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Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform vs Vectra AI comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Gurucul Security Analytics ...
Ranking in Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)
14th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
2.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Vectra AI
Ranking in Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)
10th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (6th), Network Detection and Response (NDR) (3rd), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (19th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) category, the mindshare of Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vectra AI is 4.1%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Vectra AI4.1%
Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform0.7%
Other95.2%
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)
 

Featured Reviews

PJ
Network Security Engineer at Well Health
Advanced analytics have strengthened our threat detection and improved incident response
The best feature Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform offers is its analytics. When I heard about this feature, it was quite new to us for a SIEM as a feature. Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform gave the first kind of impression from this platform, and I was impressed with this feature; it is doing a great job. Overall, this feature has covered most scenarios for now, including any kind of data exfiltration, lateral movement, or insider threat detection, so it covers almost all areas. I can say they are doing a great job regarding most of the security posture issues for any kind of organization. Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform has positively impacted our organization and client by allowing us to notice compromised accounts most of the time. Some users, not from a technical background, often make mistakes that lead to their end devices being compromised, and they are usually unaware. We can detect these compromised accounts from our SIEM tool, which is a great opportunity for our company and client to improve their security posture. Of course, we have seen measurable results, such as a reduction in incidents and faster response times. If any incident happens, such as a user compromising their account while being unaware, we take that as an example and educate all staff of the client to avoid such activities, such as clicking a malicious URL or visiting a malicious site. Through that, we could improve their security posture and knowledge about security.
reviewer2783214 - PeerSpot reviewer
Strategic RAN Lead | Network Transformation & Optimization | Philippines & South Africa at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
AI‑driven threat detection has transformed alert fatigue and now enables faster response and leaner soc operations
The best features of Vectra AI are related to AI. For the NDR part, Attack Signal Intelligence features were mainly responsible for behavior AI, high-fidelity signaling, and prioritization. These features were great for anomaly detection and behavioral-based detection, able to catch zero-day attacks and living-off-the-land attacks. For high-fidelity signaling, it automatically triaged, filtered, and correlated signals, which dramatically reduced alert fatigue noise on the customer side by approximately 80% and eliminated alert fatigue on the SOC teams. Regarding the identity detection and response IDR solution, it monitored Active Directory and Entra ID for any attacks, allowing the SOC to detect any compromised credentials. Alert noise was dramatically reduced by nearly 80%, allowing SOC analysts to focus more on true threats, which made them more productive and resulted in higher operational efficiency. Attack Signal Intelligence helped reduce irrelevant alerts by 80% to 90%, with metrics showing a 100-plus reduction in investigation workloads and roughly saving about 55,000 hours of investigation time. Investigation time has decreased significantly, empowering analysts with detection and advanced unknown threats that Vectra AI provided. Its knowledge base and database are very up to date, allowing for spotting zero-day attacks with full visibility and helping to stop attacks in minutes. Vectra AI has reduced the MTTD and MTTR, increasing operational and process efficiency, and has helped reduce the number of SOC analysts that needed to be hired. Thanks to the AI features, the number of employees and SOC analysts hired has been reduced.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Of course, we have seen measurable results, such as a reduction in incidents and faster response times."
"With Vectra, we become more proactive than reactive, more often than not we pick things up before the actual damage can start, and it picks up things that none of our other tools pick up because it's designed to detect things before harm is done, at the initial stages."
"Vectra AI can bring the ability to detect intrusion on the network more so than legacy IDS tools."
"The core product provides excellent visibility, but my favorite feature is Vectra Recall."
"It has increased our security efficiency and has also reduced the time it takes us to respond to attacks by about 50 percent."
"It gives you access, with Recall, to instant visibility into your network through something like a SIEM solution. For us, being able to correlate all of this network data without having to manage it, has provided immediate value. It gives us the ability to really work on the stuff where I and my team have expertise, instead of having to manage a SIEM solution..."
"We often use the new feature to create PCAP files from the whole data traffic. It makes it much easier to find network problems such as whether the server is responding to a request. It has nothing to do with security, but it helps a lot to find other problems."
"One of the key advantages for us is we define a 24/7 service around it. We use far more of Vectra alerts than we do with our SIEM product because we understand that when we get an alert from Vectra we actually need to do something about it."
"There are many detection features available."
 

