Arista NDR vs Cynet comparison

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Arista and Cynet are both solutions in the Network Detection and Response (NDR) category. Arista is ranked #16, while Cynet is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.9. Additionally, 100% of Arista users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Cynet users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 6, 2024

Cynet and Arista NDR compete in the cybersecurity solutions category. Cynet seems to have the upper hand for organizations seeking an all-inclusive solution due to its versatile deployment and broad feature set, while Arista NDR is preferred for scalability and in-depth network insights, crucial for large enterprises.

Features: Cynet is distinguished by features like ransomware protection, deception technology, and robust endpoint protection, providing capabilities beyond traditional EDR platforms. Its ease of management and mobile device compatibility enhance user experience. Arista NDR provides real-time traffic analysis and detailed security insights through its Security Knowledge Graph, focusing heavily on incident assessment and IoT monitoring.

Room for Improvement: Cynet can improve by enhancing mobile support, integrating better with third-party tools, and reducing false positives while refining its interface. Arista NDR should focus on increasing its market visibility and presence in regions like the Middle East, requiring expansion of its engineering workforce and establishment of local offices.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cynet's deployment across various cloud environments offers flexibility, supplemented by 24/7 SOC services praised for their proactive support. Arista NDR's emphasis on on-premises and hybrid cloud solutions pairs with comprehensive support, though a need for faster response times and accessibility improvements in regions like Asia remains.

Pricing and ROI: Cynet presents a competitive pricing structure, appreciated for its cost-effectiveness and bundled features, providing flexible options to meet customer budgets. While Arista NDR's pricing is higher, it delivers extensive value through its advanced data insights, resulting in substantial ROI and effective threat mitigation for clients.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...

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ABHISHEK_SINGH

Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk

Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration

Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.

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it_user1719513

Chief Technology Officer at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

it's much easier to create your own queries and hunt for threats

We take in IOCs from my SOC and from AlienVault, and then we focus on traffic that hits IOCs and alerts us to it. The one thing that the Awake platform lacks is the ability to automate the ingestion of IOCs rather than having to import CSV files or JSON files manually. Awake didn't support the manual importation of CSV and JSON in version 3.0, but they added it in version 4.0. It's helpful, but it still has to be a specific CSV format. Automated IOCs are on the roadmap. Hopefully, they will be able to automate the ingestion of IOCs by Q1 next year. I'm currently leveraging Mind Meld, an open-source tool by Palo Alto, to ingest IOCs from external parties. I aggregate those lists and spit them out as a massive list of domains, hashes, file names, IPS. Then we aggregate those into their own specific categories, like a URL category. Awake ingests that just like the Palo Alto firewall does, and then it alerts me if traffic attempts to go into it. Some of that is already on the Palo Alto firewall, which blocks it, but that doesn't mean that there is no attempted communication. I want to know if there's a communication attempt because there might be an indicator on that specific device trying to reach an IOC. Yes, my Palo Alto blocked it, but there's still something odd sitting there, and what if it can reach a different IOC that I don't have information about? I want to focus on it. I could do that by leveraging Awake if it could ingest the IOCs automatically. That's something I leverage Awake for today. I still have to manually import it, which is cumbersome because I have to manipulate the files that I get from the different IOC providers into a specific format that it understands. Once they add the ability to automate that, it'll be more useful.

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Vishal Salve

manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Automation has transformed threat detection and incident response and improves team efficiency

Cynet can be improved by enhancing third-party integrations, improving reporting and dashboard customization, and providing more advanced AI-driven analytics. Customization for automated response workflows would also help organizations tailor the platform to their specific security needs. There is room for improvement in reporting customization, third-party integration, and advanced analytics. I had to spend additional time tuning the alerts during the initial deployment to reduce false positives and align the detection with our environment, but these were minor challenges, and the platform has performed well for our specific needs. Regarding Cynet's AI capabilities, its governance and security capabilities are effective, but greater transparency into AI decision-making and additional customization options would further enhance confidence and control. There is still room for improvement in predictive analytics and better transparency into how certain detections are generated.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We use it for malicious connections from malicious websites, to identify payloads that might be inside the traffic, to identify malicious processes or bugs that are running on the network, and any activities that tend to lead to data infiltration."

