The aftermath of the July 19, 2024, global outage of tech security giant CrowdStrike has been catastrophic. As revenue reports continue to stream in, financial analytics sources are broadcasting that the Fortune 500 companies affected by the outage are now reporting total losses surpassing $5.4 billion. In light of a coding failure that brought airlines, train stations, banking apps and the healthcare sector to a crashing halt, businesses are now running in all directions to find a more reliable data security solution.
With a plethora of global network security companies to choose from, the search for the right company can be difficult for large and small businesses alike. According to NetGreene Solutions, a managed IT service provider in Clarksville, data security leader Trend Micro has the most advanced and cost-effective security platforms on the market. NetGreene states that because of their strategic partnership with Trend Micro, NetGreene clients were completely unaffected by CrowdStrike’s outage.
“Since 2014 when NetGreene first partnered with Trend Micro, our clients have not experienced a single major security threat, completely avoiding the issues most recently seen with CrowdStrike and other network security companies,” said Scott Greene, CEO of NetGreene Solutions. “We will recommend Trend Micro over CrowdStrike every day of the week. Trend Micro’s platform and AI technology is completely worlds apart from CrowdStrike.”
According to NetGreene, there are three main differences that set Trend Micro apart from CrowdStrike. Citing Trend Micro’s platform documentation, NetGreene states that the first difference is diverse integration capabilities. CrowdStrike’s solutions present a complexity that may be challenging for end users who are not well-versed in cybersecurity. Trend Micro provides cross-generational and cross-solution threat defenses that are powered by a robust threat research and Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), giving the most responsible disclosure of possible security vulnerabilities.
The second advantage over CrowdStrike is Trend Micro’s comprehensive security suite, says NetGreene. CrowdStrike’s platform is cloud-centric and places significant emphasis on endpoint security rather than extended detection and response (XDR). Trend Micro’s platform, however, focuses heavily on XDR, covering all security services. This includes powerful endpoint, network, email, and cloud protection – with all components natively integrated.
The last key difference, says NetGreene, is multi-environment protection. The functionality of CrowdStrike’s offerings will vary depending on the operating system. This is not the case for Trend Micro. Trend Micro’s platform encompasses on-premise to hybrid, Software as a Service (SaaS), multi-cloud, as well as legacy environments.
NetGreene encourages companies who are searching for a better or more reliable cybersecurity solution to contact NetGreene for an onsite or virtual consultation with a member of their engineering team. The consultation is a complimentary service of NetGreene.
“As a trusted network security firm, our focus is to align our clients with the most reputable data security technology on the market,” Greene said. “And day after day, in a growing battle against cyber-vulnerabilities, every business owner should be able to go home each night with full confidence that their data is secure, stable, and ready for the next day.”
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