CrowdStrike Falcon Stability
With CrowdStrike, we have found that there are a few missed detections. We would not say it is completely reliable or 100% reliable, however, the ratio of missed detection is more in CrowdStrike. In SentinelOne, we found that it was more accurate. We are seeing it act more efficiently.
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Jeremy S.
Director of IT at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The stability is great and we haven't had a single issue.
View full review »The solution is stable and we have used it for more than 2500+ hosts.
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CrowdStrike Falcon
April 2024
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Jeffrey-Anderson
Security Analyst II at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The stability has been fantastic. I have had no stability issues at all. It has never caused a problem of any sort that we have had across in the organization for a PC "acting funny" kind of ticket coming in. Those have never been CrowdStrike agents.
Because this is a cloud-native solution, it provides us with flexibility and always-on protection. That is just the nature of what SaaS applications are. In a very general sense, I wasn't looking at CrowdStrike because it is a SaaS application. That has been a minor point to me. Just one of those, "Oh yeah, your SaaS." It is almost expected nowadays with a lot of your more modern XDR platforms that it has to be always-on, 99.999 percent uptime.
As far as general maintenance, it makes it a bit easier as far as overhead. If there were servers onsite, we would have to take care of those as well as the care and feeding of them. Making it SaaS does make it easier, which provides us some extra man-hours as far as taking care of the hardware behind running it. There is that added benefit, which is nice. The configuration of the agents probably makes it a bit more automated, so that is nice as well. These are just secondary points to me. If we had to do the maintenance, I would be perfectly happy with doing it.
All our security team monitors it. There are five of us in the console daily actively using it. I am probably the only true administrator who will change policies or anything like that in there.
A couple people have access outside of the security team, but I have not seen them login. We have a couple of our server admins have access where they have view rights, but they don't go in because they don't have issues. One or two people on our Citrix team have access, but they don't go in either. Also, one or two of our end users might have access.
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Adeeb Khan
Senior Data Hosting and Security Special at Two aquate
The solution is stable enough. We have not had any downtime. The only issue is if we have issues with the internet connectivity.
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Erik Hart
Chief Information Security Officer at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees
I have never had an issue with stability at my current organization. At my previous employer, there was one issue with an auto upgrade where it caused some issues, but it was resolved quickly.
CrowdStrike is a vast improvement compared to our previous solution, where we had to spend a lot of time. For example, when the client had to be upgraded, it was a three-to-six-month project with people having to spend dedicated time to roll it out in waves, then deal with issues when a client's machine didn't upgrade correctly. Now, upgrades happen automatically. We turned auto updates on and have never needed to look back. Nobody has to spend any time on it.
I honestly cannot tell you the last time I have heard about a CrowdStrike agent issue causing an outage on a machine or server at the end of the day.
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reviewer1524120
Director - IT Security Operations at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The stability is very stable. There have been no issues.
We have automated all our CrowdStrike Falcon updates.
View full review »CrowdStrike Falcon is a stable solution.
I rate CrowdStrike Falcon ten out of ten for stability.
View full review »Falcon is a highly stable product.
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Carol Kettlety
IT Network Infrastructure Manager at HENSOLDT
I would rate the stability of CrowdStrike Falcon a nine out of ten. The only issue I have had is with an old version of the endpoint that was installed and has proven to be problematic.
View full review »The solution has never failed. The only false positives that we get are ones that we test with. I do true and false positive testing every month to make sure stuff is working correctly and the solution picks up on it.
View full review »This is a very stable solution. I'd rate the solution 9 out of 10.
View full review »In the three years of using CrowdStrike Falcon, we have not encountered any stability issues.
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reviewer1540044
Chief Security Officer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
I haven't had any issues for five months since we've installed it, which is good to know. No users have complained about any CPU spikes or false positives, which we like.
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Stephen Hand
Director, IT & Systems Security at Tilson
We have had no issues at all with stability, and no conflicts on any of our endpoints or servers.