"Cortex XDR is stable, offering high quality and reliable performance."

"We have found in our test Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks to be a very good tool."

"If the user leaves our premises or network, Palo Alto Traps will still be on that endpoint and will still apply our policies."

"Stability is one of the features we like the most."

"Technical support is the best in class, in my opinion, because they have invested heavily in research and development."

"Its ability to react to cyber data attacks is awesome. That is pretty much the use of it. What blows your mind is the ability to access your assets remotely and see what is actually going on with them. You can not only see them in a console. You can also react very rapidly to your assets that are compromised."

"Traps is quite a stable product. Once it was properly deployed and configured, you have nothing to be worried about."

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"The security knowledge graph has been very helpful in the sense that whenever you try a new security solution, especially one that's in the detection and response market, you're always worried about getting a lot of false positives or getting too many alerts and not being able to pick out the good from the bad or things that are actual security incidents versus normal day to day operations. We've been pleasantly surprised that Awake does a really good job of only alerting about things that we actually want to look into and understand. They do a good job of understanding normal operations out-of-the-box."

"Arista NDR's scalability is very good, making it easy to add more hardware components. You can order additional hardware and integrate it by stacking it with the existing setup. This feature cannot be seen in other NDR tools."

"The query language makes it easy to query the records on the network, to do searches for the various threat activities that we're looking for. The dashboard, the Security Knowledge Graph, displays information meaningfully and easily. I am able to find the information that I want to find pretty quickly."

"The interface itself is clean and easy to use, yet customizable. I like that I can create my own dashboards fairly easily so that I can see what is important to me. Also, the query language is pretty easy to use. I haven't needed to use it a ton, but as I need to go in and do different queries based on their requests, it has been fairly simple to use."

"This solution help us monitor devices used on our network by insiders, contractors, partners, or suppliers. Its correlation and identification of specific endpoints is very good, especially since we have a large, virtualized environment. It discerns this fairly well. Some of the issues that we have had with other tools is we sometimes are not able to tell the difference between users on some of those virtualized instances."

"We switched to Awake Security because they were able to offer a model that was significantly less expensive and the value that we get out of it is higher."

"It's saving me money, saving me time, and gives me a level of comfort that I have visibility within our network which I don't think I could get very easily any other way."

"We appreciate the value of the AML (structured query language). We receive security intel feeds for a specific type of malware or ransomware. AML queries looking for the activity is applied in almost real-time. Ultimately, this determines if the activity was not observed on the network."

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"Aside from the real people behind the product, it gives visibility on the network, on the file level, on the memory level, and it also does user behavior analysis, with a deception capability as well."

"The product has valuable front-end features."

"The valuable aspects of Cynet are its EDR and XDR components, which are available at a reasonable price point."

"This solution covers the endpoint and protects your files, users, devices, and network significantly better than the other solutions in the market."

"I have found the continued support and pretty much all the features to be valuable. They all stand out as being positive. It continues to detect unusual activity when it's supposed to, and so far we haven't had any issues."

"Advanced detection and protection against ransomware paired with SOC monitoring are the most valuable features. They have 24/7 SOC monitoring and file activity. It is a very robust tool."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the network part of it because most of the endpoint products in XDS products we find Cynet has networking user behavior analysis and network analysis, for the whole team."

"We have definitely seen an ROI because we have very sensitive information, and we never had any viruses."

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Cons

"Cortex XDR could improve its sales support team, including better commission structures and referral programs."

"The connection to the internet has not performed as expected."

"The onboarding process could be better."

"It should support more mobile operating systems. That is one of the cons of their infrastructure right now."

"I recommend adding a data loss prevention (DLP) solution to Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. The inclusion of this feature would allow the application of DLP policies alongside antivirus policies via a single agent and console, making it more competitive as other OEMs often offer DLP solutions as part of their antivirus products."

