Architecture comparison

CrowdStrike vs Zscaler

No shared foundational model — different bets.

CrowdStrike

Cybersecurity

Proximity

Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Models

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Cloud · datastore

AWScustom Threat Graph (proprietary graph database)Apache Kafka (streaming telemetry pipelines)[4]Elasticsearch/OpenSearch or similar for log/search analytics (inferred)Columnar/OLAP warehouse (e.g., Snowflake/Redshift – inferred)Redis or similar for caching (inferred)

Compliance

SOC 2ISO 27001FedRAMPPCI-DSSHIPAA

Architecture

CrowdStrike Falcon uses a cloud-native SaaS architecture on AWS where lightweight endpoint sensors stream filtered telemetry into a multi-tenant Security Cloud, backed by the Threat Graph graph database and large-scale streaming/analytics pipelines for detection, response, and management console services.[4][8] The heavy correlation, ML-based detections, and XDR analytics run in this cloud backend; customers do not host core Falcon infrastructure themselves.[5][8]

Zscaler

Cybersecurity

Proximity

Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Models

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Cloud · datastore

On-Premown

Compliance

SOC 2FedRAMP

Architecture

Own global proxy cloud + in-house ML; off the LLM map at the core.

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