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Vectra AI mindshare

As of March 2025, the mindshare of Vectra AI in the Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) category stands at 11.5%, up from 10.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)

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CategoryIntrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)Mar 29, 2025Download
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Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Healthcare Company
5%
University
5%
Retailer
4%
Comms Service Provider
4%
Educational Organization
4%
Real Estate/Law Firm
4%
Non Profit
3%
Energy/Utilities Company
3%
Insurance Company
3%
Legal Firm
3%
Construction Company
3%
Outsourcing Company
2%
Transportation Company
2%
Media Company
2%
Writing And Editing Position
2%
Wholesaler/Distributor
1%
Hospitality Company
1%
Performing Arts
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
Consumer Goods Company
1%
Marketing Services Firm
1%

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Operational Security Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Vectra AI
Oct 29, 2020
Product version discussed: 6.1
Using Recall and Detect we have been able to track down if users are trying to bypass proxies

Pros

"The most valuable feature for Cognito Detect, the main solution, is that external IDS's create a lot of alerts. When I say a lot of alerts I really mean a lot of alerts. Vectra, on the other hand, contextualizes everything, reducing the number of alerts and pinpointing only the things of interest. This is a key feature for me. Because of this, a non-trained analyst can use it almost right away."

Cons

"Vectra is still limited to packet management. It's only monitoring packet exchanges. While it can see a lot of things, it can't see everything, depending on where it's deployed. It has its limits and that's why I still have my SIEM."
DW
Operations Manager at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
Verified user of Vectra AI
Aug 4, 2021
Product version discussed: 6.9
Gives us a greater level of confidence that we will be able to detect threats more quickly

Pros

"One of the core features is that Vectra AI triages threats and correlates them with compromised host devices. From a visibility perspective, we can better track the threat across the network. Instead of us potentially finding one device that has been impacted without Vectra AI, it will give us the visibility of everywhere that threat went. Therefore, visibility has increased for us."

Cons

"I would like to see data processed onshore. Right now, the cloud components, like Office 365, must be processed on servers outside of Australia. I would like to see a future adoption of onshore processing. "
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Senior Security Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Vectra AI
Jul 21, 2021
Easy to deploy and maintain, gives us ML, AI, and custom detection options for rule detection, and saves storage cost and time

Pros

"It does a reliable job of parsing out the logs of all the network traffic so that we can ingest them into our SIEM and utilize them for threat hunting and case investigations. It is pretty robust and reliable. The administration time that we spend maintaining it or troubleshooting it is very low. So, the labor hour overhead is probably our largest benefit from it. We spend 99% of our time in Vectra investigating cases, responding to incidents, or hunting, and only around 1% of our time is spent patching, troubleshooting, or doing anything else. That's our largest benefit from Vectra."

Cons

"They use a proprietary logging format that is probably 90% similar to Bro Logs. Their biggest area of improvement is finishing out the remaining 10%. That 10% might not be beneficial to their ML engine, but that's fine. The industry standard is Zeek Logs or Bro Logs, or Bro or Zeek, depending on how old you are. While they have 90% of those fields, they're still missing some fields. In very rare instances, some community rules do not have the fields that they need, and we had to modify community rules for our logs. So, their biggest area of improvement would be to just finish their matching of the Zeek standard."
PeerSpot user
Head of IT Security, Acting CISO at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Vectra AI
Nov 4, 2021
Product version discussed: Cognito Detect 6.12.2
We can detect systems that are not behaving right because they are not configured correctly

Pros

"Cognito Streams gives you a detailed view of what happens in the network in the form of rich metadata. It is just a super easy way to capture network traffic for important protocols, giving us an advantage. This is very helpful on a day-to-day basis. "

Cons

"If you hit a certain number of rules, triage filters, or groups, the UX responds more slowly. However, we have a complex network and a lot of rules. So, our setup might not be a typical implementation example. We even had UX engineers onsite, and they looked at issues, improvements, and user feedback. Since then, it has gotten a lot better, they even built in features that we specifically requested for our company. "
JV
Cyber Specialist, Forensics at Richemont
Verified user of Vectra AI
May 5, 2020
Makes it much easier for us, as analysts, to engage with and visualize incidents, increasing our efficiency

Pros

"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..."

Cons

"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."
PeerSpot user
Global Security Operations Manager at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Verified user of Vectra AI
Mar 1, 2020
Aggregates information on a host and host basis so you can look at individual detections and how they occur over time

Pros

"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."

Cons

"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."
Mohammad Alkurdi - PeerSpot user
Owner at Fortibits
Verified user of Vectra AI
Jan 5, 2025
Innovative detection features enhance monitoring

Pros

"There are many detection features available."

Cons

"The advantages of the integration are not entirely out-of-the-box. You have to do it manually."
PeerSpot user
Head of Information Security at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Vectra AI
Jan 7, 2020
Gives us that extra chance to stop a disaster before it happens

Pros

"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."

Cons

"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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