We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention and Vectra AI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the simplicity, transparency, and overall ease of management."
"The user interface is a bit more professional than some free products."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It's quite easy. Deployment took one to two weeks."
"The application control and vulnerability protection are the most valuable features."
"It's a monster, it's got so many beautiful features. We do deal with other firewalls and we've got a better idea of what other firewalls' capabilities are, any comparison with the Palo Alto I liked the quality of service on the applications that you can control the amount of bandwidth an application is allowed to consume. The best feature is the quality of the application quality of service."
"It's very easy to use and configure. What is nice about Palo Alto is that even if you don't understand how to use it, you can just click on upload and upload everything that needs to be blocked."
"The most valuable features are that it's user-friendly, has interesting features, URL filtering, and threat prevention."
"We are currently using the URL filtering feature, which is the most popular."
"The most useful feature is the anomaly detection because it's not signature-based. It picks up the initial part of any attack, like the recon and those aspects of the kill chain, very well."
"The UI is easy to use and when we send detection to everybody, they easily understand what we are asking at the time."
"The solution is currently used as a central threat detection and response system."
"Scalability wise, we have many sensors, and Vectra AI seems to handle them all very well."
"The solution's ability to reduce alerts, by rolling up numerous alerts to create a single incident or campaign, helps in that it collapses all the events to a particular host, or a particular detection to a set of hosts. So it doesn't generate too many alerts. By and large, whatever alerts it generates are actionable, and actionable within the day."
"Vectra AI can bring the ability to detect intrusion on the network more so than legacy IDS tools."
"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."
"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."
"The documentation needs to be improved. I need better information about how to configure it and what the best practices are."
"The organization mail security solutions could be improved. There is no mail security solution available."
"Mission learning techniques should continue to expand and detect unknown threats on the fly."
"The technology firewall anomaly network could stand improvement."
"The installation was complicated."
"The cost involves the price of the hardware, which is expensive. However, most of the Palo Alto solutions are expensive."
"The application’s pricing and dashboard need improvement. It could be user-friendly."
"Generally, to deploy it will take some downtime, about a day."
"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."
"I think Vectra AI's automation, reporting, and integration could be improved."
"The solution's marketing is not good."
"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."
"ExtraHop has better features that seem more advantageous when compared to Vectra."
"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."
"One area where there's room for improvement is the absence of a comprehensive TCP recording and replay feature."
"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."
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Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is ranked 7th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 24 reviews while Vectra AI is ranked 2nd in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 40 reviews. Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is rated 8.8, while Vectra AI is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention writes "A good amount of granularity and advanced URL filtering capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vectra AI writes "Integrates well with other security solutions and provides good technical support". Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Check Point IPS, Arista NDR, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Vectra AI is most compared with Darktrace, ExtraHop Reveal(x), Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Arista NDR and Check Point IPS. See our Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention vs. Vectra AI report.
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