Darktrace Reviews

We have a layered approach to our cyber security. We have unified threat management and use several solutions such as Kaspersky, FortiGate, and Mimecast. However, we felt that we needed something on top of all of these and decided to go with Darktrace. We only have one in-house IT security person and were looking for a solution like Darktrace that was more automated.

I have found the automation and AI features to be valuable. If someone were to come in to the office at midnight and log in, Darktrace would flag it.

It takes time to go through the interface and pick up things. If it were a more straightforward interface, then it would free up time.

We did a proof of concept with Darktrace for a year.

It is a scalable solution.

Darktrace's technical support staff were responsive. We did not have to wait long for feedback on anything.

We were able to deploy it in half a day. One person can handle the maintenance of the solution.

We implemented the solution with the help of Darktrace representatives.

We had an issue with pricing initially and had to cancel some of the features of the projects to fit the budget. I would like to see pricing that is not broken up into parts so that we can buy the whole package once.

Darktrace is more expensive than an average solution, but it's functionality won't match that of an average solution.

I would rate Darktrace at nine out of ten. It is a growing product that helps with an ever changing threat landscape. Traditional endpoint antivirus solutions will not be able to keep up.

We use Darktrace to analyze our network traffic.

Darktrace is a good product, although it depends on how much time you put into it.

The models, triggers, and alerts are customizable.

The initial setup is more complex and time-consuming than some solutions.

I have been working with Darktrace for more than a year.

Darktrace is quite stable, but potentially expensive.

The vendor has different options for scaling. I use the appliance; they also offer a cloud service but I prefer the appliance. I put it between the router and the core switch and it picks up all of the traffic.

The technical support is better than Check Point. They respond more quickly.

I am currently using Darktrace and Vectra in addition to Check Point. I've been using all three and I find that Check Point is the one where I get the most information from. I will stop using Vectra this year but I will retain Darktrace, as long as they keep it at a certain price.

Darktrace requires a lot more configuration; unlike Check Point, there are a lot more changes that need to be made. In general, it's more sophisticated. As far as getting the settings and the configuration and the models that you want, it would help if you spent some time on that. We're a small team. It's beneficial to me and I can see that with more time and energy put into optimizing it and personalizing the unit, it can be much more powerful than the way I am using it now. That said, it's my secondary device. We're working on a lot of different projects, so I haven't assigned any of my guys to it yet. Ultimately, when it's fully integrated, it may end up being as useful as the Check Point.

The reason I keep all three is that they all give me a different kind of view. They all give me different information. If they gave the same information, it'd be useless to keep them.

With respect to similar security products, I have demoed CrowdStrike and worked with Symantec.

You have to customize it to the way you want, in order for it to work best for your environment. Definitely take time to train while you can during deployment.

Some things do work well, out of the box. However, this would be better suited for somebody that can take the time to configure it correctly during deployment.

Prior to negotiating, Darktrace offered their appliance and service for $80,000 per year.

I suggest negotiating either at the end of their fiscal year or at the end of every quarter. At the end of the quarter, they have an incentive to lower the prices to sell as many units as possible in order to meet their end-of-quarter quota.

My advice for anybody who is implementing Darktrace is that you definitely need to take your time. Sit down and understand how to use the model breach customization. They use models and if something hits that model, it triggers an alert.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

The product is a type of intrusion detection and prevention software. It is for network traffic monitoring.

We are able to detect a lot of things, actually, and see what is happening in our network.

It offers good protection.

The deployment is quick. 

It's good as a solution, however, for me, it's quite complicated. They've got a lot of features there. You need a lot of time to learn it.

It's quite expensive to have.

I've used the solution for around a year.

The core is stable. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. 

It's not high on scalability, in the box itself. You don't need scalability to scale out the server like that. 

There is one that is able to monitor the entire network. Our entire IT department is on the product. We have a three-person technical team. We may expand usage later this year. 

Technical support is quite good. Every quarter, they will contact us for a meeting, however, any issue actually is reported online and their response is quite fast.

