Name: CrowdStrike Falcon
Rating: 4.7 (3327 reviews)

Overview

Product Information on CrowdStrike Falcon

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 Security & Risk Management Associate

<50M USD, IT Services

FAVORABLE

“Removable Media Management Eases Operations But May Not Justify Standalone Cost”

5.0

Mar 10, 2026

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LEAD DEVOP MANAGER

50M - 250M USD, Banking

CRITICAL

“Cloud-Based Threat Detection Offers Analytics But Causes Issues On Older Machines”

3.0

Dec 3, 2025

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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

Ease of control via Falcon console Pristine integration within the Falcon ecosystem Efficient as a media security

We notice first that sometimes legitimate files or process are flagged as threats, which can disrupt workflows and required manual review to whitelist safe items. We where hopping this would solve it for use so we spend less time. Secondly, the agent can consume significant CPU and memory on older machine leading to slower performance and impacting user productivity. The incident that happed few months ago world wide that create a blue screen, cost. Should not be happed that's why they need to check careful planning they update beter.

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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 2024334 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

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<50M USD

IT Services

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Removable Media Management Eases Operations But May Not Justify Standalone Cost

Using Crowdstrike's removable media security as a customer has generally felt like a natural extension of the Falcon platform rather than a completely separate tool. If your organization is already invested in CS for endpoint protection, adding removable media control feels seamless. The biggest benefit I noticed was the visibility it provides into USB activity across endpoints. You can quickly see when a device is plugged in, what type of device it is and what activity occurs around it. For security teams concerned about data exfiltration or malware entering through USB drives, that level of insight is very reassuring. From a practical standpoint, policy management is fairly straightforward once you get used to the Falcon console. Setting rules to block or allow devices by type or by specific identifiers works well and policies propagate quickly because everything is cloud-managed. In day-to-day operations, it doesn't feel intrusive for end users either, which is important because overly aggressive device control tools can disrupt workflows. On the downside, it doesn't feel like a full DLP solution. It does a good job controlling devices and monitoring activity, but it doesn't deeply inspect the content or files being transferred the way dedicated DLP platforms do. Organizations that need strict control over sensitive data movement may still need and additional DLP tool alongside it. Price is another factor that might be an impediment. CS ecosystem is premium and removable media protection is typically part of additional modules. For large enterprises that already rely on Falcon, the value is clear because it integrates so well with existing workflows. For smaller organizations, however, it may feel like a costly feature if removable media control is the only requirement. Overall, I feel that CrowdStrike Removable Media Security works best when it's viewed as part of a larger endpoint security strategy rather than a standalone solution.

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