CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR Reviews

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.

We primarily use the solution for server endpoint protection as well as client and user client endpoint protection.

The solution allows us to have a single pane of glass for observing our antivirus and for any malicious activity. It allowed us to simplify investigations as well. It's basically helped keep our organization more secure.

The AI detection has been excellent in terms of detection and stopping malicious processes with little to no input on our end. 

Over the last year, we've had two instances where we've actually had to take a machine offline and do some forensics, however, for the most part, it's been great in terms of stopping anything suspicious from running on people's machines.

The solution is user-friendly.

The product seems to integrate well with other products.

The initial setup is pretty easy.

The solution isn't missing any features at this point. It's ticking all the boxes for our organization. There really isn't anything that I can see that would make me want to change providers.

The customization could be tweaked. We can do a bunch of custom dashboards. However, the one thing that I'm not a fan of is when you go to do an investigation, the way that the processes are laid out on the screen is very bland looking. While the information is there, it could be laid out better. I've seen other products like Cisco Secure that gives you a better view of the issues. Cisco just presents the data differently, and it's easier to look at.

I've been using the solution for about one year at this point.

We haven't suffered from bugs and have had no issues with updates. Everything is very light. It's very reliable and very stable.

We added about a thousand hosts since we rolled this out, and we have more coming online and have had no impact on our environment due to the fact that it's a cloud staff solution. The product is very scalable. There's no issue in that sense.

We have granted access to the dashboard to about five people, and it can be anyone from IT operations, server operations, and IT security.

Technical support has been great. I'd rate them ten out of ten. You can open up tickets right from the dashboard itself, and they're very quick to answer questions. We're quite satisfied with their level of service.

We used a different solution, and we switched due to the fact that CrowdStrike gave us the ability to replace our antivirus. At the time, we didn't have an EDR solution, therefore, CrowdStrike did both in terms of being able to detect an antivirus as well as proper endpoint detection and remediation.

The initial setup is not complex at all. The implementation is extremely straightforward and very easy.

Actually, one of the companies that we recently acquired was using another product and they wanted to know how easy it was to install our CrowdStrike. We had them uninstall their products on their servers and then install CrowdStrike, and it turns out uninstalling the other product took longer than the actual install of CrowdStrike.

Our company is very mindful when it comes to purchasing - whether it's software or equipment. I believe the folks that made the decision to purchase this product did so based on price and performance. I wouldn't say there is an issue with pricing. We are redoing our license with them. If that was an issue, I'm pretty sure I would have been asked to look at other products. Therefore, although I don't know the exact pricing, my assumption is that the cost is rather reasonable.

We're just customers. We don't have a business relationship with the company.

I'd advise other organizations to definitely do a proof of concept in their organization, and then go from there.

Overall, I'd give the solution a nine out of ten. It ticks all the boxes for everything that we need to do for investigations in our environment.

We use CrowdStrike as our endpoint protection solution for all of our devices.

The previous solution that we had for our endpoints was lacking. It was a blacklist/whitelist solution and every time you tried to run something, it would get stuck in a model of having to check the file, update the system, check the server, get approval to run a piece of software, and so forth. It was just a nightmare.

Its machine learning and AI features are good.

The real-time updates that it gets with respect to threats are very good.

It would be nice to have full-scale ESR reporting.

In the future, I would like to see better reporting and better SIEM integration.

We have been using CrowdStrike Falcon for about a year.

The stability seems fine and we haven't had any problems.

This product is cloud-based, so there is plenty of room for it to grow. I think that there are about 250 endpoints including everything from customer service to warehouse functions to C-suite.

I have been in contact with technical support and they seemed competent, as well as quick to respond. I would rate them a nine out of ten. Nothing is perfect and there is always a little bit of room for improvement. Ideally, there would be fewer canned responses for the first go around.

Prior to CrowdStrike Falcon, we were using Carbon Black. It was more of a blacklist-type software and it was just cumbersome to do anything for any of my users.

The initial setup was pretty simple, once the implementor showed us a couple of the tips and tricks, and what the nomenclature is.

The price is okay, although you're not going to get away cheap when it comes to security.

My advice for anybody who is implementing CrowdStrike Falcon Complete is to get the training and make sure that they understand the system. If they are going to be doing their own admin work then they have to make sure that they understand it all.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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.

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.

We are using this solution for endpoint protection.

The features I have found valuable are artificial intelligence, which protects us against malicious forces of any kind, and device control through the remote execution tool.

The training provided could be better. There is a need to have more training to allow us to fine-tune our settings. Not that training is not comprehensive; they do provide training in hotels where we can go and see videos and other helpful information. However, they should be providing hands-on experience to the system administrators because this would be more useful. The training is normally for corporations and should be available for personal users as well.

In the next release, there should be an IT help desk remote controller so that we do not need to go to a separate IT help desk. If there are any issues from the end-users, they should not need to use another tool to connect to the system, desktop, or anything else. If they would be able to facilitate this it would be easier for our engineers to raise a ticket and have the SLAs to support them.

I have been using this solution for approximately two years. 

The solution has been scalable in our experience.

The installation is straightforward. My engineers were trained by the partners on how to install the solution in all the areas, for example, the sensors. We did require the initial guidance but if you have prior experience with any other solutions, I do not think people should require special training or instruction. It is a simple and lightweight tool.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate CrowdStrike Falcon Complete an eight out of ten.