We benchmarked Falcon against Symantec and Microsoft Defender for two quarters. Falcon's Real Time Response let our analysts contain a live incident in under five minutes — something the prior EDR couldn't touch. Falcon Identity Threat Protection caught a stale service-account anomaly that our SIEM never flagged, and OverWatch's analyst-led hunting found the actual entry point during an active intrusion last fall. The console takes a week to learn, and the Identity module needs careful tuning, but the SOC team would not give it back. The TCO story holds up against everything else we evaluated.
























