Name: CrowdStrike Falcon
Rating: 4.7 (3322 reviews)

Overview

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What is CrowdStrike Falcon?

The CrowdStrike Falcon platform features a single lightweight agent that delivers cutting-edge, AI-powered real-time protection and visibility. Designed to defend endpoints and workloads both on and off the network, it stops threats before they become breaches. Backed by adversary-driven threat intelligence and AI, the Falcon platform processes trillions of global events weekly in real time, fueling an advanced security data platform accessible through a unified command console.

Overall experience with CrowdStrike Falcon

IT ASSOCIATE

<50M USD, Services (non-Government)

FAVORABLE

“Powerful, Lightweight with Proactive Threat Detection and Clear Endpount Visibiliy”

5.0

Nov 18, 2025

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IT SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE

500M - 1B USD, IT Services

CRITICAL

“Limited Local Management and Reporting Features May Hinder Administrative Flexibility”

3.0

Jan 22, 2026

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For Market:
Endpoint Protection Platforms

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

Website

http://www.crowdstrike.com

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CrowdStrike Falcon Likes & Dislikes

What I like most about CrowdStrike Falcon is its proactive detection and rapid response to threats. The combination of real-time analysis, process behavior and cloud-based protection allows you to identify even unknown or fileless attacks that other traditional solutions could miss. For example, Falcon once detected suspicious activity on an endpoint that was running a legitimate script modified by an attacker. The platform automatically blocked the malicious execution and generated a detailed report with recommendations on how to enforce application policy, allowing the security team to remediate the situation without impacting operations. Additionally, the centralized interface and clear alerts make managing and monitoring all endpoints much simpler and more efficient. This gives me confidence that our devices are constantly protected without the need for constant manual intervention.

not easy to manage locally to check and fix, and no option to scan file uploads

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Peer Discussions

What Your Peers Are Saying About CrowdStrike Falcon

CISO

We are already using multiple modules of Crowdstrike Falcon. Have you used CS Falcon for IT in production and, if yes, what are your experiences?

Associate Director, Information Security Management

Yes, we are and have been for some time. On servers it’s a lightweight deployment: Fast and easy In almost all cases, no reboot required Low resource consumption on the local OS Low Network usage We also find it’s quite effective at the behavioural side of blocking attackers when they get hands-on-keyboards (vs. scripted/automated) attacks. It’s an effective heterogeneous solution applying and performing quite well across Linux, Windows and macOS. Not all EDR/XDR tools are effective heterogeneous solutions.

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15 May 2024330 Views2 Comments

Director of IT

We are at the edge of closing a contract with Crowdstrike Falcon Complete, a MDR-solution including managed service for monitoring the security of our infrastructure 24/7. The functionality looked promising during a short pilot we organized. We are now in the contracting phase and discovered that we need to pay upfront for a three years contract. For a managed service I find this rather strange, while I am used to pay on a monthly, quarterly or sometimes yearly basis. Does someone in the peer group has the same experience with Crowdstrike?

Director of Enablement

I was always under the perception that Crowdstrike operated on a net-60 opex model. Are they asking for the TCV in a lump sum?

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25 Oct 20231.6k Views1 Comment

CrowdStrike Falcon Reviews and Ratings

4.7

(3037 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star: 79%
4 Star: 20%
3 Star: 1%
2 Star: 0%
1 Star: 0%

IT ASSOCIATE
<50M USD
Services (non-Government)
Review Source
Powerful, Lightweight with Proactive Threat Detection and Clear Endpount Visibiliy
5.0
Nov 18, 2025
My overall experience with CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection has been very positive. The platform is light on endpoints and does not affect device performance, which has facilitated its mass deployment without end users noticing interruptions. A concrete example: during a deployment to remote employee laptops, Falcon detected a script-based malware attempt that had not been identified by our previous solution. The alert quickly reached the central dashboard, and the security team was able to isolate the affected computer, analyze the behavior, and eliminate the threat in less than an hour. On a day-to-day basis, the Falcon console provides complete endpoint visibility and facilitates incident investigation, which has significantly reduced response time and manual workload for our security team. Overall, it has been a reliable and efficient tool to protect our endpoints and minimize

IT ASSOCIATE

<50M USD

Services (non-Government)

Review Source

Powerful, Lightweight with Proactive Threat Detection and Clear Endpount Visibiliy

5.0

Nov 18, 2025

My overall experience with CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection has been very positive. The platform is light on endpoints and does not affect device performance, which has facilitated its mass deployment without end users noticing interruptions. A concrete example: during a deployment to remote employee laptops, Falcon detected a script-based malware attempt that had not been identified by our previous solution. The alert quickly reached the central dashboard, and the security team was able to isolate the affected computer, analyze the behavior, and eliminate the threat in less than an hour. On a day-to-day basis, the Falcon console provides complete endpoint visibility and facilitates incident investigation, which has significantly reduced response time and manual workload for our security team. Overall, it has been a reliable and efficient tool to protect our endpoints and minimize

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