CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR vs OpenText Core Endpoint Protection​ comparison

CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR vs. OpenText Core Endpoint Protection

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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.9%, up from 3.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR is 5.8%, down from 10.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is 1.7%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
CrowdStrike Falcon	5.8%
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks	3.9%
OpenText Core Endpoint Protection	1.7%
Other	88.6%

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Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH

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.

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Dipak M Gohil

IT Manager at Jord International Pty Ltd

Efficient threat detection and seamless deployment improve overall security

The single panel console of CrowdStrike Falcon is very user-friendly, which is what we are looking for. Having multiple administrators between various offices with this single console gives us the ability to see all offices, branch offices, and partners, making it very useful to detect machines, identify machines, and check security risks. Everything in the single console is very useful. CrowdStrike Falcon has positively impacted our organization in terms of efficiency because it's very lightweight, easy to deploy, easy to manage, and works very efficiently. It quickly detects issues and doesn't have a signature-based system, so it works fast and takes immediate action.

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reviewer2584380

vCIO At Grove Networks Inc. at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Improving threat detection is critical for enhanced protection

We use Webroot Business Endpoint Protection as a NextGen antivirus solution for our clients. It's included in the contract we have with our clients as a cost-effective option for antivirus protection Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is cost-effective for rolling it out to all of our clients,…

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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 feature is that you can select remote access of any machine for sandboxing."

"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."

"Cortex XDR is a very capable solution for protecting large networks and a lot of endpoints. It's very useful because the automation is very high, and if you combine it with the features on Palo Alto firewalls, it provides very strong protection."

"Cortex XDR lets us manage several clients from the same console, and its endpoint defense is more advanced than traditional antivirus."

"I like that the product has behavior-based detection which offers many benefits over signature-based detection."

"Cortex is the best tool for endpoint detection, and I have used it to verify hashes or domains to identify malicious activity, trigger playbooks that automate and gather endpoint logs, block malicious processes, and update incident tickets, showcasing end-to-end processes with automation in investigation and reducing the analysis workflow."

"The normal protection was really effective, and we detected situations that if we didn't have Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, it's highly likely that we would have been affected, but it protected the infrastructure."

"It'll not slow down your system when compared to others."

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"The product is really good, but there is a lot of additional features that you need to have for it to be a complete solution."

"It's not costly, and it's not constantly running, it's only looking for suspicious items when it starts to take action."

"This solution has made the lives of the IT staff much easier, compared to the previous one."

"We find that the solution is very, very scalable as a tool and it can completely manage and protect the endpoint."

"There's almost no maintenance required. It's very low if there's any at all."

"The best benefit of CrowdStrike Falcon is 99% MITRE coverage."

"It's really good because it can detect anything."

"It has good features for threat detection."

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"They have a lot of features integrated from way back, which shows that the product developers know exactly what they're doing."

"Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is easy to use, stable, flexible, and the performance is great."

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that it is a low profile environment as far as overhead on the machines."

"The ability to generate profiles specific to both business groups and organizations has made managing nearly 1000 endpoints very simple."

"I rate the initial setup phase a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy."

"It is pretty unintrusive. It doesn't take over the system like McAfee or Norton. It doesn't use a whole lot of resources. McAfee and Norton use a lot of resources."

"My advice about this product is that it is a very good solution and offers a stable and trusted software that runs smoothly and is easy to deploy."

"The main reason we had Webroot is that it was cost-effective for our clients."

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Cons

"While using Cortex, I noticed some aspects that could be improved, such as increasing the synchronization speed between XDR and Xnor."

"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."

"Cortex does not offer an on-premises solution. However, some customers would prefer not to be on the cloud. It would be ideal if it could offer something on-prem as well."

"For Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, if I had to point out improvements, I would say the UI is still somewhat difficult for beginners."

"I don't like that they have different types of licenses. For example, if users select a license, they think they will have all the platforms they need to improve their network or security. But after some time, Palo Alto Networks changed their licensing, and some of the features that, for example, were free at the beginning now have a cost. I think the integration can be improved. For example, a lot of tools are just integrated through APIs."

"The GUI could be improved. It's a little bit cumbersome. It could be more user-friendly."

