We compared CrowdStrike Falcon and Fortinet FortiEDR based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
CrowdStrike Falcon is praised for its strong threat detection capabilities, advanced technology, and effective incident response, with user-friendly interface and proactive threat hunting. Fortinet FortiEDR offers advanced threat detection, efficient security, and seamless integration, with emphasis on improving user interface and usability. CrowdStrike Falcon focuses on real-time monitoring, while Fortinet FortiEDR highlights flexible deployment options and scalability.
Features: CrowdStrike Falcon stands out for its robust threat detection, advanced machine learning, and proactive threat hunting capabilities. Fortinet FortiEDR excels in advanced threat detection, efficient endpoint security, and flexible deployment options with scalability.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for CrowdStrike Falcon is described as straightforward and hassle-free, requiring minimal effort. Users appreciate the flexible and customizable licensing options. Meanwhile, Fortinet FortiEDR also offers a straightforward setup process with minimal effort required. Customers are satisfied with the flexibility and options provided for licensing., CrowdStrike Falcon delivers significant ROI with improved cybersecurity and threat detection capabilities, while Fortinet FortiEDR also provides positive ROI according to user feedback.
Room for Improvement: CrowdStrike Falcon could improve its user interface, reporting capabilities, integration options, detection accuracy, customer support, and system performance. Fortinet FortiEDR could benefit from enhancements in its user interface, setup process, documentation, training resources, reporting capabilities, and dashboards.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews for CrowdStrike Falcon indicate that the duration to establish the tech solution varies among users, with some taking three months for deployment and others only needing a week for setup. In contrast, Fortinet FortiEDR has users reporting either three months for deployment and an additional week for setup or just one week for both., Users highly praised the customer service of CrowdStrike Falcon, finding the team responsive, knowledgeable, and reliable. On the other hand, customers expressed satisfaction with Fortinet FortiEDR's customer service, noting excellent assistance and guidance.
The summary above is based on 70 interviews we conducted recently with CrowdStrike Falcon and Fortinet FortiEDR users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The EDR is amazing and ease of integration with Splunk is a big plus. Integration with BigQuery is also a plus for me and workflow creation is easy. Overall, CrowdStrike Falcon is a great product."
"CrowdStrike Falcon has done an excellent job at detecting breaches. It has allowed us to stay in business and keep our systems up."
"I like the vulnerability assessment and proactive hunting features of CrowdStrike Falcon."
"As long as the machine is connected to the Internet, and CrowdStrike is running, then it will be on and we will have visibility; no VPNing in or making some type of network connection. CrowdStrike always there and running in the background; for us, that is big. We wanted something that could give us data as long as the machines connected to the Internet and be almost invisible to the employees."
"One of the most valuable features of CrowdStrike Falcon is when there are upgrades there are no additional fees."
"There's almost no maintenance required. It's very low if there's any at all."
"The detection is very effective."
"The most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon is its accuracy."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"It notifies us if there's any suspicious file on any PC. If any execution or similar kind of thing is happening, it just alerts us. It doesn't only alert. It also blocks the execution until we allow it. We check whether the execution is legitimate or not, and then approve it or keep it blocked. This gives us a little bit of control over this mechanism. Fortinet FortiEDR is also very straightforward and easy to maintain."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"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."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"CrowdStrike Falcon could improve the EDR functionality. Once the functionality of the solution improves, it will be even better in the market and able to compete with Carbon Black."
"The ability to receive text alerts natively in the console would be kind of cool."
"Basically, they don't cover legacy OS or applications. That's the only issue we're concerned about"
"I would like CrowdStrike to provide some correlation in the threat analysis, so we can visualize things better."
"It can be expensive depending on the features you select."
"On the firewall management side, there should be more granularity. There should also be more granularity for device control. Everything else is brilliant."
"CrowdStrike should add support for ransomware protection."
"They don't really have anything when it comes to scanning attachments."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"I think cloud security and SASE are areas of concern in the product where improvements are required. The tool's cloud version has to be improved in terms of the security it offers."
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"The support needs improvement."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 107 reviews while Fortinet FortiEDR is ranked 13th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 30 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while Fortinet FortiEDR is rated 8.0. 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 Fortinet FortiEDR writes "A proactive solution that works as a proactive upgrade from a firewall". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, whereas Fortinet FortiEDR is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and ESET Endpoint Protection Platform. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. Fortinet FortiEDR report.
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