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Categories and Ranking

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
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Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
117
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (4th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (5th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (4th), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (1st)
Barkly [EOL]
Average Rating
5.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
CrowdStrike Falcon
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
176
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (3rd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (2nd)
 

Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration
Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.
MD
Senior System Administrator at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Has an easy to use interface but lacks features and customization options
The product could stand to be a bit more advanced. It's very simple. You don't have a lot of ability to customize properly. For example, it does not handle whitelisting properly. So, in general, it could offer more sophisticated control and more refined options to be able to customize it better. I would also like to see better version information in the changelog. The product doesn't tell you what's changed until it's too late. So, it would be nice to know what's changed between versions of the reports so you can see more easily what might cause a problem and what is probably innocuous.
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

"Overall, it's a great platform; it integrates very well with other solutions from Palo Alto and also with our vendors, the ease of use is excellent, I love the root cause analysis from Cortex, which is amazing, and in a few clicks you can have the full root cause."
"From a single pane of glass, you can easily manage all of your endpoints."
"The level of security I get for my endpoints and servers is extremely valuable."
"It is an easy-to-use tool."
"Its ability to react to cyber data attacks is awesome."
"We switched because there were a lot of added features with Palo Alto that Check Point didn't have, and it was an upgrade for us."
"This software helps us understand any issues that may arise when someone is not at work."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks saves time in various ways, although the user interface is fairly standard."
"For a next-generation antivirus, this solution is pretty inexpensive."
"Very easy to install and use."
"Using CrowdStrike Falcon has changed the way my security team detects, investigates, and responds to threats by making our response time much quicker and giving me confidence in the alerts and information we receive."
"CrowdStrike is very easy to set up."
"Using CrowdStrike Falcon has changed the way my security team detects, investigates, and responds to threats by allowing us to focus on other things and not really worry about this."
"The 10 hours a week that we are freeing up from having to manage and monitor our AV solution has really allowed us to focus on other areas of the business. This has been a huge return on investment."
"It is very useful for endpoint protection and stopping data breaches, and that's its real strength."
"The OverWatch is the most valuable feature to me. It's a 24x7 monitoring service, and when they see anything suspicious in my environment, they will investigate."
"The features we showcase to potential customers are prevention, malware protection, zero-day protection, and application scripting, and vulnerability assessment is another valuable feature."
"Everything is automatic. I install the sensor and renew the service. Periodically, I get a notice that they've shut something down."
 

Cons

"Every 30 or 40 days, there's a new version and we need to go and make sure our customer's laptops are upgraded."
"In an upcoming release, the solution could improve by proving hard disk encryption. If it could support this it would be a complete solution."
"It is not easy to sell Cortex XDR, not because it isn't a good tool. Its marketing needs to be improved."
"Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth."
"If he is using a smaller company, he can depend on some other tools because Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a bit expensive."
"The solution needs better reports. I think they should let the customer go in and customize the reports."
"The dashboard could use some significant improvement, just making it more useful with more information. It has a limited amount of information right now. It is customizable, but I'd love to see a better out-of-box dashboard."
"In the next release, I would like to see more UI improvements. Their UI is a bit basic. When we are speaking about Palo Alto Networks they are the big company, so they can improve the UI a little bit. The UI, the reports, the log system can all be improved."
"The product could stand to be a bit more advanced. It's very simple."
"It lacks more sophisticated features and opportunity for customization."
"The stability of the solution varies, several weeks ago I had some difficulties deploying CrowdStrike."
"To simplify the budgeting process for our clients, CrowdStrike should consider offering bundled packages that include essential features."
"The solution should have included remote wipe capability out of the box."
"I would like to see equal support across all versions. Aside from that, I would say most of the features are there."
"Falcon could be improved with more function on the mobile end of things and better optimization with mobile devices."
"The price is too high. When we are reaching a new renewal, management always asks what's going on in the market."
"Some policies in the tool need to be fine-tuned. Customized IOCs need to be improved since they have certain shortcomings."
"It would be nice if they did have some sort of Active Directory tie-in, whether that be Azure or on-prem. Sometimes, it is difficult for us to determine if we are missing any endpoints or servers in CrowdStrike. We honestly don't have a great inventory, but it would be nice if CrowdStrike had a way to say this is everything in your environment, Active Directory-wise, and this is what doesn't have sensors. They try to do that now with a function that they have built-in, but I have been unsuccessful in having it help us identify what needs a sensor. So, better visibility of what doesn't have a sensor in our environment would be helpful."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cortex XDR's pricing is ok."
"It is present, but when compared to other competitive products, I would say it is not less expensive; however, when all of the other added values are considered, the price is reasonable."
"The price is on the higher side, but it's okay."
"Traps pays for itself within the first 16 months of a three-year subscription. This is attributed to OPEX savings, as security teams spent less time trying to identify and isolate malware for analysis as a result of a reduction in malware incidents, false positives, and breach avoidance."
"It is cost-effective compared to similar solutions. It fits for the small businesses through to the big businesses."
"Our customers have expressed that the price is high."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The return on investment is from the user side because we have seen the performance of it increase the delivery time of the product if we are using too many web-based and on-premise applications. In indirect ways, we saw the return of investment in terms of performance and user satisfaction increase."
"It is an inexpensive when compared to other next-generation products."
"The price of CrowdStrike Falcon is expensive and should be reduced."
"We pay 40,000 dirhams per 100 users."
"The solution isn't very costly; it's affordable."
"This solution has a very competitive price."
"The price is high in comparison to similar brands."
"The price is too high."
"Annual licensing."
"There is an annual license required to use this solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
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Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business47
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise54
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Company SizeCount
Small Business58
Midsize Enterprise46
Large Enterprise84
 

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps
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CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon Threat Intelligence, CrowdStrike Identity Protection, CrowdStrike Falcon Surface, CrowdStrike Falcon Platform
 

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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank
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