Deep Instinct Prevention Platform Reviews

The primary use case is advanced endpoint protection in the context of prevention.

Take, for example, EMOTET. It is a really nasty piece of malware. I joke with my clients that it's like the evil party-planner. It gets a foothold and then it pulls in all its bad-guy buddies. EMOTET is exceptionally dangerous because it's multifaceted: botnet, cryptocurrency mining, and ransomware. Being able to prevent threats such as EMOTET, which was originally intended to attack the banking industry, is among the best successes we've had with DI. And it's just one of many. It's been so substantial that I don't even know how to quantify it.

To put it in context, when we review a security product, everything we do is weighed against three criteria: security, reliability, and a positive user experience. Within any cybersecurity solution is the need to strike the balance between security and productivity. When you take a product like Deep Instinct and remove the overhead while allowing the organization to function as though there were no security inhibitors - yet still provide that high level of security - to me that's a huge win because we’re not sacrificing productivity. We are allowing the organization to still function at a high level without the burdens of so many controls that choke the machine from unnecessary overhead.

In terms of CPU consumption, it is exceptionally low. We've been running the product for over a year internally, and we have zero issues. I am aware that in some environments, when first deployed, because it literally scans the entire machine, it can consume resources. But after the initial scan is complete, we don't even notice it's there. From a pure user-perspective, in comparison to some of the traditional "bloatware" that some of the legacy, traditional AV guys have become over time, it's a substantial difference on the positive side in the sense that you just don't notice it. I literally notice no impact on my day-to-day actions. It's somewhat amazing. The footprint is so light that you wonder, "Where's the 'gotcha' in this?" Light footprint and super effective? Okay, sign me up.

We provide managed security services to our clients and my belief is the best threat is the one that never happens or is mitigated before it's given an opportunity to establish a foothold. We were approached by a peer of ours about two-and-a-half years ago, right before we met Deep Instinct, and discussed partnering with them to resell our infrastructure solutions, and us support and be the West Coast coverage for a competing endpoint solution. We didn't move forward with our peer, though it became clear, coming out of our discussions with them, that our infrastructure services that were our core competency were going to need to be complemented with an endpoint solution, because these folks were now a competitor.

We started looking at different options. This is around the time that a lot of players were starting to come up, such as Cylance, SentinelOne, and Carbon Black. We worked through the gauntlet of these products and others. Interestingly, within a month I was introduced to Deep Instinct which had just come out of stealth mode. It was a differentiator. Of all the products, what I saw that intrigued me most were the prevention capabilities, where instead of focusing on features like rollback, the whole premise and the context of the solution is to actually prevent these malicious attacks from happening to begin with.

As a service provider who is responsible for the wellbeing of our client base, that's a much more appealing approach than the ability to roll back, because in any rollback situation there is always an opportunity that it's not going to roll back exactly how you wanted it. So it aligned with our core business values. The ability to prevent threats is the most appealing aspect.

Deep Instinct absolutely, 100 percent helps with real-time prevention of unknown malware. That's the strength of the product. We've just surpassed 20,000 endpoints under our purview, and over 75,000,000,000 files scanned. We had an event this past summer where there were some environments that hadn't fully migrated over to Deep Instinct. Within those environments, the machines that were defended by Deep Instinct continued without issue, whereas user machines that were not defended by Deep Instinct had substantial issues that were not resolved until we actually were able to get Deep Instinct on them.

We have a running list of all the competitive products we run over the top of or concurrently with Deep Instinct. At one milestone, Deep Instinct had discovered over 5,000 existing threats that were present on existing workstations, across 32 different competitive products that were defending these workstations, though provided zero visibility into the fact that the risks were present. This number was at the 7,500 endpoints defended milestone and has grown significantly as deployments have expanded. It is worth mentioning, included in that list are all the aforementioned competitors we had considered.

Deep Instinct provides classification of unknown malware without human involvement. Our analysts and engineers use that data as part of the validation and remediation process. The feature is tremendously insightful and tremendously helpful. As an operator, anything that shortens the path to clarity is a value.

