CrowdStrike Falcon vs Heimdal Endpoint Security comparison

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CrowdStrike and Heimdal are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. CrowdStrike is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.0, while Heimdal is ranked #38 with an average rating of 9.0. CrowdStrike holds a 5.5% mindshare in EPP, compared to Heimdal’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of CrowdStrike users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Heimdal users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 13, 2026

CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR and Heimdal Endpoint Security compete in endpoint protection and threat detection. Heimdal Endpoint Security offers more comprehensive features, making it a preferred choice despite potentially higher costs for some organizations.

Features: CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR provides real-time visibility, seamless integration with other tools, and advanced detection capabilities. Heimdal Endpoint Security distinguishes itself with proactive threat prevention, traffic filtering, and vulnerability management, offering a broader security approach.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: CrowdStrike provides a streamlined cloud-based deployment with responsive customer support, noted for efficiency. Heimdal's deployment is similarly straightforward, with added traffic filtering requiring extra setup. Its customer service is accessible and supportive.

Pricing and ROI: CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR presents a higher upfront cost with a promise of significant ROI through its security ecosystem. Heimdal Endpoint Security involves higher costs but delivers comprehensive protection. CrowdStrike offers immediate cost benefits, while Heimdal's security solutions provide substantial long-term ROI.

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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.8%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CrowdStrike Falcon is 5.5%, down from 7.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Heimdal Endpoint Security is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
CrowdStrike Falcon	5.5%
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks	3.8%
Heimdal Endpoint Security	0.6%
Other	90.1%

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Featured Reviews

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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DEEPAK KUMAR PACHDEO DUBEY

Senior IT Support Specialist at PXGEO

Delivers efficiency and agility with USB control limitations

One area where we lag is that, since we use everything from Heimdal, including XDR and other features, we also use the privilege manager feature called Elevation. What we lack is granular USB control. We have an issue where we can only switch USB on or off. I want to whitelist specific devices in the network, which I currently cannot do.

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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

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks has accelerated the response time for my security team, so we have been able to resolve issues faster than usual."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks saves time in various ways, although the user interface is fairly standard."

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

"The most valuable features are incident creation, policy-based protection, IP whitelisting, and device encryption. These are beneficial for endpoint and server security."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks's ability to block sophisticated threats in real time is quite good and is on par with SentinelOne's."

"Once you become familiar with it, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a more powerful tool and I would say that I prefer it over MDE because it is a stronger tool for me."

"The solution's most valuable feature is the user interface."

"It's very stable. I've never experienced downtime for the ASM console or ASM core."

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"The product provides good monitoring features."

"The endpoint and server management are the most valuable features of CrowdStrike Falcon."

"So far, in the past three years, they've been absolutely great."

"I like the feature called RTC, the remote time connector."

"We don't need to maintain onsite servers and deep end user updates with the new vulnerabilities."

"It is very useful for endpoint protection and stopping data breaches, and that's its real strength."

"Everything is automatic. I install the sensor and renew the service. Periodically, I get a notice that they've shut something down."

"It has an extremely low footprint, so it has got minimum impact on the user end points in terms of CPU and memory usage."

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"As compared to multiple solutions I have used in the past, Heimdal is a very agile and lightweight solution."

Cons

"The GUI could be improved."

"I don't like that they have different types of licenses. For example, if users select a license, they think they will have all the platforms they need to improve their network or security. But after some time, Palo Alto Networks changed their licensing, and some of the features that, for example, were free at the beginning now have a cost. I think the integration can be improved. For example, a lot of tools are just integrated through APIs."

"Cortex XDR could be improved with more GUI features."

"If they had pulse rate detection, it would be better."

"It is not very strong in terms of endpoint management. It should have additional features like DLP, encryption, or advanced device control. Currently, Cortex is good in terms of the security of the endpoints, but it is not as good as other vendors in terms of the management of the endpoint."

"Every 30 or 40 days, there's a new version and we need to go and make sure our customer's laptops are upgraded."

"It is a complex solution to implement."

"Being able to filter the events to see those that are related to the actual alert would save time spent by the engineer."

