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Vectra AI pros and cons

Vendor: Vectra AI

4.3 out of 5

47 reviews
97% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Vectra AI excels in detecting internal network threats using artificial intelligence, focusing on early detection and response through anomalous behavior. Integrated machine learning aids in risk scoring, alert prioritization, and streamlining incident management for efficient resource allocation. While it integrates with Office 365 and major cloud providers, reporting features and integration with other security components require enhancement. Issues with syslog details, mode changes, and investigation complexity are noted. Rules need precision improvements.

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PROS

Vectra AI utilizes artificial intelligence to detect anomalous behaviors, helping reduce alert fatigue and allowing analysts to prioritize resources efficiently.

Vectra AI provides aggregated risk scores based on threat impact and certainty, which helps prioritize threats and streamline security operations.

Vectra AI reduces alert noise by consolidating numerous alerts into a single incident, ensuring the alerts are actionable and manageable within a short time frame.

Vectra AI offers instant network visibility by correlating data without managing a SIEM, adding value by freeing up resources for expert tasks.

Vectra AI integrates with cloud providers and other cybersecurity tools, enhancing threat detection capabilities and improving overall network security.

CONS

Vectra AI has not reduced the security analyst workload due to continued reliance on SIEM for compliance.

The Syslogs sent to SIEM are lacking in detail, affecting data correlation with other events.

Integration with external threat feeds and other security components requires improvement.

The reporting features of Vectra AI are limited, with a need for more customizable output.

Pricing complexity and model of Vectra AI have faced criticism from customers.

Vectra AI Pros review quotes

reviewer1259193

Head of Information Security at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 7, 2020

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.

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reviewer1263180

Cyber Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 12, 2020

It is doing some artificial intelligence. If it sees a server doing a lot of things, then it will assume that is normal. So, it is looking for anomalous behavior, things that are out of context which helps us reduce time. Therefore, we don't have to look in all the logs. We just wait for Vectra to say, "This one is behaving strange," then we can investigate that part.

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reviewer1296420

Global Security Operations Manager at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Feb 25, 2020

One of the most valuable features of the platform is its ability to provide you with aggregated risk scores based on impact and certainty of threats being detected. This is both applied to individual and host detections. This is important because it enables us to use this platform to prioritize the most likely imminent threats. So, it reduces alert fatigue follow ups for security operation center analysts. It also provides us with an ability to prioritize limited resources.

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reviewer1302852

Sr. Specialist - Enterprise Security at a mining and metals company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 4, 2020

The solution's ability to reduce alerts, by rolling up numerous alerts to create a single incident or campaign, helps in that it collapses all the events to a particular host, or a particular detection to a set of hosts. So it doesn't generate too many alerts. By and large, whatever alerts it generates are actionable, and actionable within the day.

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JV

Cyber Specialist, Forensics at Richemont

Apr 30, 2020

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...

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MD

Security Operations Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 14, 2020

The dashboard gives me a scoring system that allows me to prioritize things that I should look at. I may not necessarily care so much about one event, whereas if I have a single botnet detection or a brute force attack, I really want to get on top of those.

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reviewer1357995

Director, Information Security at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 27, 2020

The solution provide visibility into behaviors across the full lifecycle of an attack in our network, beyond just the Internet gateway. It makes our security operations much more effective because we are now looking not just at traffic on the border, but we're looking at east-west internal traffic. Now, not only will we see if an exploit kit is being downloaded, but we would be able to see then if that exploit kit was then laterally distributed into our environment.

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reviewer1358853

Information Technology Security Engineer II at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

May 28, 2020

One of the most valuable features is all the correlation that it does using AI and machine learning. An example would be alerting on a host and then alerting on other things, like abnormal behavior, that it has noticed coming from the same host. It's valuable because we're a very lean team.

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reviewer1362528

Manager, IT Security at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

Jun 3, 2020

Vectra produces actionable data using automation. That has helped us. It's less manpower now to look at incidents, which has definitely increased efficiency. Right now, in a lot of cases, our mean time to detection is within zero days. This tells me by the time something happened, and we were able to detect it, it was within the same day.

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MH

Headofinfosec82347

Head of Information Security at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 26, 2020

It has reduced the time it takes to respond to attacks. That comes back to the proactive point. It makes us able to lower down in the kill chain, we can react now, rather than reacting to incidents that happened, we can see an instant, in some cases, as it's being implemented, or as it's being launched.

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Vectra AI Cons review quotes

reviewer1259193

Head of Information Security at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 7, 2020

The solution has not reduced the security analyst workload in our organization because we still need to SIEM. Unfortunately, while Vectra, for us, is a brilliant tool for network investigations, giving wonderful visibility, it doesn't go the whole way to replace our SIEM that is needed for compliance. So, I still have the same amount of alerting and logging that I did before. It gives us more defined ability to see incidents, but it doesn't give us enough information to satisfy a PCI or 27001 audit.

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reviewer1263180

Cyber Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 12, 2020

We would like to see more information with the syslogs. The syslogs that they send to our SIEM are a bit short compared to what you can see. It would be helpful if they send us more data that we can incorporate into our SIEM, then can correlate with other events.

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reviewer1296420

Global Security Operations Manager at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Feb 25, 2020

You are always limited with visibility on the host due to the fact that it is a network based tool. It gives you visibility on certain elements of the attack path, but it doesn't necessarily give you visibility on everything. Specifically, the initial intrusion side of things that doesn't necessarily see the initial compromise. It doesn't see stuff that goes on the host, such as where scripts are run. Even though you are seeing traffic, it doesn't necessarily see the malicious payload. Therefore, it's very difficult for it to identify these type of host-driven complex attacks.

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reviewer1302852

Sr. Specialist - Enterprise Security at a mining and metals company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 4, 2020

One thing which I have found where there could be improvement is with regard to the architecture, a little bit: how the brains and sensors function. It needs more flexibility with regard to the brain. If there were some flexibility in that regard, that would be helpful, because changing the mode of the brain is complex. In some cases, the change is permanent. You cannot revert it.

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JV

Cyber Specialist, Forensics at Richemont

Apr 30, 2020

Some of the customization could be improved. Everything is provided for you as an easy solution to use, but working with it and doing specific development could be worked on a bit more in the scope of an incident response team.

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MD

Security Operations Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 14, 2020

I'd like to be able to get granular reports and to be able to output them into formats that are customizable and more useful. The reporting GUI is lacking.

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reviewer1357995

Director, Information Security at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 27, 2020

Some of their integrations with other sources of data, like external threat feeds, took a bit more work than I had hoped to get integrated.

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reviewer1358853

Information Technology Security Engineer II at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

May 28, 2020

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.

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reviewer1362528

Manager, IT Security at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

Jun 3, 2020

I would like to see a bit more strategic metrics instead of technical data. Information that I could show to my executive management team or board would be valuable.

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MH

Headofinfosec82347

Head of Information Security at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 26, 2020

The false positives and the tuning side of it is something that could use improvement. But that could be from our side.

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