A follow-the-sun SOC is a rota. What matters is whether the analyst on shift has ever seen your kind of estate break.
CrowdStrike sells the most recognised managed detection service on the market and Nozomi sells the sensors that see into OT. We sell a staffed defence that already runs inside power grids, regulated finance and 1,500 vessels, with no obligation to report what it finds to anyone else.
This is a running operation rather than a capability statement: 24/7 security operations blocking more than 100,000 threats a day across fleets, grids and financial platforms, with a fleet-wide ransomware event contained and fully recovered inside a week and 100% of data restored.
Side by side
| Attribute | Represented by UnstratDefensive cybersecurity | CrowdStrikeFalcon Complete Next-Gen MDR1United States | Nozomi NetworksGuardian sensors23United States and Switzerland |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you buy12 | A staffed 24/7 security operation: detection, response and hardening for critical systems | A managed detection and response service delivered by CrowdStrike analysts on the Falcon platform | Sensor appliances and virtual sensors for OT and IoT visibility and monitoring; the monitoring team is yours |
| Coverage model12 | 24/7 | 24/7 with a global footprint and a follow-the-sun model | Not applicable. The product does not include a staffed SOC |
| Published operational volume12 | 100,000+ threats blocked daily across fleets, grids and financial platforms | Not published in the data sheet | Per-sensor capacity rather than threat volume: up to 500,000 protected nodes and 6 Gbps throughput on the largest rack sensor |
| Response performance claimed12 | A fleet-wide ransomware event contained and fully recovered within one week, with 100% of data restored | Up to a 75% reduction in mean time to respond. The data sheet footnotes this claim rather than presenting it as a measured service level | Not published |
| Contractual response SLA12 | Not published | Not published in the data sheet | Not applicable |
| Estate covered12 | Power grids, regulated finance and 1,500+ vessels at sea | Endpoints, identities and cloud workloads, extended to third-party domains including email security, CASB, NDR, VPN and IAM through Falcon Next-Gen SIEM | OT and IoT networks, with ruggedised sensors rated from -40 to 70 °C and a DIN-mountable 500-node model for constrained sites |
| Threat benchmark cited12 | Not published | 2023 eCrime breakout time of 2 minutes and 7 seconds, used to argue for continuous coverage | Not published in the specifications document |
| Automation and human oversight12 | AI-assisted operations shipped with defence in depth and human oversight | Generative AI on the Falcon platform combined with an expert analyst team and 24/7 Adversary OverWatch threat hunting | Not published in the specifications document |
| Hardened by the supplier's own offensive research12 | Yes. Layered defence continuously hardened by our own red-team findings, including CVSS 10.0 discoveries in production fleets | Threat intelligence and Adversary OverWatch hunting; no red-team feedback loop stated in this data sheet | Not published in the specifications document |
| Obligation to disclose findings to a third government12Silence in a datasheet is not the same as an assurance. Ask each supplier the question directly and get the answer in the contract. | None. No reporting line to a foreign government | Not addressed in the data sheet | Not addressed in the specifications document |
| Origin and political exposure13 | Independent, non-aligned origin, with no political exposure to any major-power ecosystem | United States | Headquarters in San Francisco, California and Mendrisio, Switzerland |
Competitor values are quoted from the vendor documents listed under Sources, as published on the date shown. Configurations vary, so treat every row as a starting point for the evaluation rather than a like-for-like test result.
What the table means
MDR was built for corporate IT, and most critical estates are not that
Falcon Complete is very good at what it was designed for: endpoints, identities and cloud workloads, watched continuously by people who see a great deal of commodity crime. A substation, a settlement host and a ship's bridge do not look like that. They run protocols the endpoint agent has never parsed, on hardware nobody will let you reboot, in places with intermittent connectivity. Nozomi's specification sheet is a good illustration of the difference, with DIN-mountable sensors rated to -40 °C for sites an enterprise MDR product never contemplated. Our operation is built for the second category and staffed accordingly.
Read the footnote on the response-time claim
CrowdStrike's up-to-75% MTTR reduction is a marketing figure carrying a footnote, not a contractual service level, and its data sheet publishes no SLA table at all. We publish no SLA either, which is a gap we should close. What we can point to is an outcome rather than a percentage: a ransomware event across a fleet, contained and fully recovered inside a week with all data restored. When you evaluate, ask both of us for the same thing, which is a committed time to first human contact and a time to containment written into the contract.
Who learns what your defences saw
A managed defence supplier accumulates a running record of what is inside your grid, your banks and your ships. Neither competitor's document addresses what happens to that record under a foreign legal request, because it is not the kind of thing product literature covers. We state our position plainly: no obligation to share what we find with any government, because there is no government standing behind us with the right to ask.
Questions buyers ask
What is the best alternative to CrowdStrike Falcon Complete for critical national infrastructure?
If the estate is corporate IT, CrowdStrike is hard to beat and we will say so. If it is grids, ships and payment systems, the shortlist changes: you need people who have run response inside OT and marine environments, not just endpoint telemetry. Our operation blocks over 100,000 threats a day across exactly those estates and recovered a fleet-wide ransomware event in a week with 100% of data restored. Be aware that CrowdStrike publishes a wider third-party integration surface through its Next-Gen SIEM than we currently document.
Do I need OT monitoring sensors as well as an MDR service?
Usually yes, and they solve different problems. Nozomi Guardian sensors give passive visibility into OT and IoT networks, with models scaling from 500 nodes on a DIN rail up to 500,000 nodes and 6 Gbps in a rack. That is what you see with. An MDR service or a SOC is who watches it. Buying sensors without a staffed watch produces a dashboard nobody is looking at during the incident.
How fast should a SOC contain a ransomware attack?
The honest answer depends on whether the estate can be isolated. CrowdStrike cites a 2023 eCrime breakout time of 2 minutes 7 seconds, which is how long an intruder needs to move beyond the first host, and that is the clock you are racing at the detection end. Recovery is a separate clock: our published example is a fleet-wide event contained and fully restored within a week. Ask any supplier for both numbers, and for the contractual commitment behind each.
Will a security provider share our incident data with its home government?
Neither CrowdStrike's data sheet nor Nozomi's specifications address the question, so you must ask it directly and get the answer written into the agreement. Our position is that we have no reporting line to a foreign government and no obligation to share what we find. For a ministry or a national operator, that is often the deciding term rather than a detection statistic.
Sources
- 1. CrowdStrike, Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR (data sheet) (copy held on this site)Retrieved: 2026-07-31 · 24/7 follow-the-sun model, the MTTR claim and its footnote, the 2023 eCrime breakout-time figure and the third-party telemetry list.
- 2. Nozomi Networks, Guardian Sensors (technical specifications, NN-G-TS-8.5x11-005) (copy held on this site)Retrieved: 2026-07-31 · Node, throughput, power, temperature and certification tables for the rack, ruggedised, portable and virtual sensor ranges.
- 3. Nozomi Networks, Contact Us (company page)Retrieved: 2026-07-31 · HTML only. Gives San Francisco, California and Mendrisio, Switzerland as headquarters locations.