CrowdStrike Falcon vs. Norton Small Business

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CrowdStrike Falcon
Score 9.0 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)
Norton Small Business
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Cybercriminals increasingly target small businesses because they expect it to be easy. Norton Small Business is an antivirus service available as a subscription for protecting a multitude of endpoints, from NortonLifeLock (formerly Symantec).
$99.99
per year
Pricing
CrowdStrike FalconNorton Small Business
Editions & Modules
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)
5 Devices
$99.99
per year
10 Devices
$149.99
per year
20 Devices
$249.99
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CrowdStrike FalconNorton Small Business
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
CrowdStrike FalconNorton Small Business
Considered Both Products
CrowdStrike Falcon
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
Sentinelone is bit complicated language use in there console in compare to CrowdStrike Falcon. CrowdStrike Falcon have much big modules and features but sentinelone don't. CrowdStrike Falcon have one single unified agent and in sentinelone bit confused in selection of agent …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike is by far the superior product as we have had zero problems since installing compared to Trend where is positively failed us. We switched and again have had zero issues with the product and it protects our environment as it should without much interaction.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike Falcon is way ahead of Symantec, and covers features that defender XDR doesn't, even if you purchase all the addons. I think the only real competitors are Sentinel One, maybe Palo Alto or Huntress, or Carbon Black.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
In my opinion, CrowdStrike Falcon provides superior detection and prevention capabilities over Jamf Protect. At the time we purchased (2017) CrowdStrike Falcon was more advanced than SentinelOne and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike Falcon is far superior in all aspects. I love the features and support they provide.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike Falcon is an industry leader in this sector and is superior in its low overhead agent, having minimal impact on end-users. We plan to migrate our macOS fleet when our existing contract expires.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
We felt that CrowdStrike had a more comprehensive security tool set and the overall cost for CrowdStrike was less than those other solutions.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
Advance detection capability.Overwatch threat hunt team which proactively hunts your environment Interactive sandbox. Reduced false positives & ease of whitelisting to granular level.AI and ML can analyze events to identify subtle patterns that might indicate malicious …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
In my opinion,
CrowdStrike Falcon does a better job of detection than Carbon black in all forms. Compared to SentinelOne XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon does a better job of finding potential threats even though the machine learning based detection cause more False Positives than the …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
It is superior on the following two: Advanced threat detection because AI and ML can analyze vast amounts of data to identify subtle patterns that might indicate malicious activity, even zero-day attacks (previously unknown threats).Reduced false positives because it can help …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
It’s provides all of what the other solutions offered individually and at a better price.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
At the time of purchase CrowdStrike provided the best featureset and value proposition for the organisation. The cloud first nature of the product and the mix of heuristic and behaviour based detection technologies was better than anything else that we looked at.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
we felt that this was a new refresh as what we had prior was best at the time and there are new and modern approaches to keep the end points secure
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike Falcon is the market leader so is head and shoulders above these products. These products work of old school methodologies of detecting malware which are no longer fit for purpose.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
Although the other products were good, CrowdStrike Falcon Complete had more to offer and had a much cleaner, more intuitive interface.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
It was the easiest to deploy and manage, while the dashboard was also very clear and precise in terms of useful information.
Another major reason in selection CrowdStrike Falcon was its AI and ML detection capabilities which really impressed us during evaluation. Other tools …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
Better tool and it was used by our Incident response team on a real incident.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
Managed service for EDR operation
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
We moved on from Symantec and compared with Sophos - the impact (performance) to the endpoint is very minimal - our engineers always fight new security tools. During testing, they were running CrowdStrike for 2 weeks when they asked when we would install the new EDR tool to …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
Before choosing CrowdStrike Falcon, we evaluated alternative solutions such as Symantec and McAfee. However, CrowdStrike Falcon's cloud-native approach, advanced threat hunting capabilities, and real-time visibility into endpoint activities set it apart as the optimal choice …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
Next Gen antivirus solution. You don't need your own infrastructure for the service. Deployment is very easy and fast. Only one sensor on the clients with very low CPU impact. Easy multi factor deployment. Good overview in the console over your entire envirement. Very good and …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
At the time we evaluated the products, CrowdStrike was clearly leading in this space. It's possible since that time so other products have added additional features and may be equivalent.
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike Falcon's cloud-native architecture gives it an edge in terms of scalability, ease of deployment, and real-time threat intelligence updates. The user interface of Falcon is intuitive and offers clear visibility into our organization's threat landscape. Our team felt …
Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
When we looked, we narrowed to two choices Sentinel One and CrowdStrike. We chose CrowdStrike due to the use of AI backed up with Human Security experts to investigate detections and issues.