"The solution can never really be an on-premises solution based simply on the way it is set up. It needs metadata to run and improve. Having an on-premises solution would cut it off from making improvements."

"Currently, if you use Palo Alto endpoint protection as the only solution it's very complicated to remove pre-existing threats."

"If he is using a smaller company, he can depend on some other tools because Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a bit expensive."

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"I would like to see a bit more in terms of encrypted traffic."

"Be prepared to update your SOPs to have your analysts work in another tool separately. There are some limitations in the integrations right now. One of the things that I want from a security standpoint is integration with multiple tools so I don't need to have my analysts logging into each individual tool."

"One thing I would like to see is a little bit more education or experience on AWS cloud for their managed services team. We've explained how we have the information set up, that the traffic coming in goes to the AWS load balancer and then gets sent on to our internal servers... but when I get notices they always tell me this traffic is coming from the IPs belonging to the load balancers, not the source IPs. So a little bit more education for their team about how AWS manages the traffic might help out."

"It's important that Awake continues to develop its APIs to be able to help intertwine their product into the overall security architecture of a company, just because it is a single tool."

"There's room for improvement with some of the definitions, because I don't have time and I'm not a Tier 4 analyst. I believe that is something they're working towards."

"While the appliance is very good, and I think they're working on it, it would probably help if they integrated the management team cases into the appliance so that everything we are working on with them would be accessible on our platform, on the dashboard, on the portal. Right now, Awake is just an additional team that uses the appliance that we use and then we communicate with them directly. Communication isn't through the portal."

"I would like to see the capability to import what's known as STIX/TAXII in an IOC format. It currently doesn't offer this."

"They've been focused on really developing their data science, their ability to detect, but over time, they need to be able to tie into other systems because other systems might detect something that they don't."

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"The reporting is a little weak and could be improved. The other downside is that Cynet does not use the local time zone. It's based off of Greenwich Mean Time."

"Could have better integration with other security applications."

"Compliance reports need to improve."

"Cynet could improve when a reverse proxy is being used to connect to the servers. There could be an easier configuration because it is not plug-and-play."

"There are some shortcomings in Cynet's integration capabilities that need improvement."

"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the usability of this product for new threats. Meaning, not everything which is new is properly seen by the product and not all the required actions are taken."

"The only downside of Cynet is the reporting."

"Maybe they should add more cloud-to-cloud integrations and also focus on integrations with local, on-premises services."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is "expensive" and flexible."

"This is an expensive solution."

"Cortex XDR’s pricing is very reasonable."

"It's the most expensive solution, but features-wise, it's quite strong. It's very good for protection, so the results are very good in the case of protection. I would rate it a two out of ten in terms of pricing."

"The price of the solution is high for the license and in general."

"The cost depends on your chosen license type, like Pro or other licenses."

"It has reasonable pricing for the use cases it provides to the company."

"We didn't have to pay any additional fee for the cloud instance. It just came with the renewal, which was nice."

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"The pricing seems pretty reasonable for what we get out of it. We also found it to be more competitive than some other vendors that we've looked at."

"We switched to Awake Security because they were able to offer a model that was significantly less expensive and the value that we get out of it is higher."

"Awake's pricing was very competitive. It's not a cheap option though. It's an investment to utilize it, but it's one that we decided was worth the cost, with the managed services. At our scale, it was a much better option to utilize their software and their managed services to handle this, rather than hiring another person to be an analyst. It was quite cost-effective for us."

"Because I represent a hedge fund, I have some leverage. I told them that they had to meet my conditions if they wanted me as a client. It was the same way with Awake. They wanted an initial four-year agreement. Initially, we signed on for a one-year contract, but they wanted the four-year deal when it came time for the renewal. I told them that I was not doing that. I said that they either had to do it on my terms, or I'd go somewhere else."

"Awake Security was the least expensive among their competitors. Everyone was within $15,000 of each other. The other solutions were not providing the MNDR service, which is standard with Awake Security's pricing/licensing model."

"The solution is very good and the pricing is also better than others..."

