Trellix vs. CrowdStrike

Broadest Security Platform

Platform

Powerful, performant native, and open platform
Comprehensive and open with a broad set of security controls - endpoint, server, email, network, data, and XDR.

Limited and endpoint-focused
Endpoint centric approach limits true visibility to only part of the attack story and can’t meet other security needs.

Deployment

Security where needed
Meets everyone where they are: on-premises, industrial, air-gapped, hybrid, cloud.

One size only
Cloud only.

Management

Simple, scalable effective management
Highly scalable management architecture with common policies across OSes and devices, extensive, customizable reporting minimizes risk, shortens responses, and reduces risk.

Lacks comprehensive ability across all devices
Limited device management and OS support.

Critical Asset Protection

Available protection for critical assets
Specialized, mission critical system protection, broadest certified protection on OT, industrial, and SCADA.

Treats all assets the same
One size fits all, not certified to run on critical environments like OT, industrial, and SCADA.

Industry Leading Detection and Response

Protection Efficacy

Multi-layered protection
Broader visibility that prioritizes high fidelity alerts with fewer false alarms, reducing analyst workload.¹

High false positive endpoint
High number of false positives wastes analyst time - 2.5x more false alarms than Trellix.²

Threat Intel

Global and open perspective
Industry-leading intelligence from hundreds of millions of sensors, public and private sector partnerships, and our Advanced Research Center empowers Trellix customers to confidently understand and face threats through integrated operational intelligence—because understanding, not fear, is key to effective protection.

Myopic focus
Strong focus on marketing, threat actor idolization and scare tactics of their threat intelligence overshadow the goal of empowering customers to build long-term resilience against all kinds of threats.

Detection

Defense in depth across the attack chain
AI-powered threat detection at multiple layers: email, network, cloud, identity, sandbox, and endpoint, leveraging both native and open telemetry sources to detect and remediate at the earliest possible opportunity, reducing MTTD.

One chance to detect
Biased toward endpoint, no sandbox, network, email, or data security telemetry limiting ability to see threats early in the attack cycle increasing MTTD.

Remediation

Rapid response and recovery
Enhanced rollback and remediation with complete SOAR platform, AI guided playbooks and manual option to ensure fastest response and recovery.

Limited post-attack options
Manual and script-based mitigation. No rollback support, drastically increasing the time to return to business operations.

Forensics

Deep insights where you need them
Scalable cloud and on-premises endpoint and network forensics, powering bulk investigation, bulk forensics, and bulk remediation. Works even when endpoints are offline.

Single machine at a time
Constrained approach that doesn’t scale beyond one endpoint at a time leaving analysts to scope across the environment. Available only as cloud service via MDR. No network forensics.

Purpose Built GenAI

GenAI Built for Security

10+ years of highly effective advanced analytics
Full automation with Trellix Wise, using ML, AI, and GenAI across endpoint, email, network, data security, and cloud.

Restricted AI experience
Manual query and response chatbot only of value for advanced analysts.

Alert Triage

No alert left behind
GenAI powered alert triage for 100% of alerts that dynamically crafts investigations and prioritizes them to tell a human when there’s a critical incident.

Requires highly skilled resources
Manual workflow that doesn’t investigate all alerts increasing MTTR time.

GenAI That Understands Intent

Human-level situational awareness
Trellix Wise is better than humans at decoding and understanding what is happening in customer environments, such as what embedded commands are suspicious for which job roles.

Static, manual operations
Creates alerts based on basic static scripts.

Resilient by Design Architecture

Product Design

Efficient and effective
Transparent, modular microservices-based architecture for flexibility, performance with optimal threat detection where you need it.

Deceptive and heavy
Monolithic, kernel-based architecture with unbounded updates that override customer controls.

Kernel Content

Operational stability
Trellix agent hooks into the kernel to load before threats upon restart. No content is stored there.

Increased risk
Updates content directly in kernel mode without full visibility with potential for operational issues.

Kernel Footprint

Respect for the kernel!
Minimal kernel footprint with validated changes published quarterly (or less) that reduce risk with full customer control.

Vendor controlled updates
Updates kernel code with every security update without transparency to customers.

Performance Impact

High performance, efficient real world utilization
25% lower system impact, broader device protection.

More than expected
Heavier kernel module, limited device support.