We performed a comparison between Nagios Network Analyzer and Vectra AI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is easy."
"The network monitoring feature, especially, stands out to me."
"The solution offers very good system monitoring. It's easy to manage your network, as well as your hardware and software. It's really useful."
"It is highly customizable and can be integrated well with third-party software."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"Network tracking is the most valuable feature of Network Analyzer."
"The solution is useful for monitoring network devices."
"The tool's UI is user-friendly, and pricing is affordable. It is very easy to deploy and learn."
"The solution provide visibility into behaviors across the full lifecycle of an attack in our network, beyond just the Internet gateway. It makes our security operations much more effective because we are now looking not just at traffic on the border, but we're looking at east-west internal traffic. Now, not only will we see if an exploit kit is being downloaded, but we would be able to see then if that exploit kit was then laterally distributed into our environment."
"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 core product provides excellent visibility, but my favorite feature is Vectra Recall."
"It's important for us that the user interface is easy to understand and that is the biggest benefit we see from Vectra AI."
"The fact that we get the visualization of what's happening on our network, which is a way of improving our security in-depth is most valuable."
"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."
"It does a reliable job of parsing out the logs of all the network traffic so that we can ingest them into our SIEM and utilize them for threat hunting and case investigations. It is pretty robust and reliable. The administration time that we spend maintaining it or troubleshooting it is very low. So, the labor hour overhead is probably our largest benefit from it. We spend 99% of our time in Vectra investigating cases, responding to incidents, or hunting, and only around 1% of our time is spent patching, troubleshooting, or doing anything else. That's our largest benefit from Vectra."
"It provides various dashboards that facilitate the identification of connections and can detect data exfiltration, meaning data sent from your environment to another."
"There is room for improvement on the setup side."
"It has an old-fashioned interface."
"They need to have some automation models embedded in them."
"There are some loopholes you need to be aware of from a security perspective."
"The bandwidth for its front-end version needs enhancement."
"I think the reports can be improved. They're adopted."
"It's very hard to install materials. You need a lot of documentation. They should make it easier to install and configure the solution."
"Nagios Network Analyzer should integrate an application monitoring solution to monitor application bandwidth usage."
"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."
"The solution's marketing is not good."
"I think Vectra AI's automation, reporting, and integration could be improved."
"It would be commercially beneficial if Vectra AI had something like Darktrace's Antigena Email or something similar to email protection."
"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."
"I would like to see a bit more strategic metrics instead of technical data. Information that I could show to my executive management team or board would be valuable."
"The reporting from Cognito Detect is very limited and doesn't give you too many options. If I want to prepare a customized report on a particular host, even though I see the data, I have to manually prepare the report. The reporting features that are built into the tool are not very helpful."
"Some of their integrations with other sources of data, like external threat feeds, took a bit more work than I had hoped to get integrated."
Nagios Network Analyzer is ranked 10th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 9 reviews while Vectra AI is ranked 2nd in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 40 reviews. Nagios Network Analyzer is rated 7.8, while Vectra AI is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Nagios Network Analyzer writes "User friendly, cloud scalability, with surpassed return on investment goals". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vectra AI writes "Integrates well with other security solutions and provides good technical support". Nagios Network Analyzer is most compared with Darktrace, whereas Vectra AI is most compared with Darktrace, ExtraHop Reveal(x), Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Arista NDR and Corelight. See our Nagios Network Analyzer vs. Vectra AI report.
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