We performed a comparison between Darktrace, Hillstone S-Series Network Intrusion Prevention System, and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Darktrace, Vectra AI, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)."The most valuable feature has been the behavioral analytics that allows us to monitor all the traffic."
"Darktrace's most valuable features are that it understands the network environment and is able to trace the traffic and alert on anomalies."
"We allow customers to access our Wi-Fi as guests, and some of them were going to restricted sites. Darktrace showed us what they were doing so we could block them."
"Technical support is helpful and responsive."
"It has helped the organization to detect any malware affecting the machines...The network monitoring and the email monitoring features are very valuable for us."
"The most valuable feature is that it works autonomously."
"I particularly like Antigena and the analytics around the real-time monitoring of our network. I also like its reporting because it has got a seven-day reporting period within the system. Every time you run the reports, it gives you the data about the previous seven days. I like that because it is in real-time. I enjoy reading those reports and getting a very clear and decisive idea of what's happening on my network on a real-time basis. I like the actual real-time monitoring of spoofing and things like that. I also like the user monitoring as well as the network logging capabilities."
"It is a stable solution without downtime."
"Setup is straightforward with the same reliability and scalability as the firewall series."
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"I like the solution's interface."
"It's a monster, it's got so many beautiful features. We do deal with other firewalls and we've got a better idea of what other firewalls' capabilities are, any comparison with the Palo Alto I liked the quality of service on the applications that you can control the amount of bandwidth an application is allowed to consume. The best feature is the quality of the application quality of service."
"The sandboxing tools offer great prevention for cloud feeds."
"Edge protection is a valuable feature."
"I find the malware protection very handy."
"The most valuable features are that it's user-friendly, has interesting features, URL filtering, and threat prevention."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It's quite easy. Deployment took one to two weeks."
"Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is the market leader as far as security gateways and endpoint protection. Additionally, the threat database that is used is one of the best."
"The pricing is a bit high for the region."
"It's a very complex platform."
"The dashboard and reporting for this solution could be improved as it is currently complex. The GUI for this solution could also be improved."
"The level of tracking within the network from the transmission level up to the machine level can use improvement."
"I'd love them to see maybe covering the cloud a bit more."
"It can have more integration with orchestration or event management solutions. They can provide more knowledge or research information for analysts for investigating cases and detecting anomalies in networks."
"In the next version, I'd like to see penetration testing."
"Darktrace is a closed technology, meaning we know very little about how it works, including the architecture, which is significant. As a result, when we implement the system and find we're getting many false positives, we have minimal insight into why it's happening and what we can do to fix it. We don't know how the solution is configured, the criteria for threats to be determined, or the product's inner workings. We understand that they have to ensure privacy and their copyright, but we want to see some documentation or public research into the security Darktrace provides."
"Lack of tools to help educate end users"
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"It's not so easy to set up a test environment, because it's not so easy to get the test license. The vendor only gives you 90 days for a test license; it's a tough license to get."
"Right now we are focusing on email. If Palo Alto can increase the features related to email filtering and the new malware, it would help us protect our systems."
"Sometimes when you want to group a set of ports, and communicate with Palo Alto, you cannot group TCP and UDP ports together. This needs to be adjusted."
"The documentation needs to be improved. I need better information about how to configure it and what the best practices are."
"The installation was complicated."
"The organization mail security solutions could be improved. There is no mail security solution available."
"Generally, to deploy it will take some downtime, about a day."
"The price of licenses should be lowered to make it less costly to scale our solution."
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