TechValidate Research on CrowdStrike Cloud Security

14 Case Studies


CrowdStrike Case Study

BrightStar Credit Union

Introduction

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

“It is our primary endpoint defense as well as our exposed asset defense.”

“Eliminated the need to manually watch over the console and allow us to move our focus elsewhere.”

“Great product, proven and does what is needed.”

Challenges

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

  • Existing security tools and products not meeting their needs and integrations
  • Complying with numerous privacy, security and regulatory requirements
  • 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
  • For the deployment flexibility (i.e., offered as a cloud-native service, a customer-managed, on-premises implementation, etc.)
  • 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?

  • Cisco
  • VMWare

Use Case

What features of CrowdStrike are you using?

  • Next Gen. Antivirus (Falcon Prevent)
  • Endpoint Detection & Response (Falcon Insight)
  • Device Control
  • Threat Hunting (Falcon Overwatch)

Results

CrowdStrike security solutions compared to the competition:

  • Performance: Best In Class
  • Ease of use: Significantly Better
  • Reliability: Best In Class
  • Scalability: Best In Class
  • 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: 25-50%
  • Reduce IT/Security Maintenance: 25-50%
  • Reduce time spent tracking down and resolving security threats: 50-75%

CrowdStrike Case Study

Space Age Electronics, Inc

Introduction

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

“CrowdStrike is our sole-source security solution. We use the Falcon platform to protect all of our servers and endpoints and use Overwatch to make sure we are safe. "

“Because we are using a single, centralized platform, the amount of work required to monitor and remediate security events is significantly reduced as it can be done any time from anywhere.”

“CrowdStrike is the best. I already recommend them whenever security comes up in conversation.”

Challenges

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

  • Existing security tools and products not meeting their needs and integrations
  • Deployment of security keeping pace with company growth and expansion
  • Facing increasingly advanced cyber threats (i.e. ransomware, identity-based attacks)
  • 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
  • Because it allows for automation of security controls via integrations with existing or other security tools
  • For the human expertise and services
  • For the world-class technology and intelligence

What other vendors did you consider before choosing CrowdStrike?

  • Microsoft
  • Malwarebytes
  • Kaspersky

Use Case

What features of CrowdStrike are you using?

  • Next Gen. Antivirus (Falcon Prevent)
  • Endpoint Detection & Response (Falcon Insight)
  • Threat Hunting (Falcon Overwatch)

Results

CrowdStrike security solutions compared to the competition:

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

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

  • Improved the efficiency of our security operations
  • Improved application quality
  • They were able to find and shut down threats they had no prior knowledge of
  • Delivered faster IT and security performance
  • Improved data protection of critical information
  • A greater ability to meet regulatory compliance standards

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

  • Reduce IT/Security Costs: 50-75%
  • Reduce IT/Security Maintenance: 75-99%
  • Reduce time spent tracking down and resolving security threats: 100% +

CrowdStrike Case Study

KS State Bank

Introduction

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

“Replacement for traditional antivirus. We also utilize tools to evaluate potential zero-day threats in real-time.”

“Having vision into the unfolding of detections makes determining if a security risk is actually a risk or a false positive very easy.”

“CrowdStrike is an excellent product. It gives us great insight into network activities that would otherwise require a dedicated specialist to monitor and evaluate. Because of the data provided by the agent and the threat intelligence team, we are able to run a smaller internal IT team.”

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)
  • 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?

  • Sophos
  • Webroot, Cybereason

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)

Results

CrowdStrike security solutions compared to the competition:

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

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

  • Improved the efficiency of our security operations
  • They were able to find and shut down threats they had no prior knowledge of
  • Delivered faster IT and security performance
  • Improved data protection of critical information

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

  • Reduce IT/Security Costs: 25-50%
  • Reduce IT/Security Maintenance: 50-75%
  • Reduce time spent tracking down and resolving security threats: 75-99%

CrowdStrike Case Study

EnSafe Inc.

Introduction

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

“Let’s just put it this way, Crowdstrike is the core of our cyber security strategy. From asset management to IDP, we count on Crowdstrike and the Falcon Complete team to keep our environment safe.”

