#1 CUSTOMER-RATED ANTIVIRUS SOLUTION
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- Easily install our award-winning antivirus software in minutes
- Secure all devices 24/7 with the industry-leading antivirus solution
- Stop advanced attacks that traditional antivirus protection misses
Free antivirus only spots known threats. CrowdStrike goes deeper.
You get what you pay for — that goes for free antivirus, too. A free antivirus solution included on your systems may seem like enough protection from business-ending attacks like ransomware, malware, and phishing. Unfortunately, free antivirus is not as simple as it seems, and the risks outweigh the benefits.
When it comes to protecting your business, why take
chances?
Most free antivirus tools use an older, legacy approach to cyber threats. Legacy antivirus relies on strategies that slow down devices, while not being able to adapt to sophisticated cyber attacks. CrowdStrike Falcon uses machine-learning and 24/7 monitoring to keep devices protected from threats that are known, unknown, weak, sophisticated and everything in between.
Cybersecurity powered by the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform
CrowdStrike has pioneered a new approach to cybersecurity, made to help your business proactively combat modern cyber attacks. The CrowdStrike Falcon platform delivers the foundation for true next-generation endpoint protection.
Easy Installation
Drives Down Cost
and Complexity
The Falcon platform is 100% cloud-based and doesn't require hardware, additional software or configurations. Install the Falcon sensor and protect your business in minutes.
Single Sensor
Powered by a Single Lightweight Sensor
The intelligent, lightweight CrowdStrike Falcon sensor, unlike any other, blocks attacks on your systems while capturing and recording activity as it happens to detect threats fast.
Next-Gen Antivirus
Next-Gen Antivirus
Scanless, proactive antivirus protection against known and unknown malware with one solution, even when offline.
Affordable Protection
Big Protection at an Affordable Price
Your security strategy starts here. CrowdStrike offers bundles that fit a variety of business needs and budgets, so no one has to go unprotected.
Why try CrowdStrike Falcon®?
Affordable Protection
Bundles built with small businesses in mind.
Simple Setup
One-time easy installation of the Falcon Sensor.
Responsive Support
Global support team available 24/7.
Falcon for Mobile
Protection for mobile devices
Safeguards your business from mobile threats with advanced protection that detects malicious activity and prevents unauthorized access on Android and iOS devices.
What to expect
You’ll have 15 days to try CrowdStrike Falcon for free. Use these three steps to get your trial started on the right track.
Get access. Allow up to 24 hours for your request to be processed. Then, you will receive an email from [email protected] to activate your account. Log in and choose between a simplified Main View or a technical view of the Falcon platform. Main View provides an easy onboarding experience and interface, perfect for non-technical users. A more in-depth, technical view can be accessed anywhere on the left-hand menu outside of Main View.
Install the Sensor. This is the first and most important step of the trial. Once the sensor is installed, the dashboard will display a green shield to indicate your systems are officially protected. Also, there’s no need to reinstall the sensor as long as your account is active.
Test Additional Modules. Your trial begins with the Falcon Prevent and Device Control modules enabled with the ability to test additional modules at no cost through the CrowdStrike® Store while in a trial.
Frequently asked questions
Securing your small business devices shouldn’t be hard.
Do you find yourself asking…
Cybersecurity Checklist:
- Understand Your Environment: Take stock of your environment to understand the various devices and systems you have in place and where your valuable data resides.
- Train Employees: Employees are a company’s best asset but, often, the weakest link in protecting against cyber threats. The human element (e.g., falling for phishing, clicking on a link or simple human error) continues to drive security incidents, contributing to 82% of breaches in 2022.
- Implement Security Defenses: Security technologies will give you a great defense to safeguard against the many attack vectors bad actors use. While the right tools can become highly customized depending on your specific environment.
- Maintain Good IT Security Hygiene: Backup data and prepare a response plan!
- Prepare a Response Plan: In the event of a successful attack, having a plan in place will help you act quickly and efficiently to involve the right people, take the necessary actions and mitigate the damage.
