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Deep Instinct Prevention Platform pros and cons

4.3 out of 5

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PROS

Deep Instinct complements existing systems, allowing easy integration without replacing current antivirus or endpoint solutions, offering an additional level of protection.
It has low CPU consumption and a small footprint compared to other software like Sophos, making it lightweight and efficient.
Deep Instinct boasts a high detection rate and low false positives due to its behavior analysis engine and predictive model, ensuring real-time prevention of unknown malware.
The platform is favored for its strong prevention factors, performing pre-execution threat detection to stop attacks before they reach endpoints.
Deep Instinct features excellent support and quick response, enhancing user experience through efficient threat management and prevention capabilities.

CONS

Deep Instinct Prevention Platform lacks support for Linux and Unix operating systems, only covering macOS and Windows.
Pricing is a concern as it is not aggressive, making it challenging to sell compared to cheaper antivirus options.
Issues with SLAs exist, as they are not well-documented and intermediaries handle them, resulting in slower response times for customers.
The installation process is problematic, requiring the manual disabling of Microsoft Bitdefender, making network rollouts cumbersome.
Arm support is a significant area of improvement, as it is not yet implemented in Deep Instinct Prevention Platform.
 

Deep Instinct Prevention Platform Pros review quotes

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.
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.
FM
General Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Nov 22, 2018
The most valuable features are the static/dynamic analyses. Deep Instinct's predictive model has very high accuracy and provides threat information for unknown malware, such as malware classification, static analysis information, and sandbox information.
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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.
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.
RR
Managing Director at The IT Agency Pty Ltd
Mar 5, 2020
This solution is good at catching viruses and it's very effective and lightweight, which are all things that you want in an antivirus product.
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Owner at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Sep 3, 2020
The most valuable feature is its ability to detect and eradicate ransomware using non-signature-based methods.
NH
Security Consultant at IBM Thailand
Sep 17, 2020
Good detections for PowerShell. and good user interface.
KS
Administrator at BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha
Jan 26, 2021
It has given us a more structured approach for detecting and preventing threats. It has machine learning-based detection and prevention. Their engines, in even older versions, are able to pick these viruses and malware. They have posted a lot of use cases online for detecting different viruses and malware that have been out for many years.
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.
 

Deep Instinct Prevention Platform Cons review quotes

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.
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.
FM
General Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Nov 22, 2018
The Management Console is not localized.
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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
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."
RR
Managing Director at The IT Agency Pty Ltd
Mar 5, 2020
Reporting on incidents needs improvement.
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Owner at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Sep 3, 2020
If the client is working remotely and doesn't have a VPN then the deployment is difficult to do.
NH
Security Consultant at IBM Thailand
Sep 17, 2020
Some features are too resource intensive.
KS
Administrator at BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha
Jan 26, 2021
The Deep Instinct client stops working when you have two servers and you add high availability or Windows Failover Cluster mode. It doesn't work in a clustered mode. I haven't yet had time to go back and talk with their support and get it fixed. It would be good if they can make the installation independent of an actual user. Currently, its installation is dependent on the actual user being logged in. For example, a computer has to be logged in for the installation to happen. If it is not logged in, then on the cloud platform, it is going to show that the client is offline. On the management side of the cloud platform, we would like to have the administrators segregated by logical entities. We have told them that on their cloud management platform, we would like to be able to segregate clients into different logical entities or organizations so that the administrators are able to manage only those entities that are within their designated organization.
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.