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"Technical support could be better than what is currently offered."

"It does take more time to scan than other solutions."

"I have experience with a product called SentinelOne, which has a feature that allows for the customization of query languages. I would like to see such a feature for CloudStrike."

"In CrowdStrike, with the variety of security tools available, learning the different query languages can be challenging."

"CrowdStrike Falcon could be made a little more user-friendly."

"The product is quite expensive."

"However, a bit negative is that lately, support requests are being handled less or more slowly, and we often only get references to documentation, which, as an MSSP partner that really engages deeply with this solution, is not enough."

"The price of CrowdStrike Falcon could be better. It is very expensive, we pay approximately $900 per month for the licenses."

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"What we lack is granular USB control. We have an issue where we can only switch USB on or off."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing seems fair, and I do like the licensing model. You use wherever they are, and it is elastic."

"If one wishes to work with another team or large number of users at a future point, he must purchase a license for them."

"It has a higher cost than other solutions, like CrowdStrike or Microsoft’s EDR tools, but it reduces the cost of our operations because it’s a new generation antivirus tool."

"The price of the product is not very economical."

"The cost depends on your chosen license type, like Pro or other licenses."

"It has reasonable pricing for the use cases it provides to the company."

"When we first bought it, it was a bit expensive, but it was worth it. The licensing was straightforward."

"In terms of the cost Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is very expensive because we are a Mexican company and when you translate dollars to pesos the cost is very high. The solution is very expensive for Mexican companies. I understand that they have international prices, but I do not think it offsets the price enough for many companies in countries, such as Mexico. The amount it is reduced is not a massive percentage."

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"The pricing will depend upon your volume of usage."

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

"CrowdStrike Falcon is more expensive than other EDR solutions with similar features."

"We pay 40,000 dirhams per 100 users."

"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."

"The price of CrowdStrike Falcon is expensive."

"CrowdStrike Falcon offers excellent value for the money for our organization, particularly given our lean IT team."

"There is no license required to use this solution."

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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

Comms Service Provider

17%

Construction Company

16%

Outsourcing Company

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	62
Midsize Enterprise	54
Large Enterprise	103

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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

Heimdal Next-Gent Endpoint Antivirus, Thor Vigilance Enterprise, Heimdal Endpoint Detection and Response, Heimdal DNS Security - Endpoint, Heimdal Threat Prevention, Heimdal Ransomware Encryption Protection

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

Heimdal Endpoint Security offers leading protection with advanced threat intelligence, enhancing cyber resilience for businesses. Its seamless integration elevates security postures efficiently.

Heimdal Endpoint Security provides comprehensive defense against sophisticated cyber threats, combining innovative technologies with a user-centric approach. Enterprises benefit from its intelligent threat detection, streamlined management, and adaptive security measures, ensuring robust protection.

What are the key features of Heimdal Endpoint Security?

Threat Prevention: Proactive defense strategies identify and block potential threats before they infiltrate systems.
Patch Management: Automated patch updates ensure vulnerabilities are addressed swiftly, reducing risk exposure.
Next-Gen Antivirus: Advanced malware detection and removal tools keep endpoints secure from evolving threats.
Ransomware Encryption Protection: Real-time monitoring prevents unauthorized encryption attempts, safeguarding data.
DarkLayer Guard: Filters malicious web traffic, maintaining safe browsing environments.

What should users consider in terms of ROI and benefits?

Increased Security Efficiency: Reduces manual effort in threat detection and response, allowing teams to focus on strategic tasks.
Cost-effective Protection: Minimizes financial impact of security breaches through preventive measures.
Scalability: Easily adapts to growing business requirements without compromising performance.
Compliance Support: Helps meet regulatory standards, mitigating risks of non-compliance penalties.

Companies across industries implement Heimdal Endpoint Security to safeguard sensitive data and maintain operational integrity. Finance sectors benefit from its capability to secure transactional data, while healthcare providers use it to protect patient information, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations. Its adaptability makes it a choice for organizations facing diverse cybersecurity challenges.

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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

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Brother, Symbion, CPH West

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