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Adaptive Shield vs CrowdStrike Falcon comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 11, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Shield
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (5th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (28th)
CrowdStrike Falcon
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
204
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (3rd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. Adaptive Shield is designed for SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) and holds a mindshare of 8.0%, down 10.1% compared to last year.
CrowdStrike Falcon, on the other hand, focuses on Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP), holds 5.5% mindshare, down 7.8% since last year.
SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Adaptive Shield8.0%
Varonis Platform12.3%
AppOmni8.8%
Other70.9%
SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM)
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
CrowdStrike Falcon5.5%
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint6.4%
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint4.4%
Other83.7%
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
 

Featured Reviews

Asaf Rozenblum - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber security engineer at Checkmarx
Provides not only visibility but also remediation information and is helpful in working with people who are not in security-oriented roles
For compliance security checks, it identifies and tells you about a specific compliance, but it would be better if they also attach a link to the rule of the compliance they are referring to. That will be a lot more clear. You won't have to leave the platform every time to find information on the web. They do have a lot of things that keep you inside the app and give you clarity, but there are a couple of little things that got missed. One feature about which I have talked to them multiple times is related to being able to rescan or do a recheck on a specific security issue. Currently, when you fix something and you want to check if it is fixed, you need to power off the integration and then power it on. If there is a clickable button that can re-scan and do a single check or even the whole security check, without powering off and powering on, it will be easier and more efficient.
JW
Senior Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Centralized endpoint protection has strengthened compliance and accelerated incident response
There are a number of areas that I only touch a handful of times, but when I get in there, I realize why I don't do that. The main area would be within the support area. The support bot is not really as smart as you would expect it, especially in this day and age of LLM and other capabilities that I know CrowdStrike Falcon is already capable of doing. Additionally, I would appreciate a little bit more easy to read insights of some of the dashboards or maybe manipulation of the dashboards. It is still a little cumbersome to build custom dashboards and it's not as intuitive as you would think. Documentation is abysmal and needs to be improved dramatically. I know that there's a big effort to do this, however, even the new effort is honestly worse than it was before. Those are definitely major areas of improvement, just more in the usability of the features.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It is very good, and I would recommend it to anybody."
"The security checks are valuable because you need to understand what can be improved. There is a remediation tab inside the security check, So, you don't need to go and search how to fix those things. It gives you step-by-step information for all different apps, which is a really strong feature."
"The platform is very scalable."
"It's ability to do threat hunting is really great, quite robust, and even allows you to do hygiene stuff."
"CrowdStrike Falcon has positively impacted my organization by helping us to stay secure, resilient, and provide what our customers need all the time without impacting their data or disclosing their personal information."
"Where previous incidents that CrowdStrike Falcon has now stopped used to take anywhere from two to five hours to get contained and remediated, now they are prevented."
"CrowdStrike displays a threat score when it detects an infection. This is helpful because not all detections are the same. It will classify them as ransomware, malware, phishing, etc. This feature helps us prioritize and cross-check with other EDR tools."
"The ability to run scripts in real time has benefited my incident response team by allowing us to acquire artifacts and reach the root cause more quickly."
"It is very useful for endpoint protection and stopping data breaches, and that's its real strength."
"I haven't had any issues with bugs or glitches. I haven't had a problem with stability so far."
 

Cons

"One feature about which I have talked to them multiple times is related to being able to rescan or do a recheck on a specific security issue. Currently, when you fix something and you want to check if it is fixed, you need to power off the integration and then power it on. If there is a clickable button that can re-scan and do a single check or even the whole security check, without powering off and powering on, it will be easier and more efficient."
"Currently, when you fix something and you want to check if it is fixed, you need to power off the integration and then power it on."
"The customer support is not really great. It is pretty complicated, especially when I ask very difficult questions or dig deep into the features, as I do not see good support most of the time, so I think it is important to improve this."
"A big improvement is needed around dashboards, specifically to have an executive dashboard as the current one is very technical but lacking at the executive level."
"We would like to be able to perform on-demand scanning, rather than relying on the scheduler."
"The product is quite expensive."
"Too many false positives."
"There are some aspects of the UI that could use some improvement, e.g., working in groups."
"As the company has grown, the technical support has felt less personal."
"CrowdStrike Falcon could improve by adding manual scanning or serverless scanning. It is not available at this time."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I'm not sure about the pricing, but it is worth it."
"CrowdStrike Falcon can be more expensive than some competitors, and its base price doesn't cover every feature."
"The pricing is not bad. It's on the higher end of the market, but you get what you pay for."
"CrowdStrike Falcon is one of the more expensive endpoint solutions on the market."
"The cost of CrowdStrike Falcon could be reduced. It is quite expensive if you compare it to other solutions, such as Blue Coat, Symantec, McAfee, or Kaspersky."
"The pricing is good and there are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."
"The pricing on CrowdStrike is per license. It was about $42 per seat yearly."
"There are three to four licensing models available to choose from for CrowdStrike Falcon. The price of CrowdStrike Falcon depends on the distributor and the reseller partner. The price we received was good."
"I am not aware of the price, but I believe that it is among the most expensive XDRs out there. Of course, this is dependent on the features you choose. Depending on the features, the price might increase."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
26%
Manufacturing Company
16%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
University
4%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business62
Midsize Enterprise53
Large Enterprise104
 

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Also Known As

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CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon Threat Intelligence, CrowdStrike Identity Protection, CrowdStrike Falcon Surface, CrowdStrike Falcon Platform
 

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