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CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR vs ReliaQuest GreyMatter 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
ReliaQuest GreyMatter
Ranking in Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
30th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.1
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Digital Risk Protection (11th), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (16th)
 

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.
MK
Senior Security Analyst at Tata Consultancy
Unified security monitoring has reduced alert fatigue and improves proactive threat hunting
I use real-time monitoring in ReliaQuest GreyMatter, which significantly improves my security posture. The unified interface helps reduce alert fatigue. I would estimate it saves around 20% in alert fatigue reduction. The automated threat hunting capabilities in ReliaQuest GreyMatter help me stay ahead of threats. The machine learning algorithm benefits my threat intelligence by providing deeper insights and predictions. I use various metrics to rate the success of the predictive threat intelligence in ReliaQuest GreyMatter.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable aspect of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks for me is its integration with AI detection, where we get to know the behavioral detection based on users, traffic patterns, and different services that we consume."
"We use it for malicious connections from malicious websites, to identify payloads that might be inside the traffic, to identify malicious processes or bugs that are running on the network, and any activities that tend to lead to data infiltration."
"Threat identification and detection are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable features are the fact that it was running in the background and it would intercept any weird stuff, and the fact that it would send things directly to the cloud for sandboxing. It's quite practical."
"If you are looking to deploy a security solution as a whole, this is a good option."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks has accelerated the response time for my security team, so we have been able to resolve issues faster than usual."
"The most valuable features of this product are the management capabilities, which allow an IT organization to get quite a good picture of attempted cyber attacks, and its out-of-the-box investigation capabilities."
"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."
"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."
"Without a doubt, CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR is making their lives easier."
"ReliaQuest GreyMatter saves around 60% of time or resources."
"ReliaQuest GreyMatter has helped us to reduce security incidents by 89%, which is a significant amount of incidents we have seen."
 

Cons

"The negative aspect I see is the economic model used by Palo Alto."
"However, if you do not have Palo Alto in your environment, you are paying these additional services just for Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, so it is not a cost-effective solution."
"The technical support is not very good. I find the process difficult."
"We had a problem with getting our older endpoints up to date, but their newest updates have been really good. I've been pleased with it in terms of what our needs are. It's doing what we want it to do."
"I would like to see improvement in the tool's user interface, particularly in the area of managing alerts and providing more reporting capabilities."
"I feel that it should not be a licensed activity because a feature should allow us to see applications running on end devices."
"While using Cortex, I noticed some aspects that could be improved, such as increasing the synchronization speed between XDR and Xnor."
"A better pricing plan would make this product more competitive."
"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."
"Areas that have room for improvement include user interface and integration."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an expensive solution."
"The price was fine."
"It has reasonable pricing for the use cases it provides to the company."
"This is an expensive solution."
"When we first bought it, it was a bit expensive, but it was worth it. The licensing was straightforward."
"Our license will require renewal in August, after which the maintenance will continue as usual."
"The cost of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is $55 to $90 USD per endpoint per month."
"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."
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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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Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Retailer
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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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 needs improvement with ReliaQuest GreyMatter?
Areas that have room for improvement include user interface and integration.
What is your primary use case for ReliaQuest GreyMatter?
I use ReliaQuest GreyMatter for detection and response, XDR, and SIEM. The best features I like about GreyMatter the ...
 

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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