Finally, one of the most important things that we haven't highlighted yet is that it has a very low false-positive ratio. That is important because it means we're are maximizing our efficiency. Because the false-positives are so low, our need to carry excessive staffing is minimized by not requiring headcount to filter through the noise. In our assessments of other products, we learned some of the competing products literally have teams of hundreds of analysts breaking down threats that their tools are detecting due to excessively high false positives. Because of this, those solutions were not considered. We're able to support the entire 20,000-endpoint base with just a handful of engineers. The time savings are substantial, and impact on morale positive. We’re seeing false-positives at about 5 for every 10,000,000 files scanned. There's one company that comes to mind and I know they have more than a couple of hundred analysts filtering through what they're flagging. I actually don't know if Deep Instinct has any analysts because the detection rates are so high.

The Achilles heel in our industry is reporting. I would love to see 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. But reporting is always the thing that it is challenging. Fortunately, because as operators we get information through the dashboard, it hasn't been an issue yet. But for us, to really differentiate and really squeeze the full value out of this with our clients, the reporting is critical. Why is that? 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."

Deep Instinct has proven to be a stable and reliable solution. We have had minimal issues with it. We're pushing it to our entire client base and rolling our endpoint protection solution on Deep Instinct.

Our implementation strategy - and we always advise our clients to do this with any product - is to take a subset of the environment and do a limited install on a handful of machines. The purpose is to uncover any existing or potential issues with line-of-business apps or any non-standard elements in the environment. The aspect which most people fail to consider is that when you add a more sophisticated cybersecurity-purposed tool, the more advanced capabilities will expose any existing shortcomings in the environment. Consequently, if you have not architected your environment correctly, these tools tend to expose those shortcomings. Most often, clients want to point a finger at the tool. The reality is that the tool is doing its job and there's some aspect of the network that it just brought to light.

I travel the country speaking at cybersecurity events, and will always remember a specific gentleman because I really had empathy for him. He asked a question out of frustration regarding a competing product, and what do you do when installing “Solution-X” and it blue-screens the entire environment. My first thought was, "Why are you installing into an entire environment without testing?"

Whether it's a premium, next-generation firewall at the edge or a premium solution on the endpoint, if there's an issue with the machine or something in the stack, it's going to have an effect. Why? Because delivering advanced-security services require the margins for error be minimal. They have to be. That's how you close gaps. So that pre-testing by installing in a subset, that proof of concept, is how you get clarity and certainty that you can deploy environment-wide without issues.

The Brain is Cloud-Based, and scalability infinite. We've surpassed 20,000 endpoints and are growing rapidly.

Our partners are regional, managed service providers and they source the tool through us. We provide support, design, care and feeding, or we provide training and an escalation point. Recognizing the diversity of environments our offerings are flexibile to work in ways that best support our Partners business.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward, at least on PC. Mac OS has a few curveballs to work around, which Apple has built in to protect the environment. But once it's in - I've had it on my MacBook Air for eight months without issue - it just works.

Deployment takes less than 15 minutes. For the install, the initial scan can take ten hours or more depending on how much data there is to be scanned. But it's typically complete within a day.

For deployment, it takes one of our team members a few minutes on the endpoint, or we have also deployed via multiple RMM tools. For the actual day-to-day maintenance and monitoring, and all the security benefits that we stack on top of it, our team is well north of one. When stuff kicks up that merit’s investigation, to validate whether it's an issue or requires further action and escalation, if needed, to the Deep Instinct team, that's what those staff members are doing. They're also making sure that the environment across those 20,000 endpoints - we are approaching 250 to 300 clients - are running clean and healthy on a day-to-day basis. But in general, the tool is effective and efficient.

The ROI is that your people are able to remain productive. You're not paying ransomware, your systems are healthy and operational, and you're not putting out fires. You're being productive.

I think the pricing is a huge value. In comparison to the other products out there, it's exceptionally competitively priced. When you consider the lower administrative overhead that it facilitates, it's an absolute value.

Our partners are regional, managed service providers and they source the tool through us. We provide support and design and care and feeding, or we provide training and an escalation point. We've actually got a lot of flexibility in our offerings to them so that the tool works in a way that best supports their business.

The experience of running over the top of competing products and having such a high detection rate of risk that was present on those machines, and the ability to replicate that whenever we go into a new environment - we traditionally will uncover things that the incumbent had not identified.

I've been around this industry for 20 years and there are just certain things that, when you see them, you know they're going to be a game-changer. It was very clear to me that this product, if we could work with the company to get the functionality out of it that we needed, would be a game-changer.

