SentinelOne vs CrowdStrike EDR Solutions Compared

Compare SentinelOne and CrowdStrike. Also see why Global DevSecOps Teams choose AccuKnox instead

Overview

SentinelOne and CrowdStrike both lead in EDR, offering AI-powered detection and response.
But neither extends far beyond endpoints or into complete cloud-native coverage.

AccuKnox does. It integrates EDR-like protection into the cloud, container, and workload environments for true end-to-end security.

This page compares SentinelOne and CrowdStrike and shows why AccuKnox fits your needs better.

Parameters

SentinelOne

Crowdstrike

Application Security Coverage

Registry scan (ECR, GCR, Nexus, Docker Hub, ACR, Harbor, Quay, jFrog, OpenShift, GAR)

Partially supported

Scans AWS ECR, Docker Hub, Docker Registry V2, Google Artifact Registry, Google Container Registry, IBM Cloud, JFrog Artifactory, Microsoft ACR, Oracle Container Registry, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Quay.io, Sonatype Nexus, VMware Harbor, Google Artifact Registry, GitLab

Identify 3rd party dependencies and their vulnerabilities (SCA), scan for vulnerability in code (SAST) and evaluate applications for vulnerabilities (DAST)

Supports SCA and SBOM but SAST, DAST is not supported

Can identify the dependencies in use and has limited supported for Vulnerability scanning in code

Integrate with CI/CD for Shift Left automation with prioritization

Supports CI/CD integration

Limited scanners are supported in the CI/CD Pipeline

Observability & Remediation

Deep observability with context by making use of eBPF

Uses eBPF

Supports eBPF agents

Auto generation of policies based on the activity discovered inside containers to prevent anything that deviates from it

Detect and respond approach to deal with issues identified at runtime

Identifies suspicious activity

Graphical view of identities in Kubernetes with customizable queries to define least permissive posture

It provides risk-assessment, detect user activity and authentication error

Does not provide observability into the infrastructure setup of the cluster

Hardening and Prevention

Hardening policies based on compliances and best practices to restrict activities at the kernel layer

Detection rules for responding to events

Crowdstrike provides threat intelligence and helps to respond quickly, but does not prevent

Proactive prevention of attacks by denying access at the kernel layer using LSMs

Identifies issues in realtime and reacts to attacks as they happen

Zero day attack protection by defining the least permissive posture of the application. This will prevent any new activity that is unexpected in the application

Helps to immediately react to the attacks after they happen using telemetry, threat intelligence, and AI-powered analytics.

Identify the configurations to harden and reduce the attack surface by providing CIS and STIG Benchmarking

Provides CIS Benchmarking for hardening the workloads

Admission controller and PSA to prevent vulnerable deployments

Does not have admission controller

Deployment Models

Air-gapped and on-prem support

Detection rules for responding to events

It is a completely SaaS based solution

Policies will prevent access even if connectivity is lost

Dependent on connectivity to detect and respond

Support for hybrid environment of on-prem + cloud

Supports hybrid environment

Agent based protection and scanners for identifying vulnerabilities

Both Agentless and Agent based supported

Agentless scanning support for the cloud assets only

Open vs Proprietary

Built on KubeArmor which is a CNCF sandbox project

Completely proprietary solution

CrowdStrike Falcon is a proprietary solution

Can ingest results from open source security tools

Ingests results from partner tools which are proprietary

Integrates with open source scanners to provide a single platform view

Does not integrate with open source security tools

Integrations

Integrates with both open source and proprietary security solutions to act as a single platform to track security issues

Integrates with Webhook

Integrates with only proprietary security tools

Integrates with both open source and proprietary security solutions to provide visibility into security insight from a single platform

Integrates with Snyk

Future Proof Security

5G and IoT/Edge Security

Does not offer IoT/Edge security

Support IoT/Edge security and capabilities that apply to 5G

Only CNAPP without of the box Kubernetes security via posture management (KSPM) & identity management (KIEM)

Provides limited coverage for KSPM, does not offer KIEM for identity management

Provides KSPM capabilities

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SentinelOne’s AISPM

AI Security with AI-SPM module

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“Choosing AccuKnox was driven by opensource KubeArmor’s novel use of eBPF and LSM technologies, delivering runtime security”

Golan Ben-Oni

Chief Information Officer

“At Prudent, we advocate for a comprehensive end-to-end methodology in application and cloud security. AccuKnox excelled in all areas in our in depth evaluation.”