CrowdStrikeCRWD
Moat score
The endpoint-security platform whose customers stayed through an outage that grounded airlines — the switching cost, demonstrated.
MOATE3.2Deep
3.2 Deep
| Dimension | MOATE | Community |
|---|---|---|
| Switching costsweight 15An agent on every device and consolidation onto the Falcon platform; the July 2024 outage proved customers do not leave. | 8 | — |
| Network effectsweight 15More endpoints feed the threat graph, which improves detection for everyone on it. | 6 | — |
| Scale & cost advantageweight 12Large in security, modest next to the platforms it protects. | 6 | — |
| Brand & pricing powerweight 12Premium pricing survived the outage; the brand recovered within quarters. | 7 | — |
| Cornered resourceweight 12Years of threat-intelligence data across a very large installed base. | 6 | — |
| Distribution controlweight 12Channel partners and the Falcon marketplace; no owned surface. | 6 | — |
| Disruption resilienceweight 12Microsoft bundling Defender into enterprise licenses is the threat to every security vendor. | 6 | — |
| Independenceweight 10Few dependencies; runs on public cloud without being captive to one. | 6 | — |
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