CrowdStrike vs. SentinelOne

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Why customers choose CrowdStrike over SentinelOne

SentinelOne
Weak coverage, can’t stop attacks

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    79% coverage in the latest MITRE Engenuity test, missing 30 sub-steps
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    Supervised-ML detection engine misses advanced threats, including fileless and credential-based threats
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    High false positive rate buries SOC teams in a mountain of alerts
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    Anticipates missing threats, relying on “rollback” as an ineffective response that can’t guarantee remediation

The CrowdStrike difference

CrowdStrike
Proven to stop breaches

CrowdStrike’s AI-powered Indicators of Attack (IOAs) and integrated threat intelligence deliver unmatched breach prevention and curated alert context, independently proven by MITRE with 100% detection and protection scores. We use unsupervised machine learning to find stealthy attacks and cut out false positives that drain your time.

100 %

Protection, visibility, and analytic detection in the 2023 MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluations.

SentinelOne
Hard to maintain

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    Multiple agents required for full platform capabilities, delaying rollout times and complicating module adoption
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    Heavy agent consumes significant resources, potentially impacting endpoint performance
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    Manual agent updates drive up operational burden
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    Manual exclusions required for software interoperability issues, creating blind spots for adversaries
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    Reboots required for extensive false positive tuning

The CrowdStrike difference

CrowdStrike
Effortless to operate

CrowdStrike’s single, lightweight agent deploys all platform modules and installs in minutes to hundreds of thousands of endpoints. Our automatic update process eliminates operational workload for customers and ensures every endpoint always has the latest capabilities and protection — no cumbersome tuning or reboots required.

Customer assessment

70 %

Less hours to maintain1

SentinelOne
Weak, disconnected point products

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    Lacks integrated cloud security modules (ASPM, DSPM), leaving gaps for adversaries
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    Limited in-house MDR creates homework for SOC teams
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    Ineffective identity security module lacks behavioral baselining needed to catch credential abuse
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    Poor industry validation raises doubts over efficacy

The CrowdStrike difference

CrowdStrike
The platform for cybersecurity consolidation

CrowdStrike’s unified console reduces complexity and cost, integrating industry-leading capabilities across endpoint, identity, cloud, MDR, next-gen SIEM, data protection, exposure management, and threat intelligence. Our platform automatically correlates data across products into a unified incident workbench, streamlining investigations, and accelerating response.

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Deployment

Seamless deployment enables instant protection

Single lightweight agent deploys in minutes and is immediately operational — no reboot or tedious tuning required.

Burdensome deployment delays time to value

Full platform functionality requires multiple heavy agents and manual exclusions due to software interoperability, with no ability to automatically update sensors.

Detection Capabilities

Advanced detection, fewer false positives

Superior enterprise-grade visibility and detection across on-premises, cloud, and mobile devices to discover and hunt advanced threats without drowning analysts in a deluge of false positives or a mile-long list of exclusions. Industry-best 100% coverage in the latest MITRE Engenuity detection test.

Not equipped for modern threat detection

Next-Gen AV-based threat detection engine struggles to detect sophisticated multi-stage attacks, fileless attacks, and attacks that do not require malicious code execution. Their detection engine is also prone to false positives. Poor 79% coverage in the latest MITRE Engenuity detection test.

Identity

Comprehensive identity threat detection and response

CrowdStrike offers unified endpoint and identity protection to stop identity-based attacks through a single agent in real-time. By establishing baselines of normal user behavior, we automatically find and shutdown anomalies that indicate credential abuse.

Identity protection that can’t stop the threats that matter

SentinelOne’s identity protection requires a separate agent, and is blind to attacks using stolen credentials and insider threats. It lacks the identity baselining needed to understand normal user behavior and find anomalies that indicate a sophisticated attack.

Cloud Security

Complete cloud security, from code to runtime

CrowdStrike utilizes both agent and agentless approaches to provide a comprehensive CNAPP that protects the entire cloud estate with integrated cloud workload protection (CWP), cloud security posture management (CSPM) cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) and application security posture management (ASPM).

Incomplete CNAPP

Bolt-on cloud security product adds more noise without proper context and lacks integrated cloud security modules (ASPM, DSPM), leaving gaps for data exposure and data loss.

Threat Intelligence

Global leader in threat intel

Fully integrated, world-class threat intelligence enables SOC analysts to do their jobs faster and more effectively. Leverage a list of recently published IOCs, adversary attribution, and an automated malware sandbox, all within a single user interface. 257 adversaries tracked, 200,000 new IOCs published per day.

Lagging threat intel

Checkbox threat intelligence is a unidirectional OEM of Mandiant, yielding slower responses to new threats due to lack of context and the inability to correlate across multiple domains or provide detailed adversary attribution.

Managed Detection and Response

All-inclusive MDR

CrowdStrike is the #1 leader in MDR by market share (Gartner). In the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for MSSPs, CrowdStrike provided the most comprehensive detection coverage (87.5%) and delivered rapid threat detection (4 minutes MTTD).

Limited MDR

MDR focuses on scripted responses and lacks surgical full remediation capabilities. SentinelOne’s detection coverage was at a mere 37.5% with an MTTD of 47 minutes in the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for MSSPs.

1. Individual results may vary. Based on a customer assessment of CrowdStrike vs traditional, legacy AV vendors
2. IDC: The Business Value of the CrowdStrike Falcon XDR Platform

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