CrowdStrike vs. Splunk
Don’t let Splunk slow you down. Supercharge your SOC with CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM.
Why customers choose CrowdStrike over Splunk
Customer assessment
60
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faster search speeds than Splunk1
Customer assessment
80
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Savings over three years versus legacy SIEM1
Customer assessment
10
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Security tools consolidated with the CrowdStrike Falcon platform1
Faster by design
Splunk
Too slow for modern adversaries
- Poor search speeds hamper incident investigation and threat hunting
- Lengthy indexing creates delays in data search availability
- Complex infrastructure requirements for on-prem deployments degrade performance
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.
No visibility trade-offs. Better outcomes.
Splunk
Cost prohibitive
- Customers are forced to exclude important data sources, creating significant visibility gaps
- Complex pricing model leads to unexpected costs and surprise uplifts at renewal
- Burdensome operational requirements drive up total cost of ownership
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.
Platform advantage
Splunk
Complex point product
- Relies solely on third-party log telemetry, making data onboarding and indexing complex and onerous
- Requires multiple dedicated employees just for maintenance, management, and usage
- No ability to natively consolidate across security products like endpoint, identity, cloud, exposure management and threat intelligence
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.
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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.
See what our customers think
It has helped tremendously to strengthen our security posture by securing our endpoints. It has helped to free up our IT department from having to constantly worry about malware and malicious software infecting our endpoints.
Chris S.
The agent is extremely lightweight and it never takes huge resources on the system. Management is extremely easy with easy dashboard. The alerts are extremely well detailed.
Abhishek R.
Exceptional EDR capabilities along with fast response from the managed SOC. I like the way the product maps out any threat/potential threat vector. It provides a great visualization for users to trace the source.
Mainak S.
Validated by industry leading analysts
1Results are from a customer. Individual results may vary.
2These 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.
2These 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.
