CrowdStrike vs. SentinelOne
Don’t settle for a product that’s hard to deploy, difficult to manage, and can’t stop breaches.
Why customers choose CrowdStrike over SentinelOne
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Proven where others fall short
SentinelOne
Weak coverage, can’t stop attacks
- Only 50% protection score in the latest MITRE Engenuity test with 18 false positives1
- Supervised-ML detection engine misses advanced threats, including fileless and credential-based threats
- High false positive rate buries SOC teams in a mountain of alerts
- Anticipates missing threats, relying on “rollback” as an ineffective response that can’t guarantee remediation
- Lowest total accuracy in the SE Labs 2024 Endpoint Security Enterprise test2
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.
Streamlined operations
SentinelOne
Hard to maintain and operationalize
- Heavy agent consumes significant resources, potentially impacting endpoint performance
- Manual agent updates drive up operational burden
- Manual exclusions required for software interoperability issues, creating blind spots for adversaries
CrowdStrike
Effortless to operate
CrowdStrike’s single, lightweight agent deploys all platform modules and installs in minutes to hundreds of thousands of endpoints. Our update process eliminates operational workload for customers and ensures every endpoint always has the latest capabilities and protection — no cumbersome tuning required.
United platform, not scattered tools
SentinelOne
Weak, disconnected point products
- Lacks integrated cloud security modules (ASPM, DSPM), leaving gaps for adversaries
- Limited in-house MDR creates homework for SOC teams
- Ineffective identity security module lacks behavioral baselining needed to catch credential abuse
- Poor industry validation raises doubts over efficacy
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.
AI-driven efficiency
SentinelOne
Purple AI is not a security analyst
- Purple AI’s summaries of TTPs do not solve correlation issues across siloed data
- Dependent on third parties (OpenAI) for AI training and development
- Forrester Wave: MDR Services, Q1 2025: “SentinelOne fails to deliver entirely autonomous security operations.”
CrowdStrike
Faster triage, smarter cybersecurity
Accelerate cybersecurity and IT with generative AI and agentic workflows to save time and stop breaches. CrowdStrike® Charlotte AI brings expert triage to the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, analyzing detections with over 98% accuracy.5
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SentinelOne
Deployment
Seamless deployment enables instant protection
Single lightweight agent deploys in minutes and is immediately operational — no tedious tuning required.
Burdensome deployment delays time to value
Heavy agent and manual agent updates increase operational burden while manual exclusions due to software interoperability slow down deployment and reduce confidence.
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 comparative MITRE Engenuity detection test.
Not equipped for modern threat detection
Next-gen antivirus-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 50% protection score in the latest MITRE Engenuity test with 18 false positives.
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 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 an 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: Managed Services, CrowdStrike provided the most comprehensive detection coverage (97.7%) 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 substantially lower 88.4% with an MTTD of 47 minutes in the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations: Managed Services.
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Validated by industry leading analysts
2 Source: selabs.uk/reports/endpoint-security-eps-enterprise-2024-q4/
3 Individual results may vary. Based on a customer assessment of CrowdStrike vs traditional, legacy AV vendors
4 IDC: The Business Value of the CrowdStrike Falcon XDR Platform
5 Accuracy rating is a measure of Charlotte AI triage decisions that match the expert decisions from the CrowdStrike Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR team
6 Calculated by multiplying the average number of alerts triaged by Charlotte AI by a 5-minute triage time per alert as estimated by the Falcon Complete team. Individual results may vary based on factors such as total alert volume.