We performed a comparison between Forescout Platform and Crowdstrike Falcon based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: The Forescout Platform stands out for its agentless visibility and advanced features like device fingerprinting. Forescout users say the product could be better at resolving connectivity and license issues. Users also want more compatibility with different devices and operating systems, along with better logging and troubleshooting capabilities.
Service and Support: Some users reported positive experiences with Forescout support, but others requested better responsiveness and training. CrowdStrike Falcon's customer service is considered prompt and helpful.
Ease of Deployment: Some users found Forescout’s setup to be simple and adaptable, while others perceived it as more complex and time-intensive. CrowdStrike Falcon's setup is considered to be simple and efficient, with deployment times ranging from a few days to a month. While there may be some challenges during installation, they are generally manageable.
Pricing: The total cost of Forescout Platform can be high depending on the level of customization and integration required. Some users find CrowdStrike Falcon costly and think the price should be lowered to make it more competitive.
ROI: Forescout Platform yields a solid ROI by improving network access control and overall security. CrowdStrike Falcon offers cost savings by decreasing the required number of engineers and eliminating the need for onsite servers.
Comparison Results: Forescout Platform is preferred over CrowdStrike Falcon due to its unmatched visibility, device fingerprinting, and configuration options. It is easy to set up, stable, reliable, and affordable. It offers a slew of valuable features like NAC, asset management, and vulnerability remediation.
"I like Defender XDR's automation capabilities. XDR isn't automated by default, but you can automate it to respond. If an attack is performed anywhere within the organization, you can isolate that instance from the network. This is what I can figure out for it. When integrated with Sentinel, you can set up playbooks to automate all the alerts gathered on Sentinel from different Microsoft solutions. Sentinel has a wider range of capabilities than XDR."
"The visibility into threats is also very impressive because Microsoft helps you predict things and provides analytics to help you really improve your security. And all of this technology works across the domain, so it is pretty helpful in terms of threat analytics."
"The product integrates security into one tool instead of having third-party security tools."
"Microsoft Defender's most critical component is its CASB solution. It has many built-in policies that can improve your organization's cloud security posture. It's effective regardless of where your users are, which is critical because most users are working from home. It's cloud-based, so nothing is on-premise."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that Microsoft Defender XDR is easy to integrate with other Microsoft platforms or products."
"The most valuable aspect is undoubtedly the exploration capability"
"The best feature is threat hunting. There are a lot of other features I like, such as the alert mechanism. The chain alert mechanism has a huge impact. It combines all the alerts into one incident and automatically correlates them with AI."
"All of the security components are valuable including, antiphishing, antispam, and stage three antivirus."
"The most valuable feature is the activity dashboard because it gives you a holistic view of your environment from a security standpoint."
"Probably the most valuable thing to me is the real-time response piece. The fact that I can connect to an endpoint as long as it is on the Internet, no matter where it is globally. I can remove files from the endpoint, drop files on the endpoint, stop processes, reboot it, run custom scripts, and deploy software. Pretty much no other tool can do all that."
"The most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon for me is its unified sensor, applicable across all models."
"It's ability to do threat hunting is really great, quite robust, and even allows you to do hygiene stuff."
"The most valuable features are the complete IPS and IDS."
"At this point what is most valuable is the interface, which is easy to navigate."
"This solution consistently releases improvements. They have communicated their next two years of development which is powerful and covers all of our needs."
"We are happy with CloudStrike's ease of use and touch notification."
"Forescout Platform's best feature is plug-in integration."
"Provides a good overview of all devices on a network."
"The user interface is quite simple."
"Forescout Platform is stable, it is great."
"The initial setup is easy, taking no more than two or three weeks."
"We really like that we get full visibility of devices in the local network."
"I can integrate Forescout with products from multiple vendors in my environment, and also, the integration is searchable. It can be used with 802.1X and non-802.1X to integrate with my existing network. I don't need to upgrade any existing networks in my system, and I don't need to replace existing devices to integrate with Forescout. I find value in not having to spend money upgrading existing devices and networks."
"Ease of deployment There's a great support team that becomes actively engaged whenever we encounter issues. Their technical support is amazing. Good documentation is available. The product is stable. The solution is highly scalable. I recommend using the solution because it gives verified control over the environment. It has a great visibility feature."
"The support could be more knowledgable to improve their offering."
"While the XDR platform offers valuable functionalities, it falls short of other solutions in its ability to deliver a cohesive identity experience."
"The console is missing some features that would be helpful for a managed services provider, like device and user management."
"There are other SIEM solutions that are easier to use, mainly based on the creation of rules, use cases, and groups."
"The user interface of Microsoft 365 Defender could improve. They could make it simpler."
"The management features could be improved, particularly in terms of better integration with Intune, Microsoft's cloud-based management solution."
"When we do investigations, it would be better if Microsoft could populate the host dashboard more. When we open any host for investigation, we want the entire timeline of what is happening on the host, including all the users logging in, their hardware, Windows version, etc."
"The message trace feature for investigating mail flow issues should add more detailed information to the summary report... if they could extend the summary report a little bit, make it more descriptive, ordinary administrators could understand what happened and that the emails failed at this or that point. That way they would know the location to go to try to correct it and to prevent it from occurring again."
"Unfortunately, native applications are not supported."
"I would like to see the machine learning feature enhanced."
"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."
"Crowdstrike Falcon XDR can improve the integration. There are some locks on the cloud to on-premise integrations."
"It can be expensive depending on the features you select."
"The Integration with tools, SOC tools, could be better."
"The biggest issue with Falcon as a standalone product is it doesn't have very much reporting."
"The skillsets needed to run CrowdStrike Falcon are extensive if you want to get the most value out of the tool."
"More detailed analysis during the authentication process, especially for troubleshooting access issues. We have found that troubleshooting RADIUS controls is quite arduous, as it is today. A trace function could easily resolve this by providing a means by which access issues from a certificate to passwords or accounts could easily be identified and remediated."
"Custom integrations need to be better."
"The system controls could be better."
"Logging would be one area for improvement. When we're troubleshooting, there are not a lot of clear things on Google that we can look up for ourselves. When we have an issue with it, we have to call the company to get the vendors involved. The logging of Forescout is horrible compared to other things that we've used."
"Regarding pricing, there is room for improvement to enhance competitiveness with other vendors and solutions."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Initially, the implementation of the Forescout Platform took some time to figure out. The reason is we are a manufacturing unit and we have certain silos that are insulated areas where certain systems will not connect to the internet or to the LAN. Since there are many parts of it, we have to have an inclusive view of all those systems. It took a while for us to initially implement, but after a few months, everything worked well."
"Can be expensive if it's only being used for one feature."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 1st in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 107 reviews while Forescout Platform is ranked 12th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 69 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while Forescout Platform is rated 8.4. 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 Forescout Platform writes "We can go granular on each endpoint, quarantine non-compliant machines, and target vulnerabilities through scripting". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security, Trend Vision One and SentinelOne Singularity Complete, whereas Forescout Platform is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Nozomi Networks and Armis. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. Forescout Platform report.
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