We performed a comparison between Bitdefender GravityZone Enterprise Security and CrowdStrike Falcon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ease of deployment and configuration is valuable. It's very easy compared to other vendors like Sophos. Sophos' configuration is complex. Fortinet is a lot easier to understand. You don't need a lot of admin knowledge to do the configuration."
"Fortinet FortiEDR made our clients feel secure and more at ease, knowing that they had an EDR solution that would close the gap in their security posture."
"he solution is an anti-malware product that integrates well with other vendor products such as firewalls, SIEM, etc. It captures threat intelligence and gives you better visibility. The product also has sandboxing features."
"Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"Security for malware and threats is the most valuable feature."
"What I appreciate most about Bitdefender are its web content filtering, blocking malicious sites, and its ability to thwart brute force attacks on open ports."
"The features I found most valuable in Bitdefender GravityZone Enterprise Security include anti-malware, spyware detection, firewall, network detection, and user behavior analytics. The solution also gives you a heads-up about operating system misconfiguration."
"The most valuable features of Bitdefender GravityZone Enterprise Security are remote administration and deployment, comprehensive firewall protection, malware protection, and antivirus."
"You will always have a backup copy of any policy the Bitdefender user defines."
"It is perfectly stable. We haven't received any complaints from customers regarding stability or performance. It's been smooth sailing so far."
"It is very easy to configure and deploy."
"The solution is very scalable."
"CrowdStrike enables the infrastructure managers to visualize all the events and get information about the network."
"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 CS falcon agent is a lightweight agent compared with other agents of EDR products."
"The most valuable feature is the activity dashboard because it gives you a holistic view of your environment from a security standpoint."
"Scalability hasn't been an issue for us."
"Its integration capability is valuable. It integrates easily with any OS."
"One of the most valuable features of CrowdStrike Falcon is when there are upgrades there are no additional fees."
"As an EDR tool, we can integrate log management and event management. The solution deals with threats automatically, that's the advantage."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"Detections could be improved."
"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."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"Intelligence aspects need improvement"
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"Overall, Bitdefender GravityZone Enterprise Security is quite good. It always has new features which customers can use for free, so I can't say that something is missing in the solution, though one area for improvement is that the cloud version of Bitdefender GravityZone Enterprise Security still can't connect to a central SIEM. The on-premises version has that capability, but the cloud version doesn't."
"The live monitoring service from Bitdefender's center is expensive and has room for improvement."
"They've got all this training that's available, but it involves stuff that doesn't really encompass the solution as a whole."
"The risk management tool does not have reporting, which I feel to be a huge mistake."
"The initial setup should be made easier."
"I like the Application Control feature, but it's a bit tricky. Managing it can be a bit cumbersome sometimes."
"There are compatibility concerns as Bitdefender does not support Windows 7."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"The biggest issue with Falcon as a standalone product is it doesn't have very much reporting."
"I have worked with their technical support on several problems that were never fully resolved."
"The detection time has room for improvement."
"Forensic controls have room for improvement."
"I would like CrowdStrike to provide some correlation in the threat analysis, so we can visualize things better."
"CrowdStrike Falcon could improve by adding manual scanning or serverless scanning. It is not available at this time."
"They offered a white glove service that was extremely costly. When we got into it, we saw it was relatively easy. If I was being nitpicky, I'd say that I don't like being sold something that's unnecessary. That's the only downside I've seen to the solution."
"We can do a threat analysis of any machine at any time, but that threat analysis is very limited."
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Bitdefender GravityZone Enterprise Security is ranked 28th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 23 reviews while CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 110 reviews. Bitdefender GravityZone Enterprise Security is rated 8.2, while CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Bitdefender GravityZone Enterprise Security writes "Gives a good snapshot of what's going on". 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". Bitdefender GravityZone Enterprise Security is most compared with HP Wolf Security, ESET Endpoint Protection Platform, Seqrite Endpoint Security, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and Trend Vision One Endpoint Security, whereas CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint. See our Bitdefender GravityZone Enterprise Security vs. CrowdStrike Falcon report.
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