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CrowdStrike Falcon vs Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform comparison

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

Categories and Ranking

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
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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), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (3rd), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (1st)
CrowdStrike Falcon
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
173
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (1st), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (1st)
Gurucul Security Analytics ...
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
2.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
CrowdStrike Falcon5.6%
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint6.5%
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint4.5%
Other83.4%
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform0.8%
Microsoft Defender for Identity9.5%
Varonis Platform6.0%
Other83.7%
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)
 

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.
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.
PJ
Network Security Engineer at Well Health
Advanced analytics have strengthened our threat detection and improved incident response
The best feature Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform offers is its analytics. When I heard about this feature, it was quite new to us for a SIEM as a feature. Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform gave the first kind of impression from this platform, and I was impressed with this feature; it is doing a great job. Overall, this feature has covered most scenarios for now, including any kind of data exfiltration, lateral movement, or insider threat detection, so it covers almost all areas. I can say they are doing a great job regarding most of the security posture issues for any kind of organization. Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform has positively impacted our organization and client by allowing us to notice compromised accounts most of the time. Some users, not from a technical background, often make mistakes that lead to their end devices being compromised, and they are usually unaware. We can detect these compromised accounts from our SIEM tool, which is a great opportunity for our company and client to improve their security posture. Of course, we have seen measurable results, such as a reduction in incidents and faster response times. If any incident happens, such as a user compromising their account while being unaware, we take that as an example and educate all staff of the client to avoid such activities, such as clicking a malicious URL or visiting a malicious site. Through that, we could improve their security posture and knowledge about security.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Stability is one of the features we like the most."
"One of the things that I enjoy the most is using policy extensions. It's like having host firewalls to control USB connections. I think it's a wonderful tool to restrict use when connecting to our computers. Another important tool is Home Insights. That is an add-on to the Cortex solution. I like that because we can see all the vulnerabilities in the environment and control what assets are connected to our network."
"Traps is quite a stable product. Once it was properly deployed and configured, you have nothing to be worried about."
"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."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is easy to use and does not consume a lot of hardware resources."
"The dashboard is customizable."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The scalability of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is very good."
"CrowdStrike Falcon helps with endpoint protection by having very low memory utilization and processor usage, so it doesn't impact the computer system performance, and the computer system works very fast compared to all other endpoint protection solutions."
"We are now able to find the root cause analysis on any threat. We can figure out where the issue came in versus just dealing with where it is at the moment."
"The threat intelligence is the most valuable feature."
"During the PoC, we figured out that this product is far better, and it met our requirements."
"The features I like the most are the response time and the dashboard are both excellent."
"The endpoint and server management are the most valuable features of CrowdStrike Falcon."
"My advice to others looking into using CrowdStrike Falcon is to not look at anything else and to use it instead."
"Cyberattack detection is very good, we use it for detecting different vulnerabilities, such as ransomware, virus, and malware, and it is a good product today when compared to Symantec that we used previously."
"Of course, we have seen measurable results, such as a reduction in incidents and faster response times."
 

Cons

"The dashboard is the area that needs to improve so that we can have the ability to drill down without having to go elsewhere to verify results."
"There is also no recovery feature; if some endpoint is under attack there must be the possibility of recovering it or restoring it to a normal state."
"Additionally, I think the price is very high, and if it can be adjusted, I believe it will be a very good solution."
"I would like to see some additional features related to email protection included."
"The product's pricing could be better."
"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 tends to do 99.9% of things. The only thing I'd like is single sign-on authentication into their cloud platform so that my users can be properly authenticated against it."
"Whenever the tool releases a new version when deploying the product across the organization, I feel like there are some disturbances in the CPU usage after upgrading the tool to the latest version."
"CrowdStrike Falcon can be improved because there are a lot of duplicated endpoints and CrowdStrike does not know how to identify that smartly."
"The current version of Falcon does not support DLP which may be good to have in an EDR solution."
"The ability to receive text alerts natively in the console would be kind of cool."
"I would like to see a little bit more in the offline scanning ability."
"As for stability, I would rate it around eight because last year they faced some downtime with around eight thousand computers, but it will improve."
"The KDR solution is immature. They do not have much preemption in ITDR. Threat prevention should be their first priority, and false positive reductions are needed."
"For further improvements, I can only think of one example because this is very important for us; they could reduce the price. Then it would deserve a rating of seven."
"It can be expensive depending on the features you select."
"I feel the dashboard of Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform is not always user-friendly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its pricing is kind of in line with its competitors and everybody else out there."
"The pricing is a little bit on the expensive side."
"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."
"The pricing is a little high. It is per user per year."
"We didn't have to pay any additional fee for the cloud instance. It just came with the renewal, which was nice."
"The price was fine."
"The pricing is okay, although direct support can be expensive."
"The solution is expensive. It's pricing is on a yearly-basis."
"The product is expensive."
"There is an annual license required to use this solution."
"CrowdStrike is a reasonably priced tool."
"The pricing and licensing are fairly good. It is definitely not a cheap product, but I have felt that it is worth the money that we spent. So, we have discussed it in the past, and were like, "Yes, it is probably pricier than some other solutions, but we also feel they really are the leader. We are very comfortable with their level of expertise. So, it's kind of worth the price that we pay.""
"CrowdStrike Falcon offers excellent value for the money for our organization, particularly given our lean IT team."
"The price is too high."
"We have a yearly subscription and find the price to be good. I'd give it a rating of four out of five for price, we got a good discount."
"All I can say about the licensing cost is that it's negotiable."
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Top Industries

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

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Small Business
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Small Business47
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise55
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Small Business58
Midsize Enterprise46
Large Enterprise83
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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
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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank
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