Darktrace Reviews

We use Darktrace for security, and to give us better visibility.

If a user is exfiltrating data, normally we don't have the tools to detect it. With Darktrace, it detects this data. Also, if there is any command-and-control then this solution will highlight that.

The most valuable feature is that it gives us visibility of rogue traffic that is on the network.

The detection capabilities are good.

This product needs more in terms of prevention. The detection capabilities work well but once a threat has been detected, Darktrace should work to prevent it from doing anything malicious.

Integration with SOAR systems may be helpful, depending on the SOAR.

Stability-wise, Darktrace is very good. It runs in the background 24/7.

The scalability is good because it covers our whole network.

We have 1,000 business and IT users and for our environment, the scalability is very good. 

The technical support is good. I would rate them an eight out of ten.

We did not use another similar solution prior to Darktrace.

The initial setup was very straightforward. It took approximately two months to complete the implementation and deployment.

We used a consultant to assist us with the implementation.

One person is enough for the deployment and maintenance.

There may have been others that we looked at but this is the main one we evaluated.

My advice for anybody who is looking into implementing Darktrace is to do a proof of concept first. Try to out because it's quite useful for providing visibility in the network.

Overall, this is a good product that seems to be working well.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Darktrace is a platform that is used to check all infrastructures. They check the compartmental in the network.

It is a very good platform for understanding what is going on in your network or in your environment because it checks all the activities. This is the same when I use activities on the device, server, network, and web, it checks it all.

The platform has many modules, and each module examines a different situation in the behavior.

It's a very complex platform.

I have been working with Darktrace for approximately one year.

Darktrace is a stable product.

It's a scalable platform.

The technical support is not very good.  I believe that the support must be very quick and operational. Support will need to grow in Italy, but I'm not sure about the other side.

It's an expensive solution.

While it is complex, and difficult to use, once you understand the correct way to use it, it's a very good platform. I would rate Darktrace a nine out of ten.

I have used multiple solutions, but its graphical user interface is quite interesting and quite descriptive. There are a lot of video animations, and we can easily see how the data is transferred between various points. That's something really interesting. It is also quite easy to understand for a new user.

Its documentation is not up to the mark. At times, I have a lot of trouble finding a solution. Even when I posted questions on the community chats, it took a lot of time for me to get answers. That's something that can be improved. Darktrace can focus on creating a more interactive community. If there are more people from Darktrace to focus on community chats, it would be better.

It has been close to two months, and I am probably using the latest version.

It is definitely stable.

So far, we haven't had any problems. It is definitely scalable.

We don't have more than 12 people who use this solution.

I never had any technical support problems. It is up to the mark.

I have worked with Elastic SIEM and QRadar. Elastic SIEM is entirely different, so there is no one-to-one comparison. It is like comparing apples with oranges, but overall, Darktrace is quite interesting. A new user can easily learn it without much help.

I never did any setup. I'm just an end-user.

My advice is to always go for a PoC before implementing Darktrace. That's because Darktrace can get a lot of personally-identified information, which may not be a good thing for some companies. So, before going for this technology, you should do a PoC, and once everything is compliant with the rules and regulations of the company, you can go for it.

I would rate it an eight out of 10.

Darktrace is used for cybersecurity, you can buy it as a physical appliance or solution as a service on the cloud. I tried the on-premises solution to detect any threat over our network.

Darktrace played an important role in the security detection strategy by reducing the time lost in detecting, analyzing, and incident resolving. This is due to its friendly user interface that shows you in simple graphs and analytics the output for any log over your network whether it is computer, device, switch, access point, etc...

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.

There is an included library of threat detections, not only locally, but threats being experienced all around the world. It is similar to a database of all the threats and what is done by cybersecurity administrators across the internet. By collecting events and information all around the world makes Darktrace more proactive in dealing with threat notifications and cybersecurity detection. The service is very comprehensive and can cover all security areas.

It has simple tracking capabilities and a graphical interface that can assist you with coding, you do not need to be a guru. The dashboards are user-friendly and you do not need an application to access your work, it is all done through any browser. Additionally, there is a mobile application that is one of the best features because you can see any threats from your phone. There is a playbook that can give you instructions. For example, if you see your network servers are being injected by ransomware you can stop the session and be notified of which person on what computer triggered the threat.

The solution is very professional. Everybody would like to have an application on their phone to be more proactive about security anywhere and this solution delivers.

In an upcoming release, there could be more customizable playbooks or a library of playbooks to choose from. Since it is collecting all scenarios that might happen from any threat, new playbooks may be discovered and customers will have the privilege to use them in their environment. Other than that, Darktrace is leading in every aspect.

I have been using this solution for one month.

Very Stable

We have a number of employees using the solution in my organization which includes administrators and management.

