CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR vs Fortra's Alert Logic MDR comparison

CrowdStrike and Fortra are both solutions in the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) category. CrowdStrike is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.8, while Fortra is ranked #19 with an average rating of 10.0. CrowdStrike holds a 11.9% mindshare in MDR, compared to Fortra’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of CrowdStrike users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Fortra users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Fortra's Alert Logic MDR and CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR compete in the managed detection and response market. Data suggests that CrowdStrike holds the upper hand due to its advanced features and performance, which justify its cost despite its higher pricing.

Features: Fortra's Alert Logic MDR offers robust security analytics, comprehensive threat intelligence, and responsive intrusion handling. CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR features AI-powered threat detection, rapid response capabilities, and seamless integration with other security tools.

Room for Improvement: Fortra's Alert Logic MDR could enhance its real-time threat response, user interface, and automation capabilities. CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR may improve in terms of reducing deployment complexity, managing high information influx, and simplifying its comprehensive dashboard.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Fortra's Alert Logic MDR showcases straightforward deployment and configurable settings paired with responsive customer service. CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR ensures quick deployment with minimal setup and proactive support, noted by users for its simplicity and efficiency.

Pricing and ROI: Fortra's Alert Logic MDR is appreciated for cost-effectiveness, delivering good ROI to smaller enterprises. CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR, despite higher initial costs, offers substantial ROI for those seeking robust and innovative security, with its pricing reflecting comprehensive coverage and protection.

To learn more, read our detailed CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR vs. Fortra's Alert Logic MDR Report (Updated: July 2025).

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CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR vs. Fortra's Alert Logic MDR

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Categories and Ranking

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete...

Ranking in Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Fortra's Alert Logic MDR

Ranking in Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

19th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (28th), SOC as a Service (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) category, the mindshare of CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR is 11.9%, down from 16.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortra's Alert Logic MDR is 1.1%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Otis Brinson

Principal at GoTo Foods

Helps users keep track of everything from one place

The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that we can track all of it in one place across all those different locations. Because it's cloud-based and reports up to the cloud, we also have access to the back end, and an incident response team monitors all incidents. We also have an escalation process in place. From my perspective, there are other pieces of CrowdStrike that the security architect team uses as well, but I don't get involved with those as much. I usually just wait for the end results or the notification if I need to get involved if there is an incident.

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reviewer2191746

President at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's a highly mature, competitively priced solution that provides total visibility into your ecosystem. FORTRA's Alert Logic has the only Cybersecurity Platform that integrates XDR+WAF+VM+DLP in one.

Alert Logic offers total visibility into the client's IT ecosystem. The solution's intrusion detection system inspects 100 percent of the network packets and installs universal agents on all physical and virtual servers for log collection. Alert Logic also aggregates logs of the client's various 3rd Party security tools into a single pane of glass. All of the analytics from those data feeds got to a 24/7 SOC with sophisticated resources. Alert Logic has massive threat intelligence resources to provide additional context to the incident response declarations. They do all the heavy lifting for clients who lack the technology and resources to operate their own SOC. The client is solely responsible for the incident response component. The macro analytics resides on Alert Logic's cloud. You have the ECM response and business application team on the client side. Everything works in tandem, which is the only way you can deal with the advanced threats we face today, especially the ransomware families. If you don't respond in minutes, you're in trouble.

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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

"What's most valuable about CrowdStrike Falcon Complete as an endpoint security solution is that it provides different features against malware outbreaks. The solution is also cloud-based so it offers flexibility in terms of managing it. It's also easy to deploy the agent and you can deploy it through CrowdStrike, your CloudStrike console, or you can take that agent out and you can use different solutions to deploy it through your group policy, your SSCM, or any asset management tool."

"It is an endpoint protection product. It has a very good reporting engine and dashboard. It has a good set of endpoint controls. It provides an effective set of protections. When we throw malware and stuff like that at it, it is able to stop them."

"It is a cloud-based solution. You can easily scale it."

"Its machine learning and AI features are good."

"The solution is easy to deploy and manage."

"It is a major anti-malware solution. It can stop zero-day attacks and ransomware attacks. There are so many features in CrowdStrike. Falcon Overwatch is a valuable module. It is lightweight on the endpoints. It doesn't have any scanning mechanism. It works on artificial intelligence, static analysis, and dynamic analysis. There is no signature available on this. It is a pretty easy solution. It is cloud-based, so there is no driver maintenance or anything like that. You can go anywhere in the world. If you have internet, you'll get connected to the cloud and the policies that it contains. It is pretty simple."

"With the support of the CrowdStrike team, I rate them a ten out of ten."

