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.
"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."
"It is very easy to set up. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, with ten being very easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"he solution is an anti-malware product that integrates well with other vendor products such as firewalls, SIEM, etc. It captures threat intelligence and gives you better visibility. The product also has sandboxing features."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"The OverWatch is the most valuable feature to me. It's a 24x7 monitoring service, and when they see anything suspicious in my environment, they will investigate."
"We like Falcon's network visibility. We can see how threats are evolving on PCS or in the company network. The solution's real-time incident response is very fast."
"The most valuable feature is the machine learning that they use to check certain patterns in the endpoint devices. It checks the whole ecosystem or entire environment."
"Enables us to understand what processes are running on the system, what registry keys have been enabled."
"The scalability is good."
"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."
"Because it is security product and acts like an AIML smart product, not merely based on daily/weekly updates and signatures."
"I like the overall reports of this solution. They are crisp, and to the point."
"For incident response tasks, all these tasks can get done in minutes with minimal disruption to the end-user."
"I like the tool's incident response and security patching."
"Threat hunting is a very good feature on Tanium. We have just started using it and have not used it extensively."
"The product is granular and can build complex roles compared to other EDR vendors."
"The interrogation piece was the most valuable feature because it was very detailed."
"The security features are very valuable."
"I would say Tanium is the best tool for vulnerability management."
"Tanium’s linear-chain architecture is valuable."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"CrowdStrike Falcon could improve the logs by making them free to the API."
"I would like to see the machine learning feature enhanced."
"To simplify the budgeting process for our clients, CrowdStrike should consider offering bundled packages that include essential features."
"Technical support could be better than what is currently offered."
"We can't do scanning audits or device blocking or application control."
"I would also like to see the endpoint firewall component produce some level of logging and feedback."
"Dashboard creation is one of the areas for improvement in CrowdStrike Falcon. Sometimes, management asks for a custom dashboard, so my team has to collect data from CrowdStrike Falcon, integrate that in Splunk, then create the dashboard in Splunk. The Splunk dashboard is more elaborate, so the CrowdStrike Falcon dashboard needs improvement. Another area for improvement in the tool is the malware detection report, as it needs to be more detailed and include some graphics so that if you want to present that data in a nutshell, it's easier to do. For example, the report should consist of some graphical representation that shows a month's worth of data. In terms of an additional feature I'd like CrowdStrike Falcon to have, it's the device posture assessment feature that detects the device posture within the network. Whichever device connects to the corporate network, my company should be able to analyze the device posture. Then there should be communication with the network, which means that as soon as a device connects, CrowdStrike Falcon can assess the device posture, detect its corporate asset, and decide whether it should be allowed on the network."
"We would like to be able to perform on-demand scanning, rather than relying on the scheduler."
"We had some issues with the solution's OS upgrade."
"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."
"They could improve the UI."
"The solution needs to improve the reporting and tracking capabilities."
"I would like to have more integrations and custom plugins to input. Integration is always a big deal in a lot of different environments."
"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."
"Tanium’s scalability could be improved."
"The reporting could be improved."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 106 reviews while Tanium is ranked 26th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 15 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, 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 Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, 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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