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CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR vs Darktrace comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
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Ranking in Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
119
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (4th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (5th), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (1st)
CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR
Ranking in Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
34th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Darktrace
Ranking in Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
85
Ranking in other categories
Email Security (11th), Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (2nd), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (1st), Network Detection and Response (NDR) (1st), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (10th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (10th), Attack Surface Management (ASM) (4th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (4th), AI Observability (7th)
 

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.
reviewer2894520 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
XDR telemetry has transformed threat hunting and now simplifies correlation across tools
The improvements I have observed in my process for detecting and investigating sophisticated attacks since adopting CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR is the quality of the telemetry that it collects. It collects all the right information you need to be able to detect threats and conduct threat hunting. The value I get from correlating activity across endpoints and other security domains with CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR ensures that I am actually getting value out of my full security tooling stack, bringing everything together into one spot. Every product has its own blind spots, but when you bring them all together, you get a better picture of what is going on. The detection capabilities of CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR have influenced my approach to identifying and addressing sophisticated threats by focusing on the correlation aspects and utilizing multiple data sources to detect those threats rather than having individual detections that utilize only one source. CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR has definitely reduced my mean time to detect and mean time to respond, though I could not give exact figures. The impact that CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR has had on alert volume and analyst investigation time is definitely reducing the volume of alerts by correlating data sources. Anytime you do that, you are speeding up or reducing the amount of work an analyst does and speeding up the time for them to do things. My experience with CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR's behavioral detections and Indicators of Attack has been good overall. I think it is hitting many of the points I have already mentioned in terms of correlating those data sources, making it easier to detect things and easier to investigate them. These detection methods integrate into my current security operations workflows by generally forming the centerpiece. I am actually a consultant, so I do not have a specific workflow myself, but I work with multiple clients, many of them using CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR, and it brings in a lot of information and stitches it all together.
Pasan Jayarathna - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at Cyberwell Solution
Monitoring has improved data loss detection and now spots abnormal internal file transfers quickly
In my understanding, the best feature Darktrace offers is the identification of copying files, which acts as a DLP, and it is a main concern for companies because users sometimes copy data outside without knowing, especially those without a technical background. When I mention the DLP-like feature and file copying detection, the alerts have been very timely, as we get an alert within a couple of minutes, which is excellent. Even if some developers are working after hours and copying files, our SOC team detects this, and most of the time they call us so we can identify the users. The alerts are quite accurate and proactive.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"My advice for others looking into using Cortex is that it is very easy to use and very useful for the customer environment, whether it's a public or private one."
"The product's most valuable features are massive user and feature intelligence exploit detection."
"This software helps us understand any issues that may arise when someone is not at work."
"It detected stuff that other things wouldn't detect."
"It can automatically correlate events and logs, which is very helpful for an IT administrator. It can correlate different kinds of malware activities over a network, agent, or host system. You do not need to do it manually. It is a good feature. It is also a user-friendly solution. We have deployed it on the cloud because our space does not provide any flexibility for on-premises deployment, but Palo Alto has added some flexibility to install it on-premises. It must be like the same Cortex XDR agent for all the VPN services, web filtering services, and everything else."
"The integrations are out-of-the-box, as are the playbooks."
"We think that this product will help us grow, as it meets our needs currently and we can grow with it over time."
"Based on my experience, I would recommend Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks to other people."
"CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR gives us the overhead in terms of resources to make the most of what we have, and anytime I can free up myself to help my end users is a win."
"Without a doubt, CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR is making their lives easier."
"CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to understand behaviors and how our customers are suffering attacks, enabling us to anticipate those breaches."
"The autonomous mode, which is the Antigena AI response, is particularly valuable."
"It is a very simple product to use."
"Darktrace is very stable, and I would rate its stability a ten out of ten."
"In terms of features, the data or information they collect and unsupervised machine learning are very valuable. Its unsupervised machine learning has reduced our team's effort. Both Darktrace and Vectra work on unsupervised machine learning that learns the behavior or develops a profile on its own, which allows our security team to do some other tasks rather than spending time on Darktrace or Vectra. Because of unsupervised machine learning, its detection capability is quite good. Along with that, if we utilize the integration feature properly, the automated incident response capability of Darktrace is quite useful."
"They've worked hard to be the top security control in terms of AI and machine learning, and their product works well."
"The most valuable feature of Darktrace and the most valuable feature is the artificial intelligence module because that is the tool that determines automatically if there is any risk or not in the network."
"Its most valuable feature is its ability to identify malicious connected IPs from outside and the attacks that get through to the inside."
"The most valuable feature is that it gives us visibility of rogue traffic that is on the network."
 

