Solution Comparison
Vectra vs Darktrace
Hybrid and multi-cloud threat detection and response takes coverage, clarity and control to the next level and Darktrace simply doesn’t stack up to Vectra.
Why 8 out of 10 security teams choose Vectra over Darktrace
Unlike Darktrace anomaly-based AI detection, Vectra AI zeroes in on attacker behavior to reduce noise and ensure SOC analysts focus on what is real, not weird.
Darktrace AI takes human tuning to work as advertised, Vectra AI arms humans to prioritize their work, so SOC analysts focus more on attacks, less on admin.
With Darktrace, customers are on their own. With Vectra MDR we share responsibility with customers to stop attacks from becoming breaches.
The difference between Vectra and Darktrace is clear
full-time analysts
Only Vectra delivers AI-drive Attack Signal Intelligence to alleviate SOC analysts of the burden of tuning detections, and triaging and prioritizing events.
Only Vectra AI-enabled Operations provides the intelligent controls and flexibility SOC analysts need to investigate and stop attacks at any stage of attack progression.
Only Vectra provides complete attack coverage for all four hybrid cloud attack surfaces with bidirectional EDR integrations that optimize customers’ existing investments.
Only Vectra delivers AI-drive Attack Signal Intelligence to alleviate SOC analysts of the burden of tuning detections, and triaging and prioritizing events.
Only Vectra AI-enabled Operations provides the intelligent controls and flexibility SOC analysts need to investigate and stop attacks at any stage of attack progression.
The difference between Vectra and Darktrace is clear
How Vectra beats Darktrace
Attack coverage

On-premises, cloud, hybrid environments at scale, Vectra supports 300,000 users in a single device without compromising performance or analytics integrity.
Severe limitation on connections per minute – up to 10K users - traffic can be dropped before throughput capacity is reached.
Vectra automatically detects threats, identity misuse, SaaS exploits, and malware infiltration and infection via encrypted communications.
Darktrace offers cloud monitoring capabilities, but log queries are throttled by cloud providers creating detection latency and coverage gaps for attackers using eDiscovery and Power Automate to compromise M365.
including Crowdstrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender, CarbonBlack, Cybereason, and others for context, workflow and response capabilities.
- to improve Darktrace alerts versus supporting customers’ EDR / XDR implementations with network context and enrichment.
Signal Clarity

with self-tuning AI to minimize security analysts’ need to constantly tune. Easily activated to automate threat discovery, and efforts behind prioritization, hunting, and response to surface-only relevant attacker behavior to reduce load (10x) w/o complex rules.
- identifying everything different forces analysts to do the heavy lifting to determine if the alert is malicious or benign and what to prioritize.
By correlating events that characterize the nature of an attack in layman's terms, security analysts get the full chronology, context, criticality and urgency of an active attack in progress.
Without full context on an attack, analysts spend a fair amount of time figuring out if anomalous means bad.
Authorized behaviors are still present but have no scoring impact, so operators don’t lose sight of what has been allowed over time.
While it’s possible to tune, creating defeat rules is complex and the number of defeat rules needed for each module creates manual work for the operator resulting in countless hours or mistake-prone work with no ability to audit.
Intelligent Control

Whether it be ransomware, supply chain attacks, malicious hacks, or identity takeovers, Vectra native response controls can block/isolate an endpoint or host and lock down an identity.
If you want to expand it, the operator must add Antigena rules to thousands of models. If you choose to expand autonomous blocking, then you may end up disrupting legitimate traffic for what are false positives.
to measure the efficacy of their people, process and technology - what is detected, and how much time they are spending hunting, assessing & remediation of threats
to show how much processing their device has done and how much SOC analyst time is offloaded, but it does not account for how many human hours go into tuning the product
For Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) use cases which are a critical part of every security program, Vectra enables the operator to establish their desired GRC policies, alert where required and produce compliance reports.
Darktrace alerts on limited low-level conditions leaving operators with thousands of events to track as opposed to providing simple compliance reporting.
Why your peers chose Vectra over Darktrace

“With Darktrace, I have to go through lots of flashy things, not necessarily useful things before I start looking into a problem or detection. Whereas Vectra is far more accessible and readable from the start.”

“I found Darktrace was a bit noisier than Vectra. I like the way Vectra tells you exactly the things that are happening right now in your network, then groups it based on exactly what the type is, providing you a risk score.”

“We evaluated Darktrace, in addition to Vectra, each in a PoC. We chose Vectra because the things that Vectra picked up were far more useful, and necessary from an enterprise point of view. Darktrace was a bit noisier.”

“Our initial engagement with Darktrace wasn't good enough to provide confidence in their platform. Vectra stood out for its simplicity and the general confidence that I had with the people whom I was engaging and having conversations with at that time.”

“It came down to Darktrace and Vectra. Unfortunately, the support that we’d heard about from Darktrace and reviews that we read, led to, ‘Here’s the new tool set. Off you go’. This is what we didn’t want. The support from Vectra along with their customers’ references to say how good it was, I think we made the right decision.”
The power of the Vectra platform
Your first line of defense and single source of truth for unknown attacks across your Hybrid Network
Detect and stop evasive and evolving APTs from accessing hosts and data
post compromise
Cover over 90% of MITRE ATT&CK techniques with the most patents on MITRE D3FEND countermeasures
Automate manual tasks to reduce analyst workload and boost productivity and throughput by over 2x
Accelerate mean time to identify,
detect, contain and respond, improving metrics and boosting SOC efficiency
Consolidate network, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and identity threat visibility, context and control in one interface
Optimize investments in existing processes and tools with built-in EDR, SIEM, SOAR integrations and more
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