CrowdStrike Falcon vs Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 13, 2026

Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] and CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR are solutions competing in the endpoint security category. CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR seems to have the upper hand with advanced threat intelligence features, making it a preferred choice based on functionality.

Features: Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] offers robust encryption, extensive data loss prevention, and effective security management that enhance data security and compliance. CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR delivers comprehensive threat detection, advanced threat response capabilities, and seamless cloud integration, offering a proactive approach to security.

Room for Improvement: Dell's solution can enhance its cloud functionality, real-time threat analysis, and integration with advanced AI features. CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR may improve by providing more flexible pricing models, expanding its suite of native tools, and streamlining its user interface for broader accessibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell's suite enables traditional on-premises deployment with substantial customer support during setup. In contrast, CrowdStrike's cloud-native architecture simplifies deployment, requiring less infrastructure while offering a swift installation process backed by reliable cloud-based services. Although Dell provides attentive support, CrowdStrike's streamlined platform reduces complexity and vastly improves the user experience.

Pricing and ROI: Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] offers lower initial pricing and delivers steady ROI with effective cost management. CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR presents a higher initial cost but justifies the investment through improved operational efficiency and enhanced threat protection, which contributes to long-term ROI advantages.

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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...

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ABHISHEK_SINGH

Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk

Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration

Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.

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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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Mohammad Shahabuddin Anwar

Health Care Integration Engineer at RamSoft

Confident backups have enabled reliable rollbacks and supported multi-cloud growth

Central management is one of the main use cases of Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL]. Comprehensive workload coverage in Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] helps us back up our data. Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] has positively impacted our organization because we were able to test and implement changes confidently, knowing that if something goes wrong, we can roll back the changes. This confidence in our recovery capabilities helped us grow and conduct more research and development. Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] offers very fast recovery time capabilities.

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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

"Monitoring is most valuable."

"The solution allows us to gain remote access without the user's knowledge and take the necessary actions on the device."

"In one single alert, we are getting the network telemetry, endpoint telemetry, email security telemetry, and proxy telemetry all in one single ticket, making it very easy."

"The solution allows control over the user and his machine through Cortex XDR security policies."

"It has absolutely improved the way our organization functions, we are more secure, it is giving us more peace of mind, and it has found malicious activity happening on our endpoints that probably would not have been detected if we didn't have it."

"The most valuable features of this product are the management capabilities, which allow an IT organization to get quite a good picture of attempted cyber attacks, and its out-of-the-box investigation capabilities."

"The interface is easy to use and it is more up to date than our previous solution."

"Based on my experience with Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, I highly recommend it due to its quick response to zero-day attacks and low utilization from end-user devices."

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"Among CrowdStrike Falcon's most valuable capabilities are its UEBA and SOAR functionalities, along with its seamless integration with any other SIEM solution."

"What differentiates CrowdStrike Falcon from other cybersecurity platforms I have used or evaluated is that it is more intuitive, more agile, and less cumbersome, giving us readily available information along with better handling of intelligence."

"CrowdStrike's advantage is that the agent is light, so it doesn't require many resources on the machines, it's easy to install, and the results are useful to the organization."

"The most valuable feature is that we don't need to re-image machines as much as we had to."

"The detection and response have been excellent overall."

"The most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon is its accuracy."

"The machine learning behavior for anomaly detection is a valuable feature. It helps identify any suspicious or unusual activities within the system."

"CrowdStrike has improved our incident response capabilities."

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"The most valuable features of the solution are its speed, backup speed, and restore speed."

"It is a stable solution."

"Dell Data Protection has a decent service and integrates well with users' active directories."

"It is a stable solution. Our company faces no problems with the backup system…The initial setup wasn't complex."

"The security engine is effective at catching potential threats."

"There's a really they have a really nice way to test it first. Before you adopt it. And so I would suggest trying to they they create a test site for you, and they give you a link to it, and you can basically try out all the features on your own for I think we did it for a month."

"Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] has positively impacted our organization because we were able to test and implement changes confidently, knowing that if something goes wrong, we can roll back the changes."

"Technical support is excellent."

Cons

"When it comes to malware files, it should be a little quick because, at times, it would give a wrong result in the sense of what it might be on malware, even if it still might be a normal one."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is not only pricey; it is extremely expensive."

"I would rate it an 8 rather than a 10 mainly because there is still room to improve the user experience around complex investigations, including alert tuning and third-party integration."

"Although I would say this product is highly-rated, it could probably do more because nothing does everything that you want."

"It would be good if they could make an exception for applications. Sometimes, it can be a bit of a challenge to make exceptions for certain applications that have been used as rogue."

"The solution lacks real-time, on-demand antivirus."

"The solution should enhance the ADR and reporting."

"The technical support is not very good. I find the process difficult."

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"I would also like to see the endpoint firewall component produce some level of logging and feedback."

"The KDR solution is immature. They do not have much preemption in ITDR. Threat prevention should be their first priority, and false positive reductions are needed."

"The dashboard does not have the facility to export the reports in a PDF format, which I can quickly share with internal stakeholders."

"We encounter occasional issues, such as when disabling network access for a host that uses CrowdStrike."

"CrowdStrike Falcon could improve the EDR functionality."

"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."

"CrowdStrike Falcon could improve the EDR functionality. Once the functionality of the solution improves, it will be even better in the market and able to compete with Carbon Black."

"In my opinion, CrowdStrike Falcon could be further improved with better clarity of the dashboard."

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"Deployment complexity is higher in Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL], and the user interface could be improved significantly."

"The solution could be more user-friendly."

"The restore feed needs improvement."

"The solution’s user interface should be made more user-friendly."

"I consider the product pretty expensive, so from an improvement perspective, I would like the pricing to be better."

"Implementation in a beta environment is necessary before rollout to the larger community."

"Whenever we talk about reporting, I have a chance to look at the reporting, and in my opinion, it's not user-friendly."

"The backup speed and deduplication are the most valuable features."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Very costly product."

"It is "expensive" and flexible."

"I am using the Community edition."

"The price was fine."

"Cortex XDR's pricing is ok."

"This is an expensive solution."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is quite an expensive solution."

"Compared to CrowdStrike, Cortex XDR is an expensive solution."

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"It is expensive compared to SentinelOne, but as the market leader, it is worth it."

"As I'm part of the technical team, not the budgeting team, I don't have information on CrowdStrike Falcon pricing."

"Crowdstrike Falcon is relatively cheap."

"Annual licensing."

"CrowdStrike is a reasonably priced tool."

"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."

"I would like them to further reduce the price, because it is quite pricey at the moment."

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"It is an expensive solution."

"You'll need to pay more than the product's original price for the support."

"It is more expensive than one of its competitors."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

14%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

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Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	50
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	57

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Small Business	62
Midsize Enterprise	54
Large Enterprise	103

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Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	2

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

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

DDP, ESS

Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

Palo Alto Networks

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.

CrowdStrike

Dell endpoint systems management (ESM) products provide a comprehensive and easy-to-use family of solutions that fulfills your systems management needs, regardless of your organization's size. Dell ESM solutions manage, maintain and secure your entire IT infrastructure - servers, Windows PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, mobile devices and connected noncomputing devices, such as printers, IP telephony and routers, in preparation for the Internet of Things. With a flexible suite of products and services, Dell ESM prepares companies to meet emerging systems management requirements, Preconfigured appliances, robust features, simple integrations with other software, fast deployment and rapid time to value.

Dell Technologies

Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

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MEIZU, TBG West, Ackerman Charter School District, Church of the Highlands

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