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CrowdStrike Falcon vs ManageEngine ADAudit Plus comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
4.5
Cortex XDR enhances security, reduces costs, improves efficiency, and delivers ROI by automating threat remediation and preventing ransomware spread.
Sentiment score
6.0
CrowdStrike Falcon boosts security and efficiency, reducing costs and manpower while enhancing incident response and preventing breaches.
Sentiment score
6.5
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus reduces costs and boosts business value by enhancing compliance, risk management, and preventing security incidents.
With Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks' incident correlation, behavioral detection, and process tree visibility, similar initial triage can often be completed in roughly 10 to 20 minutes, depending on the incident.
Cybersecurity Engineer at Gigabit Technologies Pvt Ltd
They appreciate the rich telemetry data from the solution, as it provides in-depth threat identification.
Cyber Security Manager at Welab bank
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks helps to reduce my total cost of ownership significantly.
Detection and Response Consultant at Inovasys
Catching issues early enough saves us from having to disable multiple users, which may be part of a later phishing event or disruption event in our environment.
Director, Information Security Services at a university with 10,001+ employees
We have to have cyber liability insurance, and knowing that we have CrowdStrike Falcon definitely helps when it comes to the bottom line and helping our insurance rates stay at a fair level.
Information Security Manager Iam at ExactCare Pharmacy
CrowdStrike Falcon saves time and offers good value for money, especially for enterprise companies, because it can stop breaches.
IT consultant at Asuransi Ramayana
Feedback from clients indicates their keen interest in the product, as it allows for easy budget approval without needing an advisory board meeting.
System Engineer at Corporate Projukti Limited
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
Palo Alto Networks' support is praised for expertise and speed but needs improvement in responsiveness and problem resolution.
Sentiment score
6.9
CrowdStrike Falcon's support is generally effective, with prompt service, but faces issues in response times and communication efficiency.
Sentiment score
5.7
Customers appreciate ManageEngine ADAudit Plus support for its prompt response and effective assistance, despite occasional developer delays.
The technical support from Palo Alto deserves a mark of ten because they reach out within an hour whenever assistance is needed.
Head of data centers at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
There is no back and forth, and they know what we are asking for and come up with the best resolution for a solution.
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
If any of these services are missed, it becomes a problem in terms of support tickets, follow-up, or special configuration that needs to be done in the system.
Chief of IT Architecture at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the technical support as a 10 because they resolve many issues for us.
Cyber Security Architects at VaporVM
Everybody is friendly, knowledgeable, and wants to help, and you can feel that they want to keep your business.
Information Security Manager Iam at ExactCare Pharmacy
The onboarding team deserved a ten.
IT Support Engineer at a media company with 51-200 employees
Customer service is effective, even for new users who need guidance on complex issues.
System Engineer at Corporate Projukti Limited
I would give their support a nine out of ten, where one is bad and ten is very good.
Senior Engineer - Network & Security at Altria Consulting
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Cortex XDR scales efficiently across endpoints, offering seamless cloud-based expansion and integration for diverse enterprise environments.
Sentiment score
7.5
CrowdStrike Falcon is scalable and efficient, with cloud-based deployment, seamless integration, and minimal endpoint impact, despite initial configuration needs.
Sentiment score
8.2
ADAudit Plus is highly scalable, handling extensive file servers and Active Directory, with successful migration and adaptability reports.
You can onboard 10,000 endpoints in just hours, which demonstrates the excellent scalability of this product.
Assistant Security Architect at Cloudnomics
Activating the newly purchased licenses is instantaneous, allowing installations without adjustments since it's cloud-based.
Junior Security Analyst at ITSEC Asia
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks can be expanded anytime by purchasing another license without any issues related to scalability.
Head of data centers at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
It has adequate coverage and is easy to deploy.
Senior Principal Information Security Analyst at Veritas Technologies LLC
In terms of scalability, I find CrowdStrike to be stable, and I have not encountered any limitations with it.
Cyber Security Architects at VaporVM
There's no scalability limitation from CrowdStrike itself, as it just requires agent deployment.
Large account Manager at Softcell Technologies Limited
This product is highly scalable and supports easy migration.
System Engineer at Corporate Projukti Limited
I rate the scalability as eight out of ten.
Senior Manager at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Cortex XDR is stable, with high ratings, improved over time, minimal issues, and consistent performance, recommended regular updates.
Sentiment score
8.0
CrowdStrike Falcon is highly reliable, scoring 8-10, with impressive stability, quick issue resolution, and seamless cloud protection.
Sentiment score
7.0
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is stable, quickly resolves issues, excels in identity management, and receives high user satisfaction ratings.
Cortex remains fast and responsive, even with increasing data and alerts.
Final Year Student at Gitam University
The thresholds we've seen on our firewall boxes at some instances reached 80% to 85%, but even at that level of utilization, we don't observe any latency or any issues reported with respect to accessing the application.
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks can be trusted completely.
Soc Analyst at Softcell Technologies Limited
I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues with CrowdStrike Falcon.
IT Security Analysts at Royal Business Bank
CrowdStrike Falcon is stable.
IT Administrator For Security at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
I have never seen instability in the CrowdStrike tool.
Security Analyst at NTT Ltd
When compared to similar products like Accenture Plus or Reminder Plus, this solution excels in identity access management.
System Engineer at Corporate Projukti Limited
I am totally satisfied with the functionality of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus, and my clients are totally satisfied as well.
Enterprise Pre-sales Specialist at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Cortex XDR needs improvements in usability, integration, automation, reporting, resource efficiency, and support for diverse systems to enhance appeal.
Users desire improved compatibility, reporting, malware detection, integrations, support, cost, and features like DLP, XDR, AI, and deployment.
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus requires improved custom reports, interfaces, integration, and documentation for better usability and diverse environment support.
Improving reporting and dashboard customization, along with the addition of real-time and exportable reports, would help SOC teams greatly.
Final Year Student at Gitam University
When a Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks incident is confirmed, it would be useful to automatically create a ServiceNow or Jira ticket with the incident summary, including affected endpoints, user indicators, process tree, severity, and recommended response actions.
Cybersecurity Engineer at Gigabit Technologies Pvt Ltd
The inclusion of this feature would allow the application of DLP policies alongside antivirus policies via a single agent and console, making it more competitive as other OEMs often offer DLP solutions as part of their antivirus products.
