Amazon GuardDuty vs. SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

In a multi-account/multi-tenant environment, GuardDuty often alerts us to possible malicious traffic before it becomes an issue. The ability to automatically enable GuardDuty creates baseline security which is crucial when an account is first created. It also helps greatly in environments where other users are able to create resources as often GuardDuty alerts us to insecure resources we did not know about. It can however sometimes be a little overzealous with its assessments alerting on benign activity which then requires suppression rules.

Incentivized

Our customer base is SMB so I can not speak about a larger customer base or organization. I have customers with 3 end points behind the SW and customers with 200 end points behind the SW. The biggest confusion on selection is the WAN / LAN throughput. Once you understand the limitations and select the correct product I have been happy with the product on a wide range of customers. It is a bit pricey for a small operation but if they are handling sensitive data it is very cost effective.

• Monitors outgoing connections from AWS resources to known malicious hosts.
• Monitors incoming connection to AWS resources from known malicious hosts.
• Integrates with other centralized logging solutions.

Incentivized

• Filters and prevents phishing attacks
• Filters and prevents malicious attachments
• Provides quantitative reporting

• Does not have the ability to add any custom monitors.

Incentivized

• Sorry, I am very satisfied with the product, nothing I need to change

Support from SW is superior. End of discussion. Fortinet support was lacking in product knowledge and was noting but reading from a script. SW, if the T1 can not answer I get to T2 immediately. Never an issue to get a resolution in minutes, not hours or days. The staff knows their limits and escalates without question.

• GuardDuty has helped us prevent possible security incidents multiple times which could have caused substantial damage.

Incentivized

• I trust the product to protect my customer base.
• They do not differentiate themselves very well. It is a difficult sell cycle.