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We performed a comparison between Huntress Managed ITDR and Vectra AI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Huntress Managed ITDR

Ranking in Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)

11th

Average Rating

10.0

Reviews Sentiment

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Vectra AI

Ranking in Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)

10th

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) (19th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (6th)

Featured Reviews

Kevin

Business Owner at Royal IT

Peace of mind in identifying compromises in your M365 tenants

Huntress Managed ITDR examines various signals from the M365 tenants. If anything suspicious is identified, their SOC analysts can take a closer look and subsequently take action. It's a comprehensive solution covering endpoints and cloud tenants, offering peace of mind. I recognized its benefits immediately, as it provides protection against M365 identity compromises, like admin account breaches.

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

Pros

"I rate the overall solution as a ten out of ten."

"Implementing Huntress Managed ITDR has improved our business by allowing us to be more proactive with our security posture."

"The centralized management with the EDR and ITDR is beneficial."

"Huntress Managed ITDR examines various nulls from the M365 tenants. If anything suspicious is identified, their SOC analysts can take a closer look and subsequently take action."

"The initial setup was very easy."

"Vectra is very compatible with various cloud providers, such as Amazon and Azure AD. This is helpful as customers often migrate their network infrastructure to the cloud."

"Vectra produces actionable data using automation. That has helped us. It's less manpower now to look at incidents, which has definitely increased efficiency. Right now, in a lot of cases, our mean time to detection is within zero days. This tells me by the time something happened, and we were able to detect it, it was within the same day."

"It is doing some artificial intelligence. If it sees a server doing a lot of things, then it will assume that is normal. So, it is looking for anomalous behavior, things that are out of context which helps us reduce time. Therefore, we don't have to look in all the logs. We just wait for Vectra to say, "This one is behaving strange," then we can investigate that part."

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

"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."

"The biggest feature for us, because we are heavy Microsoft users, is its integration with Office 365. On top of Vectra AI, we use all of the Microsoft security platforms, such as Defender ATP and Sentinel. Having full integration and a central platform to look at all of the threats that are coming through from the different platforms is a huge benefit for us."

"The administrative privilege detection feature is the most valuable feature. The admin accounts are often highly accessible to the high-risk component of the environment. If those accounts are compromised or are being used in a suspicious manner, that's high-fidelity events for us to look into."

"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."

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Cons

"If anything, it's created more work, but that's because we're now seeing things that we weren't seeing before."

"More in-depth reporting could be beneficial for the solution."

"The product needs further maturity, with some improvements in the user interface."

"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."

"It would be commercially beneficial if Vectra AI had something like Darktrace's Antigena Email or something similar to email protection."

"A blind spot that I have is around the ease with which you can automate threat intervention."

"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."

"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."

"They use a proprietary logging format that is probably 90% similar to Bro Logs. Their biggest area of improvement is finishing out the remaining 10%. That 10% might not be beneficial to their ML engine, but that's fine. The industry standard is Zeek Logs or Bro Logs, or Bro or Zeek, depending on how old you are. While they have 90% of those fields, they're still missing some fields. In very rare instances, some community rules do not have the fields that they need, and we had to modify community rules for our logs. So, their biggest area of improvement would be to just finish their matching of the Zeek standard."

"The UI/UX and detection could be improved. More detections of specific security events could be useful. We've had a few incidents that were not detected by Vectra. The teams are working on it right now, but more detection is always better."

"I think Vectra AI's automation, reporting, and integration could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."

"The solution's pricing was 50 percent lower than the other vendors shortlisted."

"The pricing is high."

"It's relatively on the pricier side, but when compared to other solutions. It's not the most budget-friendly option, but it can be considered somewhat more cost-effective in comparison to other alternatives."

"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."

"There are additional features that can be purchased in addition to the standard licensing fee, such as Cognito Recall and Stream."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Insurance Company

12%

University

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Huntress Managed ITDR?

In terms of pricing, it seemed pretty cheap for us. I think it was two or three dollars a user a month. Given that it wasn't a product we were expecting to buy, it was a somewhat unanticipated cost...

What needs improvement with Huntress Managed ITDR?

In my opinion, Huntress Managed ITDR has room for improvement in the speed of some screen refreshing, as it isn't as fast as it perhaps could be. The fact that it caches results is a bit odd for a ...

What is your primary use case for Huntress Managed ITDR?

My use case is really just for threat detection and response to observe and get more awareness of where our sign-ins are coming from, so we can better protect our login environment.

What is the biggest difference between Corelight and Vectra AI?

The two platforms take a fundamentally different approach to NDR. Corelight is limited to use cases that require the eventual forwarding of events and parsed data logs to a security team’s SIEM or ...

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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Vectra Networks, Vectra AI NDR

Overview

Huntress Managed ITDR delivers robust threat detection and response capabilities tailored to IT infrastructure, enhancing security measures for managed service providers.

This ITDR provides a comprehensive approach to identifying and mitigating advanced cyber threats. It focuses on proactive threat hunting and remediation, designed specifically for IT environments that require constant vigilance. The platform offers a suite of intelligent tools that streamline the process of monitoring and defending against security challenges, ensuring protection for sensitive data and networks.

What are the key features of Huntress Managed ITDR?

Threat Detection and Analysis: Continuously monitors network activities to detect threats in real-time, providing detailed analysis for quick response.
Proactive Remediation: Offers step-by-step remediation guidance to ensure immediate action against identified threats.
Security Alerting: Sends timely alerts to keep users informed about potential security incidents, enabling swift decisions.
Detailed Reporting: Generates comprehensive reports with insights into threat patterns and vulnerabilities to aid in strategic planning.

What benefits and ROI can users expect?

Reduced Incident Response Time: Automation and alerts help minimize the time spent on responding to threats.
Improved Cybersecurity Posture: With continuous monitoring, users can enhance their security measures.
Operational Efficiency: Automating threat detection allows IT teams to focus more on strategic initiatives.
Cost Savings: Mitigates costly data breaches by identifying threats before they escalate.

Huntress Managed ITDR is implemented across industries like finance and healthcare, where data sensitivity and regulation compliance are crucial. In such environments, it plays a critical role in safeguarding data integrity and ensuring that cybersecurity standards are met.

Huntress

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

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

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