Norton Small Business
Chose Norton Small Business
Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (discontinued) and Symantec Advanced Threat Protection
Chose Norton Small Business
We did not actively consider any other software. Overall we did do a basic understanding of a pricing & features and found that the offerings from Symantec were better than others even prima facie. At the current time for an organisation such as ours we do not believe that …
Features
CrowdStrike FalconNorton Small Business
Endpoint Security
Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Product A and Product B
CrowdStrike Falcon
9.1
Ratings
6% above category average
Norton Small Business
-
Ratings
Anti-Exploit Technology9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Centralized Management9.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Infection Remediation9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Vulnerability Management7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware Detection9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
CrowdStrike FalconNorton Small Business
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CrowdStrike FalconNorton Small Business
Likelihood to Recommend
CrowdStrike Falcon is well suited for any size of environment. Large to small, CrowdStrike Falcon does an amazing job. The ability to have the same security as a fortune 500 company and have a solution that sees the same threats that they are seeing is amazing. I do not think that there is a company or environment that wouldn't benefit from the CrowdStrike Falcon solution.
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We are a small company; Norton Small Business gives us the freedom for our remote employees to work securely using their personal laptop /smartphone. Less appropriate: Someone with a few separate locations that require separate cybersecurity environment but would still benefit from centralized management.
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Pros
  • The Log analysis is very detailed and easy to use.
  • Prevent and block all type of malwares.
  • Great threat intelligence which is very up-to-date with the recent cyber attacks
  • very user friendly in access and management
  • Automated feature of detecting, taking action and closing incidents using fusion workflow.
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  • In term of pricing
  • In term of Advanced threat protection
  • User friendly solution and good support team.
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Cons
  • The Dashboard can become overwhelming at times, too much information to absorb
  • Computers that may have made it out into the field without the endpoint sensor are very difficult to find
  • As with all systems that rely on machine learning false positives occurr
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  • Confusing Workflow at Renewal
  • Fixed Bundle Sizes may be an issue for Smaller Businesses with in-the-middle requirements
  • Easier Installation
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Likelihood to Renew
Crowdstrike has a large suite of tools built for helping the engineers triage and respond to security event whenever identified. The ability to customize the security policies and implement more granular policies to different devices based on the functionality is unmatched. Crowdstrike provides so much of ability in a decent budget which ascertains the value for money or ROI.
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Usability
I think it is a complete and very trustful XDR platform, with very few False Positives. It is very well supported by highly skilled professionals on all levels: from pre-sales engineers, Customer Account Managers and support engineers.
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It's good for a small business that needs cybersecurity without needing to spend a lot of money. Besides being affordable it seems to be extremely, reliable, and easy to use.
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Support Rating
Support is generally pretty fast and gets right to the issue. We haven't had to use them much, fortunately, but the issues and questions we've had are usually answered quickly. The customer success manager/account manager you're assigned will also follow up with you on a regular cadence to ensure you're getting the most out of the subscription. There's not a whole lot of room to improve, other than the general confusion about what is/what is not covered in custom packages you're subscribed to. The initial purchase took much longer because of a package name changes and realignments of different modules into those packages.
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In-Person Training
There is limited amount of learning that can be completed in an in-person training available. In my opinion, the self-paced learning provided by Falcon portal is more useful over in-person training. The support from Falcon is great and useful to overcome difficulties, if any.
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Online Training
The training provided by Crowdstrike Falcon is complete in terms of the depth of technical knowledge and teaches the users about going through with the platform. There are lots of jargons for different tools that Crowdstrike Falcon has and this training teaches them all which helps in managing the platform better. Plus, the regular knowledge checks are also very helpful for the end user.
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Implementation Rating
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Alternatives Considered
We were a former Arctic Wolf customer and feel like they worked more as a team with us. Cylance is what we're looking at possibly migrating to.
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We did not actively consider any other software. Overall we did do a basic understanding of a pricing & features and found that the offerings from Symantec were better than others even prima facie. At the current time for an organisation such as ours we do not believe that there is any other option worth active consideration
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Return on Investment
  • CrowdStrike Falcon's proactive threat mitigation has significantly reduced the risk of successful cyber attacks, resulting in tangible savings related to potential data breaches or system compromises.
  • The cloud-native architecture and automated features have improved operational efficiency.
  • The platform's real-time visibility and threat hunting capabilities have drastically improved incident response times.
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  • Money saved on cybersecurity products
  • Time saved: ease of use
  • Reliable
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