We compared Tanium and CrowdStrike Falcon based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Tanium and CrowdStrike Falcon offer robust endpoint security solutions with unique strengths. Tanium provides comprehensive visibility, strong security measures, and powerful analytics capabilities, while praised for its customer service but faces concerns over pricing and performance. On the other hand, CrowdStrike Falcon is commended for its threat detection, reliable protection, and seamless integration, with reasonable pricing and positive ROI, but users call for improvements in user interface, reporting, and integration options.
Features: Tanium's valuable features include comprehensive visibility into endpoints, effective security measures, efficient endpoint management, and powerful analytics. In comparison, CrowdStrike Falcon excels in robust threat detection, advanced machine learning technology, and proactive threat hunting capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: Tanium's setup cost is higher compared to other products in the market, requiring additional resources and time. Users find the licensing complex and require negotiation. On the other hand, CrowdStrike Falcon's setup cost is straightforward and hassle-free, requiring minimal effort. Users appreciate the flexible and customizable licensing options., Tanium's ROI is highlighted by improved efficiency, cost savings, and increased productivity through streamlined IT operations, enhanced security measures, and centralized management. Meanwhile, CrowdStrike Falcon delivers positive results with enhanced cybersecurity capabilities, cost savings, and increased productivity through real-time monitoring and user-friendly interface.
Room for Improvement: Tanium users have highlighted the need for better system performance, improved documentation, and more customization options. In comparison, users of CrowdStrike Falcon have suggested enhancing the user interface, reporting capabilities, integration options, and addressing detection issues and customer support efficiency.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews show that the duration required to establish a new tech solution varies for both Tanium and CrowdStrike Falcon. Tanium users reported spending three months on deployment and an additional week on setup, while some CrowdStrike Falcon users mentioned needing a week for setup and deployment. It is important to carefully evaluate the context in which these terms are used to determine if they refer to the same period or should be evaluated separately., The customer service for Tanium product is highly praised by users, who appreciate the helpful and responsive assistance provided by the knowledgeable and professional support staff. On the other hand, users also found the customer service for CrowdStrike Falcon to be responsive, knowledgeable, and reliable.
The summary above is based on 60 interviews we conducted recently with Tanium and CrowdStrike Falcon users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The main thing is that I feel safe. Because the processes that have been used to get a handle on the attackers are much better than other competitors"
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"The ease of deployment and configuration is valuable. It's very easy compared to other vendors like Sophos. Sophos' configuration is complex. Fortinet is a lot easier to understand. You don't need a lot of admin knowledge to do the configuration."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"Fortinet FortiEDR made our clients feel secure and more at ease, knowing that they had an EDR solution that would close the gap in their security posture."
"The EDR and XDR features have been most valuable."
"Overall, what I found most valuable in CrowdStrike Falcon is its good mechanism. It also has a good reporting feature. CrowdStrike Falcon is an invaluable tool because, through it, you can take quick action, for example, when an OS is missing specific patches."
"Everything we've done with CrowdStrike is due to Arctic Wolf. We don't even need to get alerts from CrowdStrike anymore. It'll send those to Arctic Wolf, and then Arctic Wolf analyzes those and let us know if there's a major issue."
"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."
"Scalability hasn't been an issue for us."
"The most useful feature is that we do not need to install or keep signature files. Regular scanning that consumes a lot of computer resources is not needed."
"The solution can scale easily."
"At this point what is most valuable is the interface, which is easy to navigate."
"I like the tool's incident response and security patching."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the consolidation of all historical data on device endpoints, security drivers, firmware, and Software version gaps."
"For incident response tasks, all these tasks can get done in minutes with minimal disruption to the end-user."
"Tanium has made the process of detecting threats more proactive with its detection. So, the process is easier and more efficient."
"Tanium’s linear-chain architecture is valuable."
"I like the fact that you can create patching campaigns depending on the area of your network that you want to address first. I like the ability it has to make several campaigns that work in parallel."
"The security features are very valuable."
"The solution is scalable and helps to understand how infrastructure works. It helps to improve the health of the organization."
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"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 management of log aggregation is in need of improvement."
"CrowdStrike should add support for ransomware protection."
"As the company has grown, the technical support has felt less personal."
"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."
"The price is too high."
"Unfortunately, native applications are not supported."
"In the future release of CrowdStrike Falcon, they should add a sandbox feature."
"I would like to see a more accurate integration and an option to check the local machine."
"They could improve the UI."
"The solution lacks mobility."
"It is not really additional functions, or the features that are needed, rather the complexity would be reduced based on the number of modules required to put together a comprehensive operational security and risk compliance model."
"The solution can give a lot of false positives."
"The most painful thing is the interface. It's a bit unclear sometimes."
"Tanium's limitations should be improved because although it is a great tool, it is limited to only a few classes during a session."
"Tanium’s scalability could be improved."
"The performance could improve in future releases. We have had performance issues in specialized web environments, but overall I think the problems are less than 2% of the computer systems being used."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 104 reviews while Tanium is ranked 26th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 15 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.6, while Tanium is rated 7.4. 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 Tanium writes "Useful tool for vulnerability management and deploying applications, needing improvement in its OS upgrade". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and Symantec Endpoint Security, whereas Tanium is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Qualys VMDR, ServiceNow Discovery and BigFix. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. Tanium report.
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