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Crowdstrike

Crowdstrike Falcon Platform

Composite Score

8.8 /10

CX Score

9.0 /10

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What is Crowdstrike Falcon Platform?

The CrowdStrike Falcon platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.

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Awards & Recognition

Crowdstrike Falcon Platform won the following awards in the Endpoint Protection - Midmarket category

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2025 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2025

4 Top Rated Capabilities

9 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

Service Experience
Conflict Resolution

2025

3 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

2024

Crowdstrike Falcon Platform Ratings

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90 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+90 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Crowdstrike Falcon Platform?

4% Negative

3% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Respectful
Effective Service
Continually Improving Product
Reliable

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Endpoint Detection and Response

Dynamic Malware Detection

Ransomware Recovery and Removal

Cross Platform Support

Port and Device Control

Centralized Management Portal

Automated Remediation

Cross Platform Integration

Application Containment Mechanisms

Mac OS support

System Hardening

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Business Value Created

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

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Crowdstrike Falcon Platform Reviews

Himanshu C.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Finance
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Mar 2025

Proactive Security for the Modern Enterprise

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Crowdstrike Falcon Platform from other similar products?

Falcon reins in the powerful ransomware protection that it gives as it interferes with the threat as it is about to encrypt the files keeping them intact.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Technology enables Falcon to be a success in that it detects the surfacing threats before they become common, thereby making companies the winners in the battle against hackers.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Protection from offline is limited to not be the case so the lack of internet may be the road to the greater chance of an attack on instances.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The service comes with a premium price tag. It's really a good choice for businesses with bigger budgets, that can use all the automated features

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Kiran R.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

Excellent EDR

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Crowdstrike Falcon Platform from other similar products?

Cloud native architecture and proactive threat hunting.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Deployment and integration

What do you dislike most about this product?

Detection graph takes more time to load and even host management page with containing high volume of hosts takes more time to load

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Good EDR to secure hosts

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Inspires Innovation

Ram K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

Advanged theat detenction sensors

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Crowdstrike Falcon Platform from other similar products?

Real-time threat detection and advanced threat detection sensors at the core level. Support cross-OS platforms. supports integration with the other security tools for incident reports and comprehensive security visibility, e.g.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Easy to manage and deploy. With it's advanced threat detection sensors, our job is pretty good.

What do you dislike most about this product?

i dont have anything

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Those who are looking for cross-platform support and AM/ML capable threat detection sensor. however please also consider that the cost is high.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

Crowdstrike Falcon Platform Ratings

90 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Crowdstrike Falcon Platform?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Endpoint Detection and Response Active threat detection that remediates against known and unknown malware and malicious activities, leveraging machine learning techniques.

Dynamic Malware Detection Heuristics are applied to files to identify similarities with known malware and block it.

Ransomware Recovery and Removal Recover files removed and/or encrypted by ransomware.

Cross Platform Support Includes the variety of client devices and operating systems supported by the solution.

Port and Device Control Includes USB encryption and endpoint data loss prevention.

Centralized Management Portal Includes multiple client management, push install capability, comprehensive policies for different groups, and active directory integration and synchronization.

Automated Remediation Automate remediation of alerts due to exceeding defined thresholds e.g. trigger scripts to address low disk space alerts.

Cross Platform Integration Open API and net sec appliance integration with NGFW, SIEM, IPS/IDS, Automated Network Quarantining, DLP, Data Discovery, and Threat Intelligence.

Application Containment Mechanisms Includes cloud based protection, sandboxing, and local containerization.

Mac OS support Endpoint security support to identify and block threats on Mac workstations.

System Hardening Automated vulnerability patching and vulnerability assessment.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

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Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

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Crowdstrike Falcon Platform Reviews

Himanshu C.

Proactive Security for the Modern Enterprise

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Kiran R.

Excellent EDR

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ram K.

Advanged theat detenction sensors

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Endpoint Detection and Response

Dynamic Malware Detection

Ransomware Recovery and Removal

Cross Platform Support

Port and Device Control

Centralized Management Portal

Automated Remediation

Cross Platform Integration

Application Containment Mechanisms

Mac OS support

System Hardening

Vendor Capability Ratings

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Business Value Created

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training