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We performed a comparison between Aruba IntroSpect and Vectra AI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Aruba IntroSpect vs. Vectra AI Report (Updated: May 2024).

Aruba IntroSpect vs. Vectra AI

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Categories and Ranking

Aruba IntroSpect

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (22nd), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (13th)

Vectra AI

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (4th), Network Detection and Response (NDR) (2nd), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (14th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (10th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (6th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. Aruba IntroSpect is designed for User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) and holds a mindshare of 0.8%, down 1.3% compared to last year.
Vectra AI, on the other hand, focuses on Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS), holds 11.2% mindshare, up 10.7% since last year.

User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)

Featured Reviews

Marko Pirc

IP Network Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Key features are roaming, application control and the firewall

We are partners of Aruba as well as sellers and customers. My job in the company is IP network engineer. The roaming is a feature that works very well. In addition, the application control and firewall features are very good. These are all important features and make the product a valuable one.…

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Mohammad Alkurdi

Owner at Fortibits

Innovative detection features enhance monitoring

The advantages of the integration are not entirely out-of-the-box. You have to do it manually. When I'm doing tier response, an out-of-the-box solution is not available. You need to have a Linux server, and from the Linux server, you must perform AI tasks, and there is a lot to be handled in the back end. This is a major consideration about them. The recall feature, if it can be placed in some areas instead of the cloud, and charged for, would be better. Recall the storage where you watch all the traffic, and you can recall it and try to analyze it in the back end. It’s cloud-based. If they offer it on-prem, it would be better. I think they have a solution, but I have never tested it, to be honest with you.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Roaming feature, application control and firewall features."

"I haven't heard of any issues with stability."

"The most valuable feature is the end-user monitoring. If there is any abnormal behavior on the machine, the administrator will be alerted."

"One of the most valuable features of the platform is its ability to provide you with aggregated risk scores based on impact and certainty of threats being detected. This is both applied to individual and host detections. This is important because it enables us to use this platform to prioritize the most likely imminent threats. So, it reduces alert fatigue follow ups for security operation center analysts. It also provides us with an ability to prioritize limited resources."

"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 most valuable feature for Cognito Detect, the main solution, is that external IDS's create a lot of alerts. When I say a lot of alerts I really mean a lot of alerts. Vectra, on the other hand, contextualizes everything, reducing the number of alerts and pinpointing only the things of interest. This is a key feature for me. Because of this, a non-trained analyst can use it almost right away."

"One of the key advantages for us is we define a 24/7 service around it. We use far more of Vectra alerts than we do with our SIEM product because we understand that when we get an alert from Vectra we actually need to do something about it."

"It has helped us to organize our security. We get a better overview on what is happening on the network, which has helped us get quicker responses to users. If we see malicious activity, then we can quickly take action on it. Previously, we weren't getting an overview as fast as we are now, so we can now provide a quicker response."

"Vectra AI is the best. It is a major product in our cybersecurity."

"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."

"Scalability wise, we have many sensors, and Vectra AI seems to handle them all very well."

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Cons

"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."

"We are using SMB 3.0, which is an encrypted protocol. When we get some alerts or something, we cannot go deep into the protocol to see what's wrong because it's encrypted. We need to decrypt the protocol in another way, which is quite difficult. We might go back to SMB 2.0 just for this reason, but that's not a good solution."

"The solution has not reduced the security analyst workload in our organization because we still need to SIEM. Unfortunately, while Vectra, for us, is a brilliant tool for network investigations, giving wonderful visibility, it doesn't go the whole way to replace our SIEM that is needed for compliance. So, I still have the same amount of alerting and logging that I did before. It gives us more defined ability to see incidents, but it doesn't give us enough information to satisfy a PCI or 27001 audit."

"One thing which I have found where there could be improvement is with regard to the architecture, a little bit: how the brains and sensors function. It needs more flexibility with regard to the brain. If there were some flexibility in that regard, that would be helpful, because changing the mode of the brain is complex. In some cases, the change is permanent. You cannot revert it."