“Within days of deploying NextGen AV/EDR, we got to see Crowdstrike and the Falcon team in action. Response to malware detection was swift and effective. When we brought in IDP, it was a real eye-opener. So many threats/vulnerabilities we had not even considered. Months later now after deploying IDP, I feel much safer about where we are today.”

Challenges

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

  • Complying with numerous privacy, security and regulatory requirements
  • Facing increasingly advanced cyber threats (i.e. ransomware, identity-based attacks)
  • 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
  • For the deployment flexibility (i.e., offered as a cloud-native service, a customer-managed, on-premises implementation, etc.)
  • Because they are a proven security leader recognized by major analysts and best-in-class protection by independent testing
  • Because it allows for automation of security controls via integrations with existing or other security tools
  • For the human expertise and services
  • For the world-class technology and intelligence
  • Because it was recommended by a trusted advisor and/or peers at another company

What other vendors did you consider before choosing CrowdStrike?

  • SentinelOne
  • Microsoft

Use Case

What features of CrowdStrike are you using?

  • Next Gen. Antivirus (Falcon Prevent)
  • Endpoint Detection & Response (Falcon Insight)
  • Threat Intelligence (Falcon Intelligence)
  • Device Control
  • Threat Hunting (Falcon Overwatch)
  • IT Hygiene (Falcon Discover)
  • Identity Protection
  • Managed Services/Detection & Response (Falcon Complete)

Results

CrowdStrike security solutions compared to the competition:

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

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

  • Improved the efficiency of our security operations
  • Improved application quality
  • They were able to find and shut down threats they had no prior knowledge of
  • Delivered faster IT and security performance
  • Improved data protection of critical information
  • A greater ability to meet regulatory compliance standards

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

  • Reduce IT/Security Costs: 100% +
  • Reduce IT/Security Maintenance: 100% +
  • Reduce time spent tracking down and resolving security threats: 100% +

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 Managed Services for SMB Case Study

Cross Company

Introduction

This case study of Cross Company is based on an October 2022 survey of CrowdStrike Managed Services for SMB customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“We currently use Crowdstrike endpoint protection.

“The biggest gain was deployment and client management as CrowdStrike is cloud native and does not rely on data file updates to provide updated protection. The dashboard visibility into the kill chain allows for faster time to understand the threat.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led Cross Company to evaluate and ultimately select CrowdStrike:

  • Existing security tools and products not meeting their needs and integrations
  • Facing increasingly advanced cyber threats (i.e. ransomware, identity-based attacks)
  • Increased complexity and risk due to remote and/or hybrid workforce

Why did you choose CrowdStrike over other solutions?

  • For the simple, single-agent unified platform
  • For the deployment flexibility (i.e., offered as a cloud-native service, a customer-managed, on-premises implementation, etc.)
  • 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
  • Sophos
  • VMWare

Use Case

What key features of CrowdStrike are you using?

  • Next Gen. Antivirus (Falcon Prevent)

Results

Cross Company achieved the following results with CrowdStrike for SMB:

  • CrowdStrike security solutions compared to the competition:
    • Performance: Better
    • Ease of use: Better
    • Reliability: Better
    • Scalability: Better
    • Breach Prevention: Better
  • 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?
    • Reduced IT/Security Costs: 1-25%
    • Reduced IT/Security Maintenance: 1-25%
    • Reduced time spent tracking down and resolving security threats: 25-50%

CrowdStrike Case Study

Mid-Sized Automotive & Transport Company Drives into Compliance and Strengthens Security Posture with CrowdStrike

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise automotive & transport company is based on an October 2022 survey of CrowdStrike customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have its name blinded to protect its confidentiality.

“We use it as our main security tool. Working with CrowdStrike Falcon Complete further increases our security posture.”

“Having all or most security issues, policies and information all in one place allows for a quicker time managing threats and security.”

