CrowdStrike
Reddit take
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Pros
- Yes we have clients bring data on USB sometimes. We just have a couple of trusty folk who can read them, and CrowdStrike always scans immediately.
- Like SolarWinds, crowdstrike is a great provider with a great track record.
Cons
- Recovering from CrowdStrike event
- Not cheap but, Microsoft Defender, Sentinel one , crowdstrike and prob the 3 top.
- Its been a minute since they pushed out an untested patch that crashed every customer server that it was installed on.
- We've moved away from them, mostly because critical information gets buried to logs that are not easily available.
- You forgot Crowdstrike…..
Sentiment
2 positive (12%) · 5 mixed (29%) · 10 negative (59%)
Trust + time weighted score: -52% · raw score -47%
What redditors said (10 of 17)
Recovering from CrowdStrike event
Not cheap but, Microsoft Defender, Sentinel one , crowdstrike and prob the 3 top.
Its been a minute since they pushed out an untested patch that crashed every customer server that it was installed on.
We've moved away from them, mostly because critical information gets buried to logs that are not easily available.
You forgot Crowdstrike…..
Dashboards are very complex, navigation within the admin portal is challenging. We have Overwatch on our assets - during a planned pen test where we were expecting many alerts and someone to reach out to us, it ended up only being an email a day later. We joking call it Only Watched now instead of Overwatch.
CrowdStrike’s integration between runtime, CSPM, and container modules is decent, but not seamless. You’ll notice gaps in context when correlating alerts across environments. Alert tuning is almost mandatory; default thresholds generate noise. ASPM is getting there, but it’s not as mature as their EDR or threat intel stack. Support response times are generally solid, though ticket prioritization can vary. Compared to Wiz or Upwind, it’s strong on endpoint telemetry but weaker on consolidated visibility.
the onboarding wasn’t too bad, but it’s not exactly plug-and-play either. Some of the modules feel a bit siloed, so you’ll spend time figuring out how alerts from CSPM vs container security map to each other.
In a single specific word? "Crowdstrike" That was a very long weekend which could have been just a couple hours, if the DNS wasn't solely on windows hosts.
or how Crowdstrike turned every other system inoperable recently?
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