CrowdStrike Falcon vs. Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CrowdStrike Falcon
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
CrowdStrike offers the Falcon Endpoint Protection suite, an antivirus and endpoint protection system emphasizing threat detection, machine learning malware detection, and signature free updating. Additionally the available Falcon Spotlight module delivers vulnerability assessment with no performance impact, no additional agents, hardware, scheduled scans, firewall exceptions or admin credentials.
$59.99
per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
Cortex XSOAR, formerly Demisto and now from Palo Alto Networks since it was acquired in March 2019, provides orchestration to enable security teams to ingest alerts across sources and execute standardized, automatable playbooks for accelerated incident response. Its playbooks are powered by hundreds of integrations and thousands of security actions, striking the right balance between rapid machine execution and nuanced human oversight.N/A
Pricing
CrowdStrike FalconPalo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR
Editions & Modules
Falcon Go (Small Business)
$59.99
per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)
Falcon Go (Small Business)
$59.99
Falcon Pro
$99.99
per endpoint/month (for 5-250 endpoints, billed annually)
Falcon Enterprise
$184.99
per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CrowdStrike FalconPalo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Endpoint Security
Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Product A and Product B
CrowdStrike Falcon
9.1
Ratings
6% above category average
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR
-
Ratings
Anti-Exploit Technology9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)9.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Centralized Management9.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Infection Remediation9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Vulnerability Management7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware Detection9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
CrowdStrike FalconPalo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
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8.2
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CrowdStrike FalconPalo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR
Likelihood to Recommend
CrowdStrike Falcon is well suited for any size of environment. Large to small, CrowdStrike Falcon does an amazing job. The ability to have the same security as a fortune 500 company and have a solution that sees the same threats that they are seeing is amazing. I do not think that there is a company or environment that wouldn't benefit from the CrowdStrike Falcon solution.
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XSOAR is well suited for phishing detection and response. Phishing alerts are as much of a
problem today as they were decades ago. This is because: ●Attackers Can leverage automation to launch high-quantity phishing attacks with the click
of a button.
●Spear Phishing attacks are sophisticated and sometimes indistinguishable from real
emails, resulting in compromise through human error.
●Security Teams aren’t able to follow set processes while responding to phishing alerts.
They must coordinate across email inboxes, threat intel, NGFW, ticketing, and
other tools. Each tool has different consoles, data conventions, and contexts,
making it difficult for security teams to fill in the gaps while minimizing
errors. XSOAR is less suited for analyzing traffic.
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Pros
  • The Log analysis is very detailed and easy to use.
  • Prevent and block all type of malwares.
  • Great threat intelligence which is very up-to-date with the recent cyber attacks
  • very user friendly in access and management
  • Automated feature of detecting, taking action and closing incidents using fusion workflow.
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  • Automation with immediate security responses.
  • Comprehensive phishing protection and increased email protection.
  • Analysis and reporting feature.
  • Intuitive and easy-to-view panels.
  • Alerts by email and sms of incidents for the administration.
  • Centralized monitoring.
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Cons
  • The Dashboard can become overwhelming at times, too much information to absorb
  • Computers that may have made it out into the field without the endpoint sensor are very difficult to find
  • As with all systems that rely on machine learning false positives occurr
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  • SAML is not stable, it gives a lot of issues.
  • Pre-defined playbooks need a lot of fine tuning
  • Lacks proper documentation
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Likelihood to Renew
Crowdstrike has a large suite of tools built for helping the engineers triage and respond to security event whenever identified. The ability to customize the security policies and implement more granular policies to different devices based on the functionality is unmatched. Crowdstrike provides so much of ability in a decent budget which ascertains the value for money or ROI.
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It has proven to be far to valuable and effective to consider getting rid of it. Until something better comes along, this is staying in our product stack.
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Usability
I think it is a complete and very trustful XDR platform, with very few False Positives. It is very well supported by highly skilled professionals on all levels: from pre-sales engineers, Customer Account Managers and support engineers.
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Support Rating
Support is generally pretty fast and gets right to the issue. We haven't had to use them much, fortunately, but the issues and questions we've had are usually answered quickly. The customer success manager/account manager you're assigned will also follow up with you on a regular cadence to ensure you're getting the most out of the subscription. There's not a whole lot of room to improve, other than the general confusion about what is/what is not covered in custom packages you're subscribed to. The initial purchase took much longer because of a package name changes and realignments of different modules into those packages.
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In-Person Training
There is limited amount of learning that can be completed in an in-person training available. In my opinion, the self-paced learning provided by Falcon portal is more useful over in-person training. The support from Falcon is great and useful to overcome difficulties, if any.
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Online Training
The training provided by Crowdstrike Falcon is complete in terms of the depth of technical knowledge and teaches the users about going through with the platform. There are lots of jargons for different tools that Crowdstrike Falcon has and this training teaches them all which helps in managing the platform better. Plus, the regular knowledge checks are also very helpful for the end user.
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Implementation Rating
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It was much easier than we all anticipated.
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Alternatives Considered
We were a former Arctic Wolf customer and feel like they worked more as a team with us. Cylance is what we're looking at possibly migrating to.
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The quantity of integrations with security solutions is highest in Palo Alto Solution. The capacity to identify anomalous events is much better in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR. The flexibility of increased storage area is better as well. The dashboard is very intuitive about showing the most important incidents and how to resolve them.
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Return on Investment
  • CrowdStrike Falcon's proactive threat mitigation has significantly reduced the risk of successful cyber attacks, resulting in tangible savings related to potential data breaches or system compromises.
  • The cloud-native architecture and automated features have improved operational efficiency.
  • The platform's real-time visibility and threat hunting capabilities have drastically improved incident response times.
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  • Reduces man-hours spent on handling false-positive repetitive alerts, daily 40% of analysts' time saved during a 24 hour period. In the initial stage, it was 75% of analysts' time saved due to the new environment, less maturity, and a lot of un-finetuned alerts.
  • Single pane for notification, collaboration, and action (to some extent) which is a major time saver compared to the conventional method of meeting invites and emails back-and-forth.
  • Secure documentation of business-critical incidents with a need-to-know basis of access according to each role.
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