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Competing against CrowdStrike in the XDR market has been challenging for Palo Alto Networks given CrowdStrike’s substantial advantage in salespeople dedicated to the emerging technology.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based platform security vendor said Sunnyvale, Calif.-based endpoint security vendor CrowdStrike has eight times more dedicated salespeople chasing the extended detection and response (XDR) category, neutralising whatever technical advantage Palo Alto Networks brings to the table, according to CEO Nikesh Arora.
“While our product now technically ranks better than CrowdStrike and on par with SentinelOne and the others, the challenge we see is we don’t have as much coverage as CrowdStrike,” Arora told investors.
Competing against CrowdStrike in the XDR market has been challenging for Palo Alto Networks given CrowdStrike’s substantial advantage in salespeople dedicated to the emerging technology.