We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon and Trend Micro Deep Security based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: CrowdStrike Falcon is the clear winner in this comparison. It is stable, easy to use, and high performing. In addition, it is easier to deploy and less expensive than Trend Micro Deep Security.
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"This solution consistently releases improvements. They have communicated their next two years of development which is powerful and covers all of our needs."
"CrowdStrike Falcon's scalability is good. We have thousands of students using this solution."
"CrowdStrike Falcon's most valuable features are the lightweight agent which has absolutely zero performance issues. There is no performance deterioration on the laptop on the network. It is a signature-less antivirus and anti-malware solution, it doesn't depend on signatures which better protects the systems."
"The CrowdStrike Falcon dashboard is good, and we haven't had any problems with it."
"The most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon is its accuracy. That's very important for me. False-positive are very bad for everyone. As we are a financial institution, it's even worse. I like Falcon because it's very accurate."
"Regarding features, I appreciate its integration capabilities with identity providers...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon is its accuracy."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the product is vulnerability detection."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It's scalable."
"Deep Security is a good product for managing a few servers."
"You can scale the solution to different versions."
"Signatures are frequently updated."
"Deep Security's most valuable features are antivirus and host intrusion detection."
"We find that their technical support team is always accessible and willing to assist."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"The solution is not stable."
"The support needs improvement."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"The EDR console should have more extensive reporting. You shouldn't need to purchase FortiAnalyzer. It should be included in the EDR part. The security adviser cloud platform could be improved with more options for exclusive or intensive rules for devices."
"CrowdStrike Falcon could improve by having an easier way to search and use the interface for extracting queries from the data. The interface could improve."
"CrowdStrike should provide better visibility in its reporting. There should be more forensic details about detected threats."
"Tighter integration around XDR could be included."
"The management of the solution could improve."
"The technical support could improve because I am in India and the support I receive is from the UK or Australia. It is difficult to manage the time difference. The service could be faster. However, when we do have the support they are knowledgeable."
"The pricing is a bit too high."
"The ability to receive text alerts natively in the console would be kind of cool."
"They should provide us with good visibility for everything."
"Trend Micro is scalable if you have the budget for it."
"There should be signature-based advanced and responsive features."
"It would be helpful if they could send emails notifying their users about the recommended upgraded versions to address the newly discovered vulnerabilities."
"Their support should be improved. We need support in the UAE, but it is always going to some other country or region, and the time schedule is not suitable for us."
"The price could be reduced."
"The implementation can be inflexible and not easy, as it requires knowledge of things like virtualization and administration on Windows."
"Sometimes the patching is a bit slow."
"The risk is very complex. We need our tools to be more intelligent, more automated, more detectable."
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CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) with 50 reviews while Trend Micro Deep Security is ranked 1st in Virtualization Security with 37 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.6, while Trend Micro Deep Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of CrowdStrike Falcon writes "Robust threat hunting and great ability to do on-keyboard remote response and quarantining of devices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Micro Deep Security writes "Supports virtual patching, and is easy to deploy, use, and manage". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Darktrace, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, whereas Trend Micro Deep Security is most compared with Trend Micro Apex One, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Symantec Endpoint Security, VMware Carbon Black Endpoint and SentinelOne Singularity Complete.
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I like that Crowdstrike allows me to easily correlate data between my firewalls. What’s most useful for my needs is the intelligence modules feature. I also find that Crowdstrike Falcon’s dashboard is very user-friendly; Information is easy to find because of how it is presented and everything is linkable, which is a big win for me. Stability is fantastic and so is the scalability. I was able to do so many endpoints so easily, and without any issues. In terms of pricing, Crowdstrike Falcon is reasonable for all that it has to offer. As far as technical support, that has been great too.
Trend Micro Deep Security offers a lot of features. It guarantees security for your data center, cloud, and containers - all with a unified and comprehensive SaaS solution and without compromising performance. Although that might make it sound appealing, every time there are new features released, they have to be paid for separately, which I am not thrilled about.
Trend Micro Deep Security offers powerful protection, an all-in-one workload security option (which may help with eliminating the cost of deploying multiple point solutions), and flexible integration. They also offer a “pay-for-what-you-use” pricing model which is hard to come by. While their pricing model seems enticing, a big downside for me is that it does not support versions prior to Windows 7. It has a good intrusion prevention feature that I like. However, that is not enough for me to settle for Trend Micro Deep instead of Crowdstrike.
Conclusion:
I much prefer Crowdstrike Falcon over Trend Micro Deep Security because I feel that it is much more reliable. While Trend Micro Deep Security may be represented as a classic antivirus solution, I am satisfied with the overall performance of Crowdstrike Falcon and happy with my purchase of the product.
Having previously run a penetration testing company, I can tell you that the general feedback I have from professional hackers is that CrowdStrike Falcon does make their job a lot more difficult.
The "traditional" players in the endpoint protection market e.g. Trend Micro, Symantec and McAfee they generally view as trivial to bypass.