"Dashboards do not allow everyone to see what's happening."

"It is not a suitable solution if you are looking for a single product with multiple features such as DLP, encryption, rollback, etc."

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"Basically, they don't cover legacy OS or applications. That's the only issue we're concerned about."

"I have worked with their technical support on several problems that were never fully resolved."

"The technical support could improve because I am in India and the support I receive is from the UK or Australia. It is difficult to manage the time difference. The service could be faster. However, when we do have the support they are knowledgeable."

"We can do a threat analysis of any machine at any time, but that threat analysis is very limited."

"It does take more time to scan than other solutions."

"We struggle to get specialized resources from CrowdStrike in a few cases."

"One thing that is not yet available is attack simulation."

"Forensic controls have room for improvement."

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"We need to know more details about how the virus interacted with the computer."

"Webroot used to be really good when they first came out, but now they've completely fallen behind, sadly."

"I think the one bad point about this product is that we did not find a way for Webroot to generate reports or schedule automatic reports to be sent to clients."

"It needs to improve the problems with the faster connection, and have a huge reduction in false positives."

"Technical support is not the best. It's hard to get a hold of them if we need help. It's something that definitely needs improvement."

"They should provide more information on the type of cyber attacks."

"Usually, when it comes to reliability, McAfee and Norton are at 99 percent. Webroot's percentage is lower. It is 94% reliable in terms of what it catches, but you're trading that percentage for customer satisfaction because your computer isn't being constantly told that it just blocked something, or it just did something."

"Webroot Business Endpoint Protection needs to focus on how they can widen their area of scope by not just being an antivirus tool anymore. The shortcoming in the customization area of the tool needs improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's about $55 per license on a yearly basis."

"It is "expensive" and flexible."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is quite an expensive solution."

"The solution has one subscription for endpoint protection and one subscription for detection and response. The two licenses combined give you the BRO version."

"The solution is expensive. It's pricing is on a yearly-basis."

"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."

"This is an expensive solution."

"The cost depends on your chosen license type, like Pro or other licenses."

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"We pay 40,000 dirhams per 100 users."

"When it comes to licensing, customers can choose a bundle or select licences based on the specific features they would like access to. This solution comes with premium pricing. It is approximately 20 to 30% more expensive than competing solutions."

"There are three to four licensing models available to choose from for CrowdStrike Falcon. The price of CrowdStrike Falcon depends on the distributor and the reseller partner. The price we received was good."

"The pricing is not bad. It's on the higher end of the market, but you get what you pay for."

"The solution's pricing is great for us."

"All I can say about the licensing cost is that it's negotiable."

"The tool is a little bit expensive compared to other products, but I think it's okay owing to its quality."

"We bought a very small number of licenses, then ran it for a year. We bought a 100 licenses for a year, so we didn't actually do a proof of concept. We just bought them. Then, the next year, we bought 10,000 licenses."

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"It is relatively cheap."

"The solution is pretty cheap, actually. At our level, which is at 2,500 endpoints, we're paying 87 cents an agent per month."

"Work on a price tier plan."

"The solution doesn't cost too much. It's about 30 Euros a year for each endpoint. It's pretty affordable for us and for many other companies."

"Get a trial, then a multi-year license."

"Webroot is less expensive than SentinelOne."

"Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is not too expensive. My licenses cost me between $300 and $400. It is really good price wise."

"From a pricing standpoint, I would rate it a four out of five."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Construction Company

13%

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	46
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	54

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	54
Midsize Enterprise	34
Large Enterprise	63

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	35
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

Questions from the Community

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How is Cortex XDR compared with Microsoft Defender?

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How does Crowdstrike Falcon compare with Darktrace?

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How does Microsoft Defender for Endpoint compare with Crowdstrike Falcon?

The CrowdStrike solution delivers a lot of information about incidents. It has a very light sensor that will never pu...

Is Crowdstrike Falcon better than Trend Micro Deep Security?

I like that Crowdstrike allows me to easily correlate data between my firewalls. What’s most useful for my needs is t...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Webroot Business Endpoint Protection?

Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is probably on the cheaper side, so I would rate their pricing a one or a two ou...

What needs improvement with Webroot Business Endpoint Protection?