Challenges

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

  • Deployment of security keeping pace with company growth and expansion
  • Complying with numerous privacy, security and regulatory requirements
  • Facing increasingly advanced cyber threats (e.g., ransomware, identity-based attacks)

Why they chose CrowdStrike over other solutions:

  • Simple, single-agent unified platform
  • Proven security leader recognized by major analysts and best-in-class protection by independent testing
  • Allows for automation of security controls via integrations with existing or other security tools
  • Human expertise and services

Use Case

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

  • Falcon Prevent™ next-gen antivirus
  • Falcon Insight™ endpoint detection and response
  • Falcon Intelligence™ threat intelligence
  • Falcon OverWatch™ managed threat hunting
  • Falcon Discover™ IT hygiene
  • Falcon Identity Threat Detection™
  • Falcon Complete™ managed endpoint security

Results

CrowdStrike security solutions compared to the competition:

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

Benefits the organization realized following the deployment of CrowdStrike:

  • Improved the efficiency of our security operations
  • Delivered faster IT and security performance
  • Improved data protection of critical information
  • A greater ability to meet regulatory compliance standards

In their best estimate, by what percent did CrowdStrike improve the following:

  • Reduced IT/Security Costs: 75-99%
  • Reduced IT/Security Maintenance: 100%
  • Reduced time spent tracking down and resolving security threats: 100%

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

CrowdStrike Cloud Security Case Study

Repligen

Introduction

This case study of Repligen Corporation is based on a May 2022 survey of CrowdStrike Cloud Security customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Since implementation, CrowdStrike has freed up my team from having to perform the initial triage of any potential vulnerabilities. Having CrowdStrike be our first line of defense as been immeasurable.”

Challenges

Biggest cloud application security challenges for their organization:

  • Meeting prescribed best practices for the configuration of cloud-resident workloads and services

Top purchasing drivers for buying CrowdStrike Cloud Security with Containers:

  • To consolidate security tools

Vendors evaluated before they chose CrowdStrike:

  • Replaced Sophos and Red Cloak

Use Case

Public cloud infrastructure service providers (IaaS and/or PaaS) their organization currently uses:

  • AWS
  • Azure

Primary reasons for selecting CrowdStrike:

  • Exploit and malware detection and prevention

Results

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

  • How they rated the capabilities of CrowdStrike Falcon compared to the competition:
    • Performance: Significantly Better
    • Ease of Use: Significantly Better
    • Reliability: Significantly Better
    • Scalability: Significantly Better
    • Breach Prevention: Significantly Better
  • Operational benefits realized following the deployment of CrowdStrike:
    • Improved data protection of critical information
    • Met regulatory compliance standards
  • In your best estimate, by what percent did CrowdStrike improve the following?
    • Reduced Complexity via Single Platform: 100%
    • Reduced Time to Deploy Workload Protection: 75-99%
    • Accelerated Detection and Remediation of Vulnerabilities in CI/CD Pipeline: 100%
    • Accelerated Application Development Cycles: 100%

CrowdStrike Cloud Security Case Study

Medium Enterprise Retail Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise retail company is based on a May 2022 survey of CrowdStrike Cloud Security customers by TechValidate, a third-party research service. The profiled company asked to have its name blinded to protect it’s confidentiality.

“Currently to give GCP-quality security that a small team can take advantage of immediately.”

“Allows us to view crucial information without spending hours to build on our own using open source tools.”

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:
    • Maintaining security consistency across our own data center and public cloud environments where our cloud-native applications are deployed
    • Lack of visibility into public cloud infrastructure hosting our cloud-native applications
  • Top purchasing drivers for buying CrowdStrike:
    • To consolidate security tools
    • To reduce cost and complexity
  • Vendors evaluated before they chose CrowdStrike cloud security solutions:
    • Palo Alto Networks
    • Trend Micro
    • Microsoft
    • Aqua Security

Use Case

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

  • Public cloud infrastructure service providers (IaaS and/or PaaS) the organization currently uses:
    • AWS
    • Azure
    • Google Cloud
  • Primary reasons for selecting CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security:
    • Gain a single unified platform for on-premises and cloud infrastructure
    • Gain the ability to provide continuous visibility across cloud resources regardless of the cloud
    • Allow for automation of security controls via integration with existing DevOps tools
    • Exploit and malware detection and prevention
    • For the deployment flexibility (e.g., offered as a cloud-delivered service, a customer-managed, on-premises implementation, etc.)