"What I found most valuable in CrowdStrike Falcon Complete is that it has a lot of monitoring dashboards and use cases, and I saw that it's a very good product, but my company has only tested it, so it's not been used for real use cases. My company hasn't tested the complete license for CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, so the team hasn't checked the open fiber rooms for zero-day attacks, IOAs and IOCs, or any indicators of fraudulent activities. I was also amazed at the solution and its licensing. My company did a competitive analysis of many EDR solutions, but it went with CrowdStrike Falcon Complete. It's one of the top-rated solutions on CyberRatings as well."

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"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."

"The solution was consistently available, and I cannot recall any instances where it was down."

"Everything is in one dashboard; I'm notified when there's an incident and advised on what steps to take."

"It has the ability to install agents. It is pretty straightforward. You can automate the process pretty easily."

"It is a very stable product."

"The most valuable aspect of Alert Logic is its technology platform. They have SOCs in the US and Europe, giving them global visibility of the threat landscape. They detect and respond to threats in minutes. Their biggest value is human expertise. You're being attacked by a human, and you cannot respond to it unless you have a human on the other side. They have the human and technological resources to respond."

"While I still have on-premises appliances, I can remotely monitor everything from the cloud, and Alert Logic's ease-of-access features have helped me streamline my workflow and reduce implementation time."

"The installation and configuration were slick."

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Cons

"In a future release, it would be ideal if they could add reporting and action histories to their suite of features."

"All of our customers complain about the reporting and say that it is very poor."

"They are doing very well in continuously improving their product. The only thing is that it is completely cloud-based, and some customers don't really like that type of approach, but you can only provide such a solution when you have cloud-based intelligence. On the other end, we know that it is sometimes a breaking point for some of the customers. They could potentially have an on-prem or hybrid solution. Any antivirus needs to have its features updated. If there could be a relay between them, it would be helpful, but that's very hard to do. So, you either accept that approach and have the benefit with this little disadvantage."

"It really is an expensive product in the South African market. And they need people in our country. Their partner program isn't yet where it should be. They need a lot of work and there's a lot of improvement needed."

"Their endpoint solution is excellent. But I would like to see them improve their HDR, as well as their DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."

"We're a small organization. I'm not sure how it would fare if you were larger and had more and more users and added complexity."

"The installation could always be a bit easier. You need to install it manually at the endpoint."

"The licensing is a bit complex."

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"Alert Logic needs to expand its SOCs to serve more markets, such as the Middle East and Asia. There should be infrastructure that covers more time zones. The company should also develop an EDR that is natively integrated into their solution. Currently, a client must buy another EDR solution like CrowdStrike or Sophos. I think Alert Logic is developing this. Built-in email security could also be developed and integrated."

"As a user involved with the user interface, I believe there is a need to continue improving it based on feedback from our customers."

"Could be more of an endpoint protector."

"This product needs to mature more. While it is a good product, there are some areas where it needs work."

"The documentation, especially with the initial setup, needs improvement."

"The product needs to mature. We don't want to be bombarded with unnecessary issues and have the real ones slip through."

"We'd like to have triggered alerts sent to us so we see errors quicker."

"I would like to see it do initial scans and start capturing data, which it will truly analyze, not just be a reporting system saying, "Here is an email. Here is an email. Here is an email.""

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a license needed to use the solution. The price of the solution is fair."

"There is a standard license to use CrowdStrike Falcon Complete."

"CrowdStrike offers training at an additional cost, so many organizations wouldn't want that route."

"Falcon Complete isn't too pricy."

"Pricing is reasonable."

"CrowdStrike is more expensive than SentinelOne. Licensing works on the number of agents and the modules you buy. CrowdStrike has different modules, such as Falcon, Falcon Overwatch, Falcon Complete, etc. The pricing depends upon the module that the customer wants. They have different Incident Response (IR) teams, which are very expensive."

"If you are looking from an IT standpoint, you get what you pay for. There is proactive monitoring in addition to the insurance policy. They do that better than others. Would you like it cheaper? Yes, but at what cost?"

"While the cost is relatively high, it is justified by the value it brings."

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"Our ROI would probably be zero. We don't even use it. It sits in there. We get emails and just delete them. Around the world, we don't even use it."

"Its pricing is very reasonable considering what you get for what you pay. There is quite a good value there. Its licensing is also very logical. They've got the licensing price points at a reasonable level. It is on a monthly license but a yearly contract. There are no additional costs to the standard licensing fees."

"Almost any product that is on the AWS Marketplace is super easy to subscribe to."

"Alert Logic has better competitive pricing than some of its competitors."

