CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR Reviews

We primarily use the solution for endpoint security. It is a very important aspect of security for us as the threat landscape is growing. There constantly needs to be better monitors of the activity on the endpoints and windows server. That's the main driver behind using this solution.

The AI and the group knowledge base that they get from having multiple clients in the cloud is very useful to us. It helps keep us safe from attacks as it allows them to apply a broader knowledge base to our protection for our company.

The solution doesn't actually scan desktops. They prevent execution and they do a very, very, very good job at that. However, if there is malware, et cetera, on an endpoint, there's not a scan feature to simply remove it. You have to go in and clean the registry and do the other stuff yourself. It would be ideal if there was some sort of scanning functionality built-in.

The logging features aren't robust and the information isn't kept long enough. The active logs are only retained for seven days. It would be better if it was available for, let's say, 30 days. If we were going to do any forensics, we would have the time to execute them.

We have been using the solution for about two years at this point. We plan to use it at least until the end of this year. It hasn't been very long.

We have looked at Carbon Black previously, as well as Cybereason. We were looking for alternatives to Crowdstrike, however, we decided we would keep this solution until the end of the year.

The reason we didn't switch yet is mostly due to time constraints. We had to renew or implement a new solution and it wasn't going to happen in the timeframe we were looking at. Therefore, we had to put it off. 

The Carbon Black is not as advanced as CrowdStrike. Also, Cybereason lags too far behind on Mac OS upgrades. We wouldn't have been able to roll out Cybereason, even though it looks like a very good product, as it didn't support Big Sur and wouldn't for another five or six months, which meant we would have machines that wouldn't be covered

We are a customer and an end-user of the product. We don't have a business relationship of any kind with Crowdstrike.

The solution is deployed from the cloud. We put it on our endpoints, however, the core application is in CrowdStrike's cloud. It's a cloud app.

Overall, I would rate the solution at a seven out of ten.

It is working well. I tried a ransomware attack myself, and they were very fast in mitigating. I am very convinced of this product, and I am very satisfied with how it is working.

The team behind the program itself is very valuable. If you don't have your own security team, they can do a great job for you. If your IT team isn't in the company, this can be of great value to you.

Its documentation is very good. They have many different dashboards, and they do have a lot of information. Sometimes, it can be a bit overwhelming how much information is there, but once you find your way through with them, everything is very logical.

Some dashboards can be very complex, but once you get to know them, it is very logical.

I have been using this solution since 2019.

It is absolutely stable.

It is very scalable. It really doesn't matter whether you are a company using 100 endpoints or more than 2,000 endpoints. We have around 1,700 people in our company. There are around 200 people that need to be onboarded again.

They were very fast in responding. If you have a technical question, it only takes a couple of hours before they answer your questions. They are very skilled.

We had Symantec endpoints previously. They were very traditional points. There isn't a resemblance between these two solutions because CrowdStrike is more into machine learning in terms of the behavior of the system. Symantec is more of a traditional antivirus that starts scanning your computer and new files. They both are very different in the way they work.

Its setup is fairly basic. It is not very complex. We had the support of the Falcon Complete team to set it up. It took a couple of days.

 The Falcon Complete team introduced the platform.

It is a fairly firm price. It is not the cheapest solution, but if you take the complete team into consideration, it is a great value. 

You need to know that CrowdStrike is different in the way it works as opposed to the traditional software. It is fairly self-explaining, but you just need to know that this endpoint is based on the behavior. This means that if you introduce a USB stick with malicious software on it and the software or the file isn't opened yet or is dormant, CrowdStrike won't detect it. The minute you are trying to use that file, and the file is trying to execute things, CrowdStrike detects it instantly and takes action to mitigate a problem.

I would rate CrowdStrike Falcon Complete a nine out of ten. It is a great product. For our company, it is the right product. It is company deployed, and we will stick with CrowdStrike.

Our primary use case is an ordinary antivirus. We also use it to watch the activity on the machine.

It has good visibility, works well, and it is fast.

It is easy to see what is happening and the reporting is good, although I still don't understand everything. We are still trying to understand all of the information that we receive. When a problem is being investigated, the product does a deep inspection and this is something that we really like. You can see things like which file is connected with which services. The deep inspection is something that we don't have in any other of our other tools.