The deployment was very fast. They just put the appliance in and connect our call switch and do everything else that is needed. It's all very fast.

We used the SI to help us with the implementation. 

The pricing is expensive. It costs over $100,000 a year. There are no additional costs beyond the price of the license. 

I'm currently exploring other solutions as a comparison. We are looking for Sangfor Cyber Command.

We're a customer and end-user.

It's my understanding that we are on version five.

I'd advise users that it's a good solution, however, they need to be prepared for a large learning curve. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Darktrace is a cybersecurity solution that is essentially an AI-driven ecosystem. Call it network monitoring with telemetry SaaS cloud connections.

It provides a comprehensive cybersecurity solution that monitors my cloud accounts as well as my local network. It monitors local network traffic, VPN's and it connects to my firewalls, allowing me to see what's going on in my environment. I have visibility into pretty much everything that's going on now.

The active threat dashboard is the most valuable feature of this solution. 

The licensing model has room for improvement. The license by IP rather than node or device, even if it's a single Mac address. If I have three people who are constantly in three different locations, they want to charge you three licenses. My only criticism of the product is that its licensing model isn't flexible.

I would like to see a Darktrace EDR client, a true EDR client that integrates into it, and not a third-party EDR.

I have been working with Darktrace for six months. 

We are working with the most recent version.

Darktrace is very stable. It's very reliable.

Darktrace is a very scalable solution.

We have 650 users in our organization.

It's extensively used.

I give them five stars from the sale cycle to the support cycle.

I considered other options, but this is the one I chose, because of the flexibility and the ease of use.

The initial set is very simple and intuitive. With the instructions provided, it took about 10 minutes to set up.

It requires no maintenance. It is managed by Darktrace, they push down the updates. I don't have to do anything with it.

I think it's mostly the licensing on the network monitoring piece that I don't like. All of the other modules, such as the licensing modules, are on par. It's one for one.

I evaluated Endpoint protection solutions, such as CrowdStrike Falcon, Darktrace, and SentinelOne. We decided on Darktrace.

I'm a partner with Darktrace.

I would advise them to engage with their sales team and their sales engineering team to make sure they understand the license model.

It's very intuitive. It's a fantastic product, and the only reason they don't get a 10 is because of their licensing. I believe their network monitoring device licensing module could use some improvement.

I would rate Darktrace an eight out of ten.

We use it to understand our network and traffic. We are basically getting visibility into our infrastructure.

We are using its latest version. It has both deployments. There is one cloud, and there is one on-prem.

The ability to see what we have not seen before is most valuable. It is very interesting to find out the most vulnerable devices in our network. 

With Antigena Email, you know from where most of your spam is coming and which country is spamming you a lot. 

They just need to work on their price. In terms of features, we are trying to understand all the features that we have. We're still exploring everything that we have so that we can fully utilize it. At this point in time, it is not about the features. It is more about utilization. We're just trying to utilize everything to full capacity.

I have been using it for three months.

It is stable.

It is scalable. Currently, we have just two users of this solution, but it covers all the devices that we have.

The customer success manager has been helpful. Their support is pretty good.

We used Microsoft.

It was straightforward. The installation took 30 minutes to an hour. We had training before doing the installation.

We used a consultant. We have just two engineers who are doing the deployment and maintenance.

It is pretty expensive, but it is worth it. Its licensing is yearly.

I would recommend it, but you just need to make sure that your organization is big enough. It's not worth it when the organization is small. I would recommend it for organizations with more than 5,000 devices on their network.

I would rate it an eight out of 10.

We use it to protect IoT devices. Darktrace does network traffic analysis. So, by analyzing all traffic patterns in your environment, you can detect any type of anomalous activity, as far as the network is concerned. 

I have been using its latest version. Its deployment depends on the environment. It can do sensors in the cloud, and it can also do on-prem.

It provided a higher level of threat detection.

The Antigena feature is most valuable. Once it learns your environment, Antigena can step in and block a denial of service attack, a ransomware attack, or just about anything that doesn't belong in the environment. It can detect any type of attack that hits the environment because it understands what normal looks like for the network. It is very useful for an autonomous response. 

