Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics [EOL] vs CrowdStrike Falcon comparison

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The compared Cisco and CrowdStrike solutions aren't in the same category. CrowdStrike is ranked #1 in EPP , with an average rating of 9.0, and holds a 5.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of CrowdStrike users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco Secure Cloud Analytic...

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

CrowdStrike Falcon

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

173

Ranking in other categories

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (1st), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (1st)

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Sudhanshu Pandey

Security Analyst at Orange España

Efficiently generates alerts for suspicious activities and scales easily

There are two areas of improvement. Firstly, extend the log retrieval limit to at least three months. For example, there is a limit on the number of log messages that can be received. So, I would like to expand the log retrieval limit. And another thing, if we migrate these things to an event or send us an email if there is any critical event, I would like to configure these things on the initial launch. Because if a system is compromised, there will be a lot of data movement from one post to another post to the outside. Then, we should also get an alert on email as well. We have since we have integrated these things. But a direct email for critical alerts should be there. So, I would like to enhance the critical event configuration. If a new user wants to learn how it should work, how policies work, and where we can configure policies, there should be some learning material for this product.

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Jacob White

Senior Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Centralized endpoint protection has strengthened compliance and accelerated incident response

There are a number of areas that I only touch a handful of times, but when I get in there, I realize why I don't do that. The main area would be within the support area. The support bot is not really as smart as you would expect it, especially in this day and age of LLM and other capabilities that I know CrowdStrike Falcon is already capable of doing. Additionally, I would appreciate a little bit more easy to read insights of some of the dashboards or maybe manipulation of the dashboards. It is still a little cumbersome to build custom dashboards and it's not as intuitive as you would think. Documentation is abysmal and needs to be improved dramatically. I know that there's a big effort to do this, however, even the new effort is honestly worse than it was before. Those are definitely major areas of improvement, just more in the usability of the features.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We were able to prevent an electric fraud of almost $200,000."

"The tool's best feature is its ability to monitor network traffic. It will also inform users whether the traffic generated by a network is legitimate. The tool helps to capture and analyze the network traffic."

"The product helps me to see malware."

"Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud is scalable because it is on the cloud."

"The logs in Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud are very good when doing the API integration in the team. It is able to give you important information for the correlations."

"My advice to others is Cisco has great solutions and I would recommend them."

"Monitoring the traffic, making sure you have the visibility."

"It tells you if there is any communication going to command and control servers, or if there is any traffic that violates your internal policy, or if any data hoarding is happening where data is being dumped from your machine to outside of the environment. It provides all such meaningful reports to help you understand what's happening."

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"As long as the machine is connected to the Internet, and CrowdStrike is running, then it will be on and we will have visibility; no VPNing in or making some type of network connection. CrowdStrike always there and running in the background; for us, that is big. We wanted something that could give us data as long as the machines connected to the Internet and be almost invisible to the employees."

"The EDR feature of CrowdStrike is fantastic."

"The solution's reporting console is phenomenal, and I can get a lot of data out of it."

"Using CrowdStrike Falcon has changed the way my security team detects, investigates, and responds to threats because it gives us a lot of granularity on what goes on, what processes are being run, and what is actually being executed if anyone is trying to get onto our endpoints."

"Using CrowdStrike Falcon has changed the way my security team detects, investigates, and responds to threats by giving my team a single source outside of our SIEM to be able to quickly and easily drill into the incident and understand what the alert from our SIEM actually means."

"The most valuable feature is the activity dashboard because it gives you a holistic view of your environment from a security standpoint."

"This product has worked flawlessly to prevent breaches, and then it has allowed us to prevent any downtime."

"Because it is security product and acts like an AIML smart product, not merely based on daily/weekly updates and signatures."

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Cons

"When I used to work on it, I just didn't see anything new happening for about a year and a half. Providing newer data and newer reports constantly would help. There should be more classifications and more interesting data."

"The product needs to improve its user-friendliness. It is very tricky and you need to study it before using the standard functionalities."

"Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud could improve the graphical user interface. It could be a more user-friendly graphical user interface."

"If we migrate these things to an event or send us an email if there is any critical event, I would like to configure these things on the initial launch. Because if a system is compromised, there will be a lot of data movement from one post to another post to the outside. Then, we should also get an alert on email as well. We have since we have integrated these things. But a direct email for critical alerts should be there. So, I would like to enhance the critical event configuration."

"The initial setup is a bit complex in terms of deployment and configuration."

"Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud could improve the graphical user interface. It could be a more user-friendly graphical user interface. so that. Not everybody's a cyber security professional, most of the customers that I deal with are not very skilled. The terms that they use in the solution are quite understandable for a normal CIO."