Technical support is excellent. You can communicate with them by sending an email, WhatsApp messages, or other types of communication. They have their support in many places around the world so what ever your time zone is, they are available.

The support you do receive is excellent.

I have used other solutions previously but non had this intelligence,

The installation is very easy. I was shocked by the simplicity of the management, implementation, and dashboards. 

I have implemented it using Darktrace Team who were very professional.

The price of the solution is not cheap. It is not a one-time purchase, there is a subscription that needs to be paid every one to five years depending on your choice. It is expensive but you can reduce the price by only using the services that you want. There is some flexibility, for example, if you only want to have email inspections, network inspections, endpoint inspections, or brief analytics of the reports and controls over your infrastructure, can reduce the prices accordingly. Not choosing all the features can reduce the price. When comparing this solution to competitors in the market it is expensive. However, you are paying for a valuable solution with plenty of features. Their artificial and cyber intelligence is working extremely well. I am a consultant and work with a variety of solutions by myself, attend training, and understand people who are working with these solutions.

I need to know the advantage, disadvantages, weaknesses, and what makes the solution better than the others. Darktrace proves at some point that the value of money you are paying for the solution is reasonable for the advanced technology you are receiving as it covers many solutions that can cost much  much more than darktrace where as i you bought Darktrace you reducing all the complexity to one simple solution. 

I have evaluated many other solutions.

My advice to those wanting to implement this solution is if they want to experience artificial intelligence, advanced cybersecurity, and high-level detection, this solution is the one. 

I rate Darktrace a nine out of ten.

We are primarily using the solution for network monitoring as well as cybersecurity.

The ability to detect activity on the network is very useful to us. Even if it's not necessarily an illegal activity, if it is abnormal activity, it is able to detect it and notify us.

The solution is stable.

The product scales well within a network.

The initial setup is pretty simple.

The solution isn't too expensive.

The solution could be easier to use.

The user interface is a bit too detailed. They should work to pare it down and simplify it. They seemed to have designed it for an expert user and not a layman. If there are some system administrators who are not experts and they just want to just get sensors reports and escalate, it should be easier for them to do so.

I've been using the solution for three years at this point.

The solution is very stable. As far as we've been using it, we've not had any major issues. It doesn't crash or freeze. There are no bugs or glitches. It's reliable.

The solution is scalable within the network. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.

For our particular office, we have around 100 users.

I cannot say if we will increase usage. We have many offices and decisions in relation to usage increases would come from our UK office.

Technical support is great. They are very responsive and helpful. We are very satisfied with the level of support they provide to us.

We did not previously use a different solution. For cybersecurity, this is our first product. We were using the traditional endpoint protection as well, and we still do. For that, we use Sophos.

The installation was straightforward, from what I understand. I didn't actually handle ht process. That was done by a consultant. 

The deployment was fast. In less than an hour, everything was up and running.

I handle the maintenance myself.

We had a consultant that assisted us with the implementation. They made the process very easy.

We typically do yearly or three-year licensing, however, I can't speak to the exact costs or arrangements.

It's not too expensive. The price is good for what it offers.

We're just a customer and an end-user.

Overall, I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've mostly been quite happy with the product.

I'd recommend it to other users and organizations.

We have Antigena on the email, and we also use the network monitoring capabilities. We are using the latest version of the Antigena Email and AI analytics platform. 

I particularly like Antigena and the analytics around the real-time monitoring of our network. I also like its reporting because it has got a seven-day reporting period within the system. Every time you run the reports, it gives you the data about the previous seven days. I like that because it is in real-time. I enjoy reading those reports and getting a very clear and decisive idea of what's happening on my network on a real-time basis. I like the actual real-time monitoring of spoofing and things like that. I also like the user monitoring as well as the network logging capabilities. 

One thing that I would like to look at going forward is to have a fully automated network infrastructure that is monitored automatically real-time, and that gives me this kind of capability where I would be able to look at my network at any given time and see the state of my network. With Darktrace, at the moment, I have to almost put in a date and tell them that want you to give me data from this date to this date. I don't want that. I want a fast solution in which it doesn't matter when I log into the application. Whenever I log in, I must be able to see my network and run a report. In other words, if I go in now and I say, "Give me a full report of what happened today, it must be able to give me that. It mustn't just be limited to a seven-day period, for argument's sake. It must be able to give me real-time and day-to-day tracking of what has happened within my network.

We have been using Darktrace for two years.

There were a couple of times when we needed some of the expertise, and the guys were not available at the time when we needed them. Subsequently, they've managed to improve.

In terms of our organization, we are a massive IT organization or financial services company. We've got a very small ITP, but we've got a lot of data. We are not sure about Darktrace in terms of its capacity to deal with huge data, but it is probably too early for me to give some sort of indication of what is not big.