Cons

"It is an enterprise-level solution. Its price could be less expensive."
"The solution should add unwanted malicious hash values to a block list so that whenever the action is triggered, it will automatically prevent the malicious content."
"If you compare it to SentinelOne, which has more functionalities and detection capabilities on an open platform, the pricing on SentinelOne is far more reasonable and cheaper than Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks."
"I recommend adding a data loss prevention (DLP) solution to Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. The inclusion of this feature would allow the application of DLP policies alongside antivirus policies via a single agent and console, making it more competitive as other OEMs often offer DLP solutions as part of their antivirus products."
"Cortex XDR is trickier to configure than other Palo Alto products. This is one area where we are not so satisfied."
"The server sometimes stops continuously to check things so it would be helpful to receive access updates or technical reasons."
"It'll help if customization was easier."
"We would also like to have advanced tech protection and email scanning."
"CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR can be improved by expanding the number of built-in integrations."
"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing could be better."
"It should be easier to access the Darktrace portal and its documentation. Only the customer can access their portal and support. It could be cheaper."
"The solution would benefit from automation. Currently, you have to know what you are searching for."
"Darktrace could expand into EDR (endpoint detection and response) and combine it with its network detection."
"If asked to rate Darktrace support on a scale from zero to ten where ten is the best, I would give them five points."
"In terms of improvements, fine-tuning is the area where we have to spend some time because it works on unsupervised machine learning."
"The product is considered expensive compared to others."
"The pricing needs improvement."
"With Darktrace, at the moment, I have to almost put in a date and tell them that I want you to give me data from this date to this date."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's about $55 per license on a yearly basis."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is quite an expensive solution."
"I did PoCs on products called Cylance and CrowdStrike. Although, I consider these products and they were also good, when it come to cost and budgetary factors, Traps has been proven to be better than the other two products. It is quite cost-effective and delivers all the entire solution which we require."
"The solution is expensive. It's pricing is on a yearly-basis."
"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."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The price of the product is not very economical."
"The price of the solution could be reduced. I have customers that have voiced that the solution is good for the value but if I want to sell more of the solution the price reduction would help."
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"I am using a demo of Darktrace for deployment and testing which is free."
"The cost is moderate."
"The pricing is very flexible for Darktrace. Sometimes, a customer does not have the appropriate budget, but Darktrace can handle that. They offer monthly payments, so the customer can acquire the solution very easily."
"The solution is about $6,000 per quarter."
"It is a very expensive product."
"The cost of the solution is expensive for smaller businesses. They will not be able to afford it or might not need this type of security solution."
"They are too expensive compared with other vendors."
"It is expensive. I don't have the price for other competitors."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
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Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business48
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise56
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Company SizeCount
Small Business44
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise29
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR?
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What needs improvement with CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR?
CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR can be improved with a little more positive press about how good you are.
How does Crowdstrike Falcon compare with Darktrace?
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Which is better - SentinelOne or Darktrace?
Which solution is better depends on which is more suitable specifically for your company. Darktrace, for example, is ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Darktrace?
Concerning pricing for the product, I would say it is somewhat expensive.
 

Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps
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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank
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Irwin Mitchell, Open Energi, Wellcome Trust, FirstGroup plc, Virgin Trains, Drax, QUI! Group, DNK, CreaCard, Macrosynergy, Sisley, William Hill plc, Toyota Canada, Royal British Legion, Vitol, Allianz, KKR, AIRBUS, dpd, Billabong, Mclaren Group.
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