We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon and ESET PROTECT Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The product integrates security into one tool instead of having third-party security tools."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft 365 Defender are the combination of all the capabilities and centralized management."
"The product is very easy to use."
"The most valuable features are spam filtering, attachment filtering, and antivirus protection."
"We can automate routine tasks and write scripts to carry out difficult tasks, which makes things easier for us."
"For me, the advanced hunting capabilities have been really great. It allowed querying the dataset with their own language, which is KQL or Kusto Query Language. That has allowed me to get much more insight into the events that have occurred. The whole power of 365 Defender is that you can get the whole story. It allows you to query an email-based activity and then correlate it with an endpoint-based activity."
"The common and advanced security policies for threat hunting and blocking attacks are valuable."
"The threat intelligence is excellent."
"Regarding features, I appreciate its integration capabilities with identity providers...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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 CS falcon agent is a lightweight agent compared with other agents of EDR products."
"The malware protection is the most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The most valuable features of Crowdstrike Falcon XDR are Spotlight and Discovery, they are helpful. Additionally, the console is user-friendly, with fewer false positives than other solutions."
"The most valuable features in CrowdStrike Falcon are the full EDR with antivirus, hunting, reporting, and RTR remote control."
"Falcon's best feature is its detection and blocking of threats."
"ESET is better in some ways than other vendors because it fulfills many areas where we'd otherwise have to use different products."
"The most valuable feature of ESET Protect is the security while accessing any transaction, such as online banking systems. When I access a banking website a new browser opens which is more secure, which I find very useful."
"We can easily manage resources, disable or enable clients and update them."
"It's helped us with restrictions and knowing which users we can provide permissions to and which users we need to restrict."
"The product enabled Zero-Day Protection for our environment. We never encountered any issues regarding threats."
"The solution offers a lot of configuration capabilities."
"ESET PROTECT Enterprise is reliable."
"The most valuable features of ESET File Security are the performance and it doesn't take too many resources."
"Sometimes, configurations take much longer than expected."
"Advanced attacks could use an improvement."
"Improving scalability, especially for very large tenants, could be beneficial for Microsoft Defender XDR."
"The support team is not competent or responsive."
"Correctly updated records are the most significant area for improvement. There have been times when we were notified of a required fix; we would carry out the fix and confirm it but still get the same notification a week later. This seems to be a delay in records being updated and leads to false reporting, which is something that needs to be fixed."
"The user interface of Microsoft 365 Defender could improve. They could make it simpler."
"When discussing the secure score, which includes overviews and recommended actions, some of these recommended actions are not applicable to us, particularly those related to Microsoft Internet Explorer, which we do not use in any of our environments."
"This solution could be improved if it included features such as those offered by Malwarebytes."
"The skillsets needed to run CrowdStrike Falcon are extensive if you want to get the most value out of the tool."
"If CrowdStrike can further expand its support for XDR compatibility, that would give it an edge over all the other competing new products."
"I would like to see equal support across all versions. Aside from that, I would say most of the features are there."
"We would like to be able to perform on-demand scanning, rather than relying on the scheduler."
"Falcon could be improved with more function on the mobile end of things and better optimization with mobile devices."
"Any kind of integration that you want to do, such as using the API to connect to a SIEM, is complex and it will be expensive to do."
"I would also like to see the endpoint firewall component produce some level of logging and feedback."
"They should provide us with good visibility for everything."
"I would like to see more in managing mobile devices in an on-premise solution. The latest news I've heard is that ESET drops mobile management module development for the on-prem version. It's moving to the cloud. Like in endpoint client protection, I would also like to see more of the vulnerability management features and additional app control functionality in ESET Protect."
"In terms of management accounts, there's a lot of manuals that seem to be mixed up. Sometimes, it's a little bit confusing."
"The availability and sustainability could also be improved."
"In the current version of ESET File Security, you cannot download a file, it always wants the real-time upload which you have to wait until the file is ready. This is annoying. In previous versions, you were able to use the downloaded engine."
"The solution can be quite technical and therefore is challenging for new users."
"ESET Protect could improve the performance. The performance of the home computers and laptops becomes slow due to their heavy software load. It would be a benefit to make a lighter version of the software which does not have any impact on the performance of the computer's hardware."
"Its automation can be improved."
"Sometimes, the connection to the machine requires troubleshooting."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 1st in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 107 reviews while ESET PROTECT Enterprise is ranked 16th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 10 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while ESET PROTECT Enterprise is rated 9.0. 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 ESET PROTECT Enterprise writes "Constantly improving their online resources to make it easier for new users to work with it". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security, Trend Vision One and SentinelOne Singularity Complete, whereas ESET PROTECT Enterprise is most compared with ESET Endpoint Protection Platform, Wazuh, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Avira Antivirus and ZoneAlarm. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. ESET PROTECT Enterprise report.
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