I don't give anything a ten, so I'd give it a solid nine. The only thing keeping this from being a ten is "wow-me" reporting. If the rating was purely on the product and prevention, it would be an absolute ten.

Our primary use case is anti-malware, to prevent endpoints from getting viruses.

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 endpoint protection, rather than to hassle with doing solution migration.

It helps with real-time prevention of unknown malware. I have seen several instances where, when I surf the web, Deep Instinct prevents it and quarantines it for me. The other solution that I am using doesn't pick it up. Deep Instinct prevented me from clicking on it. Otherwise, I would have been infected.

Also, the CPU consumption is low compared to what I have been using in my current environment. The footprint is a lot smaller, about a quarter of what I have now. It is very small. It doesn't use up many resources. It's only when it's running one particular type of scan that it really spikes up the resources. Otherwise, it really just stays in the background and is low on footprint.

What is commendable about Deep Instinct is that they have a single platform, regardless of whether you have Windows, Mac, or even Android phone. It's a very good platform because it's all-in-one.

In addition, it's easy, because once you deploy the endpoint, the policy comes in and there is not much to configure. You can do whatever you like, unlike other solutions where you need to explicitly create exceptions if you want to do certain things. Here, you can do anything that you want and have the assurance that Deep Instinct will catch anything that is malicious.

The malware classification is very good because it tells me, "This is most likely ransomware or a worm." In other solutions, they usually just have a flat statement saying it's a worm or just that it's a virus. That leaves it open-ended and you have to do your own investigation, put it into a sandbox and really explore it before you actually know what it is. A lot of technical or even expert knowledge is required before you can analyze it. Here, you can do it without an expert opinion. It's better laid out in the static form. It even tells you the process chain, where you know what executes and then what happens to it. If it's running something that it shouldn't, then that's potentially something bad.

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.

So far it has not crashed. It has not given me any problems. It's a very stable application.

Because it is cloud-based, you can scale. Because it runs on AWS, ultimately the bandwidth is as big as AWS can provide, which is as big as you can imagine.

In my office there are about 20 users, but we do have customers outside our office who are also using it.

So far they have been rather responsive. They have been able to give an analysis of instances or events that we have sent them, and they have been able to come back with positive results. Turnaround has been within a day.

I work for a company that is a distributor for Deep Instinct. We use it as well as sell it. It's in our interest to be familiar with the product to sell it and support it.

It's very easy. You can deploy to many endpoints in a very short amount of time. If you are doing it manually, it's just one simple command.

I can deploy it in a number of minutes for one or two machines. Configuring the policies takes about five minutes, and then deploying takes another five minutes or. All in all, ten minutes.

In terms of an implementation strategy, to deploy it to the masses it would be easier to go by Microsoft SCCM or any Mass Deployment Tools. You just put in a script and it will run and everyone will be done automatically. You just monitor it through the Deep Instinct dashboard. Usually, in other solutions, you won't get updates until a long time after. Here you see the overall status of every user: Are they registered? Are they deployed? Are they uninstalled? It is very intuitive.

You don't need a lot of people to maintain it. You might need two or three people to do round-the-clock standby. 

I don't deal with sales, I am the technical guy, the sales engineer. I do see satisfaction from customers. They are happy that there is a solution that differentiates itself from the other solutions and is really able to complement whatever they have. I do see many customers being satisfied with this solution.

Time savings are definitely there. If you cut down the incidents, you save the time dealing with them. If you don't have to deal with them, that's a lot of time saved. And since you don't have to have people to manage the solution, that's people saved. In multiple ways there is ROI, it's definitely there.

Because we are doing the MSSP model for Deep Instinct, we are able to get even very few licenses. Users can sign up even if they have a small office or, of course, a big office. It's really scalable and elastic in that sense.

Now that I have Deep Instinct, I don't know if one day I will just uninstall my current solution.

Compared to various competitors, Deep Instinct has a differentiator: It really does deep learning. Many of those doing machine-learning require the cloud. Deep Instinct is able to do it on-prem and fully self-contained. Once I install it I can even go offline or even go away from the cloud. It gives assurance that you're protected for a long time.

