CrowdStrike Falcon vs OpenText Core Endpoint Protection comparison

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CrowdStrike and OpenText are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. CrowdStrike is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.0, while OpenText is ranked #32. CrowdStrike holds a 5.5% mindshare in EPP, compared to OpenText’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of CrowdStrike users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 13, 2026

CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR and OpenText Core Endpoint Protection both compete in the endpoint security category, with CrowdStrike having the upper hand due to its advanced threat intelligence, real-time analytics, and comprehensive features.

Features: CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR offers endpoint detection and response, lightweight agent, and AI-powered threat detection, which enhance threat identification and improve security posture. OpenText Core Endpoint Protection focuses on lightweight design, ease of management, and basic endpoint protection features.

Room for Improvement: CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR could improve dashboard customization, false positive management, and support responsiveness. OpenText Core Endpoint Protection needs enhancements in threat detection, particularly with ransomware, and should expand feature offerings to compete with high-end solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: CrowdStrike supports both on-premises and cloud deployments with mixed reviews on customer service responsiveness. OpenText offers straightforward deployment but requires improvements in support assistance.

Pricing and ROI: CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR is a premium-priced solution offering strong ROI through reduced risks and effective security features, ideal for large enterprises. OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is more cost-effective, suitable for smaller businesses with budget constraints, offering savings in management and resource requirements.

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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 OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is 1.9%, up from 0.9% 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%
OpenText Core Endpoint Protection	1.9%
Other	88.8%

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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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vCIO At Grove Networks Inc. at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Improving threat detection is critical for enhanced protection

We use Webroot Business Endpoint Protection as a NextGen antivirus solution for our clients. It's included in the contract we have with our clients as a cost-effective option for antivirus protection Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is cost-effective for rolling it out to all of our clients,…

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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 is specifically designed to prevent zero-day attacks and is part of an ecosystem of Palo Alto, providing customers with a long-term vision to modify and redesign how security is applied in their company."

"There are a lot of lead solutions in this space, however, Palo Alto is number one."

"Palo Alto Networks Traps improves our security posture and lowers risk by providing next-gen methods to combat against modern threats on all the major platforms."

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

"The one feature of Palo Alto Networks Traps that our organization finds most valuable is the App ID service."

"Cortex is the best tool for endpoint detection, and I have used it to verify hashes or domains to identify malicious activity, trigger playbooks that automate and gather endpoint logs, block malicious processes, and update incident tickets, showcasing end-to-end processes with automation in investigation and reducing the analysis workflow."

"Its ability to react to cyber data attacks is awesome. That is pretty much the use of it. What blows your mind is the ability to access your assets remotely and see what is actually going on with them. You can not only see them in a console. You can also react very rapidly to your assets that are compromised."

"I've found the solution to be highly scalable for enterprises."

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"Without CrowdStrike, our environment is risky for the developers. As it is now, we have not had any security issues for two years."

"We compared multiple solutions in EDR and out of them, CrowdStrike gave the most features and value for money."

"CrowdStrike Falcon is effortless to use, and it's a cloud-specific platform. You only need to deploy the light agents on the licensed endpoints, and you're ready to work. Your dashboards will tell you the number of the endpoints being protected and the incidents. There are also incident dashboards with alerts that will tell you about the details."

"We have a small IT Team, and this allows us to get sleep at night, knowing that someone else is taking care of any incidents that occur."

"We are happy with CloudStrike's ease of use and touch notification."

"Where previous incidents that CrowdStrike Falcon has now stopped used to take anywhere from two to five hours to get contained and remediated, now they are prevented."

"We have signed up for Falcon Complete, which is their completely managed service, and this has done nothing but paid dividends since we have rolled it out."

"I haven't had any issues with bugs or glitches. I haven't had a problem with stability so far."

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"It monitors traffic and keeps us from getting ransomware or other viruses."

"There aren't any features that really stand out — I just want it to keep malware out of my system. To date, I haven't had any malware in my system."

"Its ease of installation is valuable. It has been a low-resource tool and the continuous updates in the past have made it attractive from the standpoint of the trust level on the protection."

"The solution is very light, works well on our PCs, the dashboard is very good, and we find the pricing to be very affordable."

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that it is a low profile environment as far as overhead on the machines."

"I haven't observed any of the instabilities in the solution. It is a stable solution."

"Working as part of our security stack, it has protected us from countless attacks."

"Probably, compared to other antivirus programs, what we like about it is it is lightweight."

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Cons

"Managing the product should be easier."

"Enhancing UI simplicity and playbook flexibility are areas that could benefit from more low-code automation options for smoother integrations."

"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."

"If you compare it to SentinelOne, which has more functionalities and detection capabilities on an open platform, the pricing on SentinelOne is far more reasonable and cheaper than Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks."

"I recommend adding a data loss prevention (DLP) solution to Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. 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."

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

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks can improve mobile integration to allow access to the console."

"Product might have some bugs."

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"I think CrowdStrike Falcon could be improved by making the interface more modern and simpler."

"I feel the weakest thing about CrowdStrike Falcon is their documentation."

