CrowdStrike Falcon vs Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] comparison

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CrowdStrike and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. Additionally, 97% of CrowdStrike users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 13, 2026

Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] and CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR are solutions competing in the endpoint security category. CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR seems to have the upper hand with advanced threat intelligence features, making it a preferred choice based on functionality.

Features: Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] offers robust encryption, extensive data loss prevention, and effective security management that enhance data security and compliance. CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR delivers comprehensive threat detection, advanced threat response capabilities, and seamless cloud integration, offering a proactive approach to security.

Room for Improvement: Dell's solution can enhance its cloud functionality, real-time threat analysis, and integration with advanced AI features. CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR may improve by providing more flexible pricing models, expanding its suite of native tools, and streamlining its user interface for broader accessibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell's suite enables traditional on-premises deployment with substantial customer support during setup. In contrast, CrowdStrike's cloud-native architecture simplifies deployment, requiring less infrastructure while offering a swift installation process backed by reliable cloud-based services. Although Dell provides attentive support, CrowdStrike's streamlined platform reduces complexity and vastly improves the user experience.

Pricing and ROI: Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] offers lower initial pricing and delivers steady ROI with effective cost management. CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR presents a higher initial cost but justifies the investment through improved operational efficiency and enhanced threat protection, which contributes to long-term ROI advantages.

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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...

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ABHISHEK_SINGH

Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk

Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration

Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.

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Jacob White

Senior Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Centralized endpoint protection has strengthened compliance and accelerated incident response

There are a number of areas that I only touch a handful of times, but when I get in there, I realize why I don't do that. The main area would be within the support area. The support bot is not really as smart as you would expect it, especially in this day and age of LLM and other capabilities that I know CrowdStrike Falcon is already capable of doing. Additionally, I would appreciate a little bit more easy to read insights of some of the dashboards or maybe manipulation of the dashboards. It is still a little cumbersome to build custom dashboards and it's not as intuitive as you would think. Documentation is abysmal and needs to be improved dramatically. I know that there's a big effort to do this, however, even the new effort is honestly worse than it was before. Those are definitely major areas of improvement, just more in the usability of the features.

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Alexander Zhuravel

Head of Network and Server infrastructure department at JSC Alfa Bank Ukraine

A highly scalable tool that ensures its users face no problems while using it as a backup system

The tool is scalable and is currently being used on over 2,000 nodes. So, our company doesn't count the number of clients we have, but we do count the number of nodes, specifically referring to file system nodes, backup nodes, database nodes, virtual machine nodes, and blockchain nodes, which we use for file-based applications. According to the traffic, a backup of five petabytes of data can be done for a month.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable features of this product are the management capabilities, which allow an IT organization to get quite a good picture of attempted cyber attacks, and its out-of-the-box investigation capabilities."

"If the user leaves our premises or network, Palo Alto Traps will still be on that endpoint and will still apply our policies."

"It's a nice product that's stable and scalable."

"Cortex XDR alerts us on the dashboard when there's a threat, which allows us to restrict that user and helps secure our infrastructure."

"The integrations are out-of-the-box, as are the playbooks."

"They did what they said, and this solution could apply to any scenario."

"Cortex is the best solution for avoiding security breaches, malware attacks, and other kinds of security issues."

"It has pretty much everything we need and works well within the Palo Alto ecosystem."

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"We've had security incidents that occurred and within a matter of just a couple of minutes, they were completely remediated and fixed and we didn't even have to think about it."

"Using CrowdStrike Falcon has changed the way my security team detects, investigates, and responds to threats because it gives us a lot of granularity on what goes on, what processes are being run, and what is actually being executed if anyone is trying to get onto our endpoints."

"CrowdStrike provides a lot of visibility in their tool."

"The biggest ROI is the operational cost reduction, where automatic updates now take care of themselves and you are looking at saving six to seven months of a person's time, collectively, which would have been spent on just doing this one function alone."

"It's really good because it can detect anything."

"This solution has made the lives of the IT staff much easier, compared to the previous one."

"Scalability is good. We have had no issues with it."

"The real-time analytics aspect of CrowdStrike performs well because we get all logs in real-time, with no delay, allowing us to take action immediately."

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"There's a really they have a really nice way to test it first. Before you adopt it. And so I would suggest trying to they they create a test site for you, and they give you a link to it, and you can basically try out all the features on your own for I think we did it for a month."

"It is a stable solution. Our company faces no problems with the backup system…The initial setup wasn't complex."

"The security engine is effective at catching potential threats."

"Technical support is excellent."

"It is a stable solution."

"Dell Data Protection has a decent service and integrates well with users' active directories."

"The most valuable features of the solution are its speed, backup speed, and restore speed."

Cons

"Enhancing UI simplicity and playbook flexibility are areas that could benefit from more low-code automation options for smoother integrations."

"We would also like to have advanced tech protection and email scanning."

"There are some limitations on the Traps agents."

"Data privacy is a matter of concern. You have to be careful with data privacy, it can be sensitive and Cortex can have most of your access."

"There are some false positives. What our guys would have liked is that it would have been easier to manipulate as soon as they found a false positive that they knew was a false positive. How to do so was not obvious. Some people complained about it. The interface, the ESM, is not user-friendly."

"Traps doesn't work with McAfee. You need to remove McAfee to install Traps. This is very common, and its nothing that should be an issue. Some antivirus engines recognize Traps as an threat component, so maybe they need to shake hands somewhere."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks could improve its user interface, which is more complicated compared to competitors such as SentinelOne."

"It is not easy to sell Cortex XDR, not because it isn't a good tool. Its marketing needs to be improved."