Results

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

  • Capabilities of CrowdStrike cloud security suite compared to the competition:
    • Performance: Best in Class
    • Ease of Use: Best in Class
    • Reliability: Best in Class
    • Scalability: Best in Class
    • Breach Prevention: Best in Class
  • Operational benefits realized following the deployment of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security:
    • Improved the efficiency of app deployment
    • Improved application quality
    • Delivered faster performance
    • Improved data protection of critical information
    • Met regulatory compliance standards
  • In your best estimate, by what percent did CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security improve the following:
    • Reduced complexity via single platform: 100%
    • Reduced time to deploy workload protection: 50-75%
    • Accelerated detection and remediation of vulnerabilities in CI/CD Pipeline: 50-75%
    • Accelerated application development cycles: 50-75%

CrowdStrike Cloud Security Case Study

Large Enterprise Telecommunications Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise telecommunications services company is based on a May 2022 survey of CrowdStrike Cloud Security customers by TechValidate, a third-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 the organization:
    • Maintaining security consistency across our own data center and public cloud environments where our cloud-native applications are deployed
    • Lack of visibility into public cloud infrastructure hosting our cloud-native applications
    • Use of multiple cybersecurity controls increases cost and complexity
    • Meeting prescribed best practices for the configuration of cloud-resident workloads and services
    • Our application development and DevOps teams do not involve our cybersecurity team due to fear of being slowed down
  • Top purchasing drivers for buying CrowdStrike:
    • To consolidate security tools
    • To reduce cost and complexity
    • To secure sensitive data in the cloud
    • To support business growth expectations
    • To support higher uptime SLAs
  • Vendors evaluated before they chose CrowdStrike cloud security solutions:
    • Palo Alto Networks
    • Microsoft

Use Case

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

  • Public cloud infrastructure service providers (IaaS and/or PaaS) the organization currently uses:
    • AWS
    • Azure
    • Google Cloud
    • Oracle
    • Private
  • Primary reasons for selecting CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security suite:
    • Gain a single unified platform for on-premises and cloud infrastructure
    • Gain the ability to provide continuous visibility across cloud resources regardless of the cloud
    • Exploit and malware detection and prevention

Results

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

  • Capabilities of CrowdStrike cloud security compared to the competition:
    • Performance: Better
    • Ease of use: Better
    • Reliability: Better
    • Scalability: Better
    • Breach Prevention: Better
  • Operational benefits realized following the deployment of CrowdStrike Cloud Security:
    • Improved the efficiency of app deployment
    • Delivered faster performance
  • In your best estimate, by what percent did CrowdStrike Falcon improve the following:
    • Reduced complexity via single platform: 100%
    • Reduced time to deploy workload protection: 100%

CrowdStrike Case Study

PenChecks Trust

Introduction

This case study of PenChecks Trust is based on a June 2022 survey of CrowdStrike customers by TechValidate, a third-party research service.

“We utilize both Falcon Insight™ endpoint detection and response and Falcon Horizon™ cloud security posture management. Falcon Insight has been rock solid and has to this date stopped potential malware infiltrations before they could begin. As for Falcon Horizon, understanding cloud misconfiguration has been key to our move to Amazon Web Services and catching misconfigurations on the fly.”

“Simple and lightweight implementations of your product. I have never seen an agent do so much with such a small system footprint.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led PenChecks Trust to evaluate and ultimately select CrowdStrike Falcon:

  • Biggest cloud application security challenges for their organization:
    • Maintaining security consistency across our own data center and public cloud environments where our cloud-native applications are deployed
  • Top purchasing drivers for buying CrowdStrike:
    • To secure sensitive data in the cloud
    • To support business growth expectations
  • Vendors evaluated before they chose CrowdStrike cloud security solutions:
    • Microsoft
    • Kaspersky

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of CrowdStrike that PenChecks Trust uses:

  • Public cloud infrastructure service providers (IaaS and/or PaaS) PenChecks Trust currently uses:
    • AWS
    • Azure
  • Primary reasons for selecting CrowdStrike Falcon:
    • Gain a single unified platform for on-premises and cloud infrastructure
    • Gain the ability to provide continuous visibility across cloud resources regardless of the cloud
    • Allow for automation of security controls via integration with existing DevOps tools
    • Exploit and malware detection and prevention
    • For the deployment flexibility (e.g., offered as a cloud-delivered service, a customer-managed, on-premises implementation, etc.)

