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Deep Instinct Prevention Platform pros and cons

4.3 out of 5

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PROS

Deep Instinct complements existing systems, allowing easy integration without replacing current antivirus or endpoint solutions, offering an additional level of protection.
It has low CPU consumption and a small footprint compared to other software like Sophos, making it lightweight and efficient.
Deep Instinct boasts a high detection rate and low false positives due to its behavior analysis engine and predictive model, ensuring real-time prevention of unknown malware.
The platform is favored for its strong prevention factors, performing pre-execution threat detection to stop attacks before they reach endpoints.
Deep Instinct features excellent support and quick response, enhancing user experience through efficient threat management and prevention capabilities.

CONS

Deep Instinct Prevention Platform lacks support for Linux and Unix operating systems, only covering macOS and Windows.
Pricing is a concern as it is not aggressive, making it challenging to sell compared to cheaper antivirus options.
Issues with SLAs exist, as they are not well-documented and intermediaries handle them, resulting in slower response times for customers.
The installation process is problematic, requiring the manual disabling of Microsoft Bitdefender, making network rollouts cumbersome.
Arm support is a significant area of improvement, as it is not yet implemented in Deep Instinct Prevention Platform.
 

Deep Instinct Prevention Platform Pros review quotes

Tom Foal - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Klaatu IT Security Ltd
Nov 19, 2025
Deep Instinct Prevention Platform stops all malware, including zero-days in 20 milliseconds, and I have never managed to get anything past it, which means I do not have to get out of bed whenever something happens at the client because we know anything bad has been stopped.
AB
Director at Disruptech
Aug 1, 2025
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Elena Yau - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Information Technology at a individual & family service with 201-500 employees
Aug 4, 2022
When we were looking at Carbon Black and Sophos, the prevention pieces weren't as strong when compared to DI, which is why we decided to go with DI... I would rather have a product that does the prevention up front and saves me the effort of having to wipe someone's workstation.
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reviewer1914582 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Architect at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Jul 15, 2022
Deep Instinct’s prevention-first approach to stopping unknown ransomware and malware is the reason why we purchased the product. The pre-execution versus post-execution is a big piece for us where it is able to stop something before it even hits the box or desktop. That was one of the big reasons why we went with Deep Instinct.
reviewer1873749 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Security Analyst at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Jun 1, 2022
I really like the behavioral analysis feature, because it looks at all the different things, like arbitrary shellcode and reflective DLL. It looks at a lot of things that threat actors use as threat vectors to get into the environment.
Stephen Wicks - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at Vyper networks ltd
Sep 7, 2023
I like the dashboard. It looks very simple.
Aaron Branson - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Marketing, Cybersecurity Solutions at Netsurion
Jun 21, 2023
Deep Instinct was a strategic complement to our Open XDR platform.
NH
Security Consultant at IBM Thailand
Feb 9, 2024
The product offers integration capabilities and is also easy to use.
David Gorton - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Novacastrian Cyber Solutions
Apr 4, 2023
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
KS
Administrator at BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha
Jan 26, 2021
It has given us a more structured approach for detecting and preventing threats. It has machine learning-based detection and prevention. Their engines, in even older versions, are able to pick these viruses and malware. They have posted a lot of use cases online for detecting different viruses and malware that have been out for many years.
 

Deep Instinct Prevention Platform Cons review quotes

Tom Foal - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Klaatu IT Security Ltd
Nov 19, 2025
Deep Instinct Prevention Platform detects malicious scripts but it needs better measures, perhaps signing scripts, so we can be sure that a script is created by a client, not by some malware.
AB
Director at Disruptech
Aug 1, 2025
The main area for improvement in Deep Instinct Prevention Platform is Arm support, which is not implemented yet.
Elena Yau - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Information Technology at a individual & family service with 201-500 employees
Aug 4, 2022
When things get done automatically, I would appreciate more logging of what's happening in the background... we should be able to backtrack from the log that gets uploaded to our cloud instance and see, forensically, what the root cause was.
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reviewer1914582 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Architect at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Jul 15, 2022
I would like a little more training for the admins.
reviewer1873749 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Security Analyst at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Jun 1, 2022
The interface on the endpoint could be a little more descriptive and more valuable. It doesn't always tell you the data you need to see. Improvement there would be very helpful.
Stephen Wicks - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at Vyper networks ltd
Sep 7, 2023
There's an issue in the installation process where you can't install it unless you disable the built-in Windows Bitdefender antivirus. So, you have to manually disable Microsoft Bitdefender in order to install Deep Instinct. So, that makes it impossible to do a network rollout unless you manually visit each computer, which is ridiculous.
Aaron Branson - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Marketing, Cybersecurity Solutions at Netsurion
Jun 21, 2023
Due to the nature of deep learning, it’s sometimes difficult to determine why the AI model has blocked a specific file, although this has improved over time.
NH
Security Consultant at IBM Thailand
Feb 9, 2024
If the tool was able to provide fine-tuning capabilities from the product's end depending on the environment of its user, then it would be a good improvement in the solution.
David Gorton - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Novacastrian Cyber Solutions
Apr 4, 2023
I think it's probably the administration, especially the administration platform, which could be improved in the solution. It's clunky and hard to navigate, especially for inexperienced technicians.
KS
Administrator at BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha
Jan 26, 2021
The Deep Instinct client stops working when you have two servers and you add high availability or Windows Failover Cluster mode. It doesn't work in a clustered mode. I haven't yet had time to go back and talk with their support and get it fixed. It would be good if they can make the installation independent of an actual user. Currently, its installation is dependent on the actual user being logged in. For example, a computer has to be logged in for the installation to happen. If it is not logged in, then on the cloud platform, it is going to show that the client is offline. On the management side of the cloud platform, we would like to have the administrators segregated by logical entities. We have told them that on their cloud management platform, we would like to be able to segregate clients into different logical entities or organizations so that the administrators are able to manage only those entities that are within their designated organization.