We performed a comparison between Cisco Stealthwatch and Darktrace based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions are very comparable. However, their features slightly differ, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses.
"The solution's analytics and thrust detection capabilities are good. We're still adjusting it. It's a little hypersensitive, but it is working right now."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its reporting and mitigation capabilities."
"The feature most valuable for us is to gain visibility of what is actually floating through, so we can stop it based on whether it's good or bad traffic."
"The most valuable feature about this solution is that it gives me insight of my network."
"If you are using Darktrace or NAC solutions you can integrate Stealthwatch."
"It's easy to set up. The deployment takes one or two days. You need to collect the data from a device and then direct it to the portal."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the logging, keeping threats under control, and keeping our data and environment secure."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"Darktrace is extremely stable."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The most valuable feature is that it gives us visibility of rogue traffic that is on the network."
"I like the Antigena feature in Darktrace, as it offers immediate response and is helpful."
"A simple, powerful AI solution that just does all the work for you when you turn it on."
"I like the dashboards, which are cool. They are more user-friendly, in my experience. Its learning capabilities are really good."
"A very useful feature in Darktrace for real-time threat analysis is the packet inspection that analyzes the packet traffic in real time."
"Ability to see events and exactly what traffic or website the device had tried to connect to that raised the alert or issue."
"One thing I would like to see improved is if it could automatically be tied through ISE, instead of you having to manually get notifications and disable it yourself."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"Cisco Stealthwatch needs more integration with device discovery. We have to do a lot of hard work to figure out what things are. Better service integration is required."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"It's too complicated to install, when starting out."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"I would like to see interoperability with other Cisco products because we have ThousandEyes, Cisco Prime, and others. The interaction among these is important to us."
"It can have more integration with orchestration or event management solutions. They can provide more knowledge or research information for analysts for investigating cases and detecting anomalies in networks."
"The initial setup is more complex and time-consuming than some solutions."
"It would be helpful if they could recognize incidents and simplify the customer's challenge to identify what is happening."
"In the next version, I'd like to see penetration testing."
"It is expensive, but everything else has been great so far."
"The level of tracking within the network from the transmission level up to the machine level can use improvement."
"Needs to improve its collaboration with local partners."
"The cost is a bit on the higher side."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 4th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 58 reviews while Darktrace is ranked 1st in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 66 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Darktrace is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Darktrace writes "Great autonomous support, offers an easy setup, and has responsive support". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI, Arista NDR and Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, whereas Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Rapid7 InsightIDR. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Darktrace report.
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Raffael Marty, Vice President, Forcepoint Research and Intelligence, said: "There is no artificial intelligence in the field of information security, and it is unlikely to be developed in 2019." Most of unsupervised machine learning-based network anomaly detection solution does not provide why the anomaly has been aroused and whether the anomaly is malicious or not. Most of such solution's pricing model is based on number of endpoints but I prefer to have flat fee subscription-based.
The most important thing to get traction is your business approach and some kind of openness for 3rd parties. NOBODY needs "fancy Dashboards"!
Most of the known vendors like Darktrace is extremely "sales offensive" and they don't have a clear sales strategy (direct or channel). A free POV (30days) is a common approach to attract new customers, but the outcome is not really important. It says nothing about the PAINS on the customer site.
Know your competitors!!!! There are many AI CyberSec Startups and Technologies - 99% are using "Machine Learning" what needs more time to the realtime reaction in critical phases. Preferred is Deep Learning like DeepInstinct offers.
Pricing Model per IP´s is pretty usual - but you need flexibility.
Thank you I’m not really interested in being sold to. I’m asking about what works, what doesn’t and pricing models. I don’t want any demos.
Thank you for your comments...what if the malware does not present as anomalous?
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Thank you, I am familiar with Darktrace and really like the product. I'd like to know your thoughts on additional features and pricing preferences.
In my opinion, the best response always comes from the source. I have many contacts at Darktrace that can precisely answer these and other questions. Please let me know if you would like me to arrange for a scheduled call.