Trend Micro vs. CrowdStrike

See why customers choose Trend over CrowdStrike

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Protection

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CrowdStrike

A comprehensive suite with a broad range of security solutions, including endpoint, network, email, and cloud environments, all natively integrated and built from the ground up for true XDR protection.

CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike's cloud-centric platform places significant emphasis on endpoint security rather than XDR, relying on third-party integration for full XDR protection.

Detection

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CrowdStrike

A diverse integrated portfolio harnesses the power of Trend Vision One™ to provide multi-layered threat detection across an XDR platform. Threat research and the industry's most substantial vulnerability intelligence through Trend Micro™ Zero Day Initiative™ (ZDI) enable higher detection of unknown threats.

CrowdStrike

Offers a detailed level of configuration to enable users to tailor threat detection capabilities for EDR. However, the threat detection capabilities are focused towards EDR, depending on third-party integrations to provide XDR-level threat detection.

Remediation

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CrowdStrike

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 easily.

CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike's security framework emphasizes script-based mitigation and remediation strategies, which can offer powerful, flexible responses to threats. However, this approach often requires a higher level of interaction to tailor for more complex environments.

Supportability

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CrowdStrike

You have complete support for a wide range of operating systems and legacy environments – Windows, Linux, on-premises to hybrid, SaaS, and multi-cloud.

CrowdStrike

The supportability of CrowdStrike's offerings varies depending on the operating system. This impacts the uniformity and effectiveness of security measures across different environments within an organization. Limited supportability on older versions of Linux.

Deployment

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CrowdStrike

Automated deployment and comprehensive network visibility give you deployment scripts, workload security APIs, and virtual machine templates for a headache-free transition, no matter the environment.

CrowdStrike

The Crowdstrike platform is appreciated for its ease of management, allowing administrators to monitor and detect threats in real-time. However, it's essential to consider the specifics of deployment methods,. While this method facilitates broad and flexible deployment across managed devices, potential challenges could arise from managing these deployments.

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 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

Named a Representative Vendor in the Gartner 2024 Market Guide for Network Detection and Response (NDR)

OUR IMPACT

The proof is in the numbers

6.5T+

Threat queries collected in 2023 alone

160B+

Threats blocked in 2023 alone

#1

Leader in Cloud Security

500K+

Global enterprise customers

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