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WitFoo and CrowdStrike Falcon
Keep the Falcon sensor for endpoint prevention and response. WitFoo takes on what sits above it: correlation across every other source, at one flat price, on infrastructure you control.
The short answer
WitFoo does not replace the Falcon sensor, and we say so plainly. Keep Falcon for endpoint prevention and response. WitFoo correlates what Falcon sees with your firewall, identity, cloud, email, and network data, at one flat price per appliance, on infrastructure you control.
Conductor Pro is $40,000 per appliance per year. Analytics is $25,000 to start, $75,000 for Pro and $120,000 for Max, with a Conductor license in every tier. Data rates are unlimited, so no meter moves as your data grows.
What WitFoo adds
What WitFoo brings to an environment that already runs Falcon, at one published price per appliance.
Falcon keeps its job
Nothing changes on the endpoint. Falcon stays the control plane for prevention and response, and WitFoo collects its alerts and adds the context around them.
Correlation across every other source
Analytics joins Falcon alerts with firewall, proxy, identity provider, cloud audit, email, and network data. It tracks the relationships between those signals in a graph, the way a person learns a case rather than memorizing a list.
Learn more →One number a year ahead
Published prices, one annual fee per appliance, and unlimited data rates in every tier. No data meter to forecast, and no second product’s meters underneath.
Learn more →Runs wherever the data is
On premises, in a hypervisor, on bare metal, or in your own cloud account, including fully air-gapped. Diagnostics and threat-intelligence lookups to WitFoo are on by default and can be switched off or blocked at the network, and the AI assistant can run against a local model.
Evidence you keep
Every record that reaches Analytics points back to its raw evidence, held on your own appliance. Retention is a function of the appliance you bought, not a second meter.
Reporting a board can read
Reporter adds tool efficiency and cost and savings reports, and compliance reporting against 12+ frameworks, so you can show what each security tool, Falcon included, catches.
Learn more →Keeps the Next-Gen SIEM you have
Put Conductor in front of Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and it delivers structured records through its built-in CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM exporter. You keep the console, and what you send into it can be smaller.
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The two models, question by question
Every statement about CrowdStrike below is quoted from CrowdStrike’s own pages, with a link. We print no CrowdStrike price. Competitor statements checked 5 November 2026.
Where does it run?
WitFoo
On infrastructure you control: on premises, in a hypervisor, on bare metal, or in your own cloud account, including fully air-gapped. Diagnostics and threat-intelligence lookups to WitFoo are on by default and can be switched off or blocked at the network, and the AI assistant can run against a local model.
CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike describes Falcon Next-Gen SIEM as a cloud-native service.
“Experience cloud-native log management that scales with your needs.”
What covers data from other vendors?
WitFoo
The annual fee. Every source your tier integrates is covered by the same price, with unlimited data rates.
CrowdStrike Falcon
Falcon Insight XDR includes a daily allowance of third-party data. More comes with a Falcon Next-Gen SIEM subscription.
“Falcon Insight XDR customers enjoy 10GB/day of free third-party data ingestion. Ingest even more data with a Falcon Next-Gen SIEM subscription.”
How much of the data does reduction remove?
WitFoo
Conductor reduces what reaches your downstream systems by more than 90%. That is not sampling: nothing security-relevant is discarded, and every record points back to its raw evidence. The figure is our own research and is not independently audited.
CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike publishes a figure for Falcon Onum, up to 50% lower storage and ingest costs, and describes its numbers as projected estimates.
“cut telemetry ingest and storage costs by up to 50% … Numbers are projected estimates of average benefit based on the company's own internal analysis … Actual realized value will depend on the customer's module deployment and environment.”
How long can you keep the data, and on what terms?
WitFoo
As long as you provision storage on the appliance. Retention is a function of what you bought, not a second license.
CrowdStrike Falcon
Extending Falcon platform data storage is a license upgrade.
“A simple license upgrade enables you to extend Falcon platform data storage, including Falcon Guardian, for months or years.”
How do analysts investigate?
WitFoo
Analytics builds each incident as a graph that drills back to the raw message, with no query meter, so an investigation has no marginal cost.
CrowdStrike Falcon
Analysts search with the CrowdStrike Query Language.
“Search, aggregate and visualize your log data with the CrowdStrike Query Language.”
Running WitFoo alongside Falcon
For an account that already runs the Falcon sensor, this is the usual first step. It adds to what you have and takes nothing away.
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Falcon stays the endpoint control plane
Prevention, response, and device control stay with CrowdStrike, and nothing new is installed on your endpoints.
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Conductor collects Falcon alerts
Falcon is in the integration catalog. Conductor collects Falcon alerts through a read-only API client, then delivers them to Analytics or to the destinations you already use.
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Analytics correlates Falcon with everything else
Firewall, proxy, identity provider, cloud audit, email, and network data join Falcon’s alerts in one graph of the incident, so an analyst reads one story instead of one alert per tool.
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Reporter shows what each tool catches
Tool efficiency and cost and savings reports put a number on what the Falcon subscription catches. That is useful at renewal, and to anyone who has to explain the spend.
