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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Darktrace

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ADarktrace 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

    F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AF5 Networks provides BIG-IP Access Policy Manager as an identity and access solution which can be deployed as a standalone solution or as an add-on to F5 Networks' flagship BIG-IP TLM or F5 Advanced WAF applications.N/A
    Pricing
    DarktraceF5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
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    DarktraceF5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
    Free Trial
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    DarktraceF5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
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    96%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    Features
    DarktraceF5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
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    Ratings
    F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
    7.4
    13 Ratings
    18% below category average
    AES 256-bit Encryption00 Ratings8.29 Ratings
    Kill Switch00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Multi-Platform Support00 Ratings7.59 Ratings
    Split Tunneling00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
    IP Address Masking00 Ratings6.97 Ratings
    No-Logs Policy00 Ratings5.77 Ratings
    Multiple Server Locations00 Ratings7.28 Ratings
    Automatic Wi-Fi Protection00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Simultaneous Connections00 Ratings7.211 Ratings
    Customer Support Services00 Ratings7.710 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    DarktraceF5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (13 ratings)
    9.4
    (25 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    8.2
    (14 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    DarktraceF5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    F5
    I think that the platform is well suited to many Remote Access VPN solutions, but I also think there is a lot of room for improvement on the backend. If you are hoping to deploy your APM solution across many different datacenters or colos, it may not be the best choice for the final solution.
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    Pros
    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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    F5
    • SAML 2.0 identity federation support.
    • Integrates with third-party SSO solutions.
    • Bridging modern authentication and authorization (SAML, OAuth/OIDC) and classic authentication and authorization methods.
    • Policy routing
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    Cons
    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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    F5
    • There's some more advanced configurations within OAuth that I think could be fleshed out and easier to approach.
    • There's a lot of things in F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager policies that I find myself recreating every policy. An easier way to copy objects from one to policy to another.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    F5
    Integration with F5 BIG-IP systems that we plan to keep using for a while.
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    Usability
    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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    F5
    Once things are set up, it is nice and easy to get the Edge Client running on user's PCs. However, that setup process can be a bit daunting at first using the Policy Manager, and reviewing session logs can be difficult at first if you aren't 100% sure of what you're looking for.
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    Support Rating
    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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    F5
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    F5
    It is open platform so support is not good and than F5 and features visibility as not good as F5. F5 Set up and easy to use to admin console. Also have more feature visibility for load balancing, web server accelerator, application server ddos protection and WAF. F5 more efficient to handle concurrent request.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    F5
    • Single sign on is great for students and faculty and staff
    • Users don't have to log in multiple times
    • Users don't need to remember multiple login IDs and passwords
    • Multi Domain SSO support bridges many internal and external facing products with single sign on
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