We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon and Trend Micro XDR based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: CrowdStrike Falcon stands out for its minimal impact on system performance, optimal resource utilization, and precise detection of threats. Trend Micro XDR is commended for its holistic approach to preventing, real-time visualization, and ability to prioritize network-based detection and response. CrowdStrike Falcon could benefit from adding a sandbox feature and more detailed firewall management options. Trend Micro XDR should improve integration, overhaul its web interface, and strengthen its business relationships.
Service and Support: CrowdStrike Falcon's customer service has been commended for its promptness and assistance. Some customers have found Trend Micro’s customer service to be helpful and responsive, while others have encountered challenges with technical support in complex situations.
Ease of Deployment: CrowdStrike Falcon's setup is considered to be simple and efficient, with varying deployment times ranging from a few days to a month. While there may be some challenges during installation, they are generally manageable. The initial setup of Trend Micro XDR is straightforward and fast, but it may require the involvement of several technical professionals.
Pricing: Some users find CrowdStrike Falcon costly and think the price should be lowered to make it more competitive. Some reviews noted that Trend Micro XDR might be too costly for small organizations, but others found the price reasonable.
ROI: CrowdStrike Falcon offers cost savings by decreasing the required number of engineers and eliminating the necessity for onsite servers. Trend Micro XDR delivers value through automation. Its efficient alerts ensure timely threat detection and prevention.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer CrowdStrike Falcon over Trend Micro XDR for its setup process, lightweight design, efficient resource usage, and accurate threat detection. It also offers useful features like Overwatch and a user-friendly dashboard.
"It has been great for us. Previously, we didn't have a solution to protect us, especially from malware, whereas now, we are getting protection up front, especially from the malware attacks coming through emails or endpoints."
"Microsoft XDR's system of analysis and investigation is super convenient for our customers. It integrates with other Microsoft solutions like Defender for 365 to protect email traffic from malicious external web links and phishing."
"I have found the ability to delete unwanted threats beneficial."
"The EDR features are valuable. By getting the EDR features, we have more control over the device. We have information about events in real-time and more protection against zero-day threats and zero-day vulnerabilities. We can monitor every event or action that a device is going through. We can get an idea if it is something malicious or if we have to take any actions."
"I like that it's stable. It's been stable for a long time, and Microsoft Defender has done a good job there."
"All of the security components are valuable including, antiphishing, antispam, and stage three antivirus."
"Among the most valuable features are the alert timeline, the alert story, which is pretty detailed. It gives us complete insight into what exactly happened on the endpoint. It doesn't just say, "Malware detected." It tells us what caused that malware to be detected and how it was detected. It gives us a complete timeline from beginning to end."
"The ability to hunt that IM data set or the identity data set at the same time is valuable. As incident response professionals, we are very used to EDRs and having device process registry telemetry, but a lot of times, we do not have that identity data right there with us, so we have to go search for it in some other silo. Being able to cross-correlate via both datasets at the same time is something that we can only do in Def"
"CrowdStrike Falcon's most valuable feature is the fact that it's not getting in the way of our workforce and their workflow."
"The most valuable features of CrowdStrike Falcon include Falcon Fusion workflows and endpoint detection capabilities."
"It provides very good protection and the ability to crosscheck environments."
"It has definitely minimized resources. When everything was on-prem, there was a lot more work maintaining it. One of the big value tickets: I don't have lists of hundreds of exceptions for certain applications that I have to maintain, add, delete, and move. The very nature of the product has lessened my workload considerably."
"Everything we've done with CrowdStrike is due to Arctic Wolf. We don't even need to get alerts from CrowdStrike anymore. It'll send those to Arctic Wolf, and then Arctic Wolf analyzes those and let us know if there's a major issue."
"The most valuable feature is its threat analysis."
"It seems to do a pretty good job of protecting the host. It offers good insights that it gives you when it has a detection. It's pretty incredible."
"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."
"One of the features I like in Trend Micro XDR is that you can drill down on the root-cause analysis for anything you find on the solution. I also like that it works for detection purposes. Behavior analytics is also what I like most about Trend Micro XDR. I love that it has features such as behavior detection, program detection, and memory scanning. By default, the solution protects against spyware, apart from the normal virus scan. Smart Scan and DLP are also available in Trend Micro XDR which I like as well."
"Trend Micro XDR is stable, scalable, and reasonably priced."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"Drilling down further, we can analyze how our users are utilizing their workstations, including the websites they visit."
"The proactive approach is the best feature."
"We had a quick deployment. The solution is easy to set up."
"It has good vulnerability protection."
"For scalability, I would give a rating of ten out of ten."
"The design of the user interface could use some work. Sometimes it's hard to find the exact information you need."
"Automated playbooks and automated dashboards would be preferable to the way the data is currently being presented."
"I would like more of the features in Defender for 365 to be included in the smaller licenses. Even if I buy a small license and don't need everything, security shouldn't be a question. Security is one of the main aspects of all projects from our side, so it would be nice to have more features in the smaller licenses."
"Since all of our databases are updated and located in the cloud, I would like additional support for this."
"Stability could be improved by avoiding frequent changes to the interface."
"365 Defender has multiple subsets, including Defender for Cloud Apps. When integrating Defender for Cloud Apps with apps on third-party cloud platforms like AWS or GCP, there are limitations on our ability to control user activities. If Microsoft added more control over third-party products, that would be a game-changer and help us quite a lot."
"The support team is not competent or responsive."
"There should be better information for experts on features in the solution. What I see when reading about features in Microsoft 365 Defender is that it is always general information. If Microsoft could go deeper into details for the experts about how to use the tools, usage of it would be more familiar and it would be easier to use."
"The performance could be better."
"A year and a half ago or more, if you put in a support request by email, then it wasn't timely addressed. It could be a day to three days before you received a response, which was a bit frustrating. There was a lot of customer feedback around this issue, which has been greatly refined."
"The solution needs to have integration with on-premises security devices and security facilities. That means all the security products, including the perimeter firewall, the DMZ."
"We can't do scanning audits or device blocking or application control."
"I have experience with a product called SentinelOne, which has a feature that allows for the customization of query languages. I would like to see such a feature for CloudStrike."
"It can be expensive depending on the features you select."
"I would like to see the machine learning feature enhanced."
"There is room for improvement in managing multiple customer IDs."
"I think that continued optimization of the environment towards automation and orchestration, a kind of layer that sits underneath all of the technologies, would be extremely important."
"They are planning on adding the Security Playbooks as a complete feature. In the preview mode, it is available; however, it is not released."
"There isn't a lot I'd do to change it. The web interface could be improved to sort of make it a little easier to manage multiple clients out of one location. It could also be made a bit easier to sort of manage the licensing side of it."
"We've received some mild complaints that the documentation is sometimes not up to date."
"The product needs to have a lot more maturity, and they need to improve the overall technical support framework for getting the value out of XDR."
"The support has been delayed at times."
"I would like to have the capability to export the information we receive from the XDR into Microsoft Excel."
"They have a DLP module in Tredn Moicros and they need to enhance its capabilities."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 107 reviews while Trend Vision One is ranked 5th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 43 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while Trend Vision One is rated 8.6. 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 Trend Vision One writes "The integration of toolsets is key, enabling automation, and vendor has been tremendous partner for us". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Fortinet FortiEDR, whereas Trend Vision One is most compared with Trend Micro Apex One, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet FortiEDR. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. Trend Vision One report.
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