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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) (4th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (26th)
CrowdStrike Falcon
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
173
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (3rd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (2nd)
 

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 8.2%, down 11.2% compared to last year.
CrowdStrike Falcon, on the other hand, focuses on Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP), holds 5.7% mindshare, down 8.2% since last year.
SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Adaptive Shield8.2%
Varonis Platform11.6%
AppOmni9.6%
Other70.6%
SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM)
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
CrowdStrike Falcon5.7%
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint6.5%
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint4.5%
Other83.3%
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

"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."
"It is very good, and I would recommend it to anybody."
"I like the feature called RTC, the remote time connector."
"CrowdStrike is deployed on every workstation, so policy changes can be enforced on all of them. It lowers the manual work on each of the workstations. It has helped us manage device usage in our environment."
"We find that the solution is very, very scalable as a tool and it can completely manage and protect the endpoint."
"Since using CrowdStrike Falcon, I have seen a lot faster incident response actions, containment, and it helps me mitigate many threats automatically that I previously handled manually."
"This solution has made the lives of the IT staff much easier, compared to the previous one."
"Using CrowdStrike Falcon has changed the way my security team detects, investigates, and responds to threats in an excellent way that enables us to see threats ahead of time and provides us with reports so we are able to see how we are lagging behind."
"I find nothing to miss in terms of stability; there are no glitches, and the solution is stable."
"EDR is effective in CrowdStrike."
 

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 price is too high. When we are reaching a new renewal, management always asks what's going on in the market."
"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."
"CrowdStrike should provide better visibility in its reporting. There should be more forensic details about detected threats."
"Improvement could be made in the number of false positives we get, there are more than there needs to be."
"To simplify the budgeting process for our clients, CrowdStrike should consider offering bundled packages that include essential features."
"An improvement would be to extend support to legacy and unsupported servers."
"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."
"The GUI can use improvement, it's cloud-based so sometimes the interface can be a bit slow. The interface could use a little bit more speed."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I'm not sure about the pricing, but it is worth it."
"Years ago, when we bought CrowdStrike, you got everything it had. I was a little concerned when they broke this out into a la carte modules where you can buy EDR, Spotlight, etc., picking and choosing off the menu. I was a little worried that the solution would get watered down. However, I realized in my previous organization when we had the full suite that there were a bunch of features in it that we didn't have time to operationalize. So, I warmed up to it. I get the whole, "Look, you can pick and choose. Okay, everybody buys a steak, but do you want mashed potatoes, or do you want lobster mac and cheese?" So, you can pick the sides that you want, so you can buy the solution that you want and operationalize versus paying a lot of money and getting a bunch of things, but not using 60 percent of the tools in the box."
"There is no license required to use this solution."
"The pricing on CrowdStrike is per license. It was about $42 per seat yearly."
"The pricing is good and there are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."
"We are on an annual subscription for the solution. There are not any additional costs."
"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."
"CrowdStrike Falcon is more expensive than other EDR solutions with similar features."
"I do not have experience with the cost or licensing of the product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
26%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business58
Midsize Enterprise46
Large Enterprise83
 

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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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