Sysdig vs. CrowdStrike

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Powered by Falco, a CNCF graduated project and the open source solution for cloud threat detection.

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