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We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon and CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed CrowdStrike Falcon vs. CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager Report (Updated: May 2022).
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Pros
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR.""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.""The solution was relatively easy to deploy.""Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution.""The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls.""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.""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.""Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."

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"The malware protection is the most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon.""The most valuable aspects of CrowdStrike Falcon for me are its device observability, identification, and software and OS recognition.""CrowdStrike Falcon is a very light solution. It does not use too much processor or RAM.""The features we showcase to potential customers are prevention, malware protection, zero-day protection, and application scripting. Vulnerability assessment is another valuable feature.""Scalability is good. We have had no issues with it.""From what we have seen, it is very scalable. We have recently acquired a company where someone had a ransomware attack when we joined networks. Within the course of just a few days, we were able to easily get CrowdStrike rolled out to about 300 machines. That also included the removal of that company's legacy anti-malware tool.""I like Falcon's threat detection and endpoint investigation features. It's a user-friendly solution.""The solution is silent and sits on your system as one single agent."

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"I am impressed with the product's seamless integration. The PAM wallet and enterprise password wallet are good also good.""You can use it to strip users of their local admin rights and, at the same time, elevate applications for them.""It offers great performance.""CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager is very easy to manage, which I like. The solution also has a dashboard where you can see which software is suspicious, which I find valuable.""The most valuable feature is that their database is completely encrypted and protected with multiple layers.""We can do both server and endpoint protection.""Users can scale the solution.""The solution is scalable."

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Cons
"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.""I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components.""Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection.""ZTNA can improve latency.""The support needs improvement.""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.""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.""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."

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"Dashboard creation is one of the areas for improvement in CrowdStrike Falcon. Sometimes, management asks for a custom dashboard, so my team has to collect data from CrowdStrike Falcon, integrate that in Splunk, then create the dashboard in Splunk. The Splunk dashboard is more elaborate, so the CrowdStrike Falcon dashboard needs improvement. Another area for improvement in the tool is the malware detection report, as it needs to be more detailed and include some graphics so that if you want to present that data in a nutshell, it's easier to do. For example, the report should consist of some graphical representation that shows a month's worth of data. In terms of an additional feature I'd like CrowdStrike Falcon to have, it's the device posture assessment feature that detects the device posture within the network. Whichever device connects to the corporate network, my company should be able to analyze the device posture. Then there should be communication with the network, which means that as soon as a device connects, CrowdStrike Falcon can assess the device posture, detect its corporate asset, and decide whether it should be allowed on the network.""Sometimes CrowdStrike changes the GUI, and they need to be better at informing us and providing guidance concerning that.""In the six months that I have been using CrowdStrike, it has not been able to detect anything.""The malware analysis could be improved, as that's what we use the solution for the most and that change would make it a better EDR tool.""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.""I would like CrowdStrike to provide some correlation in the threat analysis, so we can visualize things better.""CrowdStrike needs to quit making up stuff about its features and functionality to bash its competition.""The content-filtering features for children could be improved. We have young grandchildren aged 12 and 8. My daughter, their mother, wants to keep them from getting in trouble on the net. She looked at all these other solutions from Google, Microsoft, etc., and she couldn't figure out how to make any of those work. I told her that I bet CrowdStrike could handle this. Sure enough, CrowdStrike can do exactly that. It's the same solution that the Defense Department gets. It works, but it's a little complicated to implement. It could be simpler to set the policies."

