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CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

byCrowdStrike
in
4.7
Market Presence: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms, Cloud Security Posture Management Tools

Overview

Product Information on CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Updated 13th November 2025

What is CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security?

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is a software designed to provide cloud-native security for workloads, applications, and containers across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. The software delivers continuous monitoring, threat detection, and automated response capabilities to help organizations protect against vulnerabilities and unauthorized access. It integrates with existing cloud platforms to offer visibility into cloud assets and activities, allowing businesses to address compliance requirements and manage risks associated with cloud infrastructure. By leveraging real-time analytics and threat intelligence, the software enables organizations to safeguard cloud resources and maintain security posture throughout the application lifecycle.

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security Pricing

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security software utilizes a subscription-based pricing model, with costs typically determined by factors such as the number of endpoints, users, or workloads. The software offers various tiers, each providing different sets of features and capabilities. Pricing may also vary based on additional modules or services selected, and customized enterprise agreements are available for organizations with specific requirements.

Overall experience with CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

IT Manager
<50M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security Delivers Unified, Real-Time Threat Detection and Scalable Cloud Protection with Strong Visibility and Automation, Though Premium Pricing and Alert Management Pose Challenges.”

4.0
Oct 8, 2025
Overall, my experience with CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security has been very positive. The paltform offers strong visibility across our cloud workloads and identities, allowing quick detection and response to threats with minimal overhead. Its agent-based architecture integrates seamlessly into multi-cloud environments, and the unified dashboard makes it easier to manage security posture across AWS, Azure and GCP. Real-time threat intelligence and correlation with workload activity has significantly improved our incident response times. While the initial learning curve can be a bit steep for teams new to Falcon's interface, once configured properly, it provides excellent automation and actionable insights with very little manual intervention required.
Operations Manager
30B + USD, Banking
CRITICAL

“Comprehensive Cloud Security Tool Faces Challenges With Legacy Operating System Support”

3.0
Sep 16, 2025
overall its a good well equiped product covering our cloud security neds

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

CrowdStrike is a recognized entity in the cybersecurity space, specializing in enterprise risk management through the innovative application of technology. The company focuses primarily on protecting essential business risk areas such as endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, and data. Employing the state-of-the-art CrowdStrike Security Cloud and advanced AI technology, the firm provides effective solutions. Its CrowdStrike Falcon platform uses real-time indications of attack, threat intelligence, telemetry enhanced from diverse enterprise sources, and evolving adversary knowhow for high-grade detection, automated protection and healing, advanced threat tracking, and efficient vulnerability visibility. The Falcon platform, designed in the cloud with a singular lightweight-agent architecture, offers swift deployment, unique protection and performance, and reduced complexity. Therefore, CrowdStrike delivers a significant value proposition right from the beginning.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2011
Head office location
Remote, United States
Number of employees
5001 - 10000
Website
http://www.crowdstrike.com

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CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security Likes & Dislikes

Like

First Unified Cloud Visibility: It provides a single pane of glass view into AWS, Azure, and GCP environments, covering workloads, containers, and identities in one place without needing separate tools. Second, Real-Time Threat Detection: The correlation of CrowdStrike's threat intelligence with live workload data ensures that suspicious activities are flagged almost instantly, reducing the dwell time of threats significantly. Third, Lightweight Agent with broad coverage: The Falcon agent runs with minimal performance impact yet offers deep protection - from EDR capabilities to cloud workload security, vulnerability detection, and misconfiguration alerts across hybrid environments.

Like

agent based and great user interface to navigate

Like

Strong cloud workload and container security: Enables compliance verification, vulnerability scanning, and runtime anomaly detection for AWS, Azure, and GCP. Interaction with the Falcon platform in a seamless manner: Their endpoint protection may be simply propagated to cloud workloads without the necessity of extra management tools. Detailed reporting and dashboards for inspection and risk management are facilitated through the accurate perception of cloud posture, compliance, and threat activity.

