CrowdStrike vs. Splunk

Don’t let Splunk slow you down. Supercharge your SOC performance with the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform.

Why customers choose
CrowdStrike vs. Splunk

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Too slow for modern adversaries

Adversaries are moving faster than ever. Splunk’s complex infrastructure can lead to slower search speeds and SOC analysts may struggle to keep up, wasting valuable time waiting for queries to complete.

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CrowdStrike difference

Built from the ground up for high performance, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform 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.

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Cost prohibitive

Splunk is expensive whether you’re deploying in the cloud or on-prem. Teams often have to choose between not logging high-volume data sources, or reducing the scope of what is being logged. Both of these can create significant blind spots.

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CrowdStrike difference

CrowdStrike® Falcon LogScale™ has modern architecture that helps customers achieve better security outcomes at a lower cost. With more affordable subscriptions, CrowdStrike customers don’t need to compromise on security.

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Complex tool

Complexity kills security teams. With Splunk, customers have to deal with complex SOC workflows and can’t consolidate across point products.

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CrowdStrike difference

With its index-free architecture, Falcon LogScale simplifies the search experience. CrowdStrike is the security vendor for consolidation with industry-leading products across log management, endpoint, identity, cloud, and more.

What customers say

Switching to Falcon LogScale saves us $2-3 million every three years in infrastructure costs and $1-2 million a year in licensing costs … At any given point, we have around 2,500 searches happening, and most complete in seconds.
  • Stian Bratlie
  • Systems Engineer, SpareBank 1

Compare CrowdStrike to Splunk

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Search Speed

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Faster search speeds for rapid investigations
Real-time search that’s significantly faster than legacy SIEMs. Search freely across both live and historic data to find threats faster and stop breaches.

Splunk

Slow search performance hinders incident response
Slower search speeds can delay threat hunting and lead to analyst burnout. As networks expand in size, search speeds deteriorate further without proper management.

Architecture

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Harness the benefits of "index free"
Index-free architecture enables security teams to benefit from real-time ingestion at petabyte scale, live dashboards, and faster search and alerting.

Splunk

Index-based architecture leads to issues
Index-based architecture introduces numerous challenges for customers, such as overconsumption of resources and poor search times.

Detection Content

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Comprehensive out-of-the-box detections
The Falcon platform’s out-of-the-box detection content across endpoint, cloud, identity and more protects you from today’s most sophisticated adversaries.

Splunk

Limited out-of-the-box detections
Lacks security-specific detection rules out-of-the-box from native sources. Requires extensive custom rule building for security use cases and lengthy rollout times.

Managed Services

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All-inclusive managed services
Falcon Complete provides full-cycle remediation — no additional personnel resourcing required. Our world-class team shows you how to gain real-time visibility and insights from your log data to maximize security efficacy.

Splunk

No in-house managed services
No in-house MDR offering. Customers will need to dedicate multiple employees to use, configure, and manage Splunk, leading to a higher cost.

Threat Intelligence

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Global threat intelligence leader
Falcon LogScale reveals indicators of compromise (IOCs) in your environment, giving your analysts instant context to help determine adversary objectives.

Splunk

No native threat intelligence
Splunk has no in-house threat intelligence service, and instead relies on customers to supply their own threat intelligence feeds.

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