Irvine, CA – July 22, 2016 – CrowdStrike, the leader in cloud-delivered next-generation endpoint protection today announced that its endpoint protection platform CrowdStrike Falcon™ received the highest scoring in all use cases evaluated by Gartner for its comparative assessment called Comparison of Endpoint Detection and Response Technologies and Solutions.
This is the first direct competitive analysis of endpoint, detection and response (EDR) vendors. The report provides an assessment of how products address the key capabilities and use cases identified for EDR tools. CrowdStrike received the highest ranking in all five use cases evaluated, covering:
- Incident data search and investigation
- Suspicious activity detection
- Threat hunting or data exploration
- Stopping malicious activity
- Alert triage or suspicious activity validation