Arista NDR vs Trend Micro Deep Discovery comparison

Arista and TrendAI are both solutions in the Network Detection and Response (NDR) category. Arista is ranked #17, while TrendAI is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.6. Arista holds a 3.5% mindshare in NDaR, compared to TrendAI’s 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Arista users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of TrendAI users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 6, 2024

Trend Micro Deep Discovery and Arista NDR are advanced threat detection products. Trend Micro Deep Discovery has an edge in pricing and customer support, whereas Arista NDR is noted for its robust feature set, providing more value for those who prioritize capabilities.

Features: Arista NDR offers advanced machine learning algorithms, comprehensive network traffic analysis, and excellent IoT device monitoring. Trend Micro Deep Discovery provides extensive malware detection, significant endpoint integration, and robust sandbox capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Arista NDR could benefit from enhanced endpoint detection and easier integration with other security solutions, and a more intuitive setup process. Trend Micro Deep Discovery can improve in deployment complexity, broader network traffic insights, and in updating malware signatures faster.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Arista NDR is recognized for its easy deployment and responsive customer service. In contrast, Trend Micro Deep Discovery, while offering comprehensive customer support, involves a more complex deployment process.

Pricing and ROI: Trend Micro Deep Discovery is more cost-effective upfront, providing a solid ROI for moderate deployments. Arista NDR, despite higher initial costs, delivers compelling ROI through its advanced features, becoming attractive to businesses needing top-tier detection capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Arista NDR

Ranking in Network Detection and Response (NDR)

17th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (9th)

Trend Micro Deep Discovery

Ranking in Network Detection and Response (NDR)

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (6th), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (17th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Network Detection and Response (NDR) category, the mindshare of Arista NDR is 3.5%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Trend Micro Deep Discovery is 3.3%, down from 4.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Detection and Response (NDR) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Trend Micro Deep Discovery	3.3%
Arista NDR	3.5%
Other	93.2%

Network Detection and Response (NDR)

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reviewer1719513

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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reviewer2266119

Senior IT Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Has improved email security through advanced filtration and timely threat detection

I work with Trend Micro Apex One. I have used the Deep Discovery's Sandbox analysis feature, and we utilize another appliance known as Deep Discovery Analyzer, abbreviated as DDA. This tool makes analysis for URLs and attachments contained in inbound emails, so whenever we receive an email with a URL or attachment, it will be analyzed by Trend Micro Deep Discovery Analyzer. In evaluating Deep Discovery's real-time visibility on network traffic, it is important to note that we applied our Deep Discovery Analyzer for Trend Micro to conduct sandboxing specifically for email channels only, and we do not utilize it for network channels. For network channel sandboxing, we use a solution called FortiAnalyzer, which belongs to another team called network security. I assess Deep Discovery's effectiveness in identifying sophisticated attack patterns by looking at how it handles high traffic loads, and how effectively it can use its instances and images to analyze numerous URLs and attachments simultaneously. Additionally, I evaluate its ability to maintain round-robin or load balancing across different analyses without leaving samples queued for analysis. The performance is critical when the product updates for signatures are up-to-date, as this aids in the detection and classification of URLs and attachments without delay in the analysis process. On a scale of one to ten, I rate Trend Micro Deep Discovery a nine.

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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

"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."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to see suspicious activity for devices inside my network. It helps me to quickly identify that activity and do analysis to see if it's expected or I need to mitigate that activity quickly."

"When I create a workbench query in Awake to do threat hunting, it's much easier to query. You get a dictionary popup immediately when you try to type a new query. It says, "You want to search for a device?" Then you type in "D-E," and it gives you a list of commands, like device, data set behavior, etc. That gives you the ability to build your own query."

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

"Other solutions will say, "Hey, this device is doing something weird." But they don't aggregate that data point with other data points. With Awake you have what's called a "fact pattern." For example, if there's a smart toaster on the third floor that is beaconing out to an IP address in North Korea, sure that's bizarre. But if that toaster was made in North Korea it's not bizarre. Taking those two data points together, and automating something using machine-learning is something that no other solution is doing right now."

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"The most valuable feature is that the user can customize images of virtual machines in the sandbox functionality. The other vendors only use images that were created by the vendor but not the customer, end-user or partner. This helps to detect advanced threats and attacks."

"The performance and stability are great."

"One of the most valuable features is the performance, since, so far, we have not faced any issues with Deep Discovery."

"The HTML file sandboxing is very good."

"The solution has extension-based features that help it to analyze the environment. The environment can have different platforms like Windows, Linux, and Mac. The tool will give a report which can confirm the analysis of the issues. You can also get clear information on threats or suspicious files."

"The most valuable feature of Trend Micro Deep Discovery is its complete end-to-end visibility of threats."

"The most valuable features are the protection and that it is fast."

"Trend Micro Deep Discovery is a very specific product for threat intelligence with smart protection."

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Cons

"I would like to see a bit more in terms of encrypted traffic. With the advent of programs that live off the land, a smart attacker is going to leverage encryption to execute their operation. So I would like to see improvements there, where possible. Currently, we're not going to be decrypting encrypted traffic. What other approaches could be used?"

"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."

"I enjoy the query language, but it could be a bit more user-friendly, especially for new users who come across it... They should push it more into a natural language style as opposed to a query language."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Awake Security needs to move to a 24/7 support model in the MNDR space. Once they do that, it will make them even better."