"Price of the solution was very reasonable considering the size of our organization at the time, and so it worked out perfectly."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Retailer

Computer Software Company

23%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Performing Arts

Company Size

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CrowdStrike Falcon Complete?

It is a cloud-based solution. You can easily scale it.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CrowdStrike Falcon Complete?

CrowdStrike has a reasonable price. It's a good price, but if CrowdStrike offered coupons or discounts on a monthly or quarterly basis, it would be more beneficial for smaller vendors trying to imp...

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What needs improvement with CrowdStrike Falcon Complete?

I am comfortable with the way it is working right now. From a pricing perspective, I am not really involved, so I do not know. For UI/UX, it is good, but I think they should keep up with the times....

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Also Known As

Falcon Complete

Alert Logic MDR, Alert Logic Managed Detection and ResponseAlert Logic Threat Manager, Alert Logic Cloud Defender, Critical Watch FusionVM

Overview

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR provides advanced endpoint protection through behavioral-based analysis, threat hunting, and zero-day attack prevention for devices, servers, clients, and mobile endpoints.

Organizations utilize CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR for comprehensive security management, including monitoring and detecting vulnerabilities, ransomware protection, and enhancing overall security postures. It replaces traditional antiviruses and seamlessly integrates with other security solutions to ensure proactive threat management.

What are the key features of CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR?

AI and Machine Learning Detection: Identifies sophisticated threats using advanced algorithms.
Comprehensive Threat Intelligence: Delivers in-depth threat data for informed decision-making.
Real-Time Updates: Ensures constant protection against emerging threats.
Scalable Deployment: Adapts to organizational growth and changes.
Responsive Threat Hunting: Proactively searches for potential threats in the environment.
Minimal CPU Usage: Operates efficiently without hampering performance.
User-Friendly Dashboards: Simplifies monitoring and management tasks.
Strong Integration: Works well with other security tools and platforms.
Proactive Monitoring: Continuously observes systems to preemptively address issues.
Extensive Forensic Capabilities: Offers deep insights into security incidents.
Lightweight Endpoint Agent: Ensures endpoints are protected without affecting performance.
Efficient Incident Response: Quickly addresses and mitigates security breaches.
Broad OS Support: Compatible with a wide range of operating systems.

What benefits or ROI should be considered?

Reduced Downtime: Minimizes disruptions through swift threat detection and response.
Enhanced Security Posture: Strengthens overall security through comprehensive protection measures.
Cost Savings: Lowers expenses by replacing multiple security tools with an integrated solution.
Scalability: Adapts to the growing and changing needs of the organization.
Proactive Threat Management: Identifies and mitigates threats before they cause significant damage.

In specific industries such as finance, healthcare, and education, CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR is implemented to ensure compliance with regulatory standards, protect sensitive data, and defend against sophisticated threats. These sectors benefit from CrowdStrike's robust endpoint protection mechanisms and detailed forensic capabilities, which help maintain security integrity and operational continuity.

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Fortra's Alert Logic MDR specializes in threat detection and response with features like log access and user-friendly notifications. It is used primarily in extensive e-commerce deployments for network protection.

Fortra's Alert Logic MDR provides a unified interface with comprehensive search capabilities, immediate log access, and efficient reporting tools. Users benefit from accurate scanning, automated security warnings, and rapid response times, supported by SOCs for global visibility. The technology employs human expertise for enhanced threat detection and prevention, with a hardware setup designed to avoid virtual environment issues. However, there's a need for improved error tracing, intuitive navigation, and stronger analytical automation within the platform. Enhancements in setup documentation and user interfaces are desired, alongside demands for a built-in EDR and better alert management systems.

What are the key features of Fortra's Alert Logic MDR?

Comprehensive Searching: Enables detailed investigations.
Immediate Log Access: Provides quick insight into system activities.
User-Friendly Notifications: Enhances alert effectiveness.
Automated Security Warnings: Offers proactive security measures.
Optimized Platform: Delivers efficient functionality across services.
Heuristic Monitoring: Guards against complex threats.

What benefits and ROI should users seek in reviews?

Quick Response Times: Minimizes downtime and improves efficiency.
Global Visibility: Extends threat management reach through SOCs.
Human Expertise: Enhances detection and intervention accuracy.
Streamlined Deployment: Facilitates smoother hardware integration.

Fortra's Alert Logic MDR is widely implemented across public and private sectors for robust network protection. It supports large-scale e-commerce operations, offering advanced detection capabilities with AI and machine learning. Security scanning, intrusion detection, and vulnerability analysis in Kubernetes are key applications.

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Sample Customers

Palm Beach State College, Mercedes-AMG, Pokemon, Telstra, Goldman Sachs, Zebra

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