Darktrace vs FortiSIEM

• Monitors your network for unusual behaviour; as it learns what is normal for your network, you don't need to worry too much about things that are normal for your organisation, but might be considered odd in other places, triggering as alarms. It can also detect more subtle changes such as a device accessing a server but at an unusual time.
• There are a large number of models that are used to create the alerts, which can all be customised, and you can also create your own from scratch, to allow you to tailor it perfectly to your situation.

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• Log aggregation and analytics
• CMDB
• Device inventory and remote management .
• It can be used by Managed Security Providers who have multiple customers as it offers multi organization support .

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• Really had a poor time of identifying devices and what the device's purpose was - a simple nmap scan did a better job. The problem is they expect you to fine-tune the results - which is exactly what you would expect - but day one it found over 2,000 servers (and I only have 112).
• Really had a hard time separating network traffic into locations - I use distinct subnets for my buildings, but there was no good way to create a logical map of my traffic internally. Did not garner a sense of trust that it was seeing everything.
• Sat through a few "analyst" reports - which showed me possible threats in my environment. I am already using a few open source tools, and they actually found more than the analyst reports. Also, there was no way to get the reports on your own - you had to work through their analysts to get the information.

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• Non-intuitive/unattractive user interface
• Too many features that will usually remain unused
• Very crowded (too many icons) portal
• The reporting feature is confusing, e.g. you have to click on the "refresh" button to get the result of your inquiry. The report generation process can be much easier, as the user interaction is not pleasant.

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• Darktrace is covering some lack of security issues.
• Darktrace helps the company to follow some compliance obligations.
• Darktrace can't solve all issues. It needs to work with other Security tools (e.g Splunk).

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• Other SIEM solutions were cost prohibitive at the time of purchase (2016).
• Just like any other SIEM, it helped draw a better picture of our current security posture.

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