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"For further improvements, I can only think of one example because this is very important for us; they could reduce the price. Then it would deserve a rating of seven."

"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the license is expensive since it is based on per host."

"The dashboard area must be improved. We have integration with Splunk, and we are creating a dashboard there. Their dashboard area must be up to date. It should have more details and more options to create the reports and things like that."

"There are some areas where some customers would prefer a different service."

"On the firewall management side, there should be more granularity. There should also be more granularity for device control. Everything else is brilliant."

"The product could be more accurate in terms of performance."

"The dashboard does not have the facility to export the reports in a PDF format, which I can quickly share with internal stakeholders."

"The solution could improve the policies themselves. It would be helpful if there were cost-cutting measures."

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"The solution’s user interface should be made more user-friendly."

"The backup speed and deduplication are the most valuable features."

"Implementation in a beta environment is necessary before rollout to the larger community."

"I consider the product pretty expensive, so from an improvement perspective, I would like the pricing to be better."

"Whenever we talk about reporting, I have a chance to look at the reporting, and in my opinion, it's not user-friendly."

"The solution could be more user-friendly."

"The restore feed needs improvement."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's the most expensive solution, but features-wise, it's quite strong. It's very good for protection, so the results are very good in the case of protection. I would rate it a two out of ten in terms of pricing."

"When we first bought it, it was a bit expensive, but it was worth it. The licensing was straightforward."

"The price of the solution could be reduced. I have customers that have voiced that the solution is good for the value but if I want to sell more of the solution the price reduction would help."

"This is an expensive solution."

"It is present, but when compared to other competitive products, I would say it is not less expensive; however, when all of the other added values are considered, the price is reasonable."

"Traps pays for itself within the first 16 months of a three-year subscription. This is attributed to OPEX savings, as security teams spent less time trying to identify and isolate malware for analysis as a result of a reduction in malware incidents, false positives, and breach avoidance."

"Compared to CrowdStrike, Cortex XDR is an expensive solution."

"Our customers have expressed that the price is high."

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"While CrowdStrike Falcon offers significant security benefits, its high price point might make it prohibitively expensive for many small and medium-sized businesses, including companies like ours."

"We are at about $60,000 per year."

"Pricing and licensing seem to be in line with what they offer. We are a smaller organization, so pricing is important. Obviously, we would make a business case if it is something we really needed or felt that we needed. So, the pricing is in line with what we are getting from a product standpoint."

"This solution has a very competitive price."

"Crowdstrike Falcon is relatively cheap."

"Different components are additional price points. We got the components that were right for us, but other organizations may require more (or less) components to suit their needs."

"CrowdStrike Falcon is one of the more expensive endpoint solutions on the market."

"The pricing and licensing are reasonable. I don't think we are getting charged more than what it is worth. It is fair, but I do not like how it is a la carte. I realize they do that so other organizations can buy and get the agent, getting it cheaper than you could otherwise. However, if you want the main core package, which has all the main features with the exception of maybe the multi-cloud protections, that can get pricier for an organization. So, you have to pick and choose what you want. I do not care for a la carte pricing."

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"It is more expensive than one of its competitors."

"You'll need to pay more than the product's original price for the support."

"It is an expensive solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

13%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	48
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	56

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Small Business	58
Midsize Enterprise	47
Large Enterprise	84

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Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	2

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon Threat Intelligence, CrowdStrike Identity Protection, CrowdStrike Falcon Surface, CrowdStrike Falcon Platform

DDP, ESS

Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

Palo Alto Networks

CrowdStrike Falcon delivers AI-powered endpoint protection, detection, and response to help organizations stop malware, ransomware, fileless attacks, and sophisticated adversaries. Built on the cloud-native Falcon platform and a single lightweight sensor, it combines prevention, EDR, threat intelligence, and automated response to protect endpoints while simplifying security operations.

What features make CrowdStrike Falcon stand out?

AI-Powered Prevention: Uses next-generation antivirus, machine learning, behavioral analysis, and exploit blocking to protect against known and unknown threats.
Endpoint Detection and Response: Provides continuous endpoint visibility and contextual detection to accelerate threat investigation and response.
Adversary Intelligence: Enriches endpoint telemetry and detections with CrowdStrike threat intelligence to help teams understand and prioritize threats.
Automated Response: Enables endpoint isolation, remediation, and automated workflows to contain and eliminate threats quickly.

What benefits can users expect?

Stronger Endpoint Protection: Helps stop malware, ransomware, and sophisticated attacks before they lead to breaches.
Faster Investigation and Response: Combines detection, context, and automation to help security teams respond more efficiently.
Reduced Complexity: Consolidates endpoint security capabilities through a unified platform, console, and lightweight sensor.
Scalable Security: Cloud-native architecture helps organizations deploy and manage protection across endpoint environments without legacy on-premises infrastructure.

Across industries, CrowdStrike Falcon helps organizations modernize endpoint security, improve security team efficiency, and stop sophisticated threats with AI-powered protection and adversary intelligence.

CrowdStrike

Dell endpoint systems management (ESM) products provide a comprehensive and easy-to-use family of solutions that fulfills your systems management needs, regardless of your organization's size. Dell ESM solutions manage, maintain and secure your entire IT infrastructure - servers, Windows PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, mobile devices and connected noncomputing devices, such as printers, IP telephony and routers, in preparation for the Internet of Things. With a flexible suite of products and services, Dell ESM prepares companies to meet emerging systems management requirements, Preconfigured appliances, robust features, simple integrations with other software, fast deployment and rapid time to value.

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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

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MEIZU, TBG West, Ackerman Charter School District, Church of the Highlands

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