CrowdStrike Falcon vs. McAfee Total Protection (discontinued)

CrowdStrike Falcon

299 Reviews and Ratings

McAfee Total Protection (discontinued)

81 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CrowdStrike Falcon	Score9 out of 10	N/A	CrowdStrike offers the Falcon Endpoint Protection suite, an antivirus and endpoint protection system emphasizing threat detection, machine learning malware detection, and signature free updating. Additionally the available Falcon Spotlight module delivers vulnerability assessment with no performance impact, no additional agents, hardware, scheduled scans, firewall exceptions or admin credentials.	$59.99 per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)
McAfee Total Protection (discontinued)	Score8 out of 10	N/A	McAfee's Total Protection included antivirus and antimalware offerings for home and small businesses or home offices. This product line is not a focus for Trellix, the brand formed from the merger of McAfee and FireEye that offers business grade products. Trellix Endpoint Security is the company's product line for business endpoint security.	$24.99 per year (2 year subscription, 5 devices)

Pricing

CrowdStrike Falcon

McAfee Total Protection (discontinued)

Falcon Go (Small Business): $59.99
per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)
Falcon Go (Small Business): $59.99
Falcon Pro: $99.99
per endpoint/month (for 5-250 endpoints, billed annually)
Falcon Enterprise: $184.99
per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)

Multi-Device: $24.99
per year (2 year subscription, 5 devices)
Individual: $29.99 ($79.99)
1st year price (subsequent years)
Family: $29.99
per year (2 year subscription, 10 devices)

Pricing Offerings
CrowdStrike Falcon	McAfee Total Protection (discontinued)
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	CrowdStrike Falcon	McAfee Total Protection (discontinued)
Considered Both Products	CrowdStrike Verified User Chose CrowdStrike Falcon Since CrowdStrike is a cloud-native platform, it reduces the need to maintain many servers on-premise and worldwide architecture. McAfee uses very high CPU and RAM resources on endpoints and servers. Identity protection feature is a huge step towards zero trust implementation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CrowdStrike Falcon McAfee did not stop the attack we received. We hope that Crowdstrike proves that it can going forward. Incentivized Helpful? Javier Aguado Security Consultant at ONCE (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose CrowdStrike Falcon High ENS compliance and client requirements. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CrowdStrike Falcon CrowdStrike Falcon provides a single solution to complex problems along with the ability to contain a machine and remotely execute programs using admin dashboard and administrator capabilities Incentivized Helpful? Ankitkumar Mistry IT Service Provider in Information Technology at Adani Power Ltd (Renewables & Environment, 501-1000 employees) Chose CrowdStrike Falcon CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection is one of the best industry leading NG-AV and it is capable to cater all needs which are present requirement. You can blindly trust on this product as it is having multiple features and using latest technology to eliminate the risk which … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CrowdStrike Falcon Crowdstrike Falcon Endpoint protection is based on AIML enhanced technology,l. It's cloud-based so users don't need to connect to their office network to get their policy synchronization done from Server to endpoints agents. Also, the Crowdstrike Falcon agent size is small and … Incentivized Helpful? Ankit Mistry IT Software Consultant in Information Technology at Atul Ltd (Chemicals, 1001-5000 employees) Chose CrowdStrike Falcon N/A Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CrowdStrike Falcon It's easier to manage, less time to deploy, has more integrations and better understands the business needs. False positives, visibility, sensors management, device control, detections, preventions are pretty much the differentiators with other rivals. It will have more and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CrowdStrike Falcon Crowdstrike [Falcon Endpoint Protection] blows [McAfee Endpoint Security] out of the water. At least when you compare their traditional AV to CrowdStrike. Operational and Security wise, leaps and bounds. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CrowdStrike Falcon CrowdStrike is on another level compared to AV solutions. Incentivized Helpful? Bryan Bowie Principal Incident Responder (Sr.) in Corporate at Verizon (Security & Investigations, 10,001+ employees) Chose CrowdStrike Falcon I was not part of the selection process; however after speaking with the team that did make the call, the following where the key scenarios or features that ultimately made the decision. The number one decision from the support team was the client deployment and management of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CrowdStrike Falcon Crowdstrike has a much lower memory footprint than most traditional antivirus platforms and has a much more modern interface. The centralized portal gives data which feels like it actually represents reality. We feel we can be confident that Falcon actually works but we have … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CrowdStrike Falcon CrowdStrike is the only software we have used or tried that actually held up to what they said they would do and could do. I have tried multiple different products and was able to sneak exploits by them all while using and testing them - I was not able to do so with CrowdStrike. Incentivized Helpful?	Discontinued Products No answer on this topic
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

CrowdStrike Falcon

McAfee Total Protection (discontinued)

Comparison of Endpoint Security features of CrowdStrike Falcon and McAfee Total Protection (discontinued)
Feature	CrowdStrike Falcon 9.1 85 Ratings	McAfee Total Protection (discontinued) - Ratings
Anti-Exploit Technology	9.677 Ratings	00 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)	9.783 Ratings	00 Ratings
Centralized Management	9.884 Ratings	00 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support	8.24 Ratings	00 Ratings
Infection Remediation	9.480 Ratings	00 Ratings
Vulnerability Management	7.863 Ratings	00 Ratings
Malware Detection	9.483 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	CrowdStrike Falcon	McAfee Total Protection (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (88 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (3 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (9 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)