Free antivirus vs paid antivirus software
Free antivirus software often has no protection from unknown or yet-known threats. It relies on a reactive security model. Free software also has limited support and remediation.
How to choose a cybersecurity vendor that's right for your business?
- What’s their reputation in the market?
- How easy is their product to use?
- How’s their customer success?
- Are you paying for what you need?
- Will the technology scale with your growing business?
- Do they take a holistic approach to cybersecurity?
How to mitigate insider threats: strategies for small businesses?
Why does CrowdStrike beat the competition?
- Having real-time visibility which creates actionable data, identifies shifts in adversarial tactics, and maps tradecraft.
- A single agent, purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the CrowdStrike Falcon®.
- Being cloud native redefined security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform that protects critical areas of risk.
- With modularity, is designed as an extensible solution that ensures that new security countermeasures can be added seamlessly.
- World class intelligence, the CrowdStrike Security Cloud correlates trillions of security events per day with indicators of attack, the industry’s leading threat intelligence and enterprise telemetry from across customer endpoints.
- 24/7 threat hunting, sophisticated attacks require a mix of automation and human expertise in the form of elite threat hunting.
What is Next-Generation Antivirus (NGAV)?
Does Falcon Prevent protect against ransomware?
- Blocking of known ransomware.
- Exploit blocking to stop the execution and spread of ransomware via unpatched vulnerabilities.
- Machine learning for detection of previously unknown “zero-day” ransomware.
- Indicators of Attack (IOAs) to identify and block additional unknown ransomware, as well as new categories of ransomware that do not use files to encrypt victims’ data.
Cybersecurity Checklist:
- Understand Your Environment: Take stock of your environment to understand the various devices and systems you have in place and where your valuable data resides.
- Train Employees: Employees are a company’s best asset but, often, the weakest link in protecting against cyber threats. The human element (e.g., falling for phishing, clicking on a link or simple human error) continues to drive security incidents, contributing to 82% of breaches in 2022.
- Implement Security Defenses: Security technologies will give you a great defense to safeguard against the many attack vectors bad actors use. While the right tools can become highly customized depending on your specific environment.
- Maintain Good IT Security Hygiene: Backup data and prepare a response plan!
- Prepare a Response Plan: In the event of a successful attack, having a plan in place will help you act quickly and efficiently to involve the right people, take the necessary actions and mitigate the damage.
Free antivirus vs paid antivirus software
Free antivirus software often has no protection from unknown or yet-known threats. It relies on a reactive security model. Free software also has limited support and remediation.
How to choose a cybersecurity vendor that's right for your business?
- What’s their reputation in the market?
- How easy is their product to use?
- How’s their customer success?
- Are you paying for what you need?
- Will the technology scale with your growing business?
- Do they take a holistic approach to cybersecurity?
How to mitigate insider threats: strategies for small businesses?
Why does CrowdStrike beat the competition?
- Having real-time visibility which creates actionable data, identifies shifts in adversarial tactics, and maps tradecraft.
- A single agent, purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the CrowdStrike Falcon®.
- Being cloud native redefined security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform that protects critical areas of risk.
- With modularity, is designed as an extensible solution that ensures that new security countermeasures can be added seamlessly.
- World class intelligence, the CrowdStrike Security Cloud correlates trillions of security events per day with indicators of attack, the industry’s leading threat intelligence and enterprise telemetry from across customer endpoints.
- 24/7 threat hunting, sophisticated attacks require a mix of automation and human expertise in the form of elite threat hunting.
What is Next-Generation Antivirus (NGAV)?
Does Falcon Prevent protect against ransomware?
- Blocking of known ransomware.
- Exploit blocking to stop the execution and spread of ransomware via unpatched vulnerabilities.
- Machine learning for detection of previously unknown “zero-day” ransomware.
- Indicators of Attack (IOAs) to identify and block additional unknown ransomware, as well as new categories of ransomware that do not use files to encrypt victims’ data.
The CrowdStrike Falcon platform achieved 100% ransomware prevention with zero false positives from SE Labs, saving businesses time and resources.
Protecting companies of all sizes
