We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon and Kaspersky Total Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"It notifies us if there's any suspicious file on any PC. If any execution or similar kind of thing is happening, it just alerts us. It doesn't only alert. It also blocks the execution until we allow it. We check whether the execution is legitimate or not, and then approve it or keep it blocked. This gives us a little bit of control over this mechanism. Fortinet FortiEDR is also very straightforward and easy to maintain."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"This is stable and scalable."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"I like FortiClient EMS. FortiEDR has a lot of great features like lockdown mode, remote wipes, and encryption. I can set malware outbreak policies and controls for detecting abnormalities. You can also simulate phishing attacks."
"It has an extremely low footprint, so it has got minimum impact on the user end points in terms of CPU and memory usage."
"The solution offers great stability."
"Scalability is good. We have had no issues with it."
"The scalability is good."
"It helps us to identify the threats according to the behavior of any process that is running on any particular system. It helps immensely to identify any malicious behavior on any endpoints."
"The EDR and XDR features have been most valuable."
"It's ability to do threat hunting is really great, quite robust, and even allows you to do hygiene stuff."
"This solution consistently releases improvements. They have communicated their next two years of development which is powerful and covers all of our needs."
"The solution is efficient."
"I installed Kaspersky for protection if there is a virus on my computer"
"There has been a return on investment for our small and medium business users."
"The solution has a lot of features like IDS and IPS detection system, antispam, and firewall."
"It automatically identifies potential threats in emails, websites, and documents, swiftly blocking or quarantining anything harmful to prevent any damage or infection to my system."
"Kaspersky Total Security has valuable reporting features regarding visibility for trusted sites and safe browsing."
"The software is easy to install."
"Kaspersky Total Security is a light agent."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"We've had a lot of false positives; things incorrectly flagged that require manual configuration to allow. Even worse, after we allow a legitimate program, it sometimes gets flagged again after an update. This has caused a lot of extra work for my team."
"The only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs."
"I think cloud security and SASE are areas of concern in the product where improvements are required. The tool's cloud version has to be improved in terms of the security it offers."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"The support for different OS versions needs improvement because sometimes due to business conditions, updating our OS is impossible."
"The pricing is a bit too high."
"Forensic controls have room for improvement."
"I've found that CrowdStrike's technical support could benefit from increased technical expertise."
"They should provide us with good visibility for everything."
"The Integration with tools, SOC tools, could be better."
"The GUI can use improvement, it's cloud-based so sometimes the interface can be a bit slow. The interface could use a little bit more speed."
"CrowdStrike Falcon could improve the EDR functionality. Once the functionality of the solution improves, it will be even better in the market and able to compete with Carbon Black."
"The solution’s stability could be improved"
"Kaspersky Total Security’s stability and performance need improvement."
"Anti-malware and anti-phishing policies in the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"When you get the license number, there isn't a clear section in the program's interface that leads you to renew your license. You have to look and search a lot about it."
"Enhancing the encryption code, particularly in relation to ransomware would be a great addition for future use."
"The stability could be improved."
"The authorization process could be faster."
"The tool could be cheaper."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 107 reviews while Kaspersky Total Security is ranked 29th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 20 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while Kaspersky Total Security is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CrowdStrike Falcon writes "Easy to set up with good behavior-based analysis but needs a single-click recovery option". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kaspersky Total Security writes "Highly-efficient solution for process optimization ". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, whereas Kaspersky Total Security is most compared with HP Wolf Security, Norton Small Business and Bitdefender Total Security. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. Kaspersky Total Security report.
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