Why Teams Choose Cyberhaven over CrowdStrike Falcon® Data Protection
1
Comprehensive Data Exfiltration Protection
Stop data leaks through any channel, including apps, cloud services, not just USB drives and browser uploads.
2
All-OS Coverage
Protect data across Windows, macOS, and Linux – not just Windows.
3
Complete Data Visibility
Track data movement across your entire organization, not just isolated endpoints.
Recognized Innovator
The great thing about Cyberhaven is the way it tackles the problem of understanding, managing, and securing data by following the lifecycle of data in the environment, from its creation to its end of life. This provides transparency into shadow data, prevents data exfiltration in real-time, and ensures that data policies enable business functionality without slowing it down—a crucial gap in traditional tools focused only on detection rather than prevention.
Dan Walsh
CISO at VillageMD
Detailed Comparison
Feature Comparison
As of Dec 15, 2024
What Cyberhaven Has
What CrowdStrike Doesn’t Have
Operating System Coverage
All major operating systems
Cyberhaven provides comprehensive protection on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Windows-only
Per CrowdStrike’s support documentation, Falcon Data Protection is only available on Windows machines.
Egress Channel Protection
Protection against all major egress channels
Cyberhaven prevents data from being lost through all major exfiltration vectors, not just web browsers and USB drives. Cyberhaven protects data from loss through endpoint applications, printing, email, AI and GenAI tools, and more.
Only covers web browser and USB drive egress
Falcon Data Protection only covers two exfiltration channels, per CrowdStrike’s support documentation, leaving information only partially protected from common methods of data theft and leakage, such as printing or non-browser-based uploads.
Data Retention Period
Up to 13 months of retention
Cyberhaven stores incident data for 13 months, and all historical data for 90 days for access via UI and API. Additional retention options are available to extend these timeframes.
Only 30 days of retention
Falcon Data Protection only keeps data for 30 days, unless a customer uses Falcon Data Replicator to dump logs into separate Amazon S3 storage. While this data can be retrieved later for investigations, it is not used for classification or protection, allowing data to leak or be stolen. Maintaining this storage is also the responsibility of the customer.
Protection Method
Context + content for complete protection
Cyberhaven uses both content inspection and context from data lineage to more accurately classify and protect sensitive data. For example, Cyberhaven classifies information as sensitive when it originates from certain systems, teams, or individuals, based on the context, which provides better protection than merely looking at a source like OneDrive.
Mainly reliant on content inspection
Falcon Data Protection uses some basic context (e.g., came from OneDrive) but is still mainly reliant on content inspection and regex. Additional plugins and configurations are needed for more granular inspection based on the source (such as Box Enterprise, OneDrive, or Google Drive), but still reliant on properly configured and maintained permissions.
Data Lineage
Global lineage
Cyberhaven traces the complete history of data, including its origin, how it changed over time, and what people or systems interacted with it, no matter where it goes within an organization. This provides more complete classification and better protection for mission-critical data.
Local lineage only
"Lineage,” meaning file history, is local and limited to the last 30 days, as noted above. This leaves sensitive file types and forms of proprietary data unprotected if they don’t meet common regex inspection classification criteria. This local lineage also misses slow-moving or methodical approaches to data theft.
Other
Best-of-breed solution
Cyberhaven is purpose-built from the ground up to provide complete protection for data and is powered by data lineage. Customers have the flexibility to choose or change any other element of their security stack, from EDRs to SIEMs and more.
Add-on only
Falcon Data Protection is only sold as an add-on to other CrowdStrike “Falcon” products, such as Falcon EDR or Falcon Complete.