The central console is good and it is easy to work with.

This product is easy to maintain on a daily basis.

There are some parts of this solution that are too slow. The performance slows down by between 10% and 40%, depending on what type of work the machine is doing. For example, we had to shut down our backup because it was too slow and it started to overlap with other tasks. We did not try to use our SQL database because there was too much of an impact. This is not on the network but on the machine and even a few percentage points difference is significant for us because of the volume of transactions.

 Integration slows down the system a bit.

I would like to have an alternate dashboard view, which is somewhat simpler. The one it presents now is like Splunk, and it is very good, but it would be helpful to have a simpler one that only shows the basics like what you have and what it has found. As it is now, it takes time to get used to it. After a while, it won't be a problem for me or other users in the company. When you're working with a regular antivirus, it is much easier to set up and start using.

We have been working with CrowdStrike Falcon Complete for two months. We are still deploying and integrating it into our environment.

Because we are still in the process of initial integration, it is our partner who is in contact with technical support. We're still waiting for them to answer with respect to one issue, and now after waiting for two weeks, I cannot say that I'm very happy with that. However, given that it is the holiday season, it's pretty understandable.

I expect that it will be complete in January when we are fully operational. During New Year and Christmas, it is a bit of a lazy time for everybody.

We have several solutions in place. We have a firewall, antivirus, and email antivirus systems, and there are still things that pass through. This product is our fourth layer of defense.

The initial setup was straightforward for us because we had assistance. On our own, this would not have been as easy.

We had CrowdStrike partners who assisted us with the implementation. They asked us things like what should be protected and what should not be. It was a lot of work for our partner to complete the deployment.

At approximately €60 per machine, per year, I think that it's a good price point. When you compare this to Windows Defender for Endpoints, the price of that solution is about €50 Euro per month per user.

There are people who spend a lot of time trying to find the right price to sell new products at, so I always think that people know the value of their product and what price they can sell it at.

Every solution has pros and cons. I don't see anything that is more advanced than other solutions, and it's just an ordinary spy product. I have to wait for some time to see how well it works in the real world, but it finds some malware and it finds some things that pass through as normal. 

At this point in time, I can't yet say for the general case whether I would recommend this product. We are still having a problem with the slowness and the impact on the performance of the system. For workstations or servers that do not have a high load on them, I would certainly recommend buying it. In our case, we had to remove it from our backup servers. So, if you're already using a backup, or hosting servers for VMware or Hyper-V, or using a SQL database, then you should consider testing it first. I'm still not sure what will happen in our case.

At this point, I cannot rate it an eight or higher because we still don't have an answer on improving the performance. If ultimately they resolve our problem then I would rate this solution an eight or a nine out of ten.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

We primarily use this solution for our clients.

The solution is stable.

We found the initial setup to be quick and easy for the most part.

The product can scale if you need it to.

The pricing of the product is okay. It's not too expensive.

The reporting could be better. It's not as good as it could be. If they could improve that a bit, and make it more robust, that would be ideal.

We've been using the solution for one and a half years. It hasn't been a very long time just yet.

The solution is quite stable. We find it reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs or glitches. It's been good so far.

The solution can scale If a company needs to expand it, they should be able to do so with relative ease.

We have about 10,000 users in our company that benefit from the solution.

We will continue to use the product and may even increase usage in the future.

I haven't contacted technical support. Therefore, I can't make an assessment of their services.

We previously used Kaspersky. We used it up until around 2018 and then we switched.

The installation is not so complex. In fact, it's relatively straightforward. A company shouldn't have issues implementing it.

The deployment is pretty fast as well. It took us about one month to have everything up and running.

We had about five people who worked on the setup and deployment in our organization.

We handled the deployment ourselves. We didn't require any outside assistance. We didn't hire an integrator or consultant. It was all handled in-house.

We've found the pricing to be reasonable. We pay a certain amount for licensing and that's it. It's not too much.

It's my understanding that we are using the latest version of the solution.

I would definitely recommend this product to other companies. 

I'd rate the solution, on a scale from one to ten, at a nine. We've been quite happy with it so far.

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete is used for EDR and security.

