BlackBerry Optics (CylanceOPTICS) vs. Darktrace

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BlackBerry Optics (CylanceOPTICS)
Score 9.9 out of 10
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BlackBerry Optics originated from Cylance, which became a Blackberry company from the early 2019 acquisition. BlackBerry Optics (formerly CylanceOPTICS) is an incident response solution emphasizing fast endpoint detection and automated smart threat response, root cause and context analysis, and other features.N/A
Darktrace
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Darktrace AI interrupts in-progress cyber-attacks, including ransomware, email phishing, and threats to cloud environments. It's able to detect and establish baselines for your organization so it can make the distinction between what is and what isn't normal network activity for your organization. This allows it to tackle complex cyber-attacks as they happen and prevent future cyber-attacks from happening.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Incident Response Platforms
Comparison of Incident Response Platforms features of Product A and Product B
BlackBerry Optics (CylanceOPTICS)
10.0
2 Ratings
12% above category average
Darktrace
-
Ratings
Company-wide Incident Reporting10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Other Security Systems10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Attack Chain Visualization10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Centralized Dashboard10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Machine Learning to Prevent Incidents10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Live Response for Rapid Remediation10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
BlackBerry Optics (CylanceOPTICS)Darktrace
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.1
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.7
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
6.5
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
6.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
BlackBerry Optics (CylanceOPTICS)Darktrace
Likelihood to Recommend
BlackBerry
You can set rules based on specific scenarios to run on machines. For example, you can use this to enable or disable machine learning to block or allow things that users regularly use. You can also log specific attacks on machines (for research later).
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Darktrace
Darktrace is a product well suited for the vast majority of infrastructures and helps monitoring and responding to threats based on the network in a very elastic way. This is a product based on on-premise infrastructures that hosts its machines locally, of course it can be technically difficult to monitor an entire On-Cloud infrastructure but even there there's room for sensors and monitoring, not to mention the SaaS and mail integration that completes the product.
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Pros
BlackBerry
  • Maps out solid template frameworks.
  • Makes reporting to executives easy to compile and understand.
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Darktrace
  • Uses it Al model UEBA to detect anomalies in the behaviour of not only the users in a corporate network but also the routers, servers, and endpoints in that network.
  • Provides a visualisation of both egress and outbound network traffics flowing in and out of the organisation.
  • Darktrace comes with it autonomous AI model detection and responses capabilities.
  • Darktrace as an AI next generation NDR solution, prevents ,contains and quarantines malicious traffics from and into the corporate network.
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Cons
BlackBerry
  • No major complaints! Love everything about the service.
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Darktrace
  • There are few areas that I would say need to be improved; their customer support portal allows you to log tickets with any suggestions or things you feel the product is missing, and they will generally show you how to achieve what you want, or in some cases, introduce it as a feature in a later update.
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Likelihood to Renew
BlackBerry
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Darktrace
It's a powerfull product that help administrators to provide email security to our organization.
Good metrics about received emails that help us to determine in doubt case if the email is a false positive or it's malware.
They're improving the product releasing continuous updates and have mobile phone app to manage it.
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Usability
BlackBerry
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Darktrace
The Darktrace toolset is very expansive, allowing it to handle many different tasks, but this leads to a user interface that is sometimes not at all intuitive. Icons don't always make sense visually, and the associated tool tips do not always provide enough detail on what action the button performs
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Support Rating
BlackBerry
I haven’t seen that there is much support for it. It seems like a lot of trial and error is/will be involved.
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Darktrace
Darktrace support is excellent in my experience. They send a competent engineer on-site to provide on-boarding training. They were also very responsive in responding to questions and concerns. Having an individual point of contact who is a competent network and security engineer is not a common experience, at least for me.
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Alternatives Considered
BlackBerry
We use Cylance in conjunction with two other products. We have ArcticWolf for monitoring the machines at an even finer detail than Cylance (they can pick up things that can be missed). We also use Cisco Umbrella to block potentially malicious DNS queries. The combination of these three products helps us feel much more secure than if we had just one.
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Darktrace
We did NOT select Darktrace. OSSIM/AlienVault is a more mature product and it provided better intelligence and reporting. The end user interface is much easier to use - and you can tell built form engineers who have had to do the work. My suggestion for anyone considering Darktrace, is to get the price upfront; do a 30/60 onsite trail; and do the same thing, at the same time, with AlienVault. AlientVault will win every time. I say that because that's exactly what I did.
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Return on Investment
BlackBerry
  • Addresses known gaps easily.
  • Quick to implement.
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Darktrace
  • One big positive is how it helps us with the security assessments that clients have done on us. They are looking to see if we know how we might have unusual/malicious traffic running on the network.
  • If you have a small network and only need 1 appliance, it can be a good ROI and peace of mind.
  • You could go down a hole in trying to spend time looking at all of your traffic with this software. You need to focus only on what it is showing as potential bad traffic.
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