CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection

4.6

Overview

Product Information on CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection

Updated 30th October 2024

What is CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection?

CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection takes a modern approach to securing enterprise data from adversaries. Falcon Data Protection is an AI-powered platform offering data protection, built on a unified agent and a single console. By combining content with context and behavior, Falcon Data Protection provides deep, real-time visibility into the movement of sensitive data, including data artifacts, as they flow from source to destination. Falcon Data Protection empowers organizations to reduce complexity and costs by consolidating data protection and endpoint security into a single, lightweight agent that is effortless to deploy and operate.

Overall experience with CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection

IT Manager
<50M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection delivers fast, unified endpoint data security with real-time controls and AI-driven detection. Policy tuning and premium pricing are key drawbacks, and coverage for cloud/email data-at-rest is limited.

4.0
Oct 8, 2025
Based on hands-on use as both an administrator and daily user, CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection stands out for its seamless integration and minimal impact on endpoint performance. The unified sensor allows rapid deployment with instant visibility into sensitive data movement, both at rest and in motion, across our cloud and endpoint environments. The platform's real-time detection and content-aware policies empower us to quickly identify and block unauthorized data transfers, including attempts to move sensitive information via browsers, generative AI tools, or removable media. Policy creation is intuitive, with simulation and monitoring modes helping to tune settings before enforcement, which significantly reduces workflow disruptions. Triage and forensics features further accelerate incident investigations. While there's a brief adjustment period for advanced rule configurations, day-to-day management has been straightforward and reliable.
Operations engineer
<50M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

La herramienta ofrece gran visibilidad pero carece de soporte para Linux

3.0
Jul 2, 2025
Es una herramienta excepcional pero con muchas deficiencias actualmente, si bien nos proporciona una visibilidad completa de la protección de datos en los activos Windows, no existe soporte para sistemas operativos Linux. Hablando más del funcionamiento, me parece que es una herramienta útil y que con la ayuda de tableros puede ser mucho más digerible y útil ver a que sitios acceden nuestros activos.

About Company

Company Description

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

Company type
Public
Year Founded
2011
Head office location
Remote, United States
Number of employees
5001 - 10000

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4.6

(118 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

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68%
4 Star
29%
3 Star
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2 Star
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4.6

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4.7

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  • IT Manager
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection delivers fast, unified endpoint data security with real-time controls and AI-driven detection. Policy tuning and premium pricing are key drawbacks, and coverage for cloud/email data-at-rest is limited.

    4.0
    Oct 8, 2025
    Based on hands-on use as both an administrator and daily user, CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection stands out for its seamless integration and minimal impact on endpoint performance. The unified sensor allows rapid deployment with instant visibility into sensitive data movement, both at rest and in motion, across our cloud and endpoint environments. The platform's real-time detection and content-aware policies empower us to quickly identify and block unauthorized data transfers, including attempts to move sensitive information via browsers, generative AI tools, or removable media. Policy creation is intuitive, with simulation and monitoring modes helping to tune settings before enforcement, which significantly reduces workflow disruptions. Triage and forensics features further accelerate incident investigations. While there's a brief adjustment period for advanced rule configurations, day-to-day management has been straightforward and reliable.
  • Operations engineer
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    La herramienta ofrece gran visibilidad pero carece de soporte para Linux

    3.0
    Jul 2, 2025
    Es una herramienta excepcional pero con muchas deficiencias actualmente, si bien nos proporciona una visibilidad completa de la protección de datos en los activos Windows, no existe soporte para sistemas operativos Linux. Hablando más del funcionamiento, me parece que es una herramienta útil y que con la ayuda de tableros puede ser mucho más digerible y útil ver a que sitios acceden nuestros activos.
  • SECURITY ANALYST
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Immediate Remediation and Human-Verified Alerts Reduce Threat Impact Significantly

    5.0
    Oct 11, 2025
    Reason for success: What works well - Instant full scope remediation: The MDR team has the authority to immediately isolate hosts, kill processes, and clean the endpoint. This capability dramatically reduces the Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR), often solving threats before the customer is even aware. What doesn't work well - The bundled service (software, 24/7 human capital, and full response) places it at the top tier of MDR pricing. This makes the service cost-prohibitive for many smaller organizations. Alert and monitoring: What works well: Near-zero false positives: Crowdstrike analysts perform human-verified triage on all alerts, filtering out noise. Customers only receive validated, actionable intelligence, effectively eliminating alert fatigue. What doesn't work well: Loss of granular control: Customers must grant the external team full executive authority for remediation. This can clash with strict internal change management or compliance policies that require explicit approval for every action. Service Scope: What works well: Integrated threat hunting: The service proactively hunts for sophisticated, stealthy threats ("living off the land" attacks) that automated tools might miss, actively raising the security baseline. What doesn't work well: Commitment to the Ecosystem: Choosing Falcon Complete creates vendor lock-in. Organizations wanting to use specialized third-party tools (like a different SIEM or a separate cloud security provider) may face complexity or limited integration options.
  • Human Resources Associate
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    User-friendly platform for strong data protection, even for a non-It

    4.0
    Nov 3, 2025
    This has been a great addition to our organisation set up and it helps us knowing that the sensitivity of employee and company data is protected, this platform is quite easy to use and easy to understand, and as I am a non-IT user, its not overly technical for me to understand Also, the support team is quick to respond and available whenever we need guidance or help
  • Managemnet Trainee
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Data Security Enhanced but Limited by Platform Gaps and Occasional False Positives

    5.0
    Jul 25, 2025
    We've had consistently positive experiences with CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection. And it's user friendly, integrates seamlessly into our environment, and offers clear visibility across both endpoints and cloud workloads. This has significantly strengthened our data security posture and improved our incident response time. The support team has been prompt and provides a dependable solution that aligns well with our organizational security objectives.
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