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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cofense Triage

    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Cofense Triage accelerates phishing qualification, investigation, and response by automating standard responses to suspicious emails to make analysts more efficient and driving out actionable intelligence, and providing incident response playbook.N/A

    SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer is a network monitoring tool within the broader SolarWinds ecosystem. It includes core traffic monitoring features, as well as customizable traffic reports and alerts.N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cofense TriageSolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Cofense
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    SolarWinds
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    33 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    36 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    42 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    37 Answers
    Features
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    Incident Response Platforms
    Comparison of Incident Response Platforms features of Cofense Triage and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Feature
    Cofense Triage
    6.4
    35 Ratings
    33% below category average
    SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    -
    Ratings
    Integration with Other Security Systems5.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Attack Chain Visualization6.127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Centralized Dashboard7.735 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live Response for Rapid Remediation6.731 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Darktrace
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Darktrace
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cofense TriageSolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (38 ratings)
    9.0
    (62 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (49 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cofense TriageSolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cofense
    The tool is very helpful in improving Phishing detection capabilities as it streamlines the process of analyzing user reports a lot. Besides it has a built-in mechanism of rating reporters(end-users) based on their historical performance. Downside - tool requires continuous resource investment to deliver best result. Tool is not helping too much in improving user-education, because automated response process is not immediate and is prone to errors
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    SolarWinds
    We use and depend on it for status state of our network gear, switches and routers. It does an excellent job of getting you the details you need to confirm all devices and products are working at the level needed. At times, it does tend to flag network switch ports and/or switches themselves as exceeding their rated capacity when frequently it was a quick blip of high traffic due to downloads, or uploads causing the max'ing of the device. Again, you can adjust the settings but then you adjust it too high and miss real activity. It can become nuisance alerting when you tend to then ignore
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    Pros
    Cofense
    • Separating links and attachments contained in the email, and checking to see if they are known malicious.
    • Clustering like emails to save time when responding.
    • Providing risks scores with each cluster to give an estimate on which clusters should be addressed first.
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    SolarWinds
    • The level of customization possible with Network Bandwidth Analyzer is very valuable. Rather than being stuck with a "one-size-fits-all" presentation, an administrator can easily create customized views, reports, and alerts so that users can have a more tailored view of the data provided by Network Bandwidth Analyzer. This has the effect of making the tool more attractive to the end user.
    • The NetFlow Traffic Analyzer piece of Network Bandwidth Analyzer provides the details on bandwidth usage on the network. More than knowing how much bandwidth is being used, one is provided with detailed information on how that bandwidth is being used. This provides invaluable information for capacity planning and even certain forensic tasks faced by the network engineer.
    • The ability to produce network maps provides an easy way to create an attractive and functional NOC/SOC view of the entire network. Both technician and the occasional passerby can quickly determine if there are issues to be addressed. The ability to customize a map with background images and custom icons and stencils can make these maps really pop.
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    Cons
    Cofense
    • There are too many interdependent pieces which you have to acquire separately.
    • I think Cofense has a lot of capabilities and usefulness, but I think it's too a la carte.
    • We own Cofense and PhishMe currently and there are some gaping holes that require additional licensing to close.
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    SolarWinds
    • The ability to intuitively and quickly serve up specified information up to a dashboard for general “public” consumption, that cycles through several pages of information.
    • The ability to intuitively set up alerting on bandwidth levels, instead of having to dig through all types of alerts available to find the one needed.
    • Provide a pricing model based on different support levels: if I want only available update installations, don’t make me pay the same amount as those wanting full support.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cofense
    Cofense is stable and provides easy to use solution to aid the investigation of emails as well as managing simulated phishing campaigns.
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    SolarWinds
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    Usability
    Cofense
    The interface is easy and intuitive.
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    SolarWinds
    As far as rating for usability is concerned I would give 10/10 as NTA is very easy to use. All you need to do is install that module and ask network Team to configure the Netflow towards Server IP. [The] rest is pre-configured and reports are pre-built. Moment you receive the flows from Network all you will have is information about traffic.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cofense
    We've experienced zero downtime.
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    SolarWinds
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    Performance
    Cofense
    No slowness seen.
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    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Cofense
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    I know we could probably pay for it, but it would be nice if we could get to a tier 2 technician faster. Spending a couple of hours on the phone with the level 1 technician, when we have already tried the troubleshooting they are walking us through, is just a waste of time.
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    In-Person Training
    Cofense
    Training was through, relevant and easy to follow.
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    SolarWinds
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    Online Training
    Cofense
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    SolarWinds
    The training offered by SolarWinds is some of the best out there. They have several different videos that go into great detail from initial setup to advanced configurations. In addition to the view at your own pace video, they also have live training for customers that focus on a single product and you can ask questions with the folks who develop the software. I have had good success with their live sessions and getting questions answered.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cofense
    The other product had a lot of fails on the auto-processing and did not integrate well with our current environment. One issue had to do with the way it sends the submissions to its processing engine—our email gateway configuration would have blocked this traffic. I also did not like the user interface.
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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer compared to Wireshark and PRTG Network Monitor beats it by just the simple interface. Though all are manual setup, NTA takes it a step further with graphs and reports that analyze the data for you. In comparing to Extrahop from a bandwidth comparison, Extrahop wins but Extrahop is a lot more than just a bandwidth monitoring and cost.
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    Scalability
    Cofense
    We've experienced zero downtime
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    SolarWinds
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    Return on Investment
    Cofense
    • Due to the integration potential, large amounts of time are saved on a daily basis.
    • Incident response time has dropped due to the increased information available by having access to phishing emails directly.
    • Staff are able to effectively learn how multiple tools in our environment are used by mastering Triage. This has decreased training time greatly and increased the effectiveness of each associate.
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    SolarWinds
    • Be prepared to answer lots of questions. When people see the data in NTA they are going to want to know why App A is talking to App B. Be ready to explain!
    • Hand the keys to the NTA kingdom to the network team. They will thank you. Everyone wants to have friends on the network team, right?
    • Be prepared to invest in some significant compute and storage performance to keep up with your NTA monitoring
    • Running the latest firmware for your network gear is (often) required to take advantage of all the flow-monitoring. You upgrade regularly, right??
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    ScreenShots

    Cofense Triage Screenshots

    Screenshot of Triage DashboardScreenshot of Triage Dashboard Cluster DetailsScreenshot of Triage Cluster DetailsScreenshot of Triage Cluster Malicious AttachmentScreenshot of Triage Cluster HeadersScreenshot of Triage Reporter Details