They just need to make it a little bit more accurate as far as their alerts are concerned. It does generate some false positives that you have to tune. You have to do a lot of tuning when you first get it because of the false positives, but once it is all tuned up and ready to go, it will do its thing from there. 

I used it for about a year.

It is a very stable product. We didn't have any issues.

It has sensors that you can install. So, it can scale on-prem and off-prem in the cloud.

It is being used extensively. We have 2,000 employees. We use it to protect IoT devices. We also use it to protect Windows servers, desktops, and laptops. Its usage would increase if the net grows, but it's probably not going to grow too much bigger than 2,000 employees.

The support from Darktrace is very helpful.

We didn't use any other solution previously. 

It was pretty straightforward. You just monitor everything from your core switch. It monitors everything in and out.

We got it up in half an hour, but it still has to learn. You still have to give it some time to learn about the environment, and that's usually going to be at least two weeks.

We brought in their guy to the site. In terms of maintenance, it is automatically set up to reach out to their website and pull down updates and stuff. We don't have to worry about that too much.

It was $3,600 a month or $2,000 plus or so. I am not sure. 

Its licensing is pretty simple.

We were thinking about getting another solution called Vector, but we didn't. We brought Darktrace in.

Darktrace is a pretty good company. The only thing that they need to really work on is just being able to get rid of some of those false positives. Once the solution is tuned up, it pretty much just runs.

I would advise making sure that you do a really good PoC of the product so that you can be sure that it makes sense in your environment.

I would rate it a nine out of 10. 

We use the solution for email, network and cloud security.

The network security and AR response are the main things.

The product is expensive, but it is a very good product. The user interface is also good.

I have been using Darktrace for two years.

The product is stable.

I rate the solution’s stability a nine out of ten.

The solution’s scalability is pretty straightforward. We’ve around 3500 users using this solution.

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

I contact technical support on occasion and ask questions, and they are responsive. I can get them on call or email. I’m very happy with the support.

Positive

The initial setup was quick and painless.

The product is very expensive.

The product is expensive, but it is a quality product. If you look apart from the cost, it's a good product followed by very good support. If you're willing to spend the money, it is worth consideration.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Our primary use case is incident response.

One thing I appreciate is Antigena Email, which is for email protection.

One of the most valuable features is Behavior analytics.

One thing I would like is for Darktrace to flag SMB traffic more accurately. Currently, it only flags that SMB traffic has occurred, but it doesn't specify which file was being transferred. This makes it difficult to investigate incidents involving SMB traffic, as we don't have concrete evidence of what was being sent.

For example, if a user is sent an unauthorized file via SMB, Darktrace would only flag that SMB traffic occurred between the two users. It wouldn't be able to tell us which file was sent, so we would have to manually investigate the incident to determine what happened.

It would be helpful if Darktrace could flag the specific file that was being transferred in SMB traffic incidents. This would make it much easier to investigate these incidents and take appropriate action.

In future releases, I would like to see more playbooks.

I have been using this solution for a year now. 

I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. 

I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten. There are five end users in our analyst team. 

The customer service and support are really good. That's one of the things that I've come to appreciate about Darktrace. 

Any concern that you give to them, they come on board and arrange a meeting where you could possibly do some practical work with them. They would take on the incident, and they would say, "Okay. Let's set this incident together."

Positive

We used Sophos. We chose Darktrace because of its reliability. Unlike other solutions that rely heavily on signature-based logins, Darktrace operates by learning the behavior of individual users. This means that what may seem normal to me could be considered abnormal for someone else, and Darktrace can effectively block such anomalies. This feature has proven to be immensely helpful.

The initial setup is very easy. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy to set up. 

It took around an hour to set up. 

The deployment process is pretty self-sufficient. It handles network closure and device discovery.

One person is sufficient for the deployment process. 

The solution is quite expensive. I would rate the licensing model an eight out of ten. 

I would recommend it based on its excellent behavior analytics and AI implementation.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.