Agari Active Defense vs. VirusTotal

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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VirusTotal is perfectly suited as a tool to help security professionals analyze files and URLs that require further analysis to determine security risks in the environment. It truly is a must-have in this world we live in!

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

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• Fast file scanning
• No agent required
• Available from anywhere

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• Raw data extraction
• Reporting for Executives
• Clustering

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• I'm not sure VirusTotal can improve this themselves but just keeping up with the evolving "known" threat landscape is tough so even though VirusTotal is very good, nothing is 100% effective in this space.

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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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Honestly, we have always used VirusTotal, its a leader in the industry and meets our needs perfectly so we have never had the need to look elsewhere

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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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• Extremely useful to confirm if a file is suspicious or not

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