CrowdStrike Falcon

The CrowdStrike Falcon platform provides endpoint and workload security, with tiers building from next generation antivirus, device control and mobile protection through firewall management, endpoint detection and response, threat intelligence and hunting, identity protection, IT hygiene and next generation SIEM.

Publishing per device prices for the small and medium business tiers is unusual in enterprise security and worth crediting, since most vendors in this category will not quote without a call. CrowdStrike lists Falcon Go, Pro and Enterprise at fixed monthly rates per device with a cart, which lets a business with thirty laptops size the cost in a minute rather than a fortnight.

The tier structure reads as a clear ladder of what each layer actually buys. Antivirus stops known malware. Endpoint detection and response, which arrives at the Enterprise tier, records what happened so an investigation is possible after something got through, and that distinction is the whole argument for modern endpoint security, because prevention is never complete.

Identity protection and IT hygiene appearing alongside the endpoint agent reflect where intrusions actually progress, since an attacker who lands on one machine moves by stealing credentials rather than by infecting more machines, and unmanaged or unpatched assets are how they land in the first place. Express Support is offered for smaller businesses with installation concerns.