall profile for endpoints outside your network. Or if you want to automatically isolate the computer from the rest of the network if the ransomware is found."
"The solution offers a lot of configuration capabilities."
"ESET PROTECT Enterprise is reliable."
"We can easily manage resources, disable or enable clients and update them."
"The most valuable features of ESET File Security are the performance and it doesn't take too many resources."
"The solution doesn't have high memory usage."
"ESET is better in some ways than other vendors because it fulfills many areas where we'd otherwise have to use different products."
"In the future, it would be beneficial for Microsoft to consider making the product more user-friendly or simplified for those who are interested in using it. Currently, it requires a high level of technical expertise, making it challenging for beginners or less experienced individuals."
"The design of the user interface could use some work. Sometimes it's hard to find the exact information you need."
"Because of the training model, Defender XDR's automatic response sometimes blocks legitimate users and activities. Also, the UI sometimes responds slowly."
"Sometimes, configurations take much longer than expected."
"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 capability to not only thwart attacks but also to adapt to evolving threats is crucial."
"The abundance of sub-dashboards and sub-areas within the main dashboard can be confusing, even if it all technically makes sense."
"Offboarding latency should be reduced. Even after a device has been successfully offboarded using a particular offboarding script, it still shows up as onboarded."
"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."
"CrowdStrike Falcon could improve by having an easier way to search and use the interface for extracting queries from the data. The interface could improve."
"It does take more time to scan than other solutions."
"CrowdStrike Falcon needs to improve their host management system."
"Too many false positives."
"The management of the solution could improve."
"The skillsets needed to run CrowdStrike Falcon are extensive if you want to get the most value out of the tool."
"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."
"Its automation can be improved."
"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 tool is complex and expensive."
"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."
"Sometimes, the connection to the machine requires troubleshooting."
"I would like to see more features on the reporting side of things."
"The availability and sustainability could also be improved."
"The solution can be quite technical and therefore is challenging for new users."
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 10 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 SentinelOne Singularity Complete, whereas ESET PROTECT Enterprise is most compared with ESET Endpoint Protection Platform, Wazuh, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Avira Antivirus and ZoneAlarm. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. ESET PROTECT Enterprise report.
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