Trend Micro vs. CrowdStrike

See why customers choose Trend over CrowdStrike

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Protection

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A broad range of security solutions, including endpoint, network, email, and cloud, all natively integrated and built from the ground up.

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CrowdStrike's platform is a cloud-centric solution that places significant emphasis on endpoint security rather than XDR.

Detection

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Diverse integrated portfolio harnessing the power of Trend Vision One to give cross-generational and cross-solution threat defense, leveraging 35+ years of threat research and vulnerability intelligence powered by Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.

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Offers a robust level of configuration to tailor its cybersecurity tools to diverse organizational requirements. However, this granularity presents a complexity that may be challenging for end users not well-versed in cybersecurity or IT settings. Additional training or support to navigate and optimize the comprehensive settings available within the platform is needed.

Remediation

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Automated workbenches and AI provide clear remediation steps from threat detection and investigation analysis to containment and remediation and post-incident analysis, allowing users to update security policies and procedures.

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CrowdStrike's security framework emphasizes script-based mitigation and remediation strategies, which can offer powerful, flexible responses to threats. However, this approach often requires hands-on involvement by IT personnel or security teams to execute and oversee these scripts. This is resource-intensive and requires a high level of expertise to ensure timely, effective responses to security incidents.

Supportability

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Extensive support across a wide range of solutions, including legacy environments ranging from on-premises to hybrid, SaaS, and multi-cloud.

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The functionality of CrowdStrike's offerings varies depending on the operating system. Certain features and tools could be fully operational on some systems but with limited capabilities on others, impacting the uniformity and effectiveness of security measures across different environments within an organization.

Deployment

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Automated deployment with extensive network visibility provides multiple options, such as deployment scripts, workload security API's, and virtual machine templates for an easy transition into any environment.

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CrowdStrike's platform may have constraints in monitoring personal devices, unregistered endpoints, and other non-managed assets that access corporate resources. The resultant gaps in visibility hinder the organization's ability to fully assess and respond to threats across its digital landscape.

3 top reasons why Trend outpaces CrowdStrike

Diverse integrated capabilities


While CrowdStrike solutions present a complexity that may be challenging for end users who are not well-versed in cybersecurity, Trend Vision One provides cross-generational and cross-solution threat defense powered by robust threat research and the Zero Day Initiative or ZDI.

Comprehensive security


CrowdStrike's platform is cloud-centric and places significant emphasis on endpoint security rather than XDR. But with Trend, you have powerful endpoint, network, email, and cloud protection - all natively integrated.

Protection for multiple environments


The functionality of CrowdStrike's offerings varies depending on the operating system. Trend covers on-premises to hybrid, SaaS, multi-cloud, and legacy environments.

Find out more about our world-class platform and why customers choose Trend over CrowdStrike.

Trend Vision One Marketecture

Battle-tested, proven expertise

Achieved 100% protection rate

Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) since 2002

Leader in The Forrester Wave™ Endpoint Detection and Response, Q2 2022

Leader in The Forrester New Wave™ XDR Providers, Q4 2021

OUR IMPACT

The proof is in the numbers

6.5 T+

Threat queries collected in 2023 alone

160 B+

Threats blocked in 2023 alone

# 1

Leader in Cloud Security

500 K+

Global enterprise customers

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