Dislike

First, cost and licensing complexity As the platform is priced at a premium, the modular licensing model can make it difficult to predict total costs as features are added or environments grow. Secondly, Alert Noise and False Positives as there can be a significant number of alerts, including occasional false positives, which require manual triage and review, potentially impacting the efficiency of security teams. Third, usability and dashboard design as the user interface, while rich, can feel overwhelming to new users; some key metrics and executive-level summaries are not always as easily accessible as they could be, and navigation between modules may feel unintuitive for less technical stakeholders.

Dislike

not supporting older operating systems where the solution is actually needed

Dislike

The price is somewhat expensive, especially in the case of smaller volumes of work or businesses that have limited budgets. The first configuration requires an experienced person. While the integration is easy, adjusting the policies and configurations may still take some time. There are not many non-standard integrations, some integrations with third-party tools may require additional modules or manual work.

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Peer Discussions

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security Reviews and Ratings

4.7

(457 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
69%
4 Star
30%
3 Star
2%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Integration & Deployment

4.7

Service & Support

4.6

Product Capabilities

4.7

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  • IT Manager
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security Delivers Unified, Real-Time Threat Detection and Scalable Cloud Protection with Strong Visibility and Automation, Though Premium Pricing and Alert Management Pose Challenges.

    4.0
    Oct 8, 2025
    Overall, my experience with CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security has been very positive. The paltform offers strong visibility across our cloud workloads and identities, allowing quick detection and response to threats with minimal overhead. Its agent-based architecture integrates seamlessly into multi-cloud environments, and the unified dashboard makes it easier to manage security posture across AWS, Azure and GCP. Real-time threat intelligence and correlation with workload activity has significantly improved our incident response times. While the initial learning curve can be a bit steep for teams new to Falcon's interface, once configured properly, it provides excellent automation and actionable insights with very little manual intervention required.
  • IT ASSISTANT
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Cloud Workload Security that is stable, dependable and enables cost optimisation.

    4.0
    Oct 13, 2025
    To make our cloud workload more secure, the CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security has been a reliable and effective tool. Integration with the already existing Falcon modules made the adoption easy, and the product provides a strong enough visibility of the workloads, runtime threats, and misconfigurations. While the learning curve and the price could be better, the product is, for the most part, scalable and stable. As a matter of fact, it has been instrumental in our risk reduction and compliance improvement efforts in multi-cloud environments.
  • IT ASSOCIATE
    1B-10B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Cloud Security Module Offers Insightful Protection With Evolving Feature Set

    5.0
    Jan 13, 2026
    Crowdstrike continues to add more and more features to their Cloud Security module making it incredibly beneficial in protecting our cloud environments in a relatively simple and non-impactful manner.
  • Chief Technology Officer
    50M-1B USD
    Insurance (except health)
    Review Source

    Real-Time Attack Monitoring Enhances Security Despite Slight Alert Response Delay

    5.0
    Feb 3, 2026
    Before the deployment of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud security in my organization, I often remained in a stressed mode due to various unpredicted security challenges related to our organization's application systems since I used to hear various security breaches of various financial institutions of our country. After the deployment of CrowdStrike we are in a confident position in terms of application security, and I have seen various threats defended by the system.
  • Manager Of It Services
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Customizable Dashboard Increases Multi-Cloud Threat Visibility But Alert Noise Persists

    4.0
    Feb 8, 2026
    CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security delivers a seamless, intuitive user experience with a customizable dashboard. A single screen dashboard shows multi-cloud threats, risks and fixes. It provides real-time visibility into a multi-cloud environment, with anomaly alerts popping up clearly with drill down for threats in workloads, containers and data flows, making threat hunting, compliance checks and posture management feel straightforward and empowering for SecOps users of all levels. Set up is effortless via agentless scanning and quick onboarding, allowing teams to drive straight into proactive security without a complex installation process.
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