Results

PenChecks Trust achieved the following results with CrowdStrike Falcon:

  • Capabilities of CrowdStrike cloud security compared to the competition:
    • Performance: Best in Class
    • Ease of use: Best in Class
    • Reliability: Best in Class
    • Scalability: Best in Class
    • Breach prevention: Best in Class
  • Operational benefits realized following the deployment of CrowdStrike:
    • Delivered faster performance
    • Improved data protection of critical information
    • Met regulatory compliance standards
  • In your best estimate, by what percent did CrowdStrike improve the following:
    • Reduced complexity via single platform: 75-99%
    • Reduced time to deploy workload protection: 75-99%
    • Accelerated detection and remediation of vulnerabilities in CI/CD Pipeline: 75-99%
    • Accelerated application development cycles: 75-99%

CrowdStrike Case Study

Medium Enterprise Professional Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise professional services company is based on a January 2021 survey of CrowdStrike customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have its name blinded to protect its confidentiality.

“Comprehensive, cutting-edge product with real client engagement and support.”

“Actionable business intelligence”

“Rapid deployment to meet a tight compliance deadline, significantly better visibility of vulnerabilities across the fleet.”

Challenges

Facing the following challenges that will lead to change or enhance their security posture in the future:

  • Complex deployment processes
  • Inadequate security

Used the following endpoint security providers prior to switching to CrowdStrike:

  • TrendMicro

Industry Feedback

Agrees with the following when making digital transformation decisions:

  • Removing manual processes and replacing with more automated workflows is critical to digital transformation
  • Aligning people, process, and technology is critical to making their organization more efficient and effective
  • An essential pillar of digital transformation efforts is driving innovation to meet the evolving needs of the business

Important requirements in the decision-making process when considering cloud security solutions:

  • Meeting and maintaining compliance and enforcing security policies across multi-cloud environments
  • Reducing the time to remediate and eliminate security risks
  • Reducing IT management and configuration overhead

Results

Values the following about CrowdStike:

  • Operationality – it just works
  • Seamless end-user experience (no reboots, no reimaging, etc.)
  • Cloud Native endpoint and cloud workload protection
  • Security from anywhere and everywhere
  • Ability to secure their technology, teams, and clients globally, 24/7/365

Rates CrowdStrike’s cost for value as better compared to other solutions they have used:

CrowdStrike Case Study

Operating Engineers

Introduction

This case study of Operating Engineers is based on a March 2021 survey of CrowdStrike customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“CrowdStrike has provided a level of protection we feel comfortable with without extra management and monitoring.”

“We have been using CrowdStrike products and services for over four years now and are very happy with it.”

Prior to CrowdStrike

Used the following endpoint security providers prior to switching to CrowdStrike:

  • Cisco Amp

Industry Feedback

Agrees with the following when making digital transformation decisions:

  • ROI and overall value to the business are always top of mind
  • Removing manual processes and replacing with more automated workflows is critical to digital transformation
  • An essential pillar of digital transformation efforts is driving innovation to meet the evolving needs of the business

Important requirements in the decision-making process when considering cloud security solutions:

  • Meeting and maintaining compliance and enforcing security policies across multi-cloud environments
  • Reducing the time to remediate and eliminate security risks
  • Reducing alert fatigue and improving SOC productivity

Results

Values the following about CrowdStike:

  • Operationality – it just works
  • Seamless end-user experience (no reboots, no reimaging, etc.)
  • Single Agent – everything in one place
  • Threat intelligence to provide a full picture of attacks

Rates CrowdStrike on the following compared to other solutions they have used:

  • Ability to prevent operational disruptions to the business: superior
  • Overall security: superior
  • Cost for value: significantly better



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