Generally, as a company, we like the solution. As compared to many other solutions on the market, it has a differentiator: the deep learning, and they even share what their deep learning algorithms are. You are really assured that this thing will be able to solve real-world problems.

In terms of Deep Instinct finding any malicious files which were underscored by other solutions, I have not really gone into the details but I do see that sometimes, when I click on the link to go to Virus Total, it doesn't show up anywhere else. But I haven't really dug deep enough.

As for the extent to which it is used in our organization, it is generally used, everybody has it. The beauty about Deep Instinct is that you can set and forget it. You don't really have to deal with it, unlike other solutions where you have to constantly have an IT administrator who manages it day in, day out. Here, it's more like when and if something happens, then I take a look.

I expect we will increase our usage of it. As more users come on board, we could have it installed as part of the standard package. In general, I would like to see more people install and use Deep Instinct.

One feature that is not utilized that much is the appliance on-prem sandbox where you can generate static notices for P-Files, because people generally don't log in much to take a look. So they don't generate messages. Similarly, the upload locks are under-used, because you can do it centrally. You don't have to visit the users, you can just do it from the console which is a very awesome feature.

In terms of the rate of false positives, compared to other solutions, it depends on the environment. Some environments have more, some have less. Some don't even have any. It varies. It's more conditional. Every solution has its fair share of false positives. In some environments there are more, some there are less. If you were to put them all together in the same environment then you will be able to make an apples to apples comparison.

We used it basically with the idea of replacing antiviruses. We've done a proof of concept with a few customers. The experience has been at some customers of ours, but there hasn't been a final sale. We used the latest version of this solution.

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.

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.

I have been using this solution for a year or so.

It is totally stable. There is no problem with its stability.

It is scalable. Our clients are medium to large organizations. 

Their support is pretty good. Their documentation is also all in order.

It is pretty straightforward to have it working. Its deployment is very fast. You put the agent into a computer or mobile phone, and it is very light. Everything is connected and registered in the console, and the console will do an audit and follow up with every unit in the network. You can get those statistics and information out of the console.

It is pretty simple to deploy and maintain. It doesn't really need maintenance. Many other competitor products have very frequent revisions or upgrades of the product, sometimes even in the same month or week, whereas with this product, there are at the most two revisions or upgrades in a year. It is very simple to administer it.

Its pricing is too high, but that is not because of the product. It is expensive because of the cost of the console. You need a console to control the whole thing, but the console is expensive. You have to split this cost among all possible users. Normally, to be able to make it economically attractive, you need at least 1,000 agents, PCs, or users. If you have a customer with 300 to 500 agents, PCs, or users, it becomes too pricey.

It is very simple to get it working and keep it working.

I would rate Deep Instinct a nine out of ten. It is a great product.

I use it to help my customers secure their environments. I am using it internally for my own network as well.

I had one of the traditional AVs in my environment and I had some sort of unusual behavior on my machine. I was trying to figure out what was going on. The AV did not pick it up. I tried some other solutions as well, traditional ones, to find out what was going on, but nothing got picked up. The machine was very slow and at times it would act very funny, screens would flick around and sometimes it would just close down.

I definitely knew there was something going on. I thought, "Given I have Deep Instinct now, let me try it on that machine." When I installed it, the moment it started to scan the machine, it picked up this particular virus which had actually masked itself like a fake OS. It had actually taken over my original machine. Nobody else was able to pick it up, but Deep Instinct was able to and it freed up my machine. Now the machine is absolutely fine.

I've got the image of that virus in the sandbox to try to find out exactly what sort of virus it is. As of today, nobody else has picked it up. It's a six-month-old virus.

Some of my customers have come across quite a few other malicious files which were underscored by other solutions and, obviously, they were not happy with the traditional solutions. They have compared it with the likes of Kaspersky, Trend Micro, Symantec, and McAfee, but Deep Instinct stands out, catching everything. Deep Instinct is much more powerful because of the way that it has been made.

In my own environment, Deep Instinct has found around 15 to 20 such malicious files in six to seven months.

It also helps with real-time prevention of unknown malware. I was trying to backup one of my mobile phones on my laptop, and some script would have ended up being uploaded onto my machine. Because the agent was live, the moment it detected something it just blocked it. It just picks up things straight away.

