We compared Vectra AI and Darktrace based on our users reviews in five parameters. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: In comparing Vectra AI to Darktrace, there are notable distinctions. Vectra AI is praised for its easy setup process, strong ability to detect anomalies, and effective noise reduction feature. However, there is room for improvement in terms of reporting capabilities and software upgrades. On the other hand, Darktrace's setup experiences vary, but it offers exceptional network protection and efficient pattern detection using AI. Suggestions include streamlining the configuration process and making the pricing more affordable. While Darktrace is pricier, it yields positive returns on investment. Customer service and support are generally well-regarded for both solutions, although a few mixed reviews exist.
"It is a stable solution."
"One thing I appreciate is Antigena Email, which is for email protection."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ability to trim out the false positives and point your attention to the real important stuff."
"The most valuable features of Darktrace are the tracing of unusual external emails and monitoring the local network."
"Darktrace is very useful for us because it has a large number of models for detecting threats."
"Artificial intelligence and machine learning functionalities are valuable."
"The product can scale."
"The most valuable features of Darktrace are its full capabilities. You have visibility of everything."
"The dashboard gives me a scoring system that allows me to prioritize things that I should look at. I may not necessarily care so much about one event, whereas if I have a single botnet detection or a brute force attack, I really want to get on top of those."
"Scalability wise, we have many sensors, and Vectra AI seems to handle them all very well."
"The most useful feature is the anomaly detection because it's not signature-based. It picks up the initial part of any attack, like the recon and those aspects of the kill chain, very well."
"It's important for us that the user interface is easy to understand and that is the biggest benefit we see from Vectra AI."
"It is doing some artificial intelligence. If it sees a server doing a lot of things, then it will assume that is normal. So, it is looking for anomalous behavior, things that are out of context which helps us reduce time. Therefore, we don't have to look in all the logs. We just wait for Vectra to say, "This one is behaving strange," then we can investigate that part."
"One of the core features is that Vectra AI triages threats and correlates them with compromised host devices. From a visibility perspective, we can better track the threat across the network. Instead of us potentially finding one device that has been impacted without Vectra AI, it will give us the visibility of everywhere that threat went. Therefore, visibility has increased for us."
"One of the things that we didn't expect to happen was that our network team also jumped on it faster than we thought. In most cases, if it's a security tool that's working on the network part, they can also use it to find out certain flaws that have been in the system. Certain flaws, related to some legacy stuff, were already there for quite a few years, which they couldn't explain at first, but we could explain them based on the timing of certain things."
"The key feature for me for Detect for Office 365 is that it can also concentrate all the information and detection at one point, the same as the network solution does. This is the key feature for me because, while accessing data from Office 365 is possible using Microsoft interfaces, they are not really user-friendly and are quite confusing to use. But Detect for Office 365 is aggregating all the info, and it's only the interesting stuff."
"The cost is a bit on the higher side."
"It would be good if they can include some endpoint protection for remote workers. Nowadays, most people are working remotely. Therefore, they should include some type of sensors that can be installed on the endpoint in order to directly report the main usage and protect remotely. Phone protection will also be a great feature to add to Darktrace."
"The program is quite expensive."
"I'd love them to see maybe covering the cloud a bit more."
"I would like for the product to work on the endpoints as well. I would like to see enhanced visibility into the endpoints and network but this solution only sits on the network itself."
"It should be easier to access the Darktrace portal and its documentation. Only the customer can access their portal and support. It could be cheaper."
"The price point for the product was too high for what our possible use case could be."
"The pricing model is a little too high and could be more flexible."
"There could be an option where Vectra manages the solution remotely, and when there is an attack, there could be a notification center to give us information about the attack."
"The solution needs to become more proactive. When Vectra AI is the primary solution in an environment - like it is in our case - you must work on response time. We have a small team so response time at endpoint level is vital."
"The false positives and the tuning side of it is something that could use improvement. But that could be from our side."
"We would like to see more information with the syslogs. The syslogs that they send to our SIEM are a bit short compared to what you can see. It would be helpful if they send us more data that we can incorporate into our SIEM, then can correlate with other events."
"The main improvement I can see would be to integrate with more external solutions."
"The solution's marketing is not good."
"Some of their integrations with other sources of data, like external threat feeds, took a bit more work than I had hoped to get integrated."
"ExtraHop has better features that seem more advantageous when compared to Vectra."
Darktrace is ranked 1st in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 65 reviews while Vectra AI is ranked 2nd in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 41 reviews. Darktrace is rated 8.2, while Vectra AI is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Darktrace writes "Great autonomous support, offers an easy setup, and has responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vectra AI writes "Integrates well with other security solutions and provides good technical support". Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Cisco Secure Network Analytics and ExtraHop Reveal(x), whereas Vectra AI is most compared with ExtraHop Reveal(x), Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Arista NDR, Corelight and Trend Micro Deep Discovery. See our Darktrace vs. Vectra AI report.
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Raffael Marty, Vice President, Forcepoint Research and Intelligence, said: "There is no artificial intelligence in the field of information security, and it is unlikely to be developed in 2019." Most of unsupervised machine learning-based network anomaly detection solution does not provide why the anomaly has been aroused and whether the anomaly is malicious or not. Most of such solution's pricing model is based on number of endpoints but I prefer to have flat fee subscription-based.
The most important thing to get traction is your business approach and some kind of openness for 3rd parties. NOBODY needs "fancy Dashboards"!
Most of the known vendors like Darktrace is extremely "sales offensive" and they don't have a clear sales strategy (direct or channel). A free POV (30days) is a common approach to attract new customers, but the outcome is not really important. It says nothing about the PAINS on the customer site.
Know your competitors!!!! There are many AI CyberSec Startups and Technologies - 99% are using "Machine Learning" what needs more time to the realtime reaction in critical phases. Preferred is Deep Learning like DeepInstinct offers.
Pricing Model per IP´s is pretty usual - but you need flexibility.
Thank you I’m not really interested in being sold to. I’m asking about what works, what doesn’t and pricing models. I don’t want any demos.
Thank you for your comments...what if the malware does not present as anomalous?
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Thank you, I am familiar with Darktrace and really like the product. I'd like to know your thoughts on additional features and pricing preferences.
In my opinion, the best response always comes from the source. I have many contacts at Darktrace that can precisely answer these and other questions. Please let me know if you would like me to arrange for a scheduled call.