The most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon Complete is endpoint detection and response.

Ι have been using CrowdStrike Falcon Complete for approximately one year.

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete is a stable solution.

The scalability of CrowdStrike Falcon Complete is good.

There are approximately 200 users using this solution in my organization.

The support from CrowdStrike Falcon Complete is very fast. The support could improve if it was in the French language.

I rate the support from CrowdStrike Falcon Complete a three out of five.

The initial setup of CrowdStrike Falcon Complete is straightforward.

I rate the initial setup of CrowdStrike Falcon Complete a four out of five.

We used a consultant to do the implementation of CrowdStrike Falcon Complete.

We have approximately five engineers doing the maintenance and support.

There are different lengths of licenses available, such as three and five years. The price of CrowdStrike Falcon Complete is expensive.

My advice to others is this solution is good for finding security beaches in systems.

I rate CrowdStrike Falcon Complete an eight out of ten.

The most valuable features of  CrowdStrike Falcon Complete are the CWP protection and the integration with SIEM.

We have a problem with the CrowdStrike Falcon Complete agent. It was closing the communication with the network or other computers.

I have been using CrowdStrike Falcon Complete for a few years.

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete has stable security.

I have found CrowdStrike Falcon Complete to be scalable.

We have needed to create a service request with support. It took them to solve one incident three days. They could be quicker to resolve problems. However, they proved a typical level of support that other companies have.

I would rate the support from CrowdStrike Falcon Complete a three out of five.

The initial setup was simple.

There is a standard license to use CrowdStrike Falcon Complete.

I rate CrowdStrike Falcon Complete a nine out of ten.

We have been testing CrowdStrike Falcon Complete but we have not implemented it in our production at this time. However, we have found useful features in CrowdStrike.

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete has a very lightweight agent that provides signatureless detection protection from known and unknown malware or ransomware which is very useful.

The vulnerability assessment feature is a great benefit that provides detailed assessments of vulnerability. There are plenty of visualization of the threat; if any attack happens they explain in a visualization how the attack happens, how much the system has been affected, and what is the source. This information has allowed us to make the appropriate action.

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete is not providing application control. This is a very useful feature in any endpoint security because if you want to block any malicious activity of any particular application, you can not block it in this solution. However, you are able to block hashes, but not executable files or processes. Additionally, this solution does not provide a user risk score. These are two areas that CrowdStrike Falcon Complete can improve on in the future.

I have been using CrowdStrike Falcon Complete for a short period of time.

The solution is scalable.

Our customers are mostly large organizations. A recent customer has approximately 15,000 endpoints.

We only raised one case with the technical support and they solved the issue very quickly. Since we only had this one occasion we dealt with the support we are not aware of the consistency of their support.

I have previously used Trend Micro Apex One with Trend Micro Managed XDR.

The initial setup was straightforward. It is easy to install for an end-user system from a third-party application. For a single installation, it can be done with a few clicks of the mouse, it is not complicated, anyone can install it.

We have a team of approximately three that can manage CrowdStrike Falcon Complete from System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). We do not need to go to every system and install it, all of it can be done through the SCCM.

I would recommend CrowdStrike Falcon Complete to others.

I rate CrowdStrike Falcon Complete an eight out of ten.

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete is used to inform the IT or security analyst if there is something happening inside the endpoint. Additionally, the EDR can take an action by itself if there is something abnormal happening inside the endpoint.

If there is something wrong or not normal in the endpoint CrowdStrike Falcon Complete is very responsive. It will give an alert that is very useful and it takes action automatically. There at times needs to be some manual intervention but it is less often.

The solution needs to have human involvement, they could improve by having more automation where the solution can take the necessary action on time and more accurately.

I have been using this solution for approximately one year.

The solution is stable.

I have found the scalability very good.

We have approximately 1,000 users using this solution in my organization.

The technical support is excellent.

The installation is easy. We can install it through Windows Active Directory, send the files to the end-user to install it, or the IT department can install it remotely. The time it took for the full installation throughout our organization took 35 days.

We have four to five people that do the implementation and maintenance of the solution. 

The solution is priced fairly. For the features you receive, it is worth the money.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate CrowdStrike Falcon Complete ten out of ten.