I haven't really looked at the CPU consumption, but given that even when the scanning was going on, as well as any live detection that comes through, I have never seen any performance degradation on my machine. It's been working fine without me noticing anything happening in the back end. I haven't seen any problems in terms of the performance of the machine, but I haven't really checked out the CPU consumption. I probably would have looked at it if I had found the machine was slow. But I've never needed to because it is so fast.

There is no comparison, regarding CPU consumption, when you look at competitors. There's really no comparison at all. One of the major AVs has so many different services that degrade the performance quite a lot, and one has to keep turning off all the other services just to keep my machine working and to avoid alerts. It has been a very different experience using Deep Instinct. I don't have to worry about some other solution adding more services. One engine does its job.

For me, it definitely takes a lot of time and effort away from trying to find the cause of the problem if an attack happens. Without the solution, if something goes wrong, it's usually going to take a couple of hours just to figure out what's wrong with the machine. It definitely saves that time and effort.

It is a very easy solution in terms of the deployment. It's just a single agent that has everything in it. You don't have to really think too much about your strategy for securing your endpoint. 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. This is what has excited me, my team, as well as my end customers who are using it. It's an absolutely fantastic solution. 

It's very easy going and has got the latest technology, which is the deep learning. That is one step ahead of machine-learning because there is no feature engineering in it. That is the key difference. With today's solutions, everything around them can be re-engineered given they have access to similar tools outside. Given the proprietary framework these guys have, nobody else has access to it. That makes it more secure.

It classifies unknown malware as well. I've got various classifications already: either a backdoor entry or 100 percent virus or malware or a scripting shell. Scripting shell has been detected quite a lot. Viruses have been detected. Two backdoor entries have been trying to get on. I've got a number of different types of attacks that have been happening.

From the dashboard, I can see what I've picked up that's live. I can see the number of users, the number of devices, what are the risks. It has remote accessibility to deploy the agent as well as remove the agent, as well as modify it and update it.

It has the lowest false-positive ratio that I have come across. I have only had one which was a legitimate file that I had to whitelist. It was for one of the applications I was trying to install and integrate. But the false-positive ratio is very low.

The online and offline mode of this technology has actually made a huge difference. I don't have to worry about my employees when they take their machines anywhere. Whether they're connected or not connected, I know it's all secure. If anybody tried to put in a USB or whatever, it just does its job. From that perspective, I see a big difference.

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's just an extension of what they do, so it would not be just the endpoint. If they can take the technology and make it more useful across the network and add anything that could help improve the work environment, that would be good. 

I'm watching closely to see what they next bring onboard. But within the product itself, overall I don't see any required improvement because it has a very lightweight agent, it's fast and quick, and it detects everything. I haven't experienced any negativity on the Deep Instinct side.

The UI is pretty straightforward. It's very simple. It would be nice to have if there were options where, if I have to do SIEM integration, I could do so from the UI: Just pick and choose what SIEM solutions the customers use and have options to have out-of-the-box connection facility. If I had an option to do SIEM integration out-of-the-box from the user interface, that would be handy.

It's very stable. I haven't had any issues with the deployments, any performance issues, or conflicts with anything.

One exception was when one of my customers tried to do the install Deep Instinct, but their existing Bit Defender was detecting the solution as something trying to get into the environment. Obviously there was a conflict. We just whitelisted on both sides and both of them were talking to each other. They were augmented rather than competing.

It's quite scalable. In fact, I'm working on an opportunity where we're looking at around 20,000 seats. I don't see any issues, although time will tell when we deploy 20,000. But it is scalable to that extent.

Support is fantastic. Whenever I have any kind of query or questions, the team is absolutely spot-on, responding back immediately.

When I was doing a small pilot for one of my customers, I got stuck with a very silly thing about creating a user ID in the organization. I got stuck with configuring some rules and policies. I called and, within 20 minutes, somebody called me back and I had my answers. I had no problems at all.

Whenever I want to contact them, they proactively get back to me, so I don't have to keep chasing them.

I moved out my other solutions after I got Deep Instinct. I didn't want to have anything else further complicate the matter, in case something happened with a machine. I removed them all and just use Deep Instinct.

I said, "All right, let me take your solution on board and also be an advocate in my country." I was one of their first customers and partners in the country because I was so convinced about the technology that they presented. I've never seen anything like it before. I can see the power of it, I can see how it can benefit customers. 

