We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon and Sophos EPP Suite 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 product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"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."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"I like FortiClient EMS. FortiEDR has a lot of great features like lockdown mode, remote wipes, and encryption. I can set malware outbreak policies and controls for detecting abnormalities. You can also simulate phishing attacks."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"It is stable and scalable."
"It notifies us if there's any suspicious file on any PC. If any execution or similar kind of thing is happening, it just alerts us. It doesn't only alert. It also blocks the execution until we allow it. We check whether the execution is legitimate or not, and then approve it or keep it blocked. This gives us a little bit of control over this mechanism. Fortinet FortiEDR is also very straightforward and easy to maintain."
"It is an easy product to deploy."
"We have a small IT Team, and this allows us to get sleep at night, knowing that someone else is taking care of any incidents that occur."
"CrowdStrike Falcon is a very light solution. It does not use too much processor or RAM."
"It seems to do a pretty good job of protecting the host. It offers good insights that it gives you when it has a detection. It's pretty incredible."
"CrowdStrike enables the infrastructure managers to visualize all the events and get information about the network."
"The most valuable features of CrowdStrike Falcon are the AI in detecting and real-time detections."
"Falcon's best feature is its detection and blocking of threats."
"It has an extremely low footprint, so it has got minimum impact on the user end points in terms of CPU and memory usage."
"It is a stable solution. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of Sophos EPP Suite are the synchronized threat and ransomware protection."
"It is stable."
"The protection that this solution offers us is strong."
"This product is quite stable and there are no problems with it."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos EPP Suite is the accounting and reporting services are good and professional. The business features of the solution are very useful, such as the reporting page for clients. It provides a clear understanding of usage, including how much traffic has been used and how much is remaining. Additionally, it's user-friendly and easy to understand. Overall, the solution is good, useful, and has a helpful user interface."
"The most valuable feature is data loss prevention."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"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."
"Detections could be improved."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"FortiEDR could add a separate scanning dashboard. In incident management, we prefer to remove the endpoint system from the environment and scan the system. We typically use Symantec for that, but if we want to use FortiEDR for that, then we need a scanning tab to clarify things."
"The EDR console should have more extensive reporting. You shouldn't need to purchase FortiAnalyzer. It should be included in the EDR part. The security adviser cloud platform could be improved with more options for exclusive or intensive rules for devices."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"CrowdStrike Falcon could improve the logs by making them free to the API."
"The support for different OS versions needs improvement because sometimes due to business conditions, updating our OS is impossible."
"I have experience with a product called SentinelOne, which has a feature that allows for the customization of query languages. I would like to see such a feature for CloudStrike."
"The Integration with tools, SOC tools, could be better."
"Sometimes CrowdStrike changes the GUI, and they need to be better at informing us and providing guidance concerning that."
"CrowdStrike Suites and the way that it bundles things can be a bit challenging. It should be easier to integrate with the other stuff that they sell or be included with what they sell. We have one piece, then they are talking about another piece on vulnerability management all of the sudden, and we don't own that piece. We can see it in the console, but nothing shows up. It simply appears within the tool as an option, but we can't use it without purchasing it."
"I would like to see a more accurate integration and an option to check the local machine."
"It does take more time to scan than other solutions."
"In my country, having an on-premises deployment model is preferred. In this part of the world, on-premises is still the way many companies want to go. Therefore, they should supply some sort of option that allows for that reality."
"The product's filtering and stability can be better."
"The solution isn't quite accurate enough. It provides a lot of false positives."
"The solution is not easy to use in comparison to other endpoint security solutions."
"The support could be improved. The response times are slow."
"Deployment and central management need to be improved."
"We have to use additional third-party solutions to fill the gaps in the capabilities of Sophos EPP Suite, such as using a mobility scanner. It would be helpful to add this feature."
"I would like to have the capability to support legacy operating systems because the majority now don't support Windows XP, and Windows 2000."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 104 reviews while Sophos EPP Suite is ranked 26th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 52 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.6, while Sophos EPP Suite is rated 8.0. 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 Sophos EPP Suite writes "The solution provides endpoint detection and response with a nice-looking dashboard". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, whereas Sophos EPP Suite is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Seqrite Endpoint Security, Trellix Endpoint Security, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. Sophos EPP Suite report.
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