We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon and CylancePROTECT 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."This is stable and scalable."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"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 product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"The malware protection is the most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon."
"The CrowdStrike Falcon agent is very lightweight. Users never complain about their PCs getting stuck and things like that."
"We haven't had any infections or down time."
"It has an extremely low footprint, so it has got minimum impact on the user end points in terms of CPU and memory usage."
"There's almost no maintenance required. It's very low if there's any at all."
"I like the detection rates of mobile threats."
"The anomaly detection is the most valuable feature."
"We are happy with CloudStrike's ease of use and touch notification."
"You can manage all the threats and everything from a centralized dashboard."
"The solution is very quick at easily changing the levels of protection for each computer and the server."
"I find the actual overall endpoint malware protection the most valuable feature of CylancePROTECT."
"It is a good endpoint solution. It is very easy to manage and detect the threat immediately. It will take the necessary actions."
"The solution is pretty easy to scale."
"The solution’s AI is its most valuable feature."
"Two or three years ago when the WannaCry virus struck, the people that were on Cylance were the ones that weren't affected."
"The initial setup of CylancePROTECT is very easy."
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR."
"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 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."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"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 security should be strong for the cloud. Some applications are on-prem and some are on the cloud. Fortinet should also have strong security for the cloud. There should be more security for the cloud."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"The management reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"There are some areas where some customers would prefer a different service."
"We sometimes get false positives."
"The detection time has room for improvement."
"I would like to see a more accurate integration and an option to check the local machine."
"I've found that CrowdStrike's technical support could benefit from increased technical expertise."
"Forensic controls have room for improvement."
"Falcon could be improved with more function on the mobile end of things and better optimization with mobile devices."
"Additionally, their channel management has been lacking, with a notable disregard for small and medium-sized businesses, focusing primarily on large enterprises and very large MSPs."
"The initial deployment was quite complicated."
"I'd like them to do software distribution too, but they said that that's architecturally not at the product line."
"An area for improvement in CylancePROTECT is its pricing, as it's a bit costly."
"It was not effective. There were a lot of false positives, even when we use Adobe, and everybody uses Adobe, which is not a threat."
"CylancePROTECT's dashboard could be more user-friendly."
"Work on the math model. We are catching a lot of false positives, which gets to be a pain at the start of a deployment."
"The company that sells us the licenses sometimes doesn't know how to do certain things."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 107 reviews while CylancePROTECT is ranked 23rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 40 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while CylancePROTECT 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 CylancePROTECT writes "Ensures advanced AI-driven threat detection to provide robust endpoint security, effectively preventing both known and unknown threats with minimal impact on system performance". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, whereas CylancePROTECT is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. CylancePROTECT report.
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I had a great experience having deployed CrowdStrike to tens of thousands of endpoints. It's easy to deploy and operationalize. It has provided protection against threats that other engines did not catch based on its powerful heuristics and AI.
CrowdStrike does invest heavily in R&D and provides advisory services on endpoint protection.
I never used Cylance. We installed CrowdStrike on 6/6/19 and aside from a test file have had zero hits. CrowdStrike has some additional features available (at a cost). One that I am looking at is device control for USB storage devices for policy enforcement. Syslogs are being absorbed by my SIEM as well.