Darktrace vs. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Darktrace
Score 8.3 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
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Score 7.7 out of 10
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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is used to provide intelligent detection and control of sensitive information across Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and on the endpoint. It also helps prevent data loss through identifying and preventing risky or inappropriate sharing, transfer, or use of sensitive data on endpoints, apps, and services.N/A
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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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Considered Both Products
Darktrace
Chose Darktrace
Darktrace does a very good job at complementing our other security tools by adding an additional level of automated security. It is important to point out that the automation is optional. We ran Darktrace in "manual" mode until we were comfortable enough to switch it to a …
Chose Darktrace
Darktrace allows you to get under the hood in a way that few other services of this type allow.
Chose Darktrace
Its capabilities to respond to a threat both manual than automated way makes Darktrace one of the best NDR in the market. The rules editor allows the right flexibility to build a set of rules sized for the infrastructure, while the third parties integrations and modules helps …
Chose Darktrace
Darktrace is better in terms of scalability, ease of integration, and ongoing support
Chose Darktrace
The product's capacity to provide insights into network traffic is impressive. The organisation was able to find any malware harming the devices with their assistance. We really value network monitoring and self-learning monitoring tools.
Chose Darktrace
We looked into several competitors and are still looking, due to the problems Darktrace has with false positives. Darktrace is attractive as their support is generally good, and working with the product is relatively easy.
Chose Darktrace
We have not evaluated others as they seem to be in their own class.
Chose Darktrace
The weekly reports was why we chose DarkTrace.
Chose 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 …
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
We are a complete Microsoft shop. Competitors, we have come across Symantec DLP, that's one. We've come across Nexscope DLP. I've personally migrated customers from Nextscope DLP to Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. There is McAfee DLP as well, which we have worked with. …
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
I don't think anything that Microsoft does, I've tried to conversate. We haven't even discussed another option. It does it well. So for us, it's pretty much going to stay where it is for now.
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is included in the E5 license as part of other purchases, so we've done what we can to get the best functionality from it. We are actively investigating implementing Veronas or Cyera just simply because the on-prem capabilities are not …
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Veronis. So we were with Veronis, and we didn't like how they did things, so we went to the Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
The licensing is maybe the biggest reason. Purview Data Loss Prevention is included in the Microsoft 365 SKU we already have, so if the functionality is equivalent, it makes sense to save money. We also appreciate how Purview automatically integrates with other Microsoft 365 …
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Varonis provided great visibility into file permissions and audit records. It did not provide DLP controls for things like email, and endpoints therefore making it incomplete to provide proactive controls against DLP threats.
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Symantec or now? Brocom. Forcepoint, GPV. I'm trying to think of, there's a couple more. I can't think of the top of my head. I would say closer to the bottom then rather than the top. So because of the fact that yes, it integrates well. But in terms of the actual …
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
We looked at Varonis and there was one other one whose name I don't remember. So I guess it wasn't that good.
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
AI Cyber Experts Cybersecurity as a Service (CSaaS)
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Not used any product other than Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. As I mentioned in my earlier point that we did all the researches for the best suitable product for our environment, but Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention proved to be best and is working as per our …
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
There are much more comprehensive and granular DLP solutions out there like Trellix and Sophos but ultimately they are expensive and require significant administrative oversight for implementation and deployment. For a company of our size, they are just not economically …
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
The DLP in Exchange Online and Purview by proxy is okay, but fails to catch a lot of HIPAA-specific information. We supplemented with Barracuda to make up for it. Purview is still better at identification across the entire tenant though, Barracuda is just doing our email DLP.
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
overall better coverage and integration with Microsoft products. also, it was the most reasonable solution for us.
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
The DLP was already part of our tenant so we saved money by using it. With others, we would have to built/implement VMs to connect to the tenant, which we were not willing do. Since we had access to it, we decided to stick with it and we are happy with that result
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
As the customer already had Microsoft Office 365 E5 license, it made sense to implement Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention instead of other products.
