Single, unified console powers consolidation

CrowdStrike’s single console, single agent architecture enables rapid deployment of all platform modules and accelerates investigations through a unified, easy-to-use UI.

Multiple consoles, multiple agents

Palo Alto Networks’ fragmented platform is spread over three disjointed consoles. It also requires three different agents for full platform functionality, lengthening deployment time and hindering SOC effectiveness.

Designed for modern endpoint security

CrowdStrike was named a “Leader” for the sixth consecutive time in the latest Gartner MQ for Endpoint Protection Platforms and positioned best on both axes. Our single lightweight agent streamlines deployment and operations, ensuring no performance impacts.

Poor architecture prevents effective endpoint security

Palo Alto Networks' flawed architecture compromises endpoint security. The Cortex agent's high RAM and disk usage also slows down endpoints.

Leading AI-powered identity threat protection

CrowdStrike detects identity attacks 85% faster with an anomaly detection engine that analyzes live traffic against behavior baselines and policies. It offers real-time threat prevention, including MFA enforcement and password resets, all through a unified agent.

Identity protection that can’t stop attacks

Palo Alto Network’s Identity Threat Module is limited to detection without out-of-the-box blocking capabilities, missing essential responses such as risk-based access controls and step-up MFA for legacy apps. It also requires a complex setup involving a separate cloud identity engine and agent.

Pre-built cloud detections and automated alert correlation

A single, unified console and customizable workflow automations offer complete attack visibility, real-time threat context, and accelerated investigation across endpoints, cloud, identity and more.

Cloud security that struggles out of the box

Prisma Cloud relies on static behavioral baselines for detection, leaving customers vulnerable to breach for 24 hours after any new workload is deployed. Customers need to manually tune baselines to weed out false positives and false negatives.

Unmatched speed and performance at a better cost

Designed for the modern SOC, CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM delivers breach prevention with real-time alerts, rapid search capabilities, and elite threat intelligence. CrowdStrike processes petabytes of data with sub-second latency, all more cost-effectively than rival SIEM solutions.

XSIAM can’t effectively address SIEM use cases

XSIAM struggles to address traditional SIEM use cases with slow search speeds, limited data visualization, and an arduous onboarding process. Their “automation” is nothing more than standard SOAR playbooks that require extensive manual configuration or expensive professional services.

Industry-leading managed detection and response

CrowdStrike is the #1 leader in MDR by market share (Gartner). Our service delivers end-to-end response across endpoint, identity, and cloud to conclusively remediate attacks, with zero customer handoffs that waste time or increase risk. CrowdStrike provides the most comprehensive detection coverage and delivers the fastest threat detection.

Incomplete MDR leaves you with homework

Palo Alto Networks’ MDR only offers basic remediation through standard agent actions unless licensed for costly IR hours, putting the burden on the customer to fully mitigate attacks. Any remediation beyond basic endpoint response is limited to guidance, not action. Palo Alto Networks’ MDR also can’t respond to identity-based threats.

Global leader in threat intelligence

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.

Ineffective threat intel provides little context to analysts

Palo Alto Networks’ threat intel lacks adversary profiles, and fails to provide meaningful alert context to SOC analysts. Even with Autofocus, customers receive basic adversary attribution without comprehensive adversary information, hindering SOC analyst investigations and productivity.

A modern approach to stop data theft

Built on CrowdStrike’s single unified agent, Falcon Data Protection reliably detects and prevents the movement of sensitive data by combining both content and context across endpoints, identities, data, and egress channels.

Network-based data protection creates visibility gaps

Palo Alto Networks' data loss prevention technology is network-based only, with no ability to reliably detect and prevent sensitive data egress from endpoints, particularly for endpoints not connected to corporate networks.

Cost effective

CrowdStrike's single-agent platform minimizes deployment and maintenance costs, dramatically reducing TCO.

High TCO

Palo Alto Networks' fragmented platform requires multiple disjointed consoles and agents, complicating deployment and increasing operational overhead, leading to a higher TCO.