We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon and Trend Micro Deep Security based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: CrowdStrike Falcon is the clear winner in this comparison. It is stable, easy to use, and high performing. In addition, it is easier to deploy and less expensive than Trend Micro Deep Security.
"This is stable and scalable."
"Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"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."
"The stability is very good."
"It is very easy to set up. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, with ten being very easy to set up."
"Since we deployed CrowdStrike, the network has become much calmer, and we now understand the sources of infections, which helps us prevent them from spreading."
"The most valuable feature is its threat analysis."
"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."
"Scalability hasn't been an issue for us."
"It has an extremely low footprint, so it has got minimum impact on the user end points in terms of CPU and memory usage."
"The detection is very effective."
"The most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon is its accuracy. That's very important for me. False-positive are very bad for everyone. As we are a financial institution, it's even worse. I like Falcon because it's very accurate."
"Very user-friendly interface, easy to understand."
"It is stable and we have not faced any challenges during the rolled out"
"Deep Security is a good product for managing a few servers."
"The file integrity and log inspection are game-changing features for us."
"Virtual patching is a wonderful feature where we do a recommendation scan and an internal assessment on the server, and it updates the IPS signatures to block any attack. I have seen instances where it has prevented attacks on the end-of-support servers such as 2018 R2, and many years ago, even 2007 servers that were end-of-support. It certainly helped there."
"They release timely updates and have efficient prediction features for threat detection."
"Deep Security's most valuable features are antivirus and host intrusion detection."
"Easy to scale, stable solution for workload and server security and protection. It's easy to set up and has a good ransomware protection feature."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"They can include the automation for the realtime updates. We have a network infrastructure with remote sites. Whenever they send updates, they are not automated. We have to go into the console and push those updates. I wish it was more automated. The update file is currently around 31 MB. It could be smaller."
"The solution is not stable."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"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 haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"The solution needs to have integration with on-premises security devices and security facilities. That means all the security products, including the perimeter firewall, the DMZ."
"Crowdstrike Falcon XDR can improve the integration. There are some locks on the cloud to on-premise integrations."
"I would like to see equal support across all versions. Aside from that, I would say most of the features are there."
"The pricing is a bit too high."
"Sometimes CrowdStrike changes the GUI, and they need to be better at informing us and providing guidance concerning that."
"Support, particularly related to after-sales and after deployment, could be improved a bit. If you need to connect to support, it takes at least a day to reach the support team and get a proper reply."
"We can't do scanning audits or device blocking or application control."
"The detection time has room for improvement."
"The updates for legacy systems are not rolled out frequently."
"Trend Micro is scalable if you have the budget for it."
"We'd like to see extended capacity in the on-premises versions."
"I think more work could be done on Deep Security's ability to handle dynamic threat scenarios."
"The risk is very complex. We need our tools to be more intelligent, more automated, more detectable."
"Trend Micro is not government certified or federal complaint. If they could become compliant/certified, this would make it easier for us to use it for our government projects."
"I've not worked with CrowdStrike Falcon, but one of our customers also had CrowdStrike Falcon on some of the devices. I was only supporting Trend Micro. They had a ransomware attack, but Trend Micro didn't detect that particular ransomware attack, whereas CrowdStrike did."
"The initial setup was complex."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 107 reviews while Trend Micro Deep Security is ranked 1st in Virtualization Security with 81 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while Trend Micro Deep Security is rated 8.6. 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 Deep Security writes "High availability, effective VPM, and responsive support". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Vision One and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, whereas Trend Micro Deep Security is most compared with Trend Vision One Endpoint Security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Symantec Endpoint Security, Trellix Endpoint Security and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business.
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I like that Crowdstrike allows me to easily correlate data between my firewalls. What’s most useful for my needs is the intelligence modules feature. I also find that Crowdstrike Falcon’s dashboard is very user-friendly; Information is easy to find because of how it is presented and everything is linkable, which is a big win for me. Stability is fantastic and so is the scalability. I was able to do so many endpoints so easily, and without any issues. In terms of pricing, Crowdstrike Falcon is reasonable for all that it has to offer. As far as technical support, that has been great too.
Trend Micro Deep Security offers a lot of features. It guarantees security for your data center, cloud, and containers - all with a unified and comprehensive SaaS solution and without compromising performance. Although that might make it sound appealing, every time there are new features released, they have to be paid for separately, which I am not thrilled about.
Trend Micro Deep Security offers powerful protection, an all-in-one workload security option (which may help with eliminating the cost of deploying multiple point solutions), and flexible integration. They also offer a “pay-for-what-you-use” pricing model which is hard to come by. While their pricing model seems enticing, a big downside for me is that it does not support versions prior to Windows 7. It has a good intrusion prevention feature that I like. However, that is not enough for me to settle for Trend Micro Deep instead of Crowdstrike.
Conclusion:
I much prefer Crowdstrike Falcon over Trend Micro Deep Security because I feel that it is much more reliable. While Trend Micro Deep Security may be represented as a classic antivirus solution, I am satisfied with the overall performance of Crowdstrike Falcon and happy with my purchase of the product.
Having previously run a penetration testing company, I can tell you that the general feedback I have from professional hackers is that CrowdStrike Falcon does make their job a lot more difficult.
The "traditional" players in the endpoint protection market e.g. Trend Micro, Symantec and McAfee they generally view as trivial to bypass.