We performed a comparison between Cisco NGIPS and Darktrace based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The integration with the Cisco portfolio is very helpful."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution is very powerful coupled with Firepower."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco NGIPS is the centralized user interface. You have the ability to quickly push out configurations across your environment using the Cisco UI. It's a powerful capability of that solution."
"You can do zero-day prevention and detection. It's quite useful."
"The initial setup wasn't complex or complicated."
"I like the way the tool pushes the packets from the node level."
"The tracking intelligence feature is very good. This solution provides us with the opportunity to detect threats in real-time."
"The most valuable feature of Darktrace and the most valuable feature is the artificial intelligence module because that is the tool that determines automatically if there is any risk or not in the network."
"The product can scale."
"The Antigena feature is most valuable. Once it learns your environment, Antigena can step in and block a denial of service attack, a ransomware attack, or just about anything that doesn't belong in the environment. It can detect any type of attack that hits the environment because it understands what normal looks like for the network. It is very useful for an autonomous response."
"The Dynamic Threat Dashboard is very nice, as it lists all of your threats and rates them, and then you can choose whether to investigate further."
"The solution is stable. We've never had any problems with it."
"One thing I appreciate is Antigena Email, which is for email protection."
"The most valuable features of Darktrace are the tracing of unusual external emails and monitoring the local network."
"One member of staff is enough for deployment and maintenance because Darkforce is AI-driven. It does a lot of things by itself."
"There are some features not found in Firepower, like data loss prevention, and SSO, to have a connection between Cisco and Active Directory which was introduced on other products."
"The stability of the user console and some features could be easier to access."
"The solution would be better if it offered customers more integrations and more signatures."
"It is no longer scalable because it has gone end of life."
"The pricing is very expensive. They should make their equipment more affordable."
"I would like to see Cisco NGIPS to include home office support in one single product."
"It has room for improvement when it comes to integrating machine learning and AI into it where even if you don't have a baseline that is of length for anomaly detection, it could do more like an AI style machine learning. It learns on its own."
"Should include additional security features."
"The solution would benefit from automation. Currently, you have to know what you are searching for."
"It's a very complex platform."
"It would be helpful if they could recognize incidents and simplify the customer's challenge to identify what is happening."
"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."
"Darktrace could expand into EDR (endpoint detection and response) and combine it with its network detection."
"They just need to work on their price. In terms of features, we are trying to understand all the features that we have. We're still exploring everything that we have so that we can fully utilize it. At this point in time, it is not about the features. It is more about utilization. We're just trying to utilize everything to full capacity."
"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."
"The main portal needs improvement as it is difficult to use."
Cisco NGIPS is ranked 5th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 27 reviews while Darktrace is ranked 1st in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 32 reviews. Cisco NGIPS is rated 8.2, while Darktrace is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco NGIPS writes "Straightforward licensing with good support, but plagued by stability issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Darktrace writes "A stable, scalable, and valuable tool that provides excellent network monitoring". Cisco NGIPS is most compared with Check Point IPS, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Cisco Sourcefire SNORT and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Cisco Secure Network Analytics. See our Cisco NGIPS vs. Darktrace report.
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