We performed a comparison between Trend Micro Apex One and CrowdStrike Falcon based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Trend Micro Apex One stands out for its centralized reporting, efficient policy implementation, and a diverse array of features including DLP, encryption, and patch management. Trend Micro Apex One users say the platform should improve its compatibility with different operating systems and address performance issues. Users also say the reporting, forensic analysis, and ransomware features could use some work. CrowdStrike Falcon stands out for its machine-learning capabilities, optimal resource utilization, and precise threat detection. CrowdStrike Falcon could benefit from adding a sandbox feature and more detailed firewall management options.
Service and Support: Trend Micro support generally earned positive reviews, but some said that support could be more proactive and respond faster. CrowdStrike Falcon's customer service is considered prompt and helpful.
Ease of Deployment: Most users thought Trend Micro Apex One was easy to set up, but a few said that it’s more complex than competing solutions. 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.
Pricing: Some considered the price of Trend Micro Apex One to be fair, while others found it expensive. Reviews of CrowdStrike's pricing were similarly mixed. Some find it costly and think the price should be lowered to make it more competitive.
ROI: Trend Micro Apex One provides extra cost-effective advantages and safeguards vital information. CrowdStrike Falcon offers cost savings by decreasing the required number of engineers and eliminating the need for onsite servers.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Trend Micro Apex One over CrowdStrike Falcon. Apex One also stands out for its centralized reporting and threat intelligence network. User reviews indicate that Apex One is favored due to its easy setup, responsive support, and comprehensive feature set.
"NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"The stability is very good."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"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"
"Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"I like the vulnerability assessment and proactive hunting features of CrowdStrike Falcon."
"The most valuable feature is that we don't need to re-image machines as much as we had to."
"The most valuable features of CrowdStrike Falcon include Falcon Fusion workflows and endpoint detection capabilities."
"CrowdStrike enables the infrastructure managers to visualize all the events and get information about the network."
"The detection is very reliable. Also, OverWatch is a great feature."
"The feature that I find to be the most valuable, is being able to look at the system analysis and being able to baseline what is installed on the system."
"The threat intelligence is the most valuable feature."
"It has an extremely low footprint, so it has got minimum impact on the user end points in terms of CPU and memory usage."
"Apex One includes a built-in fine-grained DLP solution."
"It has the ability to share, which is not available in other products."
"The management console is pretty good. We have a dashboard that shows us what stuff to log, different malicious links that people are trying to access and also if somebody was trying to connect something to the computer, to a USB port or something like that, and if this person is on the under control management. It shows that he tried and he got blocked."
"The most valuable features are web application features and real-time scans."
"The antivirus itself is also lightweight. It does not hamper the performance. It is not resource-hungry. It does not impact the overall performance of the device. It is just there, and it is easy to use."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus and malware application control."
"The most favorable features have been behavior monitoring and zero-day threat protection."
"Its real-time features are valuable. It is in real-time, and it works fine."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"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."
"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 find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"I think cloud security and SASE are areas of concern in the product where improvements are required. The tool's cloud version has to be improved in terms of the security it offers."
"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 only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"The price is too high."
"I have worked with their technical support on several problems that were never fully resolved."
"They need to strengthen the forensic capabilities of this product, for e-discovery."
"Crowdstrike Falcon XDR can improve the integration. There are some locks on the cloud to on-premise integrations."
"Tighter integration around XDR could be included."
"Unfortunately, native applications are not supported."
"Falcon could be improved with more function on the mobile end of things and better optimization with mobile devices."
"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."
"It would be ideal if the solution could be simplified a bit."
"The menus can be more user-friendly or easier. For example, if we want to enable access to the USB ports, it should be more user-friendly. It is not easy. We need to navigate through several menus to be able to give access."
"If certain alerts could be translated into day-to-day English with some action plans, a few points, what to do, and how to do it, that would help me personally as IT Manager. They have some recommendations regarding the vulnerability of the endpoint. They take you to some very technical information and if you are not a security engineer or security-trained you might not understand what they're talking about. We are a small company and it would benefit if things were explained better, we cannot afford a dedicated Trend Micro Apex One engineer."
"Trend Micro Apex One can improve its vulnerability assessment and monitoring tools."
"Recently, we had a malware attack and considered looking at other cloud solutions because of this breach."
"It has good signature-based capabilities, but features like “shape detection” can be improved upon."
"The cost could be improved."
"Trend Micro Apex One should have a DLP (Data loss prevention) module."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 107 reviews while Trend Micro Apex One is ranked 6th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 125 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while Trend Micro Apex One is rated 8.2. 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 Trend Micro Apex One writes "We can get consolidated logs of suspicious objects and malware attacks in a single console". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, whereas Trend Micro Apex One is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro Smart Protection and Trend Vision One. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. Trend Micro Apex One report.
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