"CrowdStrike Falcon could improve the logs by making them free to the API."

"CrowdStrike Falcon could be enhanced by extending its security capabilities to include NDR and XDR."

"CrowdStrike Falcon sensor has had an impact on endpoint performance and my ability to deploy security at scale."

"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."

"There are some areas where some customers would prefer a different service."

"CS Falcon sensing capabilities for non-domain machines should be enhanced since the agent doesn't detect the neighbor's IP Address and/or any anomaly which was identified in the network for the non-domain machine."

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"We need more control over when upgrades to the app are rolled out."

"Usually, when it comes to reliability, McAfee and Norton are at 99 percent. Webroot's percentage is lower."

"I think the one bad point about this product is that we did not find a way for Webroot to generate reports or schedule automatic reports to be sent to clients."

"I'm not happy with Webroot Business Endpoint Protection, for only one reason. It seems that it slows down my interface when I'm doing programming in Microsoft Access, tremendously."

"I believe that Webroot Business Endpoint Protection should offer a more modern UI."

"We need to have a stronger defense against CryptoLock and other attackers."

"The only complaint I have with Webroot is its inability to prevent UoD phishing and its inability to check against bots or block anti-attacks. Plus the URL server is in zero-definition."

"The platform is mostly stable, however there are hiccups with the cloud from time-to-time that impact the ability to get to the portal."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"It is cost-effective compared to similar solutions. It fits for the small businesses through to the big businesses."

"This is an expensive solution."

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

"The price is on the higher side, but it's okay."

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

"It's the most expensive solution, but features-wise, it's quite strong. It's very good for protection, so the results are very good in the case of protection. I would rate it a two out of ten in terms of pricing."

"I am using the Community edition."

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"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."

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

"This solution has a very competitive price."

"We are on an annual subscription for the solution. There are not any additional costs."

"It's an expensive solution but you get a very good product for the price. Compared to other products, SentinelOne is definitely cheaper and the Microsoft E5 package is probably more expensive. Not many companies are willing to purchase CrowdStrike Falcon in Turkey due to the cost, but the market is changing."

"The solution isn't very costly; it's affordable."

"The more endpoints an organization adds the cheaper the cost."

"Crowdstrike Falcon is relatively cheap."

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"Work on a price tier plan."

"Webroot is less expensive than SentinelOne."

"From a pricing standpoint, I would rate it a four out of five."

"I think the price is fairly reasonable. I was really prepared to pay more, but the price is fine."

"The solution is pretty cheap, actually. At our level, which is at 2,500 endpoints, we're paying 87 cents an agent per month."

"The pricing is high."

"If you purchase for clients, then you are the managing billing entity. It's better to either get a monthly subscription check from your clients, or to prepay for the year (so as to not keep cash in reserve to pay the bill each month) IMHO."

"The solution is very cost-effective."

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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

Construction Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

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

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	35
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

Questions from the Community

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How is Cortex XDR compared with Microsoft Defender?

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How does Crowdstrike Falcon compare with Darktrace?

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How does Microsoft Defender for Endpoint compare with Crowdstrike Falcon?

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Is Crowdstrike Falcon better than Trend Micro Deep Security?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Webroot Business Endpoint Protection?

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What needs improvement with Webroot Business Endpoint Protection?

Webroot Business Endpoint Protection needs to improve its ability to detect threats. It does not do what it's adverti...

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Comparisons

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Compared 2% of the time

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Compared 1% of the time

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Compared 47% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint vs OpenText Core Endpoint Protection

Compared 4% of the time

Huntress Managed EDR vs OpenText Core Endpoint Protection

Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 1% of the time

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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

Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint 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

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection offers cloud-managed endpoint security with AI integration, providing real-time protection and lightweight performance. It ensures low system impact, seamless cloud integration, and cost-effective security solutions for various devices.

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is a comprehensive endpoint security platform utilized by managed-service providers for antivirus and firewall functionality across servers, workstations, and mobile devices. It employs AI for robust threat detection, integrating with cloud applications for real-time updates. Multi-layered security features include malware protection, network defense, and DNS protection. Although connectivity and threat reporting need improvement, this platform extensively supports remote device management and integrates efficiently with Active Directory policies.

What are the key features of OpenText Core Endpoint Protection?

Cloud Management: Centralized admin console for easy oversight
AI Integration: Enhanced threat detection capabilities
Lightweight Performance: Minimal impact on system resources
Real-time Threat Database: Constant updates for effective protection
Web Control Interface: Monitors and controls web traffic

What benefits are associated with OpenText Core Endpoint Protection?

Ease of Setup and Maintenance: Facilitates quick deployment and upkeep
Seamless Cloud Integration: Simplifies scalability and operation
Cost-Effectiveness: Affordable pricing with comprehensive features
Mobile Security Capabilities: Supports remote device management

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection finds application in industries requiring stringent data protection and peace of mind over device security. Managed-service providers implement this for comprehensive antivirus and firewall features, safeguarding multi-device networks. It is particularly useful for DNS protection and integrating with Active Directory policies, enabling secure yet flexible operations across sectors.

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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

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