"The solution has saved thousands of dollars within the first day. Our ROI has to be in the tens of thousands of dollars since October last year."

"Pricing wise, Cynet seems to be very competitive. The cost is probably lower than that offered by many of its competitors for all the functions and features it offers."

"The pricing was good."

"Cynet has a pay-as-you-go pricing model."

"It gives you a high level of protection at a very good price."

"Cynet is very affordable."

"It is extremely affordable. I'll give it a five out of five in terms of price. It was half the cost of the next closest competitor, and the competitor didn't provide SOC services."

"The licensing for Cynet is yearly. The solution pricing depends on the customer, but it is not very expensive."

"My company's customers have to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs of the solution. Cynet is not expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

14%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	50
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	57

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Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	7

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Small Business	30
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	12

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

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Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

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Arista NDR specializes in advanced traffic monitoring, effective false positive reduction, and strong data science capabilities, positioning itself as a leading solution in network detection and response.

Arista NDR enhances threat detection with innovations like the Security Knowledge Graph, which boosts situational awareness by up to 50%. Users value the intuitive interface and query language, allowing insights into encrypted traffic without impacting performance. Arista also offers robust threat-hunting services, aiding in proactive security measures. However, improvements are needed in API integration, entity resolution reliability, automation for IOC handling, and AWS configuration education. Greater security tool integration and enhanced query language usability are requested, along with overcoming challenges in encrypted traffic analysis, particularly in the Middle East.

What are Arista NDR's most important features?

Advanced Traffic Monitoring: Provides comprehensive visibility into network activities.
False Positive Reduction: Minimizes alerts, focusing on genuine threats.
Security Knowledge Graph: Enhances threat detection and situational awareness.
Intuitive Interface: Simplifies navigation and usage through an easy-to-use design.
Threat-Hunting Services: Supports proactive security operations.

What benefits should users seek in reviews?

Improved Security Posture: Rapid enhancement of security measures.
Efficient Threat Detection: Quick identification and mitigation of suspicious activities.
Network Visibility: Detailed insights into lateral traffic and threat detection.
Performance Impact: Maintains effectiveness without slowing down operations.
Versatile Deployment: Offers both on-premise and cloud dashboard features.

Arista NDR is frequently implemented across industries for monitoring internal networks, with a focus on lateral traffic movement and threat detection, including ransomware and data exfiltration indicators. Its capabilities are utilized for both compliance and security enhancements, with many turning to its managed services for resource efficiency.

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Cynet provides comprehensive endpoint protection and advanced threat detection, offering intuitive deployment and monitored support. It ensures real-time visibility and minimal management, enhancing security for diverse and remote teams.

Cynet integrates seamlessly with existing infrastructure, providing an efficient solution for endpoint protection, threat detection, and response. Its automation, scalability, and stability are key benefits. Users benefit from real-time network visibility, ransomware protection, and deception capabilities. Cynet serves as a robust alternative to CrowdStrike, offering a multifaceted approach to security operations, especially in environments needing continuous threat monitoring and zero-day threat management. Areas needing improvement include mobile device support, enhanced reporting, third-party integrations, and AI-based detection.

What are Cynet's most important features?

Intuitive UI: Simplifies navigation for efficient security management.
Ease of Deployment: Quick setup reduces time and resource investment.
Comprehensive Endpoint Protection: Shields workstations and networks effectively.
Advanced Threat Detection: Identifies threats in real-time for prompt action.
Automation: Streamlines processes for better resource allocation.

What benefits and ROI should users consider in reviews?

Cost-Effectiveness: Competitive pricing supports budget adherence.
Integration Capabilities: Fit with existing systems enhances operational cohesion.
Scalability: Grows with organizational demands, ensuring sustained performance.
Minimal Management Requirements: Reduces administrative overhead.

In the financial sector, Cynet's ability to support efficient threat detection and endpoint protection is crucial. Healthcare industries leverage its data protection features for compliance and security. In manufacturing, real-time threat monitoring supports safeguarding intellectual property. Retail sectors benefit from its scalability and minimal management demands, helping secure diverse, distributed locations.

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