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What is your primary use case for Webroot Business Endpoint Protection?

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OpenText Core Endpoint Protection

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon Threat Intelligence, CrowdStrike Identity Protection, CrowdStrike Falcon Surface, CrowdStrike Falcon Platform

Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection

Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

Palo Alto Networks

CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR provides adversary-driven detection and response across endpoints and beyond. It combines AI-powered endpoint detection and response with integrated threat intelligence and expert context to deliver high-quality, context-rich detections that help security teams identify and prioritize sophisticated threats.

Automated leads and Charlotte AI, combined with attack-path visibility, adversary context and MITRE ATT&CK mappings, help analysts investigate incidents faster. Real Time Response and Falcon Fusion SOAR support direct and automated remediation at scale. Extend investigations with critical context from identity, cloud, mobile and data protection, while incorporating third-party data in the same console.

What are the key features of CrowdStrike Falcon?

Adversary-driven detection: Uses AI-powered endpoint detection enriched with threat intelligence and expert insight to uncover evasive activity and deliver context-rich detections.
AI-prioritized investigations: Leverage automated leads for an easy starting point to investigations, helping teams focus on the threats that matter most.
Comprehensive investigation context: Provides attack-path visibility, adversary context and MITRE ATT&CK mappings to help analysts understand the scope and progression of an attack.
Rapid, automated response: Real Time Response provides direct system access for investigation and remediation, while Falcon Fusion SOAR automates response workflows at scale.
Beyond the endpoint: Extend visibility and response with context from identity, cloud, mobile and data-protection capabilities in a unified investigation experience.
Third-party data visibility: Incorporates third-party security data into the same console to support broader investigations and response with 10GB per day of free ingest via Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM.
Lightweight, cloud-native deployment: Unified lightweight sensor and unified cloud-based console
Optional expert services: Organizations can supplement internal teams with 24/7 managed threat hunting and managed detection and response services.

What benefits and reported outcomes can organizations achieve?

Enhanced Security: Comprehensive protection for endpoints using cutting-edge technologies.
Reduced Administrative Burden: Simplifies management of security incidents.
Efficient Threat Remediation: Minimizes downtime with quick threat response actions.
Improved Threat Visibility: Provides detailed reports and insights.
Scalable Protection: Ensures adaptable security measures across multiple devices.

In technology sectors, CrowdStrike Falcon commonly supports endpoint protection and threat response initiatives, allowing companies to replace traditional antivirus systems with more advanced solutions. In finance, it secures sensitive data across multiple platforms, ensuring compliance. In healthcare, real-time security analysis protects patient data on critical devices like servers and laptops, utilizing AI to enhance cybersecurity defenses.

CrowdStrike

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection offers cloud-managed endpoint security with AI integration, providing real-time protection and lightweight performance. It ensures low system impact, seamless cloud integration, and cost-effective security solutions for various devices.

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is a comprehensive endpoint security platform utilized by managed-service providers for antivirus and firewall functionality across servers, workstations, and mobile devices. It employs AI for robust threat detection, integrating with cloud applications for real-time updates. Multi-layered security features include malware protection, network defense, and DNS protection. Although connectivity and threat reporting need improvement, this platform extensively supports remote device management and integrates efficiently with Active Directory policies.

What are the key features of OpenText Core Endpoint Protection?

Cloud Management: Centralized admin console for easy oversight
AI Integration: Enhanced threat detection capabilities
Lightweight Performance: Minimal impact on system resources
Real-time Threat Database: Constant updates for effective protection
Web Control Interface: Monitors and controls web traffic

What benefits are associated with OpenText Core Endpoint Protection?

Ease of Setup and Maintenance: Facilitates quick deployment and upkeep
Seamless Cloud Integration: Simplifies scalability and operation
Cost-Effectiveness: Affordable pricing with comprehensive features
Mobile Security Capabilities: Supports remote device management

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection finds application in industries requiring stringent data protection and peace of mind over device security. Managed-service providers implement this for comprehensive antivirus and firewall features, safeguarding multi-device networks. It is particularly useful for DNS protection and integrating with Active Directory policies, enabling secure yet flexible operations across sectors.

OpenText

Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

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