"One area where there's room for improvement is the absence of a comprehensive TCP recording and replay feature."

"The main improvement I can see would be to integrate with more external solutions."

"In comparison with a lot of systems I used in the past, the false positives are really a burden because they are taking a lot of time at this moment."

"Multiple appliances are required for Vectra AI, making it less convenient compared to competitors."

"Some of the customization could be improved. Everything is provided for you as an easy solution to use, but working with it and doing specific development could be worked on a bit more in the scope of an incident response team."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"We are running at about 90,000 pounds per year. The solution is a licensed cost. The hardware that they gave us was pretty much next to nothing. It is the license that we're paying for."

"The pricing and licensing are quite straightforward because they're based on the IP licenses. As a result, they are easy to count."

"Vectra AI is not a cheap solution."

"The upfront pricing model that we have would have been more beneficial if it had been a recurring license fee, but that wasn't a massive issue for us. It's fairly priced."

"The pricing is very good. It's less expensive than many of the tools out there."

"At the time of purchase, we found the pricing acceptable. We had an urgency to get something in place because we had a minor breach that occurred at the tail end of 2016 to the beginning of 2017. This indicated we had a lack of ability to detect things on the network. Hence, why we moved quickly to get into the tool in place. We found things like Bitcoin mining and botnets which we closed quickly. In that regard, it was worth the money."

"Their licensing model is antiquated. I'm not a fan of their licensing model. We have to pay for licensing based on four different things. You have to pay based on the number of unique IPs, the number of logs that we send through Recall and Stream, and the size of our environment. They need to simplify their licensing down to just one thing. It should be based on the amount of data, the number of devices, or something else, but there should be just one thing for everything. That's what they need to base their licensing on. Cost-wise, they're not cheap. They were definitely the most expensive option, but you get what you pay for. They're not the cheapest option."

"From a pricing perspective, they are very commercially competitive. From a licensing perspective, just be conscious that some of their future cloud solutions come with additional subscriptions. Also, if you're outside of the US, you will get charged freight for the device back to your country."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Media Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Aruba IntroSpect?

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What do you like most about Vectra AI?

The solution is currently used as a central threat detection and response system.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vectra AI?

It is very acceptable when you compare it with Darktrace, for example.

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Also Known As

IntroSpect

Vectra Networks, Vectra AI NDR

Overview

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.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Vectra AI is used for detecting network anomalies and potential malicious activities, providing visibility into network traffic and enhancing threat detection across environments.

Organizations deploy Vectra AI mainly on-premises with additional cloud components. It helps with compliance, incident response, security monitoring, detecting insider threats, and correlating network events. Vectra AI captures and enriches network metadata, provides detailed dashboards, reduces false positives, and supports cross-environment behavioral analysis to enhance threat detection and prioritization. While valued for its high accuracy and alert aggregation, it has room for improvement in UI/UX, packet management, and integration with SIEMs and other tools. It is noted for expensive pricing and limited proactive threat response features.

What are Vectra AI's most valuable features?

High accuracy in identifying threat locations
Aggregation of alerts into single incidents
24/7 threat detection
Visibility into the entire attack lifecycle
Risk score aggregation
Effective triaging of alerts
Integration with other tools

What benefits or ROI should users look for?

Enhanced threat detection and prioritization
Comprehensive network visibility
Reduction in false positives
Better incident response capabilities
Improved compliance monitoring

In specific industries, Vectra AI is deployed to monitor complex networks and alleviate challenges in threat detection. It is particularly effective in sectors requiring stringent compliance and security measures, offering insights and capabilities crucial for protecting sensitive data and maintaining operational integrity.

Sample Customers

Sage Hotel, Centara Hotels and Resorts, Asda, The Dolder Grand,

Tribune Media Group, Barry University, Aruba Networks, Good Technology, Riverbed, Santa Clara University, Securities Exchange, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association