Sysdig vs. CrowdStrike

Learn why businesses searching for a cloud native application protection platform powered by runtime insights choose Sysdig to secure and accelerate innovation in the cloud.

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Why Sysdig Is a Better Choice Than CrowdStrike

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sysdig vs. crowdstrike

Why Sysdig Is a Better Choice Than CrowdStrike

Detection and Response

360º

Detects and responds to threats in real time anywhere in the cloud with 360-degree visibility and correlation across workloads, identities, cloud services, and third-party applications.

Limited

Strong XDR solution, but limited detection accuracy, context, and correlation for containers/Kubernetes and serverless events.

Hardening and Prevention

Layered prevention

Correlates assets, activity, and risks across domains. Prioritize the most critical security risks using context from runtime insights, layered with real-time detections, vulnerabilities tied to in-use packages, and in-use permissions.

Not DevOps friendly

CrowdStrike is not DevOps friendly. It lacks comprehensive posture/permissions management and vulnerability prioritization capabilities, and it cannot correlate findings to provide meaningful risk prioritization advice.

Coverage

Consolidates security

Consolidates security with an end-to-end detection approach combining Drift Control, ML, and Falco detections, curated by Sysdig Threat Research. Combine agent and agentless for best-in-class detection.

Underperforms

Provides coverage for endpoints and Windows hosts, but underperforms in the Linux-centric Kubernetes world. Its closed policy engine does not allow customer control over rules nor their extensibility outside its boundaries.

Context

Layered enrichment

Multi-layered enrichment that combines hosts, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud metadata.

Lacks metadata

Lacks the rich metadata needed to scope policies, filter events, and assign ownership. Lacks context to correlate events in containers with host-level ones.

Open vs
Proprietary

Open source

Less control

CrowdStrike is a black box solution with no visibility into or control over its decision logic.

falco feeds by sysdig

Falco Feeds extends the power of Falco by giving open source-focused companies access to expert-written rules that are continuously updated as new threats are discovered.

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In the cloud, everything happens fast. Time is of the essence when stopping attacks. Breaches can be very costly.Sysdig enables us to quickly detect and respond to cloud attacks at cloud speed by knowing what is happening, the exact container or location in the cloud, and what is causing it, versus the hours it used to take to detect and understand what needs to be done.”

platform tech team lead, fuel50

Why choose Sysdig

Powered by runtime insights, Sysdig stops threats instantly and reduces vulnerabilities by up to 95%.

We created Falco, the open source solution for cloud threat detection, and apply runtime insights to help you focus on the vulnerabilities and threats that matter most.

Prevent, detect, and respond at cloud speed with Sysdig.

Real time

Detect threats in real time, rather than seeing them in the rearview mirror. Stop attacks up to 10x faster with Sysdig.

End-to-end detection

Consolidate security with a platform that provides end-to-end coverage, delivering breadth and depth.

Risk prioritization with runtime insights

Know what’s running in production across cloud and containers, so dev and security teams can focus on the vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, permissions, and threats that matter most.