We compared Vectra AI and ExtraHop Reveal(x) based on our user's reviews in 4 parameters. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Vectra AI excels in customer service, advanced threat detection, and competitive pricing. User feedback on ExtraHop Reveal(x) highlights robust network visibility, intuitive user interface, and highly regarded customer support. Vectra AI users appreciate the affordability and flexibility of the pricing, while ExtraHop Reveal(x) users value the comprehensive analytics capabilities.
Features: Vectra AI stands out for its advanced threat detection capabilities, machine learning algorithms, and automated response features. ExtraHop Reveal(x) is praised for its robust network visibility, comprehensive analytics, and intuitive user interface.
Pricing and ROI: Vectra AI offers competitive pricing with reasonable setup costs and flexible licensing options. ExtraHop Reveal(x) is also well-received for its cost-effectiveness, low setup cost, and straightforward licensing process. Users have had positive experiences with both products in terms of pricing, setup cost, and licensing. Vectra AI delivered ROI that exceeded expectations with significant security and efficiency improvements. ExtraHop Reveal(x) was praised for enhancing network visibility and security with user-friendly interface and robust functionalities.
Room for Improvement: Vectra AI has room for improvement in its complex and unintuitive user interface, lack of customization options, occasional glitches, and high pricing. ExtraHop Reveal(x) could enhance its user interface, accuracy, documentation, and customer support for a better user experience.
Deployment and Customer Support: Vectra AI may be a bit complex and require additional customization for on-prem installations. ExtraHop Reveal(x) is considered simple and offers a user-friendly initial setup. Vectra AI stands out for its exceptional customer support, with knowledgeable staff providing quick solutions. ExtraHop Reveal(x) also has good support, however, it suffers from occasional quality issues.
The summary above is based on 31 interviews we conducted recently with Vectra AI and ExtraHop Reveal(x) users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"With ExtraHop Reveal(x), it gives me more visibility into the packets. It doesn't provide the entire packet capture, but it offers more information on how connections are made at the network layer. This can be helpful for detecting network attacks. Additionally, I really like the customizable dashboards and reports. The incident dashboard and alerts provide a good summary initially, and diving deeper into them gives more detailed information. It's also great for analyzing specific attacks and victim logs. The feature that tracks the full attack chain makes it easier to monitor the progress of attacks. Plus, it's connected to the Netria.com app, which I find useful for certain tasks."
"Reveal X integrates seamlessly with CrowdStrike. If you see something sketchy on the network, you can quarantine devices through ExtraHop and it'll push to the CrowdStrike server."
"Setting up the solution is relatively easy."
"The most valuable features of ExtraHop Reveal(x) are the detection and alerting of network behavior and anomalies."
"It's a wire analytics tool. We use it for isolating and determining issues on our network or applications. It does a lot for crediting the network as opposed to discrediting the network. A lot of people come along and say that it's a network issue. It's always considered to be a network issue, but by using ExtraHop, we can quickly tell them that it's not a networking issue. It's something to do with your application or something at the other end. It could be a database issue. This tool gives us the ability to pinpoint with great accuracy the comings and goings on our network."
"ExtraHop Reveal(x) is one of the tools that works out of the box when it comes to threat hunting."
"The security features of this solution are the most valuable."
"The solution's ability to decrypt SSL traffic is its most valuable feature."
"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."
"It keeps up with the network traffic, which is a good thing. It provides more context to plain alerts compared to using an older system. So, it helps an analyst reduce the information overload."
"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."
"Scalability wise, we have many sensors, and Vectra AI seems to handle them all very well."
"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."
"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."
"Vectra AI generates relevant information."
"We particularly like the user experience around the dashboard, which we find to be much more straightforward than the dashboard of some of the competitive products... Vectra is a really easy system to understand and use to prioritize where we need to focus our security resources."
"ExtraHop Reveal(x) could improve by allowing a longer look back in the feature. Right now you have a limit of 30 days to look back on your activity. I've used Darktrace before, and they allow you the ability to play back events. This would be a good feature to have in ExtraHop Reveal(x)."
"The solution should include more support protocols."
"Netflow - Processing Netflow can be cumbersome as it requires triggers to truly gain value and insight. This in turn can add a bit of load to the hardware. The focus of ExtraHop Reveal (x) is live packet data."
"It needs integration with more security vendors."
"They used to have the ability to decode Citrix sign-on, setup, and tear down. Unfortunately, Citrix has stopped sharing that knowledge. Citrix has continued to change its model of processing, making it harder and harder to troubleshoot."
"Agent management could certainly use some focus. It should also be a little bit easier to work with collections. We should be able to nest collections within collections. There should be better nesting."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"I think the tuning capabilities could be improved. We're working on minimizing false positives. Apart from that, everything seems fine to me."
"Vectra Recall could be utilized much more, and I'm seeing some indications of that today with the investigative components. I use the Visualize feature to visualize components and dashboards a lot. I'm interested in new ways to build automated searches or having them leveraged already from Vectra."
"I'd like to be able to get granular reports and to be able to output them into formats that are customizable and more useful. The reporting GUI is lacking."
"The solution's marketing is not good."
"Integration with other security components needs improvement. It should have true integration as opposed to just being a separate pane of glass."
"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."
"ExtraHop has better features that seem more advantageous when compared to Vectra."
"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."
ExtraHop Reveal(x) is ranked 5th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 12 reviews while Vectra AI is ranked 2nd in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 41 reviews. ExtraHop Reveal(x) is rated 8.6, while Vectra AI is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ExtraHop Reveal(x) writes "It helps you visualize how data moves across your network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vectra AI writes "Integrates well with other security solutions and provides good technical support". ExtraHop Reveal(x) is most compared with Darktrace, Corelight, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Arista NDR and ExtraHop Reveal(x) 360, whereas Vectra AI is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Arista NDR, Corelight and Trend Micro Deep Discovery. See our ExtraHop Reveal(x) vs. Vectra AI report.
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