At the moment, they are delivering on the set objective in terms of what I want to achieve as a CIO, and I'm quite happy with some of the deliverables that are coming through at the moment. In terms of what our requirements were and what we expect in terms of what we want them to deliver, they have delivered. Within the next two to three years, I would probably be able to provide a different perspective after we've matured within the Darktrace environment. At the moment, they've delivered the actual scope of work. There is nothing really that they're not delivering on as promised. So, at the moment, I'm quite happy with where we are.

I would rate Darktrace a nine out of ten.

I'm currently heading cybersecurity for 1,500 entities. Some of them have deployed Vectra, and some of them have deployed Darktrace. Darktrace has been in the UK market for a while, whereas Vectra is a not-so-old player in the UK market.

We are using the latest version of Darktrace but not their latest offering. They are now also providing email security over the Darktrace platform, but we have not been utilizing that. We have been utilizing their network detection and response and some part of automated incident response (IR) capability.

We have a hybrid infrastructure. Some centers are deployed in the cloud, and some centers are deployed on-prem. The management platform is currently on-prem, but the plan is to move it to SaaS.

In terms of features, the data or information they collect and unsupervised machine learning are very valuable. Its unsupervised machine learning has reduced our team's effort. Both Darktrace and Vectra work on unsupervised machine learning that learns the behavior or develops a profile on its own, which allows our security team to do some other tasks rather than spending time on Darktrace or Vectra. 

Because of unsupervised machine learning, its detection capability is quite good. Along with that, if we utilize the integration feature properly, the automated incident response capability of Darktrace is quite useful.

In terms of improvements, fine-tuning is the area where we have to spend some time because it works on unsupervised machine learning. It would be good if they can improve their algorithm or technical functionality to reduce the fine-tuning effort. 

They can also come up with something at the endpoint level. So far, Darktrace has been a network detection response (NDR) solution. It does not offer much at the endpoint level or on user-client devices or servers. There should be more visibility at the endpoint level. It would be good to have the detection and response at the endpoint level by Darktrace.

It should also have integration with an agile environment so that we can have continuous development and continuous integration in the application development environment. This is currently not there. It should also have internet-facing platform visibility, which is currently missing. 

They also need to improve the reporting and management dashboards. Currently, these are not so easy for a non-technical person. All these features would make Darktrace much better, and they would also be helpful in selling more solutions.

I have been using this solution for maybe six or seven years. At my previous workplace, we were one of the early adopters of Darktrace's unsupervised machine learning technology.

Its stability is fine. We are utilizing a mix of their deployment capability. We have appliance-based and sensor-based deployments. Performance-wise, sensor-based ones are slower than appliance-based ones. An appliance also has dedicated hardware.

In terms of scalability, it is fine. We have deployed Darktrace for around 7,000 to 8,000 users for one part of an entity, and it has been working fine. I don't see any issue in terms of its scalability. 

Currently, it has around 7,000 to 8,000 users, but it is getting extended. We are in the process of extending the Darktrace capability to other entities. We are talking about 1,500 entities and 120,000 users in different dispersed and segregated environments. 

They've been quite okay in their responses. This solution is definitely complex, so sometimes we don't get the expected level of information or answer straight away, but they have been okay in responding and following up. I would rate them a seven out of ten.

From the initial deployment perspective, it was quite straightforward. We just need to make some configuration changes and then Darktrace works on spanning. It gets a copy of all the data from the network, and it starts building the profile. It has a pretty straightforward deployment.

I would rate Darktrace a seven out of ten. It is a good solution, but it requires some improvements. 

Our primary use case of this solution is for visibility. We try to get the global view of our network from an audit perspective on any given day, and figure out how that will impact our business. I'm a project coordinator and we are customers of Darktrace. 

The primary feature we are using is the artificial intelligence and machine learning functionality for reviewing and predicting network traffic and network attacks. Although we're not yet fully using the product, I like the Antigena feature which is their proactive or reactive feature, depending on the deployed antivirus center. Darktrace is for people who understand network security very well, and who have probably been in that scene for quite some time. If you're inclined towards mathematical machine learning, artificial intelligence, and to some degree, data science, this is definitely a tool for you.

It's sometimes a challenge getting logs from different sources. I would probably want to see if there was a way to improve that, to enable gathering of more information.

We've been using this solution for close to four months. 

Full deployment took around two weeks, mainly because the solution takes a little time to learn about your network.

The technical support is excellent. They walk you through the process and do a great job. 

The initial setup was quite simple; plug in two or three cables, they give you the requirements that you need and off you go. The configuration and learning how to tweak it is a little more complicated and involved, but the initial setup was easy. Deployment took around two to three weeks because the solution sat on the network for about 14 days doing some variable analysis and trending.

It's a good solution. I would suggest that if it's suitable for your requirements, get it. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of 10.