CrowdStrike vs. Splunk

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Why customers choose CrowdStrike over Splunk

Splunk
Too slow for modern adversaries

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    Poor search speeds hamper incident investigation and threat hunting
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    Lengthy indexing creates delays in data search availability
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    Complex infrastructure requirements for on-prem deployments degrade performance

The CrowdStrike difference

CrowdStrike
Stop breaches with unprecedented speed

Built from the ground up for high performance, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM offers blazing-fast, real-time search speeds. Queries execute in a fraction of the time as legacy SIEMs, decreasing incident response times and reducing analyst burnout.

Customer Assessment

60 x

Faster search speeds than Splunk1

    Splunk
    Cost prohibitive

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      Customers are forced to exclude important data sources, creating significant visibility gaps
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      Complex pricing model leads to unexpected costs and surprise uplifts at renewal
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      Burdensome operational requirements drive up total cost of ownership

    The CrowdStrike difference

    CrowdStrike
    Better ROI, better outcomes

    Falcon Next-Gen SIEM has modern architecture that helps customers achieve better security outcomes at a lower cost. With more affordable subscriptions and unprecedented platform scalability, CrowdStrike customers don’t need to compromise on security by excluding critical log sources.

    Customer Assessment

    80 %

    Savings over three years versus legacy SIEM1

    Splunk
    Complex point product

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      Relies solely on third-party log telemetry, making data onboarding and indexing complex and onerous
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      Requires multiple dedicated employees just for maintenance, management, and usage
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      No ability to natively consolidate across security products like endpoint, identity, cloud, exposure management and threat intelligence

    The CrowdStrike difference

    CrowdStrike
    The definitive platform for cybersecurity consolidation

    CrowdStrike replaces legacy SIEMs with a modern security analyst experience delivered through a single, easy-to-use console. With all critical data and threat intelligence from CrowdStrike products already available in Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, CrowdStrike completely alleviates the painful data onboarding experience that frustrates legacy SIEM customers.

    Customer Assessment

    10 +

    Security tools consolidated with the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform1

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    Splunk

    Data onboarding

    Instant availability of first-party data

    Falcon Next-Gen SIEM provides instant availability of all native CrowdStrike telemetry, including endpoint, cloud, and identity data, eliminating data onboarding challenges for your SOC’s most critical data sources. Additionally, third-party data can be easily ingested through pre-built connectors.

    Complex data onboarding

    Security engineers are forced to invest significant time and resources managing data ingestion, indexing, and parsing. This increases the operational burden and creates delays between when data ingestion and when it becomes searchable.

    Search speed

    Faster search speeds for rapid investigations

    Real-time search that’s significantly faster than legacy SIEMs. Effortlessly search across both live and historic data to find threats faster and prevent breaches.

    Slow search performance hinders incident response

    Splunk’s slower search speeds can delay threat hunting and lead to analyst burnout. As networks grow, search speeds deteriorate further without proper management.

    Architecture

    Harness the power of “index-free”

    Index-free architecture allows security teams to enjoy real-time ingestion at petabyte scale, live dashboards, and faster search and alerting capabilities.

    Index-based architecture leads to issues

    Splunk’s index-based architecture presents several challenges, including excessive resource consumption and slow search times.

    Detection content

    Comprehensive out-of-the-box detections

    The Falcon platform offers out-of-the-box detection content across endpoints, cloud, identity, and more, providing robust protection against today’s most sophisticated adversaries. Our superior performance in the latest MITRE detection results, combined with pre-built SIEM correlation rules, ensures comprehensive coverage.

    Limited out-of-the-box detections

    Out-of-the-box, Splunk lacks security-specific detection rules from native sources. Instead, Splunk relies on correlation rules that require manual configuration with third-party data sources or extensive custom rule-building to become operational for security use cases.

    Threat intelligence

    Global threat intelligence leader

    Falcon Next-Gen SIEM reveals indicators of compromise (IOCs) in your environment, giving your analysts instant context to help determine adversary objectives.

    No native threat intelligence

    Splunk lacks an in-house threat intelligence service, requiring customers to supply their own threat intelligence feeds.

    Managed services

    All inclusive managed services

    Falcon Complete provides full-cycle remediation without the need for additional personnel. Our world-class team shows you how to gain real-time visibility and insights from your log data to maximize security efficacy.

    No in-house managed services

    Splunk doesn’t offer an in-house MDR service. Customers must allocate multiple employees to use, configure, and manage Splunk, resulting in higher costs.

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    1. Results are from a customer. Individual results may vary.

    2. These numbers are projected estimates of average benefit based on recorded metrics provided by customers during pre-sale motions that compare the value of CrowdStrike with the customer’s incumbent solution. Actual realized value will depend on individual customer’s module deployment and environment.