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"For an experienced system implementer it will take approximately one day. However, for somebody who is inexperienced it may take up to five days.""It's an old product and has many areas that can be improved.""The solution's pricing could be better.""CyberArk is a pretty heavy solution.""It cannot be on-prem. It is only cloud-based. Sometimes, that's a restriction in terms of usage.""The solution is very expensive.""Compared to other tools like Linux, this solution isn't as user-friendly.""We have had some major issues with the tool, but we have worked with the R&D teams and we have worked with support. There is room for improvement, especially on response times. But they're working on it and they're doing the best they can."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I know it is tough to get big budget additions up front, but I highly recommend deploying environment wide and adding the forensic service."
  • "There are no issues with the pricing."
  • "The price is comprable to other endpoint security solutions."
  • "The pricing is typical for enterprises and fairly priced."
  • "I'm not familiar with pricing, but it looks a bit costly compared to other vendors I think."
  • "The pricing is good."
  • "I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
  • "The hardware costs about €100,000 and about €20,000 annually for access."
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  • "The pricing will depend upon your volume of usage."
  • "I would like them to further reduce the price, because it is quite pricey at the moment."
  • "Purchasing the product through the AWS Marketplace is just a click away. Since we were using the on-premise version of the product, we continued on the cloud by purchasing it through the AWS Marketplace."
  • "I do not have experience with the cost or licensing of the product."
  • "The other administrator and I can log in to check the exact details of what happened, what was running, and what caused the detection. We know exactly what was happening on the end users PC and we can tell if it's something that we actually need or something that's malicious."
  • "We are at about $60,000 per year."
  • "This solution has a very competitive price."
  • "Our company pays approximately US$ 65,000 annually for 900 machines."
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  • "licensing for this solution is based on the number of APV (privileged users), and the number of sessions that you want to record."
  • "I think that it was in the range of $200,000 that had to get approved."
  • "Pricing depends on how many devices you use. Right now, on-premise, it costs us a little, but it's worth it. It seems like the cloud solution is much more expensive. We got this solution one year ago, and it's like we bought the solution, and now they are not going to support it on-premise anymore. We are in the implementation phase, and we missed this, and we already paid for the licenses. This is wasted time from my perspective, and CyberArk should be more customer-friendly."
  • "The cost for CyberArk is very high."
  • "The price of CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager is expensive."
  • "The price of CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager is expensive. The solution is priced based on the number of accounts onboarded and the number of concurrent sessions. Everyone else is included in the price, such as support."
  • "We pay about $17 per user."
  • "CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager has a very high price, so it's a one out of ten for me in terms of pricing."
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    enSilo, FortiEDR
    CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike Falcon XDR
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    Overview

    Fortinet FortiEDR is a real-time endpoint protection, detection, and automated response solution. Its primary purpose is to detect advanced threats to stop breaches and ransomware damage. It is designed to do so in real time, even on an already compromised device, allowing you to respond and remediate incidents automatically so your data can remain protected.

    Fortinet FortiEDR Features

    Fortinet FortiEDR has many valuable key features, including:

    • Easily customizable
    • Real-time proactive risk mitigation & IoT security
    • Pre-infection protection
    • Post-infection protection
    • Track applications and ratings
    • Reduce the attack surface with risk-based proactive policies
    • Achieve analysis of entire log history
    • Optional managed detection and response (MDR) service

    Fortinet FortiEDR Benefits

    Some of the key benefits of using Fortinet FortiEDR include:

    • Protection: Fortinet FortiEDR provides proactive, real-time, automated endpoint protection with the orchestrated incident response across platforms. It stops the breach with real-time postinfection blocking to protect data from exfiltration and ransomware encryption.

    • Single unified console: Fortinet FortiEDR has a single unified console with an intuitive interface, which makes management easier. The solution automates mundane endpoint security tasks so your employees don’t need to do it.

    • Cost savings: With Fortinet FortiEDR you can eliminate post-breach operational expenses and breach damage costs.

    • Flexibility: Fortinet FortiEDR can be deployed on premises or on a secure cloud instance. With Fortinet FortiEDR, endpoints are protected both on- and off-line.

    • Scalability: Because Fortinet can be deployed quickly and has a small footprint, it is easy to scale up to protect hundreds of thousand endpoints.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Fortinet FortiEDR users.

    An Owner at a security firm says, "The features that I have found most valuable are the ability to customize it and to reduce its size. It lets you run in a very small window in terms of memory and resources on legacy cash registers. The customer has literally about 800 cash registers. That was the use case for Fortinet FortiEDR - to get that down into a tiny space. The only way to do that was to use this product because it had that ability to unbundle services that were a surplus.”

    Chandan M., Chief Technical Officer at Provision Technologies LLP, mentions, “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.” He also adds, “The security is also very good and the firewall response is good.”

    Harpreet S., Information Technology Support Specialist at Chemtrade Logistics, explains, "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."