What WitFoo can take over, and what stays
WitFoo can take over what a customer buys above the sensor. It cannot replace the sensor, and it is not an endpoint product.
| CrowdStrike module | WitFoo product | What to do |
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| The Falcon sensor, endpoint detection and response, and device control | None | Keep. WitFoo does not prevent or respond on the endpoint. |
| Falcon Next-Gen SIEM for third-party data: ingest, retention, correlation | Analytics | Replace, or keep it and send it less with Conductor in front. |
| Falcon Onum, the telemetry pipeline | Conductor | Replace. Conductor needs no rules to write. |
| Falcon Fusion SOAR for actions on third-party tools | Analytics SOAR playbooks | Replace, or run both. Keep Fusion for actions on Falcon itself. |
| Dashboards and compliance reporting inside Next-Gen SIEM | Reporter | Add. Reporter brings tool efficiency, cost and savings, and compliance reporting. |
A full replacement reads: the Falcon sensor stays, and the Next-Gen SIEM, Onum, and third-party SOAR spend moves to Analytics Pro ($75,000) or Analytics Max ($120,000), each with a Conductor license included. Your endpoint spend does not change.
Run both when your analysts work in the Falcon console and will not leave it, or when a managed Falcon service already triages for you. Conductor can feed the console, as the next section describes, and Reporter can show what each tool contributes.
Moving data in both directions
Data can move either way, on standard interfaces. The question is which direction makes economic sense for you.
| Direction | How | When it makes sense |
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| Falcon alerts into WitFoo | The Falcon integration in Conductor: a read-only API client that collects Falcon alerts. | You want Falcon correlated with the sources it does not see, with evidence on infrastructure you own, and a copy of the record that does not depend on any one vendor. |
| WitFoo into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM | Conductor’s built-in CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM exporter. | Your SOC lives in the Falcon console, or you have a Next-Gen SIEM subscription you want to go further. The full record stays on your appliance. |
If you have no Next-Gen SIEM commitment, Analytics on your own appliance with Falcon kept for the endpoint is usually the simpler setup. Nothing WitFoo forwards replaces the sensor’s own path into the Falcon cloud, which stays as it is.
Data reduction, side by side
Both vendors publish a figure. Each measures something different, and both are vendor claims, so the table gives each in its owner’s words.
| Vendor | Published figure | What it measures |
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| CrowdStrike Falcon Onum | Up to 50% | Lower storage and ingest costs, which CrowdStrike calls a projected estimate of average benefit from its own internal analysis (quoted above, with the link). |
| WitFoo Conductor | More than 90% | Of what reaches downstream systems. It is not sampling, nothing security-relevant is discarded, every record points back to its raw evidence, and the figure is our own research, not independently audited. |
Results depend on what you route through Conductor. A feed of alerts is already small, while firewall and proxy logs reduce the most. Conductor reduces the data you choose to route through it: it does not sit in the Falcon sensor’s own path to CrowdStrike.
The 15-day trial appliance measures it on your own data, with no data cap, so you can read the result instead of taking ours.
Why teams choose WitFoo
Keep the sensor, and change what sits above it.
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You want Falcon on the endpoint and one view of everything else. Analytics correlates Falcon with your firewall, identity, cloud, email, and network data instead of treating it as a separate console.
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You want one number a year ahead. One line item per appliance, published, with unlimited data rates and no meter that moves as your data grows.
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You want the evidence on infrastructure you control. Every record points back to its raw evidence on your own appliance, including in an air-gapped network.
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You want reporting your board can read. Reporter shows what each security tool detects and what it costs, and maps your controls to 12+ compliance frameworks.
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You want to keep Next-Gen SIEM and send it less. Conductor sits in front and delivers through its built-in CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM exporter, so what you send can be smaller.
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You are buying several appliances, or you are government, nonprofit, or education. Volume discounts apply automatically per product line, and the public-sector discount stacks on the order total.
Questions people actually ask
Does WitFoo replace CrowdStrike Falcon?
Not the sensor. WitFoo is not an endpoint prevention product, so Falcon stays for prevention and response. WitFoo can take over what you buy above the sensor: Next-Gen SIEM for third-party data, the Falcon Onum pipeline, SOAR actions on third-party tools, and compliance reporting.
Can WitFoo use Falcon data?
Yes. Falcon is in WitFoo’s integration catalog, and Conductor collects Falcon alerts through a read-only API client. Analytics then correlates them with your other sources.
We already get free third-party data with Falcon Insight XDR. Why add anything?
Keep using it. CrowdStrike describes it this way: “Falcon Insight XDR customers enjoy 10GB/day of free third-party data ingestion. Ingest even more data with a Falcon Next-Gen SIEM subscription.” Conductor covers every source at one flat price with unlimited data rates, and keeps the full record on your own appliance.
Falcon Onum already gives us a pipeline. Why Conductor?
Conductor identifies what each message is and recognizes repeats without rules for you to write. The two are easy to compare: run both on the same feed for two weeks and read what remains.
Does Conductor reduce what the Falcon sensor sends to CrowdStrike?
No. Conductor reduces the data you choose to route through it. The sensor’s own path into the Falcon cloud is CrowdStrike’s, and it stays as it is.
Can we keep Next-Gen SIEM and still use WitFoo?
Yes. Conductor has a built-in CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM exporter, so you can send structured records into the console you use today while the full record stays on your appliance.
How is WitFoo priced?
One annual fee per appliance, published, with unlimited data rates. Conductor Pro is $40,000; Analytics is $25,000 to start, $75,000 for Pro and $120,000 for Max. There is no data meter.
Keep the sensor. Change what sits above it.
Measure the reduction on your own data with the 15-day trial appliance, or see what one flat price per appliance looks like: Analytics starts at $25,000 per appliance per year.