CrowdStrike Falcon vs Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal comparison

The compared CrowdStrike and Kaspersky solutions aren't in the same category. CrowdStrike is ranked #3 in EPP , with an average rating of 8.4, and holds a 5.8% mindshare in the category. Kaspersky is ranked #31 in TIPT , and holds a 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of CrowdStrike users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 50% of Kaspersky users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 11, 2026

CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR and Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal are competitive solutions in the cybersecurity landscape. CrowdStrike stands out with its intuitive setup and comprehensive endpoint protection, while Kaspersky is preferred for its threat analysis features.

Features: CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR offers real-time threat detection, automated response, and integration capabilities. Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal provides comprehensive threat data analysis, malware information, and accurate threat landscape insights. CrowdStrike focuses on endpoint security, whereas Kaspersky is known for its in-depth threat intelligence.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR is recognized for its quick deployment process and responsive support, making integration into existing environments simpler. Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal provides structured deployment options, emphasizing detailed documentation and expert guidance.

Pricing and ROI: CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR typically requires a higher initial investment justified by its robust features and endpoint protection, offering substantial ROI. Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal has competitive pricing with a strong focus on threat intelligence, appealing to organizations looking for threat landscape insights. CrowdStrike may incur higher costs, but its comprehensive security measures can lead to long-term savings.

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Mindshare comparison

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
CrowdStrike Falcon	5.8%
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint	6.7%
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint	4.6%
Other	82.9%

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Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal	1.5%
Recorded Future	6.4%
CrowdStrike Falcon	4.4%
Other	87.7%

Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP)

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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Abdelrahman Hussein

CTI & Threat Hunter at Telecom Egypt

Provides useful real-time threat intelligence features but has limited capabilities

We use the product to search for IoCs. It is a good tool, but we do not use all its capabilities. We have only done a POC of the product. The real-time threat intelligence features are useful. The tool has good capabilities. It has a database of IoCs The solution is limited. I have been using…

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The anti-exploit is impenetrable."

"The protection offered by this product is good, as is the endpoint reporting."

"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."

"One of the main benefits of the solution is its intelligence to correlate the events into an incident."

"The stability is pretty good except for one or two cases, and based on the performance, it's been okay with pretty high performance, no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze."

"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."

"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to rapidly detect certain hardware files."

"The stability of this product is very good."

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"CrowdStrike Falcon has been very low maintenance."

"The solution offers great stability."

"Its integration capability is valuable. It integrates easily with any OS."

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

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

"The ability to remote into other devices for investigation and the way it presents a graphical representation of the detection, like the parent-child process, are valuable features."

"There are two things which customers really like about CrowdStrike. If they buy managed services from CrowdStrike, it offers them detection of security issues in one minute. If you buy their professional services, they offer insurance where you can claim up to $5 million if there's a breach. This is a huge upsell for customers."

"So far, in the past three years, they've been absolutely great."

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"The real-time threat intelligence features are useful."

"The solution improved our overall security posture."

Cons

"The product's pricing needs improvement. They could provide more discounts. Additionally, the dashboard and control panel could be enhanced."

"On the pricing aspect, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks needs to have a more reasonable rate, particularly for customers in Sri Lanka and Asian countries."

"There are some limitations on the Traps agents."

"It automatically detects security issues. It should be able to protect our network devices while operating autonomously."

"There are some false positives."

"Based on our experience so far, its implementation is quite complex."

"The configuration could be simplified. I would like to see better protection, specifically to protect email applications."

"There are some false positives. What our guys would have liked is that it would have been easier to manipulate as soon as they found a false positive that they knew was a false positive. How to do so was not obvious. Some people complained about it. The interface, the ESM, is not user-friendly."

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"Dashboard creation is one of the areas for improvement in CrowdStrike Falcon. Sometimes, management asks for a custom dashboard, so my team has to collect data from CrowdStrike Falcon, integrate that in Splunk, then create the dashboard in Splunk. The Splunk dashboard is more elaborate, so the CrowdStrike Falcon dashboard needs improvement. Another area for improvement in the tool is the malware detection report, as it needs to be more detailed and include some graphics so that if you want to present that data in a nutshell, it's easier to do. For example, the report should consist of some graphical representation that shows a month's worth of data. In terms of an additional feature I'd like CrowdStrike Falcon to have, it's the device posture assessment feature that detects the device posture within the network. Whichever device connects to the corporate network, my company should be able to analyze the device posture. Then there should be communication with the network, which means that as soon as a device connects, CrowdStrike Falcon can assess the device posture, detect its corporate asset, and decide whether it should be allowed on the network."

"I would like to see a little bit more in the offline scanning ability. This just comes from my background in what I have done in other positions. They only scan on demand, so I always have this fear that we sometimes maybe email out a dormant virus and can be held liable for that. That is something where I would like to see a little bit more robustness to the tool."

