We performed a comparison between Cisco Stealthwatch and Darktrace based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions are very comparable. However, their features slightly differ, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses.
"Visibility. The ability to look East and West. To see what is passing through your circuits, where it is coming from, and how big it is."
"Able to drill down into a center's utilization, then create reports based on it."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is the Threat Intelligence integration."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"Darktrace is very useful for us because it has a large number of models for detecting threats."
"I have found the most valuable features to be artificial intelligence for cybersecurity, advanced machine learning capabilities, enterprise Immune System, Antigena Network, and Antigena Email. The way the solution detects the threat over the network before it spreads is very good. It notifies you of what the threat is exactly doing and gives you all the details about the execution of that application that had created the threat over your network."
"The solution is stable. We've never had any problems with it."
"I am impressed with the product's ability to give insights into network traffic."
"I like the Antigena feature in Darktrace, as it offers immediate response and is helpful."
"It is a stable solution."
"Darktrace is extremely stable."
"We liked their approach to identifying intrusions or network anomalies using AI."
"One update that I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently, Stealthwatch is network-based. A local agent could help manage endpoints."
"Its granularity for RBAC roles-based access control needs improvement."
"I would like to see better filters."
"Some of our customers find this solution to be a little bit tough because they don't understand how to configure and use it."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"If there was one improvement I’d suggest it would be that it detect traffic through an intranet. The product requires that traffic flow through a managed network device. The product is designed mostly for enterprise environments and not smaller environments or businesses."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
"I would like the search page available with Cisco Stealthwatch to be more intuitive. The previous release was better than the current one for the UI."
"The program is quite expensive."
"It would be helpful if they could recognize incidents and simplify the customer's challenge to identify what is happening."
"I would like to see some additional enhancements."
"The module can improve so that every time it's more intelligent."
"The price point for the product was too high for what our possible use case could be."
"Darktrace could improve by being more user-friendly."
"The solution can improve the reporting."
"Darktrace could expand into EDR (endpoint detection and response) and combine it with its network detection."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 4th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 57 reviews while Darktrace is ranked 1st in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 65 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Darktrace is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Darktrace writes "Great autonomous support, offers an easy setup, and has responsive support". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI, Arista NDR and Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, whereas Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and ExtraHop Reveal(x). See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Darktrace 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.