vs. CrowdStrike
Falcon Go gives you
the brand.
ABTDS gives you
the math.
Falcon Go is CrowdStrike's SMB SKU — Falcon's detection engine, packaged for 500 endpoints or fewer, sold without the enterprise machinery. The detection is genuinely good. The brand carries weight with auditors. The price is in the $5–8/endpoint/month range.
What it doesn't offer: the same explainability Falcon's enterprise SKU has. The factor breakdowns, the per-user baseline visibility, the technique-mapped reasoning — those live behind the enterprise paywall. Falcon Go customers see the alert and the score. Not the math.
ABTDS uses the same underlying detection stack — Isolation Forest, Sigma, MITRE ATT&CK — and shows you all of it. Per-user baseline. Per-factor breakdown. Per-rule provenance. At $7/endpoint Pro tier, with the founder's deal at $4.90 effective.
If you want the CrowdStrike brand for compliance reasons, buy Falcon Go. If you want the explanation, buy ABTDS. If you're starting from scratch and explainability matters: read on.
Read the difference
Same threat.
Three very different answers.
A brute-force attempt against a real Windows endpoint. Here's what each tool says when it fires.
"Medium risk."
That's it. That's the whole alert.
"Score: 87."
From what? Threshold for what? On a curve calibrated when?
"Failed login from Bulgaria, off-hours, new ASN. 4 of 9 factors above baseline. Likely brute force."
Block the IP. Force MFA reset on j.morton. Review the next 4 Sysmon 4624s.
We're not better at detecting brute force. We're better at explaining the one you're already detecting.
The right decision
If you're tired of alerts you can't explain,
starting an ABTDS pilot is the right decision.
30 days. Up to 50 endpoints. No card. No call required to start. Real data, your VPS, your decision at the end.
Or email founders@abtds.io — we read every one