Cons

"I feel the dashboard of Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform is not always user-friendly."
"They use a proprietary logging format that is probably 90% similar to Bro Logs. Their biggest area of improvement is finishing out the remaining 10%. That 10% might not be beneficial to their ML engine, but that's fine. The industry standard is Zeek Logs or Bro Logs, or Bro or Zeek, depending on how old you are. While they have 90% of those fields, they're still missing some fields. In very rare instances, some community rules do not have the fields that they need, and we had to modify community rules for our logs. So, their biggest area of improvement would be to just finish their matching of the Zeek standard."
"It would be commercially beneficial if Vectra AI had something like Darktrace's Antigena Email or something similar to email protection."
"We had another product with Vectra AI and used the MDR solution as an add-on. Initially, it wasn't fully appropriately configured, so we didn't get the expected results. Even once configured correctly, we weren't fully satisfied with its response. The issue was both with their service response and the product's capabilities."
"Pricing could be improved, as many customers have complained about the pricing model and pricing complexity."
"The solution has not reduced the security analyst workload in our organization because we still need to SIEM."
"It does a little bit of packet capture on alert so you can look at the packet capture activity going on, but it doesn't collect a whole lot of data. Sometimes it's only one or two frames, sometimes it does collect more. That's why they have the addition of their Recall platform, because that really does help expand the capability."
"Other alternatives, like Darktrace, have a fancier UI."
"I think Vectra AI's automation, reporting, and integration could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Vectra AI is not a cheap solution."
"Vectra's licensing model could scale to our research network, which has multiple, 100-gigabit links."
"At the time of purchase, we found the pricing acceptable. We had an urgency to get something in place because we had a minor breach that occurred at the tail end of 2016 to the beginning of 2017. This indicated we had a lack of ability to detect things on the network. Hence, why we moved quickly to get into the tool in place. We found things like Bitcoin mining and botnets which we closed quickly. In that regard, it was worth the money."
"Their licensing model is antiquated. I'm not a fan of their licensing model. We have to pay for licensing based on four different things. You have to pay based on the number of unique IPs, the number of logs that we send through Recall and Stream, and the size of our environment. They need to simplify their licensing down to just one thing. It should be based on the amount of data, the number of devices, or something else, but there should be just one thing for everything. That's what they need to base their licensing on. Cost-wise, they're not cheap. They were definitely the most expensive option, but you get what you pay for. They're not the cheapest option."
"We have a desire to increase our use. However, it all comes down to budget. It's a very expensive tool that is very difficult to prove business support for. We would like to have two separate networks. We have our corporate network and PCI network, which is segregated due to payment processing. We don't have it for deployed in the PCI network. It would be good to have it fully deployed there to provide us with additional monitoring and control, but the cost associated with their licensing model makes it prohibitively expensive to deploy."
"Its cost is too much. It's an investment that we can afford. It's a lot, but it's worth it."
"The pricing is very good. It's less expensive than many of the tools out there."
"Vectra AI's pricing is cheaper than that of Darktrace."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise29
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform?
I feel the dashboard of Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform is not always user-friendly. I still feel the dashboard could be understandable even by a non-technical person. It could b...
What is your primary use case for Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform?
My main use case for Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform is SIEM and user entity behavior analytics. I manage Gurucul for a client, and one case is when any user compromises their de...
What advice do you have for others considering Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform?
I am not quite familiar with the governance part of Gurucul Security Analytics and Operations Platform, as I have not used their features related to that, so I cannot comment. I give this review a ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vectra AI?
I find the pricing of Vectra AI to be one of the best we have seen as feedback from customers and partners indicates it is very competitive for an EDR solution.
What needs improvement with Vectra AI?
I think one area that could be improved about Vectra AI is their marketing. One of the aspects that Darktrace excels at is their marketing, and I do not feel Vectra AI is on that level yet, leading...
What is your primary use case for Vectra AI?
I primarily use Vectra AI for customers, and I only provide Vectra AI.
 

Also Known As

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Vectra Networks, Vectra AI NDR
 

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Sample Customers

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Tribune Media Group, Barry University, Aruba Networks, Good Technology, Riverbed, Santa Clara University, Securities Exchange, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association
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