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.
"Defender is easy to use. It has a nice console, and everything is all in one place."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that Microsoft Defender XDR is easy to integrate with other Microsoft platforms or products."
"In Microsoft 365 vendor products, monitoring and connectivity across all Microsoft and third-party connectors enable viewing of all activity within those environments."
"The incident threat response and its ability to facilitate effective remediation against threats are the standout features."
"A crucial aspect for our team is the inclusion of identity and access management tools from the vendor."
"Email protection is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender XDR."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft 365 Defender are the combination of all the capabilities and centralized management."
"The solution is well integrated with applications. It is easy to maintain and administer."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"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."
"We like Falcon's network visibility. We can see how threats are evolving on PCS or in the company network. The solution's real-time incident response is very fast."
"I like the detection rates of mobile threats."
"It helps us to identify the threats according to the behavior of any process that is running on any particular system. It helps immensely to identify any malicious behavior on any endpoints."
"Everything we've done with CrowdStrike is due to Arctic Wolf. We don't even need to get alerts from CrowdStrike anymore. It'll send those to Arctic Wolf, and then Arctic Wolf analyzes those and let us know if there's a major issue."
"I like the Overwatch feature the most."
"At this point what is most valuable is the interface, which is easy to navigate."
"The visibility it gives is excellent."
"Its ability to revert back from a previous state is quite notable. This feature is particularly valuable because, for maintaining integrity, it can inspect the socket for any firewall modifications. In practice, it allows us to return to a previous configuration when everything was functioning correctly."
"The product is very easy to use. Customers really appreciate that."
"This solution requires less management and is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the network part of it because most of the endpoint products in XDS products we find Cynet has networking user behavior analysis and network analysis, for the whole team."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a very scalable solution...The initial setup of Cynet was easy."
"We are using almost all of the features and we find it quite good overall."
"The product has valuable front-end features."
"The mobile app support for Android and iOS is difficult and needs improvement."
"From an integration standpoint, it is always improving overall. With Security Copilot coming out, as partners, we are waiting for the GDAP support so that we can actually see Security Copilot on behalf of customers if they subscribe to it."
"Correctly updated records are the most significant area for improvement. There have been times when we were notified of a required fix; we would carry out the fix and confirm it but still get the same notification a week later. This seems to be a delay in records being updated and leads to false reporting, which is something that needs to be fixed."
"Intrusion detection and prevention would be great to have with 365 Defender."
"The logs could be better."
"The solution could improve by having better machine learning and AI. Additionally, the interface, documentation, and integration could be better."
"Improving scalability, especially for very large tenants, could be beneficial for Microsoft Defender XDR."
"Offboarding latency should be reduced. Even after a device has been successfully offboarded using a particular offboarding script, it still shows up as onboarded."
"The Integration with tools, SOC tools, could be better."
"I would like to see equal support across all versions. Aside from that, I would say most of the features are there."
"The support for different OS versions needs improvement because sometimes due to business conditions, updating our OS is impossible."
"This solution is relatively expensive."
"In a future release, I would like to see more integrations for data breaches and security features."
"In the six months that I have been using CrowdStrike, it has not been able to detect anything."
"We can do a threat analysis of any machine at any time, but that threat analysis is very limited."
"In the future release of CrowdStrike Falcon, they should add a sandbox feature."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the usability of this product for new threats. Meaning, not everything which is new is properly seen by the product and not all the required actions are taken."
"I would like to see support for mobile protection and some additional reports included."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"Increased application for SOAR abilities across interconnected devices would be a welcome improvement."
"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."
"It is an endpoint agent, but they don't have a probe for checking the network traffic. They could improve from this point of view."
"The solution lacks URL filtering."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 106 reviews while Cynet is ranked 17th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) 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, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, ESET Endpoint Protection Platform, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Stellar Cyber Open XDR. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. Cynet report.
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