TechValidate Research on CrowdStrike Cloud Security

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808 Customers Surveyed

4,817 Data Points Collected

97 Published TechFacts

33 Published Charts

14 Published Case Studies



Selected Research Highlights


CrowdStrike Customer Research

Will you try other Apps in the CrowdStrike Store?

Yes: 66%
No: 0%
Maybe: 34%

CrowdStrike Customer Satisfaction Rating

A CIO at a medium enterprise financial services company would be very likely to recommend CrowdStrike for this reason:

By all accounts, it’s a state-of-the-art, strong robust product, and service.

CrowdStrike Customer Research

Benefits SMBs Gain with CrowdStrike

What benefits did you gain following the deployment of CrowdStrike?

Improved the efficiency of our security operations
73%
Delivered faster IT and security performance
70%
Improved data protection of critical information
45%
Found and shut down threats that we had no prior knowledge of
42%
Met regulatory compliance standards
38%
Improved application quality
26%

CrowdStrike Case Study

HRP Associates, Inc.

Introduction

This case study of HRP Associates, Inc. is based on an October 2022 survey of CrowdStrike customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Crowdstrike provides our primary endpoint protection and remediation as well as vulnerability management.”

“Once set up, Crowdstrike is much easier to maintain and generates far fewer false positives than prior solutions.”

“We have been very pleased with Crowdstrike as a security solution and would highly recommend it.”

Challenges

Which of the following represented the biggest security challenge(s) for your organization before implementing CrowdStrike?

  • Facing increasingly advanced cyber threats (i.e. ransomware, identity-based attacks)
  • Increased complexity and risk due to remote and/or hybrid workforce
  • Limited or insufficient amount of security professionals on staff to monitor 24×7

Why did you choose CrowdStrike over other solutions?

  • For the simple, single-agent unified platform
  • Because they are a proven security leader recognized by major analysts and best-in-class protection by independent testing
  • For the world-class technology and intelligence

What other Vendors did you consider before choosing CrowdStrike?

  • SentinelOne
  • VMWare

Use Case

What features of CrowdStrike are you using?

  • Next Gen. Antivirus (Falcon Prevent)
  • Endpoint Detection & Response (Falcon Insight)
  • Threat Intelligence (Falcon Intelligence)
  • Threat Hunting (Falcon Overwatch)
  • IT Hygiene (Falcon Discover)
  • Falcon Spotlight

Which cybersecurity topics are you interested in learning more about?

  • Cloud Security
  • Identity Protection
  • General security awareness and training

Results

CrowdStrike security solutions compared to the competition:

  • Performance: Best In Class
  • Ease of use: Better
  • Reliability: Significantly Better
  • Scalability: Better
  • Breach Prevention: Best In Class

What benefits did your organization realize following the deployment of CrowdStrike?

  • Improved the efficiency of our security operations
  • Delivered faster IT and security performance

In your best estimate, by what percent did CrowdStrike improve the following?

  • Reduce IT/Security Costs: 1-25%
  • Reduce IT/Security Maintenance: 25-50%
  • Reduce time spent tracking down and resolving security threats: 50-75%

CrowdStrike Customer Statistic

Better Overall Security

95% of surveyed organizations rate CrowdStrike’s overall security as better compared to other solutions they have used.

95%

CrowdStrike Cloud Security Case Study

Large Enterprise Banking Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise banking company is based on a June 2022 survey of CrowdStrike Cloud Security customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have its name blinded to protect its confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security:

  • Biggest cloud application security challenges for their organization:
    • Lack of visibility into public cloud infrastructure hosting our cloud-native applications
    • Meeting prescribed best practices for the configuration of cloud-resident workloads and services
  • Top purchasing drivers for buying CrowdStrike:
    • To secure sensitive data in the cloud
  • Vendors evaluated before they chose CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security:
    • CSP cloud-native tools

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of CrowdStrike Cloud Security that the surveyed company uses:

  • Public cloud infrastructure service providers (IaaS and/or PaaS) their organization currently uses:
    • AWS
  • Primary reasons for selecting CrowdStrike:
    • Allow for automation of security controls via integration with existing DevOps tools

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security:

  • Capabilities of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security compared to the competition:
    • Performance: Significantly Better
    • Ease of Use: Better


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About CrowdStrike Cloud Security

CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk — endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value. CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.

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