Darktrace vs WatchGuard Network Security

• 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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• Great combination of easy to configure but still maintaining a lot of in-depth features and control available if desired
• WatchGuard Cloud [is ]included on basic and total security packages to provide [a] valuable look into [an] activity that passes through the firewall. (A lot of other platforms such as Meraki you need to simply use Syslog and third-party tools to get insights and look for issues that need remediation)
• Cohesive integration with other products such as AuthPoint for MFA adds value you can't get from traditional RADIUS only integrations of other platforms.

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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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• It would be nice to have a fully functional web interface [for the] server manager. The server manager is often very slow over remote connections.
• Better support for OpenVPN server, or at least an easier way of creating tunnels using OpenVPN.
• user VPN user management is a little confusing until you understand that all users need to be created under SSL users, regardless of VPN type.
• Would be nice to have traffic statistics on traffic management objects.

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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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• VPN has meant my users are secure even when they are not in the office, this has reduced risk when they are using public networks and home networks that IT cannot regulate.
• The increased security provided by the firewalls has enabled us to positively answer questions on customers' RFI assessments to their potential customers.
• Central Management in Dimension saves our engineers time by not having to jump onto every firewall one by one.

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