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Jim McCartney
Information Security Analyst at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Stability has been really good. We have not seen the issues that we had with traditional AV. Having it connected to the cloud has really helped with stability, being able to see what a computer is doing at all times, and being able to see the last check-in times, this has kind of helped with the sensors.
It is primarily just me for tweaking or management of the solution. I have backups, if needed, but it is such a light lift that I may spend an hour or two a week in the console. It really is a great product that takes care of itself. Not a lot of tweaking has been needed so far, knock on wood. We haven't really had to make any exclusions like we used to with traditional AV. Everything is running with CrowdStrike's full protection, which is a huge bonus for us, since traditionally you are pretty blind.
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Garnett Kirk
Information Security, Sr. Analyst at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
Stability-wise, they are very advanced in the next-gen antivirus game. CrowdStrike Falcon is always available.
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reviewer2152761
Cyber Security Manager at a university with 10,001+ employees
We haven't had any stability issues.
View full review »The solution is stable with no issues.
We have only used the solution for three months so will continue to monitor stability for the next several months.
I rate stability an eight out of ten.
View full review »I would rate the stability of CrowdStrike Falcon nine out of ten.
View full review »I would rate the stability of CrowdStrike Falcon 8 out of 10.
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Adam Shusterman
Cyber Security Engineer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees
My impressions of the stability are positive. I haven't had any problems since implementation with stability or availability.
Minimal maintenance is required on our side post-deployment, but it still does require maintenance. If I have to build out new groups or a troubleshooting group, e.g., tweaking policies if machines change subnets, then there is still maintenance required.
All post-implementation maintenance and administration is handled by a single security engineer.
View full review »It is a stable product.
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David Leonard
Head Deputy Head of IT, Information Technology's Projects & Developments Center at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
Crowdstrike Falcon demonstrates exceptional stability once it has been properly configured with the appropriate settings. While there may be a period of adaptation and configuration required to ensure optimal performance, once the solution is in place, it operates with remarkable stability. Users can rely on Crowdstrike Falcon to consistently deliver reliable and secure protection without significant disruptions or instability.
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reviewer1869621
Security Officer
Falcon is pretty stable - we haven't seen any kinds of performance issues like lagging, which we did experience with other endpoint protection solutions.
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NormanCyman
IT Security Analyst at U.S. Venture, Inc.
It has been very stable. There have been no real issues that we have had in the deployment or use of the CrowdStrike system in general. There has been zero downtime.
For our workstations, we don't worry about the updates. However, we have a tighter grip on updates for our server environment only because there was an issue at a point with one update. Since then, we would like to keep our deployments at an N-1. So, there is more of a check built-in just to make sure that the latest and greatest doesn't actually break anything unintentionally.
The CrowdStrike sensor is always kept at N-1 for our production servers. Our test servers are always up to date.
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Mark Krishnan
Associate Director - Infrastructure Engineering at AFT
I have two engineers that regularly watch everything. We all get alerts. We'll see if something gets isolated, or a user will tell us. We isolate the issues and work on them so nothing gets through the endpoints into the system. Within 30 minutes to an hour, an issue can be cleared.
It's therefore very stable. We're able to catch everything before it can get it. It's reliable for sure.
They're so pro-active there's very little intervention that we have to do on our end.
View full review »It is a stable solution. I would rate it a nine out of ten.
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Edward-Walton
Security Principal at Trifecta Cloud Security Solutions
There is no doubt about the stability of the solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
View full review »The solution is stable.
View full review »It's very stable and the whole management console is fast.
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Anil Kishore
Lead Engg. Information Assurance at ACPL Systems Pvt Ltd
CrowdStrike Falcon is stable.
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Michael Getz
Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect at Swagelok Company
There are no questions about stability. I continue to see, especially in the last six months, that CrowdStrike is making very purposeful acquisitions to tactically and strategically build upon the platform. Many companies acquire smaller companies to get a fraction of a piece of technology that tends to be an add-on or something that may compliment the core product, but CrowdStrike is making more strategic moves to acquire technology that they can directly integrate into the existing platform to make it even better and more effective.