"It would be nice if the dashboard had some more information upfront, and looked a little better."

"An improvement would be to extend support to legacy and unsupported servers."

"CrowdStrike Falcon could improve if it became an XDR. When we look only to an end-point, we lost the context of the environment. I know it's another line of design of the product. However, if CrowdStrike becomes an XDR, it could be very good."

"Sometimes CrowdStrike changes the GUI, and they need to be better at informing us and providing guidance concerning that."

"It would be nice if they did have some sort of Active Directory tie-in, whether that be Azure or on-prem."

"We sometimes get false positives."

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"More insights would be helpful. We have multiple solutions for threat intelligence. If someone has a bigger view or full eye on all the incidents, it will be beneficial."

"The solution is limited."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"It is cost-effective compared to similar solutions. It fits for the small businesses through to the big businesses."

"The tool's price is moderate."

"When we first bought it, it was a bit expensive, but it was worth it. The licensing was straightforward."

"Licensing for Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR can be costly, especially when it comes to a hundred users. A license is required for each user, and the subscription must be renewed on a yearly basis."

"We pay about $50,000 USD per year for a bundle that includes Cortex XDR."

"I don't have any issues with the pricing. We are satisfied with the price."

"The pricing is a little bit on the expensive side."

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"It is an expensive product, but I think it is well worth the investment."

"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."

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

"Crowdstrike Falcon is relatively cheap."

"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.""

"The cost is usually a challenge in the industry. I think we pay around sixty-eight dollars."

"The pricing and licensing are reasonable. I don't think we are getting charged more than what it is worth. It is fair, but I do not like how it is a la carte. I realize they do that so other organizations can buy and get the agent, getting it cheaper than you could otherwise. However, if you want the main core package, which has all the main features with the exception of maybe the multi-cloud protections, that can get pricier for an organization. So, you have to pick and choose what you want. I do not care for a la carte pricing."

"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."

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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

15%

Healthcare Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

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Small Business	47
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	54

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Midsize Enterprise	34
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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

Kaspersky Threat Intelligence

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 delivers AI-powered endpoint protection, detection, and response to help organizations stop malware, ransomware, fileless attacks, and sophisticated adversaries. Built on the cloud-native Falcon platform and a single lightweight sensor, it combines prevention, EDR, threat intelligence, and automated response to protect endpoints while simplifying security operations.

What features make CrowdStrike Falcon stand out?

AI-Powered Prevention: Uses next-generation antivirus, machine learning, behavioral analysis, and exploit blocking to protect against known and unknown threats.
Endpoint Detection and Response: Provides continuous endpoint visibility and contextual detection to accelerate threat investigation and response.
Adversary Intelligence: Enriches endpoint telemetry and detections with CrowdStrike threat intelligence to help teams understand and prioritize threats.
Automated Response: Enables endpoint isolation, remediation, and automated workflows to contain and eliminate threats quickly.

What benefits can users expect?

Stronger Endpoint Protection: Helps stop malware, ransomware, and sophisticated attacks before they lead to breaches.
Faster Investigation and Response: Combines detection, context, and automation to help security teams respond more efficiently.
Reduced Complexity: Consolidates endpoint security capabilities through a unified platform, console, and lightweight sensor.
Scalable Security: Cloud-native architecture helps organizations deploy and manage protection across endpoint environments without legacy on-premises infrastructure.

Across industries, CrowdStrike Falcon helps organizations modernize endpoint security, improve security team efficiency, and stop sophisticated threats with AI-powered protection and adversary intelligence.

CrowdStrike

Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal offers in-depth cyber threat data, enhancing security measures for enterprises through analysis and intelligence-based insights.

As a powerful tool, Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal aggregates global threat data, helping organizations stay ahead of cyber threats. It provides comprehensive analyses to improve detection and response strategies, empowering teams with actionable threat intelligence and reducing risk exposure.

What are the important features of this tool?

Real-Time Threat Intelligence: Delivers up-to-date data on global threats.
Advanced Malware Analysis: Provides detailed reports on capabilities and behaviors of potential threats.
Automatic Indicators of Compromise: Helps to quickly identify and mitigate threats.
Custom Threat Data Feeds: Tailors feeds for specific organizational needs.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Enhanced Security Posture: Improves defenses against cyber risks.
Faster Incident Response: Reduces time to detect and respond to threats.
Comprehensive Threat Visibility: Offers a full view of the threat landscape.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces costs associated with threat management and mitigation.

Industries such as finance, healthcare, and energy utilize Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal for its ability to adapt to specific sector demands, delivering tailored threat intelligence that aligns with industry-specific challenges. This adaptability ensures relevant data empowers strategic security decisions.

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CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

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Telefonica, VimpelCom, Monclick, Ezenta

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