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Deep Instinct Prevention Platform pros and cons

Vendor: Deep Instinct

4.3 out of 5

18 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Deep Instinct Prevention Platform effectively blocks various malware attacks before infiltration using non-signature methods. It detects ransomware and counters advanced threats without significant system impact. Efficient support services and robust integration capabilities enhance security technology synergy. However, incident reporting needs improvement, remote deployment without VPN is challenging, pricing is high, installation requires disabling Windows Bitdefender, and deep learning can complicate file blocking explanations.

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PROS

Deep Instinct is effective in catching viruses, lightweight, and does not significantly impact system performance.

It features non-signature-based detection methods particularly adept at identifying and eliminating ransomware.

The platform employs a machine learning-based approach which enhances the structure and efficiency of threat detection and prevention.

Deep Instinct emphasizes a prevention-first strategy, effectively stopping threats including unknown ransomware and malware before execution.

It offers robust integration capabilities and contributes as a strategic addition to various cybersecurity frameworks such as Open XDR.

CONS

Reporting on incidents needs improvement.

Deployment is difficult without a VPN for remote clients.

Some features are too resource intensive.

Pricing is higher compared to similar products.

Deep Instinct Prevention Platform client stops working in clustered modes.

Deep Instinct Prevention Platform Pros review quotes

Director Of Information Technology at a individual & family service with 201-500 employees

Aug 4, 2022

When we were looking at Carbon Black and Sophos, the prevention pieces weren't as strong when compared to DI, which is why we decided to go with DI... I would rather have a product that does the prevention up front and saves me the effort of having to wipe someone's workstation.

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PG

Director at IT Junction

Jan 17, 2019

It's just a single agent that has everything in it... With the EDR solutions, you have to install it, then you have another service history installed, and you have behavioral analytics, etc. With this, everything is in a single small "box," a small agent that has pretty much got everything.

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RB

25 Year Managed Security Service Veteran at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Dec 24, 2018

Instead of having features like rollback and after-event actionable stuff, the whole premise and the context of the solution is to actually prevent these malicious attacks from happening to begin with.... The ability to prevent threats is the most appealing aspect. It absolutely, 100 percent helps with real-time prevention of unknown malware. That's the strength of the product.

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EO

Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Nov 6, 2018

Deep Instinct complements the solutions we already have. You don't need to rip and replace any antivirus or endpoint that you have. It's easy to use and it's easy to have it side-by-side with other solutions. That makes it really easy to have an additional level of protection, rather than to hassle with doing solution migration.

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Principal Security Analyst at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jun 1, 2022

I really like the behavioral analysis feature, because it looks at all the different things, like arbitrary shellcode and reflective DLL. It looks at a lot of things that threat actors use as threat vectors to get into the environment.

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RW

Regional Technical Manager at a retailer with 201-500 employees

Nov 11, 2018

Its false positives are very low, because the behavior analysis engine double checks them.

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reviewer1914582

Systems Architect at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jul 15, 2022

Deep Instinct’s prevention-first approach to stopping unknown ransomware and malware is the reason why we purchased the product. The pre-execution versus post-execution is a big piece for us where it is able to stop something before it even hits the box or desktop. That was one of the big reasons why we went with Deep Instinct.

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Naveen Hariharan Vijaya

Security Consultant at IBM Thailand

Feb 9, 2024

The product offers integration capabilities and is also easy to use.

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PD

Director at Ancona

Jan 29, 2021

The most important thing is that it is for prevention. It prevents attacks of any type of malware. Normally, what we've seen in other products is that they are not for prevention. They isolate a possible threat that they don't understand or know about, and then they check it with our database to see if it needs any correction or elimination. This means that the threat is already inside a customer's base, whereas Deep Instinct prevents a threat from getting in. Prevention is basically done by an agent in each installation, PCU, or product. An agent has its own intelligence to be able to detect if it should stop a threat or not. It has been taught. It is like a brain that has been taught to react according to any possible threat. Deep Instinct is very light. It doesn't take too much CPU attention or memory. It doesn't slow down the performance. You don't really realize any change in the performance, which makes it very different from other solutions. They are usually heavy for the users.

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Head of Marketing, Cybersecurity Solutions at Netsurion

Jun 21, 2023

Deep Instinct was a strategic complement to our Open XDR platform.

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Deep Instinct Prevention Platform Cons review quotes

Director Of Information Technology at a individual & family service with 201-500 employees

Aug 4, 2022

When things get done automatically, I would appreciate more logging of what's happening in the background... we should be able to backtrack from the log that gets uploaded to our cloud instance and see, forensically, what the root cause was.

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PG

Director at IT Junction

Jan 17, 2019

If they can bring some additional, complementary solutions, like network scanning and the like, that will help. If they had some sort of a firewall which could help detect DDoS attacks and other things, it would be an improvement

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RB

25 Year Managed Security Service Veteran at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Dec 24, 2018

I would love to see a really exceptional, outstanding level of reporting. I know that's like asking for a unicorn to leap out of the sky with any of these products... When everything works, clients began to wonder: "Everything's fine. Why do we need you?" That's where the reporting capabilities would allow us to really demonstrate: "Hey, here's what's actually going on, Mr. Customer."

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EO

Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Nov 6, 2018

I would like to see improvement in the user interface so that the user has more control. For example, it would be good if a user could change their grouping if they want to be part of another group. Or if I want to right-click and scan a specific file that I just imported, that would be helpful. Sometimes you just want to do an extra scan to make sure you're safe.

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reviewer1873749

Principal Security Analyst at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jun 1, 2022

The interface on the endpoint could be a little more descriptive and more valuable. It doesn't always tell you the data you need to see. Improvement there would be very helpful.

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RW

Regional Technical Manager at a retailer with 201-500 employees

Nov 11, 2018

I am looking forward to them adding Linux in Q1 or Q2 of 2019, as this is often requested by my partners and customers. Currently, Deep Instinct only has Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS.

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reviewer1914582

Systems Architect at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jul 15, 2022

I would like a little more training for the admins.

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NH

Naveen Hariharan Vijaya

Security Consultant at IBM Thailand

Feb 9, 2024

If the tool was able to provide fine-tuning capabilities from the product's end depending on the environment of its user, then it would be a good improvement in the solution.

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PD

Director at Ancona

Jan 29, 2021

Its support for Linux and Unix operating systems can be improved. Currently, they cover macOS and Windows, but they don't cover Linux and some of the Unix products. Pricing is also an issue. Its pricing is not as aggressive as it could be, and its price makes it difficult to sell. Customers feel that they can get an antivirus for a lower price, even though it is not a similar product. It is technically different. Their SLAs can be better. They have to give you 24/7 support, but their SLAs are not very good. They should be better documented, and the offerings should also be a little bit better. What happens is that the SLAs end up in the hands of the intermediary, seller, or the local partner of Deep Instinct in a country. The customers want very fast SLAs in a very short time, but Deep Instinct doesn't give them at the same speed. Having said that, SLAs are important when you have a lot of issues, but this product doesn't have too many issues, so it is not a big concern. However, for a customer who doesn't know the product, it could be a concern.

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Head of Marketing, Cybersecurity Solutions at Netsurion

Jun 21, 2023

Due to the nature of deep learning, it’s sometimes difficult to determine why the AI model has blocked a specific file, although this has improved over time.

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