We performed a comparison between Darktrace and Rapid7 Metasploit based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, TitanHQ and others in Email Security."The initial setup is straightforward. You just add the license, click it, and then you can set up the rules. It is quite simple."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable features are safe attachments and safe links."
"Microsoft Defender has a feature to protect each and every attachment. Even if it's an encrypted attachment, it will check for any potential threats."
"Threat Explorer is one of the features that I very much like because it is a real-time report that allows you to identify, analyze, and trace security attacks."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 helps people to work remotely. It is a secure solution. We don't need to use our company's computers or get VPN connections to the networks. I can control how they share screens and what they send to the devices. It keeps our organizations confidential and sensitive information safe."
"It gives us visibility into threats and, for endpoints, it helps us to prioritize threats. We used to have a lack of visibility, but now our time to detect and respond has decreased."
"Defender for Office 365 has helped eliminate having to look at multiple dashboards and that is the aspect I like most about it. It is simpler, effective, and convenient. The users like the process efficiency."
"We liked their approach to identifying intrusions or network anomalies using AI."
"It's a very stable product."
"The solution can scale."
"The active threat dashboard is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"It is a very simple product to use."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The Antigena feature is most valuable. Once it learns your environment, Antigena can step in and block a denial of service attack, a ransomware attack, or just about anything that doesn't belong in the environment. It can detect any type of attack that hits the environment because it understands what normal looks like for the network. It is very useful for an autonomous response."
"I find it very good in the way that they show the past events, including the attack history."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"It's not possible to do penetration testing without being very proficient in Metasploit."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the scripts, the modules, and the tools that the Rapid7 Metasploit framework has."
"The reporting on the solution is good."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"I don't have any other tools like it, and I always use it when I'm doing a pen test. Metasploit is a great solution for penetration testing,"
"The option to generate phishing emails has proven to be very valuable in understanding the behavior of users."
"The solution is open source and has many small targetted penetration tests that have been written by many people that are useful. You can choose different subjects for the test, such as Oracle databases or Apache servers."
"One area for improvement is support, in terms of being able to reach them and, especially, technical support for configuration."
"About eight months ago, we started to measure the quantity of phishing and spam that we have been receiving, and it has been increasing a lot. That means that protection for our email is not as good as we were expecting."
"There is room for improvement in terms of reporting."
"I'd like some additional features any product can give me to protect our environment in a better way."
"The UI needs to be more user-friendly."
"The phishing and spam filters could use some improvement."
"We need a separate license and we don't know how to get the license that is required."
"This product's effectiveness could be improved, in terms of detecting unwanted spam or even malware between the emails, compared to other products."
"I did not use the AI features because they should make it more user-friendly which would be a benefit. Additionally, the solution could integrate with more SIEM or SOAR tools."
"Darktrace does not have any capabilities to configure."
"It could build in integrations for some complementary products, but it has an assistant plugin so this is not really a big deal."
"Its documentation is not up to the mark. At times, I have a lot of trouble finding a solution. Even when I posted questions on the community chats, it took a lot of time for me to get answers. That's something that can be improved. Darktrace can focus on creating a more interactive community. If there are more people from Darktrace to focus on community chats, it would be better."
"The solution could be easier to use."
"In an upcoming release, there could be more customizable playbooks or a library of playbooks to choose from."
"The product doesn't have an endpoint agent that can react to triggers set on the device,"
"Getting logs from different sources can be a challenge."
"Rapid7 Metasploit could be made easier for new users to learn."
"Rapid7 Metasploit can add a GUI feature because it is only available online."
"The solution should improve the responsiveness of its live technical support."
"I think areas with shortcomings that need improvement are more integration and automation."
"The solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"At the time I was using it, the graphical user interface needed some improvements."
"Metasploit cannot be installed on a machine with an antivirus."
"The initial setup was a bit "tweaky" for the open-source version."
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Darktrace is ranked 11th in Email Security with 66 reviews while Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 12th in Vulnerability Management with 18 reviews. Darktrace is rated 8.2, while Rapid7 Metasploit is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Darktrace writes "Great autonomous support, offers an easy setup, and has responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rapid7 Metasploit writes "Helps find vulnerabilities in a system to determine whether the system needs to be upgraded". Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and ExtraHop Reveal(x), whereas Rapid7 Metasploit is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Pentera, Acunetix, Rapid7 InsightVM and Tenable Vulnerability Management.
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