Agari Active Defense vs. SolarWinds Threat Monitor

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.

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Due to the high price that SolarWinds has, I do not recommend it for small companies. And if I recommend SolarWinds in large companies with complex infrastructures where constant monitoring and review of the network is required, this system is very complete and helps everyone in the technology team, both network administrators, database administrators, Security Administrators, and Server Administrators are all very happy with this system.

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

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• monitoring
• notification systems
• virus attack monitoring
• ability to shut down systems when it senses an imminent threat

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• Raw data extraction
• Reporting for Executives
• Clustering

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• Steep learning curve.
• Usually takes a bit to get the scans to run easily in a new environment.
• Could have more reporting options.

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SolarWinds offers live chat support for all its products built-in. So if you are working on something you can just reach out to someone at that time, and usually get an answer pretty quick. If you are trying to get something done it's a lot better than submitting a ticket and waiting for the email response.

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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.

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Threat Monitor is very new on the scene. Its obviously not at the same level as some of the established vendors yet. We also deploy Alienvault for example and its nowhere near the same level as this, however the cost model between these two products reflects that. Alienvault however does have a physical footprint on the environment, whereas Threat Monitor doesnt. If you have the paitence to wait, Threat Monitor will surely only improve over time.

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

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• The positive impact that this system has on our company is that it has saved us a lot of expenses when it comes to investigating what the bank's network and systems are.
• This saving translates into administrators' time when it comes to finding the problem quickly, expeditiously, and effectively.
• It has helped us a lot and we have even required fewer hours from external providers when it comes to solving a problem.

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