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CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR vs Rapid7 InsightIDR 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
118
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
Rapid7 InsightIDR
Ranking in Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
18th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (23rd), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (11th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (34th), Threat Deception Platforms (4th)
 

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.
Prajwal Chougale - PeerSpot reviewer
SOC L2 Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Centralized threat hunting has improved alert accuracy and simplifies incident investigations
I would say there are two areas for improvement: the reporting dashboard that provides insights or reports weekly or monthly lacks detailed information about how logs are being ingested. While the details are there, they could be more concise and easier to understand for any level of authority. The second area is alert tuning; compared to Microsoft Sentinel, Rapid7 InsightIDR provides fewer alerts with more static alert functionality and lacks dynamic alerting exposures. There could be improvements to learn from past alert activities for more dynamic alert configurations. These two areas are the main areas for improvement; everything else is good.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Its ability to react to cyber data attacks is awesome."
"It has absolutely improved the way our organization functions, we are more secure, it is giving us more peace of mind, and it has found malicious activity happening on our endpoints that probably would not have been detected if we didn't have it."
"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 good thing about the product is that it's always scanning."
"Traps is quite a stable product. Once it was properly deployed and configured, you have nothing to be worried about."
"Monitoring is most valuable."
"But overall, when we speak about security and protection, they are one of the top providers."
"What I like about Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is that it is a comprehensive solution that contains everything the organization may need when using endpoints."
"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."
"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."
"​​User behavioral analytics allows us to pinpoint abnormal or suspicious behavior among millions of events every day."
"Features for user behavior analytics and the rules for attack review are good."
"The solution is easy to use, and the interface is intuitive."
"Rapid7 is easy to use and deploy. It is a simple solution and has easy data pulling."
"Integration with threat modeling from the Metasploit and InsightIDR repositories."
"It improved my organization by building a security alerting program."
"During simulations or demonstrations, the tool generates alerts, providing details such as the specific application, its origin, and potential threats. For instance, it can identify if an application belongs to a known ransomware group. The system rates the threat, offering a clear detection ratio, such as 97 out of 100. It not only identifies threats but also illustrates the associated behaviors, helping us understand the potential risk to a particular endpoint."
"InsightIDR helps us investigate an environment to discover information about incidents."
 

Cons

"There are some default policies which sometimes affect our applications and cause them to run around. In the hotel industry, we use a different type of data versus Oracle and SQL. By default, there are some policies which stop us from running properly. Because of this, the support level is also not that strong. We have to wait to get a results."
"We have found that there are times Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks does not detect some of the viruses, we have to use another protection solution called Kaspersky."
"Enhancing UI simplicity and playbook flexibility are areas that could benefit from more low-code automation options for smoother integrations."
"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's very time-consuming to log support issues and the people that answer the tickets aren't very knowledgeable."
"I would like to see some additional features related to email protection included."
"In reporting they should have a customizable dashboard due to the fact that C-level people don't like reporting to the IT department. They prefer to have a real-time dashboard. That kind of dashboard needs to have various customizations."
"The price could be a little lower."
"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."
"One of the things that could be better is digital forensics. It is there, but it can be better. They could provide more on the endpoint detection level."
"The searching feature in Rapid7 InsightIDR needs to evolve"
"The solution needs improvement in threat intelligence. Increasing the depth of intelligence to help users understand more about threats is a possibility. My suggestion is to expand access to other websites or resources."
"Inability to get access to compliance reports within the solution."
"InsightIDR's integration with other solutions could be improved. Also, I'd like more control from the portal over what's happening on the endpoint side. For example, when I see an attack on an endpoint, I want to be able to stop it from the portal."
"Customised alert recipients need to be added to allow better first-line action and quicker response. Configurable honeypots would be a welcome addition."
"Personally, I feel it would greatly benefit from more supported log sources."
"Tenable Nessus is easier to deal with. It's more efficient and accurate. InsightIDR is heavier than Tenable in terms of performance and scanning. Rapid7 would be much easier to use if it had a network connector like Tenable. Tenable's connector allows continuous monitoring over the B caps."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Every customer has to pay for a license because it doesn't work with what you get from a managed services provider."
"The pricing is a little high. It is per user per year."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is an expensive solution."
"The price of the product is not very economical."
"It has reasonable pricing for the use cases it provides to the company."
"I don't recall what the cost was, but it wasn't really that expensive."
"It's about $55 per license on a yearly basis."
"It's the most expensive solution, but features-wise, it's quite strong. It's very good for protection, so the results are very good in the case of protection. I would rate it a two out of ten in terms of pricing."
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"Licensing is by endpoint and amount of retention time (at least ours is). Default retention was one year, but we are able to push the retention further if needed. There's also a provide-your-own-S3 option for longer retention if you don't want to pay for the additional retention years in your Rapid7 agreement."
"It is on a yearly basis. For our own company, for about 250 users, it was 16,000 euros a year."
"Rapid7 InsightIDR charges us based on the endpoints we connect to."
"The solution has a mid-range price point in the market"
"Licensing is straightforward. If, for some reason, you don’t meet the minimum licensing requirements, there is a third-party managed service that can help."
"The pricing is good, and it is not very expensive."
"The team is very willing to work with companies. My suggestion is to call the Rapid7 sales department and see how they can help.​"
"It is a reasonably priced solution."
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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
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business47
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise55
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR is that it is very manageabl...
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.
What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rapid7 InsightIDR?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing has been very positive; it is cost-effective and offers great ...
What needs improvement with Rapid7 InsightIDR?
I would say there are two areas for improvement: the reporting dashboard that provides insights or reports weekly or ...
 

Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps
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InsightIDR
 

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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank
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Liberty Wines, Pioneer Telephone, Visier
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