Updates can be handled one of a number of ways. This is something that has evolved quite a bit since I initially deployed it. Initially, you simply had the option of manually upgrading sensor versions or leaving them to automatically update as soon as a new update was released. Very infrequently, there have been issues with sensor builds. Early last year, they rolled out the ability to automate the sensor revision updates, but do it in a tiered fashion. So, there was an N-1 and an N-2. So, when they release a new version, I step back my releases and deployment of the updates by one version backwards. Then, I have a few early adopters who get the latest sensor build as soon as it is deployed. Provided there are no problems, when the next release happens, the N-1 version will automatically upstep my entire environment without having to put hands on it.
This product does not require any maintenance post-deployment.
View full review »From my understanding and observation, it is a stable product, but I have been using this product only for the last two to three months. I am just in the learning phase.
View full review »It is a very stable solution. There are no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze.
View full review »This is a stable solution. I would rate it a five out of five.
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Ayieko Margaret
Pre-Sales Engineer at EliteVAD
The stability is very good. I can't complain about it. The only concern would be pricing. For this market, it's mostly SMEs and mid-market that we would target, and many would be those looking for antivirus or endpoint security.
View full review »CrowdStrike Falcon is a highly stable solution. We have not had any performance or compatibility problems.
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reviewer2333907
IT Consultant at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
I have not had any stability issues with CrowdStrike Falcon.
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reviewer2322486
Security Analyst at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
While we encountered some bugs with on-demand scanning, the overall performance and stability of the system are positive. CrowdStrike Falcon is less resource-intensive than our old McAfee solution, which often led to performance complaints due to its high memory consumption.
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reviewer2131563
AVP of Tech at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
The product is rock solid. I've never had an issue with stability. It is reliable and the performance is good. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze.
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reviewer1078392
Security Systems Analyst at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
CrowdStrike is very stable, we've had very few technical issues. The false positive rate is average. It has been very easy to manage and to determine where issues are.
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reviewer1078449
Chief Information Security Officer at a hospitality company with 5,001-10,000 employees
In terms of stability, it's a great tool.
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John Seaver
Director Of Information Technology at DLZ Construction Svs.
This is a stable solution, I'm unaware of any failures.
View full review »The product's stability is good.
View full review »This is a stable solution as it is cloud based. We have 3000 users making use of it.
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Rohith Kumar-Gurram
Cybersecurity Analyst at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
I would rate the stability of CrowdStrike Falcon ten out of ten.
View full review »CrowdStrike is highly stable.
View full review »The stability of CrowdStrike Falcon is great, I have never had the slightest problems.
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reviewer2279184
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
CrowdStrike Falcon is stable.
View full review »CrowdStrike Falcon is stable.
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reviewer1019481
Specialist, Lead Desktop Support at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
CrowdStrike Falcon is stable.
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reviewer1055580
President and CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The stability has been fantastic. We have never had an outage. There are no bugs or glitches. The performance is great.
View full review »The performance could be better. It's a little bit slow.
It's not very stable. We can't seem to support the latest version.
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Marty Joplin
Server Administrator at TIR Canada
The solution looks very stable.
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reviewer928773
Head of IT Department at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
CrowdStrike Falcon is stable.
View full review »We haven't experienced any issues regarding the stability of CrowdStrike Falcon.
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reviewer1068594
Senior Cyber Security Analyst with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product is stable as a rock. I have never seen any crashes. When it came to patching updates, we were always notified. It is not Windows-based, but rather Linux or Unix-based. It was more stable than any Windows product.
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reviewer1402662
Sr. IT Support Executive at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability of the solution is excellent, especially in a market like India.
View full review »CrowdStrike Falcon is a stable solution. However, you need to good internet connection for functionality.
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reviewer1871766
Product Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
The stability of the solution varies, several weeks ago I had some difficulties deploying CrowdStrike. It may have been a bug in the latest update, but a few days later this problem was solved. Sometimes there are issues and CrowdStrike deals with them very quickly.
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reviewer1392531
Dy General Manager at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees
The stability may be too early to judge, as we are still in a POC. However, when we see the product, it is very, very stable.
View full review »Crowdstrike Falcon XDR is a highly stable solution.
