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CrowdStrike Falcon vs Insights Hub comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
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Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
110
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (4th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (6th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (5th), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (1st)
CrowdStrike Falcon
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
140
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (5th), Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (1st), Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) (1st), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (1st), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (1st), Attack Surface Management (ASM) (1st), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (1st), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (2nd)
Insights Hub
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
AWS Marketplace (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
CrowdStrike Falcon9.4%
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint5.9%
Wazuh5.4%
Other79.3%
Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Insights Hub0.2%
47Lining Enterprise PaaS- Adoption Catalyst0.4%
Alt/Finance - Crystal & Rhinestone Bag Index (CRI)0.4%
Other99.0%
AWS Marketplace
 

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.
Chetan Bhati - PeerSpot reviewer
Human Toxicology Engineer at Arrow PC Network Pvt Ltd
Cloud-native security has improved real-time threat detection and streamlined daily operations
While CrowdStrike Falcon is strong overall, there are a few areas where it could be improved. First, the user interface can be a bit complex for new users. Sometimes, navigating through different sections and understanding detailed alerts takes time, especially for teams without deep security expertise. The cost is also something to consider, as the features and additional modules can increase pricing, which may be a challenge for smaller teams. Additionally, some integrations with simpler reporting would be helpful. The onboarding process for new users is a bit challenging for beginners to understand all features and workflows in the product. More simplified documentation, step-by-step guides, and real-world examples could help new users get comfortable faster. A structured onboarding or basic training module would be very useful for teams who are new to endpoint security tools. In addition, having more in-product guidance and tooltips within the dashboard could make navigation easier and reduce the learning curve. Overall, improving training resources and onboarding support would make the platform more user-friendly, especially for new users.
reviewer2787357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineer 2 at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Centralized insights have transformed troubleshooting and now cut incident resolution time dramatically
Regarding improvements to Insights Hub, I have identified several areas. The first improvement would be smarter AI with clear root cause suggestions. Currently, AI detects anomalies but often only says "unusual increase in failures detected" without clearly stating what changed, which deployment caused it, or what likely component is responsible. Improvements could include automatic correlation with recent deployments, suggested probable root causes such as code changes, infrastructure scale events, or database latency, and a confidence score. This would reduce investigation time even more. The second improvement would be better noise reduction in alerts. Sometimes anomaly detection generates too many notifications and minor fluctuations are treated as incidents. Improvements could include smarter alert grouping, better baseline tuning, and business impact aware alerting, where alerts are not triggered if latency increased but there is no user impact. The third improvement is stronger cross-cloud and hybrid visibility. Many organizations use Azure, AWS, and on-premises infrastructure. Insights Hub could improve multi-cloud correlations and unified dashboards across environments. Currently, cross-platform visibility often requires custom integrations.

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 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."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"Stability is one of the features we like the most."
"The stability of the solution is very good, we have about 100 users on it right now, and we use it twice a week."
"I can highlight that we have not faced any security incidents with Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, and even though our environment is quite dynamic, we have not faced any security incident with Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks until now."
"I don't have to do much monitoring with it; I don't have to have anybody manually looking at this, it gives us reports, and it lets us know if something needs to be addressed, and we can easily address it."
"The scalability of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is very good."
"Technical support is the best in class, in my opinion, because they have invested heavily in research and development."
"CrowdStrike provides a lot of visibility in their tool."
"The solution can scale easily."
"It's given me a level of confidence that my network is secure — the fact that it's not finding anything; however, I am not experiencing the issues that competitors are saying I should be experiencing."
"The pay-as-you-go model enabled me to deploy quickly from the AWS Marketplace management account, scaled protection for workloads without upfront commitments, and reduced the initial operational overhead."
"The key aspect of CrowdStrike Falcon is its behavioral detection approach."
"The Insight feature is one we found the most useful."
"CrowdStrike Falcon offers a comprehensive dashboard that is highly effective in protecting against and blocking external infiltration attempts."
"The detection is very reliable, and OverWatch is a great feature."
"Insights Hub has provided significant positive impact to my organization, including 30 to 50 percent faster incident resolution, fewer SEV one outages, reduced alert fatigue by 20 to 30 percent, better SLA compliance, and increased customer satisfaction."
 

Cons

"We would also like to have advanced tech protection and email scanning."
"For working with the solution, you only really need a web browser, however, we've found that working on Chrome, for example, is horrible."
"The tool needs to be improved in terms of integration and interface."
"Currently, if you use Palo Alto endpoint protection as the only solution it's very complicated to remove pre-existing threats."
"Currently, we are monitoring all USB drives and ports but we would like to improve our device control capabilities."
"They are charging for Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA) services, so if the per GB data could be provided at a certain level free of cost or at the same cost which the customer is taking for the entire bundle, that would be better."
"The configuration could be simplified. I would like to see better protection, specifically to protect email applications."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a strong tool, but it is true that digesting information sometimes makes the tool go a little bit slower."
"CrowdStrike should add support for ransomware protection."
"The overall cost of CrowdStrike Falcon could be reduced."
"The support for different OS versions needs improvement because sometimes due to business conditions, updating our OS is impossible."
"I would also like to see the endpoint firewall component produce some level of logging and feedback."
"Enhancements in reporting and forensic analysis could benefit the product."
"Whenever there is a feature release (upgrade) where we push to all the endpoints, it causes something to be blocked without us knowing."
"Regarding improvements in reports, when I try to pull a custom report, there are some mismatches, or it does not look professional."
"Setting up and installing CrowdStrike Falcon is not easy, so an area for improvement is for that process to be simplified."
"The learning curve is steep as it requires skill to fully utilize and is not very beginner-friendly, and querying can be complex."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an expensive solution."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The tool's price is moderate."
"The pricing is a little bit on the expensive side."
"I don't like that they have different types of licenses."
"When we first bought it, it was a bit expensive, but it was worth it. The licensing was straightforward."
"If one wishes to work with another team or large number of users at a future point, he must purchase a license for them."
"The price of the product is not very economical."
"It has an annual license, and it is not that expensive."
"When comparing to Microsoft, CrowdStrike Falcon is more expensive."
"Different components are additional price points. We got the components that were right for us, but other organizations may require more (or less) components to suit their needs."
"The pricing is not bad. It's on the higher end of the market, but you get what you pay for."
"I would like them to further reduce the price, because it is quite pricey at the moment."
"The price of CrowdStrike Falcon is expensive."
"There is no license required to use this solution."
"The price of CrowdStrike Falcon is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
Insurance Company
73%
Construction Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
4%
Retailer
2%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business45
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise48
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business56
Midsize Enterprise33
Large Enterprise63
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Questions from the Community

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Is Crowdstrike Falcon better than Trend Micro Deep Security?
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What needs improvement with Insights Hub?
Regarding improvements to Insights Hub, I have identified several areas. The first improvement would be smarter AI wi...
What is your primary use case for Insights Hub?
Insights Hub serves as a centralized monitoring and data-driven decision-making platform. It acts as a single place w...
What advice do you have for others considering Insights Hub?
I am giving Insights Hub a rating of eight out of ten. The reason I have given eight is because of all the features i...
 

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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