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.
Nowhere in my post did I mention quality.
At the end of the day F500 CISOs don’t give a shit about low level features like auto-quarantining or whether CS should move from kernel mode to user mode, they want to shake hands with George at F1 and be told that he’s protecting them. When shit hits the fan they want a CS TAM to be on the phone.
Leave this Betamax vs VHS shit to the engineers. Nobody ever got fired for buying CrowdStrike, Microsoft, or IBM.
We all know the popular name isnt always the best name. It is always the most expensive though. Crowdatrike is dumb expensive, for that price it better be good. But sentinalone is not a bad product at all. Still expensive, but not CS expensive. You seem to just throw whatever top tier names are out there without having used much of the competition before.
Just got real excited seeing my YTD being up 8k still then realized I tossed 5k in earlier and CS just doesn't have the technology to subtract that on its own