CrowdStrike vs. other MDRs

CrowdStrike is the #1 leader in MDR by market share (Gartner) and has been named a Leader or “Customer’s Choice” in all major MDR reports from Gartner, Forrester, and IDC.

Most MDR services have limited participation in major analyst reports. No one matches CrowdStrike’s leadership across the major MDR analyst reports.

CrowdStrike led all vendors tested in both detection coverage and detection speed in the latest MITRE Managed Services evaluation. This closed-book test closely represents real-world performance and customer outcomes.

All other MDR vendors either performed worse than CrowdStrike or elected not to participate. Are you willing to take a leap of faith on an unvalidated solution?

Only CrowdStrike safeguards customers against advanced attacks by fully managing detection and response across endpoint, identity, cloud, and critical 3rd party data sources.

No other MDR service protects the full attack surface.
Limited attack surface coverage creates unmonitored entry points for adversaries and fails to close the skills gap, forcing customers to hire in-house.

Falcon Complete MDR delivers near immediate time-to-value with streamlined onboarding and support. We’re capable of deploying the lightweight CrowdStrike Falcon® agent to thousands of customer machines, servers, and workloads in minutes — no reboots or additional infrastructure resources needed.

Inconsistent scoping and arduous implementations with custom configurations hamper many MDRs as they struggle to deploy and deliver immediate value.

CrowdStrike delivers complete remediation, resolving attacks rather than assigning homework. We deliver the only full-cycle, surgical remediation service that avoids costly reimaging and downtime by intricately stopping and removing all identified persistence mechanisms and malicious processes associated with the attack.

Response is often limited to agent-based response actions followed by “guided remediation”, tossing incidents back to customers to fully resolve on their own.

CrowdStrike maintains tight control over the Falcon agent and platform, applying rigorous configuration management and proven best-practice policies to ensure optimal protection against the latest threats.

Other MDR services don’t offer support to deploy, monitor, or maintain the health of agents or any associated endpoint policies or groups. Leaving this critical maintenance to the customer, increases both risk and operating costs.

We deliver world-class threat intelligence that powers the entire CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. This includes the latest indicators of compromise (IOCs), adversary attribution, and an automated malware sandbox, all within a single user interface. Falcon Complete also includes proactive, 24/7 threat hunting with a human-led, hypothesis-driven approach to uncover the stealthiest and most sophisticated adversarial tradecraft.

Other MDR services offer check-box threat intelligence functionality primarily built on third-party feeds that deliver minimal value while costing more. With only a fraction of the IOCs and no adversary attribution or tactic discovery, the value of this threat intelligence is little to none. Additionally, many lack active threat hunting or charge extra for it.

We pioneered the inclusive, no-red-tape CrowdStrike Breach Prevention Warranty. Backed by AIG, our warranty provides broad primary coverage with generous time reporting requirements that’s better than other vendor-provided warranties — all at no additional cost.

Few MDR services offer comprehensive breach prevention warranties at no additional cost to customers. And for those that do, their warranties are often riddled with fine print, limited, and act as secondary, backup coverage with strict 24 to 48-hour time to report requirements.

Falcon Complete MDR embeds elite, human expertise into every facet of our always-on service. We deliver 24/7 threat vigilance, hunting, investigation, and response to thousands of customers worldwide.

Many MDR services limit their standard service protection to normal business hours. But adversaries never sleep and often plan their attacks during weekends and holidays when you’re more likely to be understaffed.