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Mahesh Haba
DGM IT at Union Bank of Colombo
Yes, CrowdStrike is stable.
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reviewer1132086
Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The solution is stable.
View full review »The stability is good; we haven't experienced any glitches or bugs.
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reviewer2384499
Chief Technology Officer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
CrowdStrike Falcon is stable.
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GeofreyMwaseba
SOC Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
CrowdStrike Falcon XDR is a very stable solution.
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MTHULISI-KUMALO
Junior Security Engineer at Altron
Falcon hasn't missed any attacks - it's very stable and reliable.
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Thomas Zeulner
Chief Information Security Officer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
This is a stable product.
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Saifuddin Ebrahim
Senior System Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is very stable. We don't find there are any bugs or glitches. We haven't had it crash or freeze on us. It's quite reliable.
View full review »The stability is around ninety-eight percent. The other two percent deals directly with the node being unable to detect as normal.
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Ahmed_Emara
Infrastructure Manager at Quaracrm
The stability is amazing, and we don't have any issues.
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Jorge Pizarro
Senior Engineer at Neosecure
CrowdStrike Falcon is stable.
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Parikshit Goutam
IT Manager at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
It manages around a few thousand endpoints and servers in our environment, and it is doing well so far.
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reviewer1871766
Product Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
The solution offers great stability. I have faced no issues with the tool.
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MuhammadHabib
Cloud Solution architect at VaporVM
Overall, CrowdStrike Falcon is a stable product. My company is satisfied with its stability.
View full review »This is a stable solution.
View full review »Crowdstrike Falcon XDR is a stable product.
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Raghunath Venkatesh
Business Development Manager - Security at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
I find CrowdStrike Falcon a stable solution.
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reviewer1276317
Sr Network Administrator at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
So far, it's been 100% stable. Besides the very lightweight agent, it's all Cloud-based, so I haven't had any downtime.
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Tom Smolinsky
Executive Technology Advisor at Vitso
It seems stable. The performance is good.
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Erik Sobel
Director of Security at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
It is extremely stable. It has been around for many years. We have been a customer for almost five years.
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reviewer1450047
IT Workplace Coordinator at a consumer goods company with 1-10 employees
CrowdStrike Falcon is stable.
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reviewer1714518
Especialista em Segurança da Informação - DFIR at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
CrowdStrike Falcon is very stable.
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SeniorAsd84b
Senior Associate - IT at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
So far, the solution has been stable. It did not clash with any other product that we have. Also, it is very light, and the users do not have the impression that anything is slowing down their system.
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reviewer1405356
Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
It is stable.
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reviewer1174008
Security Analyst at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
CrowdStrike Falcon is a new product and it is too soon to give a full report on the stability. We receive updates all time, and it has been more frequent than other solutions, such as Symantec. However, it has been somewhat stable and in a few months, I expect it to be even better.
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Secu8765
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's very stable, we haven't had any issues so far.
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Fadhullah Iskandar Roy
Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is quite stable. However, whenever there is a feature release (upgrade) where we push to all the endpoints, it causes something to be blocked without us knowing.
We have not put that much stress on it, about 20 percent.
View full review »It's fairly stable. We haven't been having too many issues with that.
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reviewer1149999
Engineering manager at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have not faced any problems with the product.
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reviewer1440201
Head Of Infrastructure at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
The stability is good, it's compatible with most of our platform. The agent upgrade could be better, but it's more or less aligned with the platforms. We also use Mac OS on some endpoints. Mac is not always the reflection of the agent that is the latest.
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Nachiket Sathaye
Information Security Consultant at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
The product is quite stable.
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reviewer1686732
Analista de segurança de TI at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The stability of CrowdStrike Falcon is very good. We have never had an issue.
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reviewer1458627
Director & CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The solution is stable.
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Kunal Gupta
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is pretty stable, and it does pretty accurate work. I have never encountered any issue in this dept.
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Akash Mondal
Works
It is stable.
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CrowdStrike Falcon
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about CrowdStrike Falcon. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
767,847 professionals have used our research since 2012.