To be frank, I don’t think that outage cost them as much as you think it did lol. I spoke with folks that merely shrugged it off “eh, it happens”. And it was long enough ago now, I think people forgot it happened haha.
As you said, things change. Sure CS has an alert only option, but they have plenty of offering to go on top of that. And they will offer good prices to get new customers in a competitive situation.
Unusual Onion is right, you certainly don’t get fired to ponying up for crowdstrike.
Are yall new to the industry??? CrowdStrike caused a global outage by letting a new guy push untested code to production. This lost them business. Crowdstrike is way more expensive than S1, and when I evaluated both years ago S1 could auto quarantine while CrowdStrike would only alert. It’s been a minute and the space changes a bunch, but S1 is just as viable as CrowdStrike. Except CrowdStrike pays the big VARs to be the GTM partner.