CrowdStrike Falcon vs NetWitness Platform comparison

CrowdStrike and NetWitness are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. CrowdStrike is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.6, while NetWitness is ranked #30 with an average rating of 8.3. CrowdStrike holds a 3.6% mindshare in SIEM, compared to NetWitness’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of CrowdStrike users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of NetWitness users who would recommend it.

CrowdStrike Falcon

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75% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2025

NetWitness Platform and CrowdStrike Falcon are two prominent cybersecurity products that compete in the domain of threat detection and mitigation. CrowdStrike Falcon has the advantage in endpoint protection due to its superior threat detection and AI-driven insights.

Features: NetWitness Platform offers full packet capture capabilities, an advanced correlation engine for real-time analysis, and comprehensive incident management tools. CrowdStrike Falcon excels with its AI-driven endpoint protection, real-time threat detection, and robust threat intelligence integration.

Room for Improvement: NetWitness Platform could benefit from a more streamlined deployment process and improved customer support. Enhancing the user interface to facilitate easier navigation is another area for development. CrowdStrike Falcon could improve by expanding its identity protection features and offering more detailed reporting capabilities. Additionally, further integration options with third-party security tools would be beneficial.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: CrowdStrike Falcon is praised for its easy cloud-based deployment with minimal infrastructure needs and excellent customer support. In contrast, NetWitness Platform has a complex deployment process that may hinder swift implementation.

Pricing and ROI: NetWitness Platform typically has higher initial setup costs due to extensive network infrastructure requirements, leading to a longer ROI period. In contrast, CrowdStrike Falcon offers a cost-effective solution with lower upfront costs and faster ROI, owing to its cloud-native approach and streamlined maintenance.

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Categories and Ranking

CrowdStrike Falcon

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

6th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

136

Ranking in other categories

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 (1st)

NetWitness Platform

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

30th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (34th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of CrowdStrike Falcon is 3.6%, down from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetWitness Platform is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
CrowdStrike Falcon	3.6%
NetWitness Platform	0.7%
Other	95.7%

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

Waleed Omar

Information Security Specialist at Arab Open University

Provides effective real-time threat detection with potential for cost optimization

Some features such as device control, firewall management, and file analysis are standalone products that we need to purchase separately. If these features came out of the box within the product, it would be much more beneficial for us. Other providers such as SentinelOne include these features in their base product. We attended a CrowdStrike Falcon event where they discussed some shallow AI features, but we cannot see these in our panel yet. We work with different solutions such as Darktrace and SocRadar, where AI features are automatically displayed in our dashboards after release. However, for CrowdStrike Falcon, we cannot see these features.

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MOTASHIM Al Razi

CISO at One Bank Limited

It is a stable solution, but they should make the user interface easier to understand

The solution's initial setup takes work. We have to organize multiple paths and many features. The deployment process takes less than a week. But it takes a month to complete if we want to make the solution smarter by integrating it with various devices. I rate the process as a six out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I like the feature called RTC, the remote time connector."

"CrowdStrike Falcon is effortless to use, and it's a cloud-specific platform. You only need to deploy the light agents on the licensed endpoints, and you're ready to work. Your dashboards will tell you the number of the endpoints being protected and the incidents. There are also incident dashboards with alerts that will tell you about the details."

"EDR is effective in CrowdStrike."

"The ability to execute real-time response, or, that you can connect to the agent and see exactly what processes are operating, is the most important feature of this solution."

"The automatic alert feature is the most important feature of the solution."

"It's very easy to set up."

"I like the vulnerability assessment and proactive hunting features of CrowdStrike Falcon."

"This solution has made the lives of the IT staff much easier, compared to the previous one."

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"I can have enterprise security, email security, next generation firewall security log, HIDS and NIDS logs, etc. all on the same dashboard. It makes it easy to pinpoint or correlate our server to this. I can find out if there is lateral movement. This is the biggest advantage of this solution."

"NetWitness Platform offers flexibility for deployment and robust integration capabilities."

"The product has a user-friendly interface and a valuable feature for threat intelligence integration."

"The most valuable features are its ingestion of logs and raising of alerts based on those logs."

"It gives the capability for the incident response team to correlate logs to identify any kind of problem like malware and incidents in a general sense, both for logs and packets."

"Performance and reporting are very good."

"Possibility to investigate incidents based on logs and raw packets, such as extracting files sent over the network"

"Alerting Module: It provides real-time event processing language on all the logs/packets stream for advanced alerting, i.e., using SQL LIKE statements."

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Cons

"We would like to be able to perform on-demand scanning, rather than relying on the scheduler."

"They need to strengthen the forensic capabilities of this product, for e-discovery."

"The management of log aggregation is in need of improvement."

"The Integration with tools, SOC tools, could be better."

"I think there's an opportunity to enhance the AI or at least the traps to say, if something changes from this baseline, let us know and flag it."

"This solution could be improved with greater scope for admins to make changes to the solution."

"I want more ability to customize how you summarize the data. The default views are fine, but it would be interesting to be able to customize them based on the kind of data you want to see immediately. This can help the administrator gain an immediate overview and reduce the investigation time."

"A year and a half ago or more, if you put in a support request by email, then it wasn't timely addressed. It could be a day to three days before you received a response, which was a bit frustrating. There was a lot of customer feedback around this issue, which has been greatly refined."

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"Lots of competing products have vulnerability protection built into their products, and this solution would be improved by including that support."

"An area for improvement would be better automation and more inbuilt use cases."

"The log system is a bit complex and has room for improvement."

"The implementation needs assistance."

