Darktrace Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Darktrace's NETWORK and EMAIL services to monitor for and act upon anomalous activity. Their use of AI algorithms allows the detection system to instantly halt all threatening traffic. In addition, the EMAIL service uses similar technology to weed out malicious email, perform email link locking and blocking, and more to keep your users and network safe.

Likelihood to Recommend

Darktrace is an enterprise-level product that is not affordable for most small or mid-sized companies. The period during which the appliance learns your network can be time consuimg as many false-positives are alerted. It is important that your staff anticipates this and has the time to help train the device.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We installed Darktrace to scan our network traffic to identify anomalies and potential threats. The install was reasonable as the device just requires a TAP port. (I recommend giving it the fastest tap you can.) The device learned for a few weeks and then switched into identification mode, altering us to non-standard activity.

Likelihood to Recommend

If the colleague is versed in network protocols and has used a sniffer, this would be a great product for them!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Darktrace is one of the best solutions when it comes to monitor your network with an NDR. Extremely scalable and with a fantastic way of correlating network communications, this is one of the best solutions in the market. We use it not only to monitor our customer's infrastructures, but we also integrate it with several modules, giving the SoC Analysts great room for moving and responding.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using Darktrace for Threat Detection, Network Visibility, Antigena features/PREVENT for automated responses and to be in compliance. It's AI and ML capabilities to continuously monitor network traffic and user behavior are exceptional. It gives an in-depth visibility to our network. We have integrated it with Microsoft365 for Emails which helps detect phishing emails, malicious attachment blocking, spam filtering and malicious link blocking.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's best suited for network anamoly detection and prompt action via antigena for network It's also best suited for Email security and malicious email detections Since, the detections are AI based you may get some false positives from time to time Right after implementation it's difficult to handle due to it's learning behavior Requires some time to learn It not the best for Intrusion prevention scenarios but does a great job for threat detections

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Darktrace's Threat Visualizer leverage an enterprise immune system technology to detect and respond to network activity in a way that is intended for use by security operation centres, threat analysts, and network security experts. Business problems Darktrace helps us address; -

<ul><li>The Threat Visualizer employs the underlying AI models to dynamically detect threats that are actually abnormal in the increasingly complex threat landscape, enabling us at the SOC to concentrate attention and expertise where it is needed. </li><li>

</li><li>The Threat Visualizer gives us a visual representation of all network activity and connections—both internal and external—between all machines and users, allowing us to observe how the network is flowing. </li><li>It functions on a broad scale, highlighting various hazards and anomalies for the analyst's attention, and on a more specific one, enabling you to drill down.</li></ul>

Likelihood to Recommend

In network-related attack detection and response, Darktrace threat visualizer is your best solution. Self-containment and quarantine of suspicious network activities with highly detection rate.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Darktrace Antigena email to protect our employees from any threat that can arrive by email. Our email provides, does an initial filtering, but not enough to provide a good security solution. Antigena email provides machine speed to analyze and block if necessary, using AI.

Likelihood to Recommend

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Darktrace to identify possible issues caused by forbidden access and track suspicious activity. As this application is getting the traffic from the source, we're able to identify security issues that before we weren't able to. Also, we are integrating Darktrace with other Security/Monitoring tools like Splunk &amp; Solarwinds.

Likelihood to Recommend

Very easy to send mirroring traffic, very intuitive layout to configure the sensors, alerts &amp; notifications. Require good experience in the platform in order to find &amp; troubleshoot logs/incidents. There is not much documentation available on the Free Forum/Google searches. Good pre-sales support for the United Kingdom &amp; Ireland clients, many kudos!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We implemented Darktrace 2 years ago for our organisation of approximately 350 users. The system was identified as a smart learning AI system that would protect the business against a range of cyberattacks.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would warn any IT manager against this system. It is

frustrating. Support is very poor and slow. Changes do not get implemented. We

are removing the system and looking elsewhere.

Ask yourself, how smart is a system that simply uses your

existing mail history to determine if it will accept the next email. The system has no ability for the users to identify false positives or train it. It places a lot of pressure on the helps desk. I question where the AI lies.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I worked with Darktrace in a couple of organizations (from 300 to 1000+ users). Darktrace is a beneficial product to keep track of lateral network traffic inside of the organization. It augments the firewall, which looks at the traffic moving in and out of the company's LAN. Darktrace utilizes SPAN ports on switches to get the traffic, that's the only configuration needed outside of the Darktrace appliance, making installation relatively easy. If organization has multiple locations, either multiple Darktrace units will be required, or the network must be configured to forward SPAN traffic. Darktrace does provide beneficial insights into network activity inside the network, such as the use of obsolete protocols, DLP breaches, etc.

Likelihood to Recommend

If organization has money to spend on Darktrace (licensing is based on the number of endpoints in the network) and has staff to sift through all the alerts the device creates, Darktrace does improve security significantly. You will see what is going on inside the network, in real-time, and in easy to understand manner. The problem is that there are a lot of things going on inside of any corporate network. The AI of the Darktrace appliance has a hard time reducing the number of events to look at to a reasonable level. Whoever is thinking about buying Darktrace must be ready to spend a lot of man-hours working with the product, clearing false positives and tweaking rules.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Darktrace is used across almost all of my organisation. It allows constant monitoring across all of our networks, and because it has the ability to learn "normal" behaviour for your network, it triggers alerts when it sees behaviour outside of this range. It's allowed thorough monitoring of our systems, 24/7. You can download packet captures, which can then be loaded in to wireshark, of traffic from devices on the network, and the data for these captures are held for some time as well - the exact time varies depending on the amount of traffic, but I've normally been able to retrieve traffic data from a few weeks previously when needed. There is also a mobile app that you can configure to allow monitoring of alerts on your phone. On a few occasions in the past, when something alerted that was potentially damaging to the network (such as a malware outbreak at one site), a Darktrace employee contacted me directly to let me know that there was something potentially high priority going on.

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.