Darktrace offers an excellent AI engine can answer that question "Do I have malicious traffic in my network?"
September 17, 2018

Darktrace offers an excellent AI engine can answer that question "Do I have malicious traffic in my network?"

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Darktrace

We use Darktrace in our main office. It helps us meet security assessment requirements of our clients that want to know how we know if there are bad actors in our environment.
  • Its very strong in recognizing unusual traffic. It learns what is normal and what is not normal.
  • It helps to show if our users are hitting malicious websites or not. That is a nice bonus to help with our security awareness and know if our training is doing its job.
  • Their weekly reports to us help highlight the most egregious traffic on our network. They are an extra set of eyes for us.
  • You have to have an appliance on each segment of your network. If you are not back hauling your traffic to your central data center, then each location has to have an appliance in order to cover that location.
  • They gather so much detailed information that it is hard at time to decipher what I'm looking at.
  • The way they name actions is unusual and should be changed. They need to label the parts of network traffic better.
  • 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.
We have not evaluated others as they seem to be in their own class.
It's excellent at using its AI engine to learn your environment when it first gets set up. Then over time it know what it has seen in the past and what it hasn't, so you can investigate what could be malicious traffic or not. It shouldn't be considered the end all, be all for networking monitoring, but just another tool to use.