    DeAndre V., Senior Network Administrator at a financial services firm, states, “The dashboard is easy to follow and use. The deployment and uninstalling were easy. I like the detailed information about the path of a file that might be suspicious. Being able to check that out was easy to follow. Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance.

    CrowdStrike Falcon is a comprehensive endpoint protection platform, primarily designed to meet the evolving cybersecurity needs of modern enterprises. It employs machine learning, behavioral analytics, and integrated threat intelligence to combat a wide range of cyber threats. CrowdStrike Falcon stands out for its cloud-native architecture, ensuring real-time protection and threat intelligence, essential for safeguarding dynamic environments. Its lightweight agent architecture minimizes system performance impact while offering extensive network visibility.

    CrowdStrike Falcon offers robust, user-friendly cybersecurity measures that are crucial for protecting digital assets and minimizing the risk of data breaches and cyberattacks. Its proactive threat detection and mitigation help maintain business continuity and protect brand reputation. Additionally, its scalability and ease of use contribute to cost-effectiveness by reducing the need for extensive IT resources and training. The platform's seamless integration with existing IT infrastructures makes it a versatile choice for diverse IT environments.

    During our conversations with CrowdStrike's users, they highly regard CrowdStrike Falcon for its efficiency in detecting and responding to threats, ease of use, and minimal system impact. It's praised for its comprehensive coverage, extending beyond traditional antivirus solutions, with strong customer support and continuous improvements.

    General Feedback and Recommendations:

    • Strengths: Its lightweight agent, stability, scalability, positive technical support experience, and improvements over competitors are notable strengths.
    • Weaknesses: The extraction process did not effectively capture the weaknesses, indicating a need for more precise data analysis.
    • Implementation and Usage: Insights include scalability and stability, particularly in cloud solutions, and ease of implementation without external assistance.

    Key Features and Advantages:

    1. Advanced Threat Detection and Response - utilizes sophisticated algorithms and machine learning to identify and neutralize preemptively, crucial for mitigating risks from advanced persistent threats (APTs) and zero-day exploits.
    2. Comprehensive Visibility and Insight - provides deep endpoint activity visibility, enabling IT teams to detect anomalies and respond to incidents effectively.
    3. Cloud-Native Architecture - offers scalability and flexibility, adapting to changing business needs, beneficial for organizations scaling operations or transitioning to cloud infrastructures.
    4. Integrated Threat Intelligence - backed by CrowdStrike's threat intelligence database, the platform stays ahead of attackers with continuously updated information on emerging threats.
    5. Ease of Deployment and Management - Its lightweight agent and cloud-based management console simplify deployment and management, which is practical for businesses of all sizes.
    6. Compliance and Risk Management - aids in meeting compliance requirements with thorough reporting and audit trails, essential for regulatory scrutiny.
    7. User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) - Analyzing user behavior patterns enhances detection capabilities against insider threats and compromised accounts.

    CrowdStrike Falcon offers various pricing plans based on endpoints and required features. The plans cater to different organizational sizes and needs, from basic endpoint protection to comprehensive protection with advanced capabilities. Additional features like DLP, UBA, Endpoint Sandboxing, and MDR are available, with pricing upon request.

    CrowdStrike Falcon emerges as a sophisticated solution for enterprise cybersecurity, offering advanced threat detection, scalability, and user-friendly design. It's well-suited for both IT professionals and business executives, protecting against current cyber threats and adaptable to future challenges in the cybersecurity landscape. For a more detailed understanding, especially concerning its use cases and weaknesses, a manual review of user feedback might be necessary.

    CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager, a critical and foundational endpoint control addresses the underlying weaknesses of endpoint defenses against a privileged attacker and helps enterprises defend against these attacks through removing local admin rights, enforcing least privilege, and implementing foundational endpoint security controls across all Windows, macOS and Linux endpoints from hybrid to cloud environments.

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    Buyer's Guide
    CrowdStrike Falcon vs. CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager
    May 2022
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    CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) with 101 reviews while CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager is ranked 7th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 25 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.6, while CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager 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 CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager writes "Offers integrated solutions and expands its capabilities through strategic acquisitions". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and Trend Vision One, whereas CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Tanium and SentinelOne Singularity Complete. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager report.

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