"It is not so easy to customize this product."

"RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets can improve the threat level aspect, it is lacking compared to other solutions. Whenever any hacking activity or any other threat factor occurred they used to provide the coverages very fast when comparing RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets. I heard the other three solutions, from a discussion with my team members who had experience in other solutions, they used to say that. Whenever any issues happened across the globe RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets are a little bit slow improving those detection mechanisms."

"Its technical support could be better."

"Security needs improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of CrowdStrike Falcon is expensive."

"The product is expensive."

"Years ago, when we bought CrowdStrike, you got everything it had. I was a little concerned when they broke this out into a la carte modules where you can buy EDR, Spotlight, etc., picking and choosing off the menu. I was a little worried that the solution would get watered down. However, I realized in my previous organization when we had the full suite that there were a bunch of features in it that we didn't have time to operationalize. So, I warmed up to it. I get the whole, "Look, you can pick and choose. Okay, everybody buys a steak, but do you want mashed potatoes, or do you want lobster mac and cheese?" So, you can pick the sides that you want, so you can buy the solution that you want and operationalize versus paying a lot of money and getting a bunch of things, but not using 60 percent of the tools in the box."

"The licensing model is straightforward. We choose the features we want and we then can download the package we want."

"CrowdStrike Falcon offers excellent value for the money for our organization, particularly given our lean IT team."

"CrowdStrike is a reasonably priced tool."

"The price of CrowdStrike Falcon is expensive and should be reduced."

"I do not have experience with the cost or licensing of the product."

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"It provides tools to assist in selecting the appropriate license and usage scenarios."

"The new pricing and licensing mechanisms are fair. I would advise always to get the full solution (i.e., not only Logs)."

"Many clients are not able to purchase the packet capability because there is a huge amount of data, and the cost depends on the number of EPS (Events per second), as well as the number of gigabytes of data per day."

"The product price was reasonable for my region and the market."

"This is a pricey solution; it's not cheap."

"It is cheap."

"Compared to the competition, the is price is not that high."

"It’s cheaper to run virtual machines in a VMware environment."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Performing Arts

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	46
Midsize Enterprise	34
Large Enterprise	62

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	20

Questions from the Community

Comparing CrowdStrike Falcon to Cortex XDR (Palo Alto)

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto vs. CrowdStrike Falcon Both Cortex XDR and Crowd Strike Falcon offer cloud-based solutions that are very scalable, secure, and user-friendly. Cortex XDR by Palo Alto offers ...

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How does Crowdstrike Falcon compare with Darktrace?

Both of these products perform similarly and have many outstanding attributes. CrowdStrike Falcon offers an amazing user interface that makes setup easy and seamless. CrowdStrike Falcon offers a cl...

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How does Microsoft Defender for Endpoint compare with Crowdstrike Falcon?

The CrowdStrike solution delivers a lot of information about incidents. It has a very light sensor that will never push your machine hardware to "test", you don't have the usual "scan now" feature ...

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What do you like most about NetWitness Platform?

The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetWitness Platform?

The pricing is comparable to others, and I consider the cost to be intermediate. Specific cost details are unknown to me.

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What needs improvement with NetWitness Platform?

There is currently no need for improvement in the SIEM ( /categories/security-information-and-event-management-siem ), though there could be potential enhancements by integrating with AI.

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Also Known As

CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon Threat Intelligence, CrowdStrike Identity Protection, CrowdStrike Falcon Surface, CrowdStrike Falcon Platform

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Overview

CrowdStrike Falcon offers robust endpoint protection and threat detection, leveraging cloud-native architecture and AI-driven capabilities for advanced security. Its design ensures minimal system impact, making it a preferred choice for organizations seeking efficient protection solutions.

CrowdStrike Falcon provides comprehensive security features, including endpoint detection and response, real-time threat insights, and advanced AI-driven detection mechanisms. Its cloud-native architecture facilitates effortless scalability and seamless integration with cloud services, securing endpoints, servers, and roaming users. While Falcon delivers strong threat intelligence and automated detection, it faces challenges in operating system compatibility, reports require enhancements, and integration with some technologies is limited. High pricing and occasional false positives are noted areas for improvement, along with expanded support for older systems.

What are the key features of CrowdStrike Falcon?

Endpoint Detection and Response: Offers real-time threat tracking and quick reaction capabilities.
AI-Driven Threat Detection: Utilizes machine learning for identifying sophisticated threats.
Cloud-Native Architecture: Ensures seamless scalability and integration with cloud platforms.
Lightweight Design: Minimizes impact on system performance for efficient operation.
Remote Access and Isolation: Facilitates remote endpoint management and network protection.

What benefits or ROI should users look for?

Comprehensive Dashboards: Provides detailed insights for informed decision-making.
Scalability: Handles expansion effortlessly as organizational needs grow.
Threat Intelligence: Enhances security strategies with robust data.
Reduced Resource Consumption: Operates efficiently, saving on system resources.

In industries requiring fortified cybersecurity measures, CrowdStrike Falcon is deployed for endpoint protection and incident response. It offers advanced threat defense and integrates well with cloud services, making it a suitable replacement for traditional antivirus solutions. For sectors engaging in forensic investigations and real-time malware defense, Falcon's capabilities align with their security demands, serving industries from healthcare to finance.

CrowdStrike

NetWitness Platform is an evolved SIEM and threat detection and response solution that functions as a single, unified platform for ALL your security data. It features an advanced analyst workbench for triaging alerts and incidents, and it orchestrates security operations programs end to end. In short: NetWitness Platform is all you need to run an intelligent SOC.

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