Comparison guide

Vectra AI vs. Corelight

Corelight DIY leaves you vulnerable — stop active cyberattacks with AI-driven detection instead.

“Our work is much more efficient with Vectra. We can detect, respond and investigate what’s important.”

Eric Weakland 
Director of Information Security
American University

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Compare Vectra AI to Corelight

Network
Public Cloud
Identity
SaaS
Vectra AI
Corelight
Limited

Attack coverage

Vectra AI provides complete attack coverage that’s purpose-built for network, identity, public cloud and SaaS. It can be deployed in a day.

Corelight is only for organizations that have already invested in building their own security solutions with Zeek, Suricata, Arkime, Elastic, TheHive and other open-source offerings.

Prioritize what is urgent
Triage what is irrelevant
Detect attacker behavior
Managed Detection with
full-time analysts
Vectra AI
Corelight

Signal Clarity

Vectra’s Attack Signal Intelligence relieves SOC analysts from tuning detections and triaging events. 

Corelight can’t detect unknown threats the way  Vectra AI does. It doesn’t offer prioritization, advanced investigations or managed detection and response (MDR) services. 

Integrated Investigation with threat context
Native targeted response and containment
Integrated targeted response and containment
Managed targeted response and containment
Vectra AI
Corelight

Intelligent Control

Only Vectra AI provides the native integrations analysts need to investigate and stop attacks at any stage of progression. 

Corelight uses Zeek to support detections and integrate third-party intelligence feeds. In other words, Corelight has no native response capabilities or AI-driven detection.

Attack coverage

Vectra AI provides complete attack coverage that’s purpose-built for network, identity, public cloud and SaaS. It can be deployed in a day.

Corelight is only for organizations that have already invested in building their own security solutions with Zeek, Suricata, Arkime, Elastic, TheHive and other open-source offerings.

Network
Public Cloud
Identity
SaaS
Vectra AI
Corelight
Limited
Signal clarity

Vectra’s Attack Signal Intelligence relieves SOC analysts from tuning detections and triaging events. 

Corelight can’t detect unknown threats the way  Vectra AI does. It doesn’t offer prioritization, advanced investigations or managed detection and response (MDR) services.

Prioritize what is urgent
Triage what is irrelevant
Detect attacker behavior
Managed Detection with full-time analysts
Vectra AI
ExtraHop
Intelligent control

Only Vectra AI provides the native integrations analysts need to investigate and stop attacks at any stage of progression. 

Corelight uses Zeek to support detections and integrate third-party intelligence feeds. In other words, Corelight has no native response capabilities or AI-driven detection.

Integrated Investigation with threat context
Native targeted response and containment
Integrated targeted response and containment
Managed targeted response and containment
Vectra AI
Corelight
Limited

“Vectra AI was the only solution that was easy and fast to deploy and maintain, and that was giving us all three options for rule detection.”

Senior Security Engineer
Distribution Company

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How Vectra AI beats Corelight

Better attack coverage

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Corelight
Vectra AI fully automates threat discovery across your entire network, from on-premises to hybrid cloud.
Corelight takes a fundamentally different approach to network detection and response.
Vectra AI provides detailed insights across complex networks — no hidden fees or add-ons.
Looking for AI-enabled security? You won’t get that with Corelight.
Vectra AI can monitor up to 300,000 hosts at a time.
Corelight is focused on building data lakes from network metadata.

Stronger signal clarity

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Corelight
Vectra AI thinks like an attacker to identify unknown threats.
Corelight users believe user-generated queries are the best way to find threats.
Vectra AI continuously analyzes network and app metadata.
Corelight consists of “packages” from the Zeek Package Source on GitHub.
Vectra AI automatically discerns between authorized behaviors and truly suspicious events.
Corelight provides no prioritization, triage or advanced investigation capabilities. 

More intelligent control

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Corelight
Vectra AI-driven threat detection and response lessens your risk of analyst burnout.
Corelight doesn’t employ any type of intelligent threat detection.
Vectra AI detects urgent threats in minutes. Sometimes seconds.
Corelight only integrates with open-source solutions — which means compatibility often becomes an issue.
Vectra AI lets you quickly establish desired GRC policy alerts.
Corelight relies on open-source software that can be more susceptible to security vulnerabilities.

See and stop attacks faster with Vectra AI

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