Aruba IntroSpect vs Vectra AI comparison

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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) (25th), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (14th)

Vectra AI

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (5th), Network Detection and Response (NDR) (2nd), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (16th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (9th), 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 0.9%, up 0.9% compared to last year.
Vectra AI, on the other hand, focuses on Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS), holds 8.0% mindshare, up 7.6% since last year.

User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Aruba IntroSpect	0.9%
Exabeam	9.9%
IBM Security QRadar	9.0%
Other	80.2%

User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Vectra AI	8.0%
Fortinet FortiGate	16.6%
Darktrace	13.8%
Other	61.599999999999994%

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

"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."

"Roaming feature, application control and firewall features."

"We discovered a lot of things in our network and are correcting several misconfigurations. We are learning how some apps work together and how some things shouldn't happen. It's also easier for us to identify the source of a brute force, whereas before, we didn't even know we had a brute force."

"The dashboard gives me a scoring system that allows me to prioritize things that I should look at. I may not necessarily care so much about one event, whereas if I have a single botnet detection or a brute force attack, I really want to get on top of those."

"Vectra AI can bring the ability to detect intrusion on the network more so than legacy IDS tools."

"It gives you access, with Recall, to instant visibility into your network through something like a SIEM solution. For us, being able to correlate all of this network data without having to manage it, has provided immediate value. It gives us the ability to really work on the stuff where I and my team have expertise, instead of having to manage a SIEM solution..."

"Cognito Streams gives you a detailed view of what happens in the network in the form of rich metadata. It is just a super easy way to capture network traffic for important protocols, giving us an advantage. This is very helpful on a day-to-day basis."

"Vectra AI helped our team be more productive and save time. We have less work thanks to it."

"I like the way that Vectra AI focuses on the internal network. Nowadays, most of the attackers are already inside, and they can be inside for many years before they start attacking. With normal monitoring, it's quite difficult to find them."

"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."

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Cons

"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard, where you can get the information with a simple click."

"The packet analyzer needs improvement."

"Technical support is a little slow."

"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."

"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."

"I would like to see data processed onshore. Right now, the cloud components, like Office 365, must be processed on servers outside of Australia. I would like to see a future adoption of onshore processing."

"We have a lot of system solutions and integrations with system solutions. Vectra is a type of black box. It implements AI-informed detection mechanisms, but we cannot create system detections. I understand that the product is designed this way, but it would be great if we could create our own detections as well."

"We would like to see more information with the syslogs. The syslogs that they send to our SIEM are a bit short compared to what you can see. It would be helpful if they send us more data that we can incorporate into our SIEM, then can correlate with other events."

"Neither Vectra nor Darktrace have a function like a status health check on my log sources and traffic sources."

"It does a little bit of packet capture on alert so you can look at the packet capture activity going on, but it doesn't collect a whole lot of data. Sometimes it's only one or two frames, sometimes it does collect more. That's why they have the addition of their Recall platform, because that really does help expand the capability."

"One of the things that we are missing a bit is the capability to add our own rules to it. At the moment, the tech engine does its thing, but we have some cool ideas to make additional rules. There should be an option in the platform to add custom rules, or there should be some kind of user group where we can suggest them for the roadmap and see if they get evaluated and get transparent communication on whether they will be implemented in the product or not."

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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."

"From a licensing perspective, the Vectra detect platform is pretty doable. Also, the hardware prices are nothing that we're not used to. The stream part is a little overpriced compared to the detect part. The reason is that you need to stream data to detect events anyway, so the data is in there. The only thing that's not available is the UI to be able to look at the stream data, which is also on the appliances but is just not activated. That's mainly the thing that we want to improve on."

"The licensing is on an annual basis."

"The pricing is high."

"Its cost is too much. It's an investment that we can afford. It's a lot, but it's worth it."

"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."

"We have a desire to increase our use. However, it all comes down to budget. It's a very expensive tool that is very difficult to prove business support for. We would like to have two separate networks. We have our corporate network and PCI network, which is segregated due to payment processing. We don't have it for deployed in the PCI network. It would be good to have it fully deployed there to provide us with additional monitoring and control, but the cost associated with their licensing model makes it prohibitively expensive to deploy."

"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."

"Vectra's licensing model could scale to our research network, which has multiple, 100-gigabit links."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

28%

Manufacturing Company

Media Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	27

Questions from the Community

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

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What is the biggest difference between Corelight and Vectra AI?

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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.

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Vectra AI enhances security operations by pinpointing attack locations, correlating alerts, and providing in-depth visibility across attack lifecycles, ultimately prioritizing threats and improving incident responses.

Vectra AI integrates AI and machine learning to detect anomalies early and supports proactive threat response. Its features like risk scoring, alert correlation, and streamlined SOC efficiency are supplemented by integration with tools like Office 365. Users highlight integration, reporting, and customization challenges, alongside limitations in syslog data and false positive management. They seek enhancements in visualization, UI, TCP replay, endpoint visibility, and tool orchestration, with requests for improved documentation, licensing, and cloud processing innovation.

What are the key features of Vectra AI?

Attack Location Identification: Pinpoints specific locations of security breaches.
Alert Correlation: Combines multiple alerts into a single incident for efficiency.
Visibility Across Attack Lifecycle: Offers detailed insight through different attack stages.
Risk Scoring: Aggregates risk scores to prioritize imminent threats.
AI and Machine Learning: Detects anomalies early to aid in proactive threat response.
Integration with Office 365: Seamlessly consolidates data for enriched investigations.

What benefits should users look for?

Enhanced SOC Efficiency: Reduces alert fatigue and improves operational efficiency.
Threat Prioritization: Focuses on the most critical threats with risk scoring.
Proactive Threat Response: Early anomaly detection aids in swift response.
Operational Overhead Reduction: Seamless integration minimizes extra workload.
Compliance and Policy Support: Assists in adhering to policies and regulations.

In industries like finance, healthcare, and critical infrastructure, Vectra AI is crucial for threat detection and network monitoring. Entities use it for identifying anomalous behaviors and enhancing cybersecurity by responding to network activities and analyzing traffic for potential breaches. It operates on-premises and in hybrid cloud settings, enabling threat detection without endpoint agents and supporting compliance and policy enforcement.

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