Pre Sales Architect at network techlab
Documentation is abysmal and needs to be improved dramatically.
Senior Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
If I bring up a device, I want a quick button there to contain it because if I'm clicking on that device, there's something I'm looking into and most likely I've been alerted of something, so I should probably contain it first and then ask questions later.
Network Security Engineers at Silver State Schools Credit Union
There should be more API integrations for the last 20% of onboarding.
Endpoint Security Specialist at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Activity monitoring is cost-effective, workstation monitoring can be challenging without additional training.
System Engineer at Corporate Projukti Limited
Having more interactive reports with a better graphical user interface would be beneficial.
Enterprise Pre-sales Specialist at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
I would like to generate reports on users who have not logged into the Active Directory for a specific period, but this feature is not available.
Senior Manager at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Cortex XDR offers advanced features with premium pricing, flexible licensing, easy setup, but incurs extra costs for comprehensive security.
CrowdStrike Falcon is premium-priced, customizable, offering robust security, justifying cost; discounts available for larger enterprises.
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is cost-effective with flexible perpetual or subscription licensing, offering significant value and affordability.
The pricing on SentinelOne is far more reasonable and cheaper than Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks.
Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would say it is definitely not a cheap product, considering how mature it is and how scalable all Palo Alto products are together.
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
Compared to CrowdStrike, which is very costly, and SentinelOne, which is also very costly, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a medium cost-efficient solution.
Soc Analyst at Softcell Technologies Limited
It is approximately 60 dollars per endpoint at MSRP.
Senior Secops Engineer at a program development consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
The setup cost was minimal since we mostly ran it ourselves and deployed via Intune.
IT Administrator For Security at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
Licensing is a real challenge with CrowdStrike Falcon, as it is the main thing that makes us reconsider moving further with it since pricing overall is a challenge, and the pricing model does not look good.
Head Of Cybersecurity
It is cost-effective.
System Engineer at Corporate Projukti Limited
I consider the pricing for ADAudit Plus a bit high compared to other software solutions, so I would rate it around two or three on the pricing scale.
Senior Manager at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Cortex XDR provides AI-driven threat detection, seamless integration, and efficient management for comprehensive, scalable, and cost-effective cybersecurity.
CrowdStrike Falcon offers lightweight design, AI-driven detection, and seamless integration, enhancing threat management and security posture.
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus provides real-time AD monitoring with user analytics, detailed reports, and security enhancements for anomaly detection.
It incorporates AI for normal behavior detection, distinguishing unusual operations.
Cyber Security Manager at Welab bank
The product provides automation responses in case of a threat attack, severity assessments, centralized manageability, and comprehensive compliance features, resulting in reduced costs.
Pre Sales Architect at network techlab
It includes machine learning to easily analyze data and detect complex threats across endpoints, networks, or clouds.
Final Year Student at Gitam University
I can investigate by accessing the customer's host based on the RTR environment and utilize host search to know details for the past seven days, including logins, processes, file installations, malicious processes, and network connections.
Security Analyst at NTT Ltd
The real-time analytics aspect of CrowdStrike performs well because we get all logs in real-time, with no delay, allowing us to take action immediately.
Cyber Security Architects at VaporVM
Being an EDR solution, it helps us identify attacks in real-time.
Information Security Specialist at Arab Open University
All changes are recorded immediately in real-time and reported for forensic analysis of incidents including who created them, what exactly changed, and what were the old and new values for the attributes.
Enterprise Pre-sales Specialist at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
Engineers can receive reports and log details within one to five seconds, which is essential for monitoring user activity swiftly and effectively.
System Engineer at Corporate Projukti Limited
The audit functionality and the ability to share user-based reports with management are significant advantages.
Senior Manager at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
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Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
122
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (4th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (5th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (3rd), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (1st)
CrowdStrike Falcon
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
205
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (3rd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (1st)
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Active Directory Management (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
CrowdStrike Falcon5.5%
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint6.4%
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint4.4%
Other83.7%
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
Active Directory Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus6.9%
Active Roles by One Identity11.7%
Netwrix Auditor10.1%
Other71.3%
Active Directory Management
 

Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
JW
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.
Md Abdul Hakim - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Corporate Projukti Limited
Advanced monitoring enhances user tracking that's cost-effective
I have been involved with this product for the last three years, participating in service and support within our company. We are currently supporting over 30 companies. This month, we deployed the solution for three companies, including two RMGs and one private bank in Bangladesh. The popularity of this product is due to its active directory monitoring abilities. Engineers can receive reports and log details within one to five seconds, which is essential for monitoring user activity swiftly and effectively. This product is very well-liked in Bangladesh due to user tracking, failed logins, and Jar reports for any Barna activity or execution. This solution's popularity extends through comprehensive auditing capabilities.
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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
7%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business50
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise57
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business62
Midsize Enterprise54
Large Enterprise103
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

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How does Crowdstrike Falcon compare with Darktrace?
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What is your primary use case for ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?
The main use case for ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is primarily focused on auditing, so any changes related to Active Di...
 

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
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CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank
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