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"This solution’s encrypted traffic analysis helps us stay in compliance with government regulations. It is all about understanding data exfiltration, what is ingressing and egressing in our network. One common attack vector is exfiltrating data using encryption. My capabilities to see potential data exfiltration over encrypted traffic is second to none now.""The most valuable feature is the ability to see suspicious activity for devices inside my network. It helps me to quickly identify that activity and do analysis to see if it's expected or I need to mitigate that activity quickly.""The most valuable portion is that they offer a threat-hunting service. Using their platform, and all of the data that they're collecting, they actually help us be proactive by having really expert folks that have insight, not just into our accounts, but into other accounts as well. They can be proactive and say, 'Well, we saw this incident at some other customer. We ran that same kind of analysis for you and we didn't see that type of activity in your network.'""The query language that they have is quite valuable, especially because the sensor itself is storing some network activity and we're able to query that. That has been useful in a pinch because we don't necessarily use it just for threat hunting, but we also use it for debugging network issues. We can use it to ask questions and get answers about our network. For example: Which users and devices are using the VPN for RDP access? We can write a query pretty quickly and get an answer for that.""The interface itself is clean and easy to use, yet customizable. I like that I can create my own dashboards fairly easily so that I can see what is important to me. Also, the query language is pretty easy to use. I haven't needed to use it a ton, but as I need to go in and do different queries based on their requests, it has been fairly simple to use.""It gives us something that is almost like an auditing tool for all of our network controls, to see how they are performing. This is related to compliance so that we can see how we are doing with what we have already implemented. There are things that we implemented, but we really didn't know if they were working or not. We have that visibility now.""Other solutions will say, "Hey, this device is doing something weird." But they don't aggregate that data point with other data points. With Awake you have what's called a "fact pattern." For example, if there's a smart toaster on the third floor that is beaconing out to an IP address in North Korea, sure that's bizarre. But if that toaster was made in North Korea it's not bizarre. Taking those two data points together, and automating something using machine-learning is something that no other solution is doing right now.""The security knowledge graph has been very helpful in the sense that whenever you try a new security solution, especially one that's in the detection and response market, you're always worried about getting a lot of false positives or getting too many alerts and not being able to pick out the good from the bad or things that are actual security incidents versus normal day to day operations. We've been pleasantly surprised that Awake does a really good job of only alerting about things that we actually want to look into and understand. They do a good job of understanding normal operations out-of-the-box."

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"The most valuable feature is the end-user monitoring. If there is any abnormal behavior on the machine, the administrator will be alerted.""Roaming feature, application control and firewall features.""I haven't heard of any issues with stability."

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"Awake Security needs to move to a 24/7 support model in the MNDR space. Once they do that, it will make them even better.""I enjoy the query language, but it could be a bit more user-friendly, especially for new users who come across it... They should push it more into a natural language style as opposed to a query language.""One thing I would like to see is a little bit more education or experience on AWS cloud for their managed services team. We've explained how we have the information set up, that the traffic coming in goes to the AWS load balancer and then gets sent on to our internal servers... but when I get notices they always tell me this traffic is coming from the IPs belonging to the load balancers, not the source IPs. So a little bit more education for their team about how AWS manages the traffic might help out.""While the appliance is very good, and I think they're working on it, it would probably help if they integrated the management team cases into the appliance so that everything we are working on with them would be accessible on our platform, on the dashboard, on the portal. Right now, Awake is just an additional team that uses the appliance that we use and then we communicate with them directly. Communication isn't through the portal.""They've been focused on really developing their data science, their ability to detect, but over time, they need to be able to tie into other systems because other systems might detect something that they don't.""Be prepared to update your SOPs to have your analysts work in another tool separately. There are some limitations in the integrations right now. One of the things that I want from a security standpoint is integration with multiple tools so I don't need to have my analysts logging into each individual tool.""I would like to see a bit more in terms of encrypted traffic. With the advent of programs that live off the land, a smart attacker is going to leverage encryption to execute their operation. So I would like to see improvements there, where possible. Currently, we're not going to be decrypting encrypted traffic. What other approaches could be used?""Arista NDR needs to open legal offices to be closer to customers and partners. It needs more visibility in the NDR market in the Middle East. While they are doing well, they lack sufficient engineers. They need to hire more engineers to meet the demand and expand their presence. The current team is good but not enough to fully capture the market."

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"Technical support is a little slow.""The packet analyzer needs improvement.""I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard, where you can get the information with a simple click."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The solution has saved thousands of dollars within the first day. Our ROI has to be in the tens of thousands of dollars since October last year."
  • "Awake Security was the least expensive among their competitors. Everyone was within $15,000 of each other. The other solutions were not providing the MNDR service, which is standard with Awake Security's pricing/licensing model."
  • "We switched to Awake Security because they were able to offer a model that was significantly less expensive and the value that we get out of it is higher."
  • "The solution is very good and the pricing is also better than others..."
  • "The pricing seems pretty reasonable for what we get out of it. We also found it to be more competitive than some other vendors that we've looked at."
  • "Awake's pricing was very competitive. It's not a cheap option though. It's an investment to utilize it, but it's one that we decided was worth the cost, with the managed services. At our scale, it was a much better option to utilize their software and their managed services to handle this, rather than hiring another person to be an analyst. It was quite cost-effective for us."
  • "Because I represent a hedge fund, I have some leverage. I told them that they had to meet my conditions if they wanted me as a client. It was the same way with Awake. They wanted an initial four-year agreement. Initially, we signed on for a one-year contract, but they wanted the four-year deal when it came time for the renewal. I told them that I was not doing that. I said that they either had to do it on my terms, or I'd go somewhere else."
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  • "The license is based on the number of users. The evaluation license is free, you can download it from the website and try it out first."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Arista NDR's scalability is very good, making it easy to add more hardware components. You can order additional hardware and integrate it by stacking it with the existing setup. This feature cannot be… more »
    Top Answer:The tool's pricing is expensive but it is competitive.
    Top Answer:Arista NDR needs to open legal offices to be closer to customers and partners. It needs more visibility in the NDR market in the Middle East. While they are doing well, they lack sufficient engineers… more »
    Top Answer:Aruba Introspect has two licenses - advanced and standard. While we found the price of the advanced license to be a bit high, the standard license is reasonably priced and costs less than half the… more »
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    Also Known As
    Awake Security Platform
    IntroSpect
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    Overview

