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CrowdStrike Falcon vs NetWitness Endpoint comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
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Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
122
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (4th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (3rd), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (1st)
CrowdStrike Falcon
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
204
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (3rd)
NetWitness Endpoint
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
48th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.8%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CrowdStrike Falcon is 6.8%, down from 10.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetWitness Endpoint is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
CrowdStrike Falcon6.8%
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks3.8%
NetWitness Endpoint0.2%
Other89.2%
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
 

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.
LA
Computer Security Consultant at SECURE SOFT
Machine learning capabilities enhance risk management for financial industry deployments
At my company, we usually use NetWitness Endpoint for our customers with a primary focus on the financial industry, where eighty to ninety percent of our deployments occur NetWitness Endpoint offers the capability of machine learning or artificial intelligence. It provides a risk score for each…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Being a cloud solution it is very flexible in serving internal and external connections and a broad range of devices."
"The tool's use cases are relevant to security."
"The scalability of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is very good."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks saves time in various ways, although the user interface is fairly standard."
"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."
"The solution allows control over the user and his machine through Cortex XDR security policies."
"The policy configuration is great, the granularity of policies that are available is very helpful, it is straightforward to set up, and it has pretty much everything we need and works well within the Palo Alto ecosystem."
"It blocks malicious files, prevents attacks, and doesn't require many updates because it is a very light application."
"We've had security incidents that occurred and within a matter of just a couple of minutes, they were completely remediated and fixed and we didn't even have to think about it."
"Using CrowdStrike Falcon has changed the way my security team detects, investigates, and responds to threats."
"The best benefit of CrowdStrike Falcon is 99% MITRE coverage."
"I like the Overwatch feature the most."
"We like Falcon's network visibility. We can see how threats are evolving on PCS or in the company network. The solution's real-time incident response is very fast."
"The added value I see in having endpoint, identity, cloud, and other security telemetry converge on the same CrowdStrike Falcon platform is that it is very useful to consolidate this data."
"We receive good ROI when using this solution."
"Its integration capability is valuable. It integrates easily with any OS."
"NetWitness Endpoint offers the capability of machine learning or artificial intelligence."
 

Cons

"If he is using a smaller company, he can depend on some other tools because Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a bit expensive."
"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."
"The price could be a little lower."
"Product might have some bugs."
"I would rate it an 8 rather than a 10 mainly because there is still room to improve the user experience around complex investigations, including alert tuning and third-party integration."
"The only issues that we have are, one the cost, two the dashboard is not very intuitive, even though you can drill down within the dashboard, we usually have to gather information from other sources to determine locations and if its a false positive."
"The product's pricing needs improvement. They could provide more discounts. Additionally, the dashboard and control panel could be enhanced."
"Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR does not detect malicious activity like in other anti-virus solutions like Trend Micro and Windows with Cisco."
"Crowdstrike Falcon XDR can improve the integration. There are some locks on the cloud to on-premise integrations."
"I would like a centralized deployment where I could roll out or push it to all endpoints."
"The malware analysis could be improved, as that's what we use the solution for the most and that change would make it a better EDR tool."
"I would like CrowdStrike to provide some correlation in the threat analysis, so we can visualize things better."
"A big improvement is needed around dashboards, specifically to have an executive dashboard as the current one is very technical but lacking at the executive level."
"The management reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"I have made several attempts to use artificial intelligence within CrowdStrike Falcon, specifically Charlotte, but since it has not given me good results, I have not continued using it."
"I rate CrowdStrike Falcon an eight because its telemetry is quite powerful on Windows, but on Linux and macOS, the telemetry and capabilities are still considerably lower."
"NetWitness Endpoint lacks automatic response capabilities. While it can be used for response, the process is manual, requiring the user to manually respond to alerts, which is not ideal."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is quite an expensive solution."
"The price is on the higher side, but it's okay."
"It's the most expensive solution, but features-wise, it's quite strong. It's very good for protection, so the results are very good in the case of protection. I would rate it a two out of ten in terms of pricing."
"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."
"It has reasonable pricing for the use cases it provides to the company."
"It has a yearly renewal."
"Very costly product."
"I don't recall what the cost was, but it wasn't really that expensive."
"I am not aware of the price, but I believe that it is among the most expensive XDRs out there. Of course, this is dependent on the features you choose. Depending on the features, the price might increase."
"Purchasing the product through the AWS Marketplace is just a click away. Since we were using the on-premise version of the product, we continued on the cloud by purchasing it through the AWS Marketplace."
"It is an expensive product, but I think it is well worth the investment."
"This solution has a very competitive price."
"CrowdStrike Falcon is one of the more expensive endpoint solutions on the market."
"The price of CrowdStrike Falcon is expensive and should be reduced."
"The pricing could be reduced. If it was more reasonable that would be great."
"All I can say about the licensing cost is that it's negotiable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
14%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business50
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise57
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business62
Midsize Enterprise53
Large Enterprise104
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Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetWitness Endpoint?
NetWitness Endpoint is neither expensive nor cheap. It is priced intermediately compared to other solutions.
What needs improvement with NetWitness Endpoint?
NetWitness Endpoint lacks automatic response capabilities. While it can be used for response, the process is manual, ...
What is your primary use case for NetWitness Endpoint?
At my company, we usually use NetWitness Endpoint ( /products/netwitness-endpoint-41546-reviews ) for our customers w...
 

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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