"One concern I do have with Awake is that, ideally, it should be able identify high-risk users and devices and entities. However, we don't have confidence in their entity resolution, and we've provided this feedback to Awake. My understanding is that this is where some of the AI/ML is, and it hasn't been reliable in correctly identifying which device an activity is associated with. We have also encountered issues where it has merged two devices into one entity profile when they shouldn't be merged. The entity resolution is the weakest point of Awake so far."

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"Trend Micro Deep Discovery's technical support could be improved, and it could be made more active."

"Additionally, better scanning capabilities for third-party applications would ensure comprehensive security without the need for exclusions."

"I would like to see integration with third-party tools to improve the visibility of the dashboards."

"Trend Micro can improve the pricing in general. There is nothing else they can add or improve in the solution."

"Trend Micro Deep Discovery is a very expensive solution, making it very hard to sell."

"Scalability becomes an issue when managing a higher number of customers."

"I would like the ability to analyze all files in our internal network, at the same time on different operating systems. Not just three of them, but as many as possible."

"There are certain aspects of flexibility in the policies that should be added to Deep Discovery."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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..."

"Trend Micro Deep Discovery is quite expensive compared to other endpoint security products."

"The tool’s licensing costs depend on the customers."

"Compared to its competitors, Trend Micro Deep Discovery is a little expensive."

"The price of the solution is lower compared to the competition."

"Its price is fine, but Trend Micro can improve the pricing in general. It is a hardware solution. It is based on the number of nodes, and according to the number of nodes, clients decide which box they should acquire. They have to renew their license every year. It is subscription-based."

"Overall, Trend Micro Deep Discovery has proven to be a reliable solution that enhances our security posture while minimizing operational disruptions."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly. There are no additional costs associated with the product."

"Overall, the price is good."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	9

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Arista NDR?

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...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Arista NDR?

The tool's pricing is expensive but it is competitive.

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What needs improvement with Arista NDR?

Arista NDR needs to open legal offices to be closer to customers and partners. It needs more visibility in the NDR market in the Middle East. While they are doing well, they lack sufficient enginee...

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What do you like most about Trend Micro Deep Discovery?

The tool's most valuable feature is its collaboration with other products. Integrating with other security products was simple and easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Trend Micro Deep Discovery?

The solution is very expensive.

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What needs improvement with Trend Micro Deep Discovery?

Server Protect is not commonly used. When considering the Sandbox feature, it only inspects small files, and not all types of files are supported. The solution is very expensive. The solution is no...

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Also Known As

Awake Security Platform

Trend Micro Deep Discovery Inspector, Trend Micro Deep Discovery Analyzer

Overview

Arista NDR (formerly Awake Security) is the only advanced network detection and response company that delivers answers, not alerts. By combining artificial intelligence with human expertise, Arista NDR hunts for both insider and external attacker behaviors, while providing autonomous triage and response with full forensics across traditional, IoT, and cloud networks. Arista NDR delivers continuous diagnostics for the entire enterprise threat landscape, processes countless network data points, senses abnormalities or threats, and reacts if necessary—all in a matter of seconds. The Arista NDP platform stands out from traditional security because it is designed to mimic the human brain. It recognizes malicious intent and learns over time, giving defenders greater visibility and insight into what threats exist and how to respond to them.

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Trend Micro Deep Discovery provides an intuitive interface and extensive threat visibility. It enhances detection with sandboxing and custom virtual machine images. Integration with Trend Micro Office Scan and Vision One ensures robust defense and detailed threat analysis.

Trend Micro Deep Discovery is a comprehensive network security tool used for intrusion detection, malware analysis, and zero-day vulnerability sandboxing. It supports various platforms and can be integrated with email and server protection. It's particularly useful for compliance with regulatory requirements through signature-based behavior analysis and virtual patching. Users benefit from easy installation, management, and responsive technical support.

What are the key features of Trend Micro Deep Discovery?

End-to-End Threat Visibility: Provides comprehensive monitoring and analysis of network threats.
Built-in Sandboxing: Allows custom virtual machine images for advanced threat detection.
Threat Analysis: Delivers detailed insights into threat activities and sources.
Integration Capabilities: Seamlessly integrates with Trend Micro Office Scan and Vision One for enhanced protection.
Platform Support: Supports multiple operating systems and platforms for broad coverage.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Improved Security: Enhances network protection and threat response efficacy.
Easy Management: Simplifies installation and administration processes.
Regulatory Compliance: Assists with meeting industry regulations through behavior analysis and patching.
Technical Support: Offers responsive and effective assistance for quick issue resolution.
Scalability: Adapts to growing or changing business needs with minimal disruption.

Trend Micro Deep Discovery is implemented across sectors requiring stringent security measures, such as finance, healthcare, and government. It's favored for its ability to analyze diverse network traffic and provide exceptional protection against sophisticated threats while ensuring compliance with strict data regulations. Industry reviews highlight its role in safeguarding sensitive information through robust security frameworks and adaptable deployment options.

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Sample Customers

- Dolby Laboratories- Seattle Genetics- ARM Energy- Ooma- Prophix- Yapstone

Allied Telesis, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Babou, Blekinge County Council, Delacour, Hiroshima Prefectural Government, Live Nation Entertainment Inc., Mazda Motor Logistics Europe, McGill University Health Centre, Mikuni Corporation, OKWAVE, Sinar Mas Land, SWICA, UTOC Corporation

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