"The product's price is high."

"The initial setup of Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud is complex."

"The solution needs to have integration with on-premises security devices and security facilities. That means all the security products, including the perimeter firewall, the DMZ."

"I would like to see a little bit more in the offline scanning ability."

"CrowdStrike Falcon can be improved by continuing to adapt to everything that is going on with AI and other developments in the world."

"Some of Falcon's features are a bit pricey."

"It would be nice if the dashboard had some more information upfront, and looked a little better."

"As for stability, I would rate it around eight because last year they faced some downtime with around eight thousand computers, but it will improve."

"So far, the benefits I have seen from having multiple security capabilities on a single platform have been limited, but based on the testing, we see that it is identifying threats and it has shown us proactive capabilities to shut down the threats."

"There are definitely a couple of things CrowdStrike Falcon should improve, but I don't have all of them in my mind at this moment."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud is an expensive enterprise solution."

"The solution is quite expensive."

"The price of Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud is expensive."

"CrowdStrike Falcon is one of the more expensive endpoint solutions on the market."

"The pricing and licensing are reasonable. I don't think we are getting charged more than what it is worth. It is fair, but I do not like how it is a la carte. I realize they do that so other organizations can buy and get the agent, getting it cheaper than you could otherwise. However, if you want the main core package, which has all the main features with the exception of maybe the multi-cloud protections, that can get pricier for an organization. So, you have to pick and choose what you want. I do not care for a la carte pricing."

"Purchasing the product through the AWS Marketplace is just a click away. Since we were using the on-premise version of the product, we continued on the cloud by purchasing it through the AWS Marketplace."

"The other administrator and I can log in to check the exact details of what happened, what was running, and what caused the detection. We know exactly what was happening on the end users PC and we can tell if it's something that we actually need or something that's malicious."

"All I can say about the licensing cost is that it's negotiable."

"The cost of CrowdStrike Falcon in Latin America seems high relative to the economic conditions in the region."

"The product is expensive."

"The pricing of CrowdStrike Falcon is competitive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

15%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

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By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	6

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	58
Midsize Enterprise	46
Large Enterprise	83

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Also Known As

Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud, Observable Networks

CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon Threat Intelligence, CrowdStrike Identity Protection, CrowdStrike Falcon Surface, CrowdStrike Falcon Platform

Overview

Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics is a cloud-based security solution that provides visibility and threat detection for cloud environments. It offers software mapping and automation for incident response, forensic analysis, and segmentation of IT architecture. The solution can be used on-premise or on the cloud and is used in various sectors such as insurance and government.

The logs in Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics are valuable for API integration in a team as they provide important information for correlations. The solution also offers automated incident response and integration with next-generation firewalls and antivirus solutions."

Cisco

CrowdStrike Falcon delivers AI-powered endpoint protection, detection, and response to help organizations stop malware, ransomware, fileless attacks, and sophisticated adversaries. Built on the cloud-native Falcon platform and a single lightweight sensor, it combines prevention, EDR, threat intelligence, and automated response to protect endpoints while simplifying security operations.

What features make CrowdStrike Falcon stand out?

AI-Powered Prevention: Uses next-generation antivirus, machine learning, behavioral analysis, and exploit blocking to protect against known and unknown threats.
Endpoint Detection and Response: Provides continuous endpoint visibility and contextual detection to accelerate threat investigation and response.
Adversary Intelligence: Enriches endpoint telemetry and detections with CrowdStrike threat intelligence to help teams understand and prioritize threats.
Automated Response: Enables endpoint isolation, remediation, and automated workflows to contain and eliminate threats quickly.

What benefits can users expect?

Stronger Endpoint Protection: Helps stop malware, ransomware, and sophisticated attacks before they lead to breaches.
Faster Investigation and Response: Combines detection, context, and automation to help security teams respond more efficiently.
Reduced Complexity: Consolidates endpoint security capabilities through a unified platform, console, and lightweight sensor.
Scalable Security: Cloud-native architecture helps organizations deploy and manage protection across endpoint environments without legacy on-premises infrastructure.

Across industries, CrowdStrike Falcon helps organizations modernize endpoint security, improve security team efficiency, and stop sophisticated threats with AI-powered protection and adversary intelligence.

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Sample Customers

Options, Schneider Electric, Washington University in St Louis, Gotcha, Kraft Kennedy, PartnerRe, Sumologic, Veterans United, AFGE, Agraform, Artesys, Dynamic Ideas Financials, Department of Agriculture and Commerce

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