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Centralized management, supports Hybrid Environment, Easy integration with Microsoft products and cloud features.
Features
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Data Preparation
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Ratings
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
9.5
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Likelihood to Renew
9.7
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Usability
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Darktrace would be well suited to any environment really; the only constraint would be the budget. The cost scales on the number of devices to be monitored by the product, so it can be quite expensive in larger environments. Any company that would benefit from having 24/7 monitoring of their network would find that this product would suit that need perfectly. It can also create a number of reports, which is useful if you have any requirement to present periodic figures and statistics for your network. There are also additional features available and in development such as Antigena, which can be configured to allow potential threats to be automatically mitigated; it can block connections to a certain address, using certain ports, or it can enforce "normal behaviour" where it will only allow a machine to communicate in a way that Darktrace has observed before and considers normal. This has huge benefits particularly for 24/7 organisations where you don't have the ability to have someone monitoring the network personally at all times, as it could stop a malware outbreak in its tracks.
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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is well suited to provide a consistent user experience. So all the different products blend together quite well for an office environment. So Teams connects well with Office Outlook. It connects well with SharePoint. So we have a unique connectivity experience in terms of the digital experience of a typical user. And now, with Copilot, it's a great mix and blend that empowers users to adopt AI in their day-to-day office work. And I think that's great.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Extensive library for data content classifiers.
  • Strong integration with Microsoft products allowing effective controls to be applied (e.g. Exchange/M365 for email, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to control web, SharePoint/OneDrive to apply policies on sharing.)
  • Insider Risk module provides visibility into suspicious activities which may not be detected by regular DLP rules.
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Cons
  • The system has so many features and places to tweak we found it hard to tune for our use.
  • We met regularly with someone from Darktrace to assist us in processing the alerts
  • The process for mail scanning requires you to reroute mail traffic
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  • Overall, Microsoft DLP is not my number one choice because there's not much flexibility. There's a lot of restrictions and the way they set up rules a lot really restrictive. Thus it takes a lot more time for my team to build the rules and establish the controls as needed. So it's very clunky in that way and they have not improved it over the years, but I know they're trying to get a better, however it takes time because Microsoft, as we all knows, not a really security centric company.
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Likelihood to Renew
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
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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Just because it's so easy to navigate and, for the most part, even areas that I don't know about, the support channels are very clear and concise, and they respond very quickly to whatever I need. They'll guide me through whatever I don't understand, and sometimes there are a lot of things added in there.
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Support Rating
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
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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We are a complete Microsoft shop. Competitors, we have come across Symantec DLP, that's one. We've come across Nexscope DLP. I've personally migrated customers from Nextscope DLP to Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. There is McAfee DLP as well, which we have worked with. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, definitely, because we don't require another agent to be deployed on Windows machines. It's part of the OS, easy deployment, easy onboarding. So also within email, SharePoint, OneDrive, customers don't have to build any other connectors. It's already integrated. All you have to do is start creating policies, start monitoring them. So the ease of deployment and integration across the Microsoft stack is what we like.
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • From an ROI perspective, being able to have a robust DLP capability within 365 and with eShare, again, providing the defensive depth and keeping data 365 gives both us as well as our customers an ROI by being able to not use third party repositories to share data externally and by keeping data inside of 365. It gives me much more visibility into my data landscape. One of the things we advise our customers to do when they're starting to explore the advanced capabilities of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, for example, is to use that DLP product to monitor and understand the flows of sensitive data within the organization. By being able to look at that DLP, identify those sensitive niche types, and see which transactions occur internally within the organization, I get a clearer picture of what I'm doing.
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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Screenshots

Screenshot of pre-built policy templates to easily get startedScreenshot of DLP analytics to help recommend new policies and fine tune existing onesScreenshot of the step that enables one policy to be applied to several locationsScreenshot of then next step, that enables policies to be scoped to specific users and user groupsScreenshot of composite conditions using groups of AND /OR and exceptions with NOTScreenshot of granular restrictions for different actions