Agari Active Defense vs. IBM X-Force Exchange

In the case of an on going or retro active phishing attack, Agari Active Defense does extremely well in identifying the participants. Also, Agari Active Defense is capable of removing any of the detected items from the recipients inbox while blocking the senders and prevent any future entries. The variety of the emails continue to enter many organizations and Agari Active Defense helps stand as a first line of defense against phishing.

Incentivized

IBM X-Force is well suited for organizations with medium to large SOC's and run IBM Qradar as their SIEM.

Incentivized

• Phishing detection
• VIP or HVT alerts
• Tactics and Intel

Incentivized

• Ready made security research on threats.
• Security Intel
• Integrate threat intel feeds with SIEMs.

Incentivized

• Raw data extraction
• Reporting for Executives
• Clustering

Incentivized

• Pruning of IOC to reduce false positives.
• Add more flexibility to integration on SIEMs to allow users to compare UserAgents, Compromised users/domains like HIBP.
• Only watch vulnerabilities for selected vendors.

Incentivized

Agari Active Defense hold true to its name. As a products that performs in the first line of defense it is capable of determining certain times as malicious and preventing from enter the enterprise. With easy to use functions and tuning the product is capable to adjust to the environment and act on command of an analyst as threat are detected.

Incentivized

IBM X-force is community-based and crowd strike is not. Community-based will always be best-effort quality.

Incentivized

• Mitigation of risk in regards to Phishing
• Cost of maintenance on SOC tool
• Features are easy and training is acceptable

Incentivized

• Threat Intel - Low Confidence IOC - Overhead.
• Lack of integration with IBM Qradar+Vulnerability via X-Force.

Incentivized