    Arista NDR (formerly Awake Security) is the only advanced network detection and response company that delivers answers, not alerts. By combining artificial intelligence with human expertise, Arista NDR hunts for both insider and external attacker behaviors, while providing autonomous triage and response with full forensics across traditional, IoT, and cloud networks. Arista NDR delivers continuous diagnostics for the entire enterprise threat landscape, processes countless network data points, senses abnormalities or threats, and reacts if necessary—all in a matter of seconds. The Arista NDP platform stands out from traditional security because it is designed to mimic the human brain. It recognizes malicious intent and learns over time, giving defenders greater visibility and insight into what threats exist and how to respond to them. 

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    Aruba IntroSpect is a User Behavior Analytics (UEBA) tool that uses supervised and unsupervised machine learning to automatically baseline user and device behavior while actively looking for anomalous activity that may indicate a threat. The solution detects compromised users’ systems by identifying changes in typical IT access and usage. By accelerating alert prioritization, incident investigation, and threat-hunting efforts, Aruba IntroSpect can automate the detection of attacks and risky behaviors. In addition, the solution allows security teams to stay ahead of malicious activity and also insecure or negligent users, so they can manage threats before they become damaging. Aruba IntroSpect is suitable for IT organizations of every size and enables businesses to easily and rapidly scale machine-learned behavior detection from small projects to full enterprise deployments.

    Aruba IntroSpect can detect:

    • Account abuse
    • Account takeover
    • Command and control
    • Data exfiltration
    • Lateral movement
    • Password sharing
    • Privilege escalation
    • Flight risk
    • Phishing
    • Ransomware

    Aruba IntroSpect Deployment Options

    • On-premise VM or appliance for Packet Processor
    • AWS or on-premise deployment for Analyzer

    Aruba IntroSpect Data Sources

    The IntroSpect platform can process data sources, including:

    • VPN, FW, IPS/IDS, web proxy, email logs
    • NTA sources: Packets and NetFlow
    • DNS logs
    • Active Directory logs
    • DHCP logs
    • External threat feeds
    • Alerts from third-party security infrastructure

    Aruba IntroSpect Features

    Aruba IntroSpect has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Advanced analytics
    • 100+ supervised and unsupervised machine learning models
    • Continuously updated risk scoring
    • Accelerated investigations
    • Packets
    • Flows
    • Logs and alerts
    • Enterprise scale
    • Spark/Hadoop platform

    Aruba IntroSpect Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Aruba IntroSpect. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Fast deployment: Besides having different options for deployment (on-prem or cloud), the solution offers a standalone or integrated platform. For fast deployment, users can ingest data natively or from SIEM, log management, or a packet broker.
    • Efficient: The Aruba IntroSpect solution reduces the time and effort that is required to understand, diagnose, and respond to an attack.
    • Deep insights: Security teams can triage better, make more informed decisions, and respond before damage occurs.
    • Machine learning-based analytics: The solution builds baselines for normal behavior of both individual entities and groups by continuously monitoring IT activities.
    • Comprehensive security profile: When users implement Aruba IntroSpect, they gain access to a security profile with continuous risk scoring and enriched security information.
    • Automatic risk profiles: Aruba IntroSpect automatically creates a risk profile for every user, system, and IoT device connected to the network, saving users an additional step.
    • Proactive threat hunting: Through its query interface, Aruba IntroSpect proactively spots threats without the overhead of finding, searching, and summarizing isolated data stores.
    • Prioritize security risks: Risk scores are based on machine learning that can account for key factors like the order and time of incidents across various attack stages as well as time since detection and business context. Accurate, normalized scores mean security analysts can confidently prioritize their efforts.
    • Instant visibility: When using the solution, users get instant visibility to high-risk activity. Aruba IntroSpect provides access to complete investigative records.
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    Sample Customers
    - Dolby Laboratories- Seattle Genetics- ARM Energy- Ooma- Prophix- Yapstone
    Sage Hotel, Centara Hotels and Resorts, Asda, The Dolder Grand,
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Insurance Company18%
    Pharma/Biotech Company9%
    Energy/Utilities Company9%
    Computer Software Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Educational Organization8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Retailer8%
    Construction Company8%
    Educational Organization8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise54%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise63%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business47%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise43%
    Buyer's Guide
    Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)
    March 2024
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    Arista NDR is ranked 8th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 14 reviews while Aruba IntroSpect is ranked 15th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA). Arista NDR is rated 9.0, while Aruba IntroSpect is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Arista NDR writes "Gives us network layer visibility into things that may not be covered by other monitoring tools, such as shadow IT". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Aruba IntroSpect writes "A straightforward setup for technical users and an overall good product". Arista NDR is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Vectra AI, Trend Micro Deep Discovery, Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Corelight, whereas Aruba IntroSpect is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, LogRhythm UEBA, Darktrace, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer and Auvik Network Management (ANM).

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