The Set-up is very straightforward.

For deployment, I just need to extract the agent from the console and send it across and run it. It takes 15 to 20, max, to do a small deployment. Depending on the size of the organization, if using central deployment tool, just put it into an image and deploy it. When it runs it starts talking to the console without any other intervention.  No issues at all.

Depending on the size of the customer, It will take some time to do the initial setup of the console. In total, it will take about an hour-and-a-half to have everything, with the user-group policies defined, the users defined, the sites, and all the other things that can be done without much hassle.

I wanted to put together a standard document which would help customers to just do that but, as it's so simple and straightforward, I just keep everything ready on the console. I create the customer details on the console and just send the agent. 

There's no rocket science involved at all here and that's why it is so easy. There is nothing else to be prepared because there is no system downtime. You don't have to integrate this solution with anything else. It is autonomous and it just does its job.

In terms of staff for deployment, it's a one-man show. And there's hardly any maintenance because, once the agent is deployed, there is nothing else to be maintained, unless there is a conflict with something else. Apart from that, the product doesn't require any maintenance.

Vendor Team. They are excellent !

I have definitely seen ROI. Whatever price I paid for, I got my returns when it detected that virus that was in my environment already. I got my returns pretty much by securing all that. The information that probably would have gone out, had that virus spread to other machines, could have been a big catastrophe for my business. It's done its job and it's pretty much paid off what I spent on it.

Pricing and licensing are very straightforward. It's two SKUs, one is for the console and the other is for the client. 

One thing about their licensing program that I like is that just one covers the server as well as on the endpoint as well as mobile devices. There is no complexity in calculating how many SKUs I need for mobile, for laptop, for desktop, and for servers. It's very simple and that makes it much easier to budget. You know how much you're spending and how you're securing your environment with that technology.

I've never come across anything like this. I looked at other things as well. I've been hearing about Carbon Black, Cylance, CrowdStrike, and all the other AI & ML Solutions. All of them have limitations in terms of what they can do and how they do it. It's still human intervention. It's still behavioral analysis, heuristics, etc. There's nothing wrong with that, but they still haven't found a way, like Deep Instinct has, to take all that pain away in a single solution.

Deep Instinct can actually predict unknown malware that is going to come out, as well, because of the way they have built this technology. It can predict the tiniest mutations of viruses or new malware that is coming out. These guys can predict it straight away, whereas the others can't, until something goes through and they work on it and find to fix it. I.e., post execution, where the damage is already done! Everything they do is post-execution. What's the point? If your technology, which you say is that great, cannot detect earlier on, prevent it before happening, then I don't think it's good enough.

That is what I have seen with Deep Instinct. It doesn't even allow something malicious to pass through. It saves a lot of time and effort in cleaning up rather than saying, "Okay, fine, I blocked it. Nothing to worry about."

I've been sharing all my experiences around using it and how it's secure and that it's the next wave in the security world. It's changing the way security is looked upon from the endpoint perspective. They have made life so much easier. There's so much complexity with all the other solutions. When I talk to anybody, I tell them that if they really want peace of mind and a technology that can actually take care of your assets, Deep Instinct is the one to look at.

In terms of extent of use and increasing usage, I'm still a small organization, and growing gradually. I am getting more customers on board. The scale is obviously going up. At this moment, I'm managing roughly 400 + devices, with about another 3,000 in the pipe.

It's a ten out of ten. It's the best. All around, I'm pretty happy with them. I'm just excited to see what they bring me next.

We are using Deep Instinct for malware protection on servers and workstations. We are using its latest version.

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. 

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.

I have been using this solution for four months.

It is stable. There are no issues related to its stability. 

We haven't scaled it yet. We have 250 or so endpoints, which include workstations, servers, etc.

Tech support is provided by our MSP, Cyberforce. They are based out of Austin. They are also providing the solution. They respond very quickly, and they are good. I would rate them a nine out of ten.

We didn't use any other solution.

It was very straightforward and simple. You can obviously do the installation through the command line. It is not a typical EXE file that you just double click and install. 

We have NinjaRMM as our remote management tool for all endpoints. We were able to create a script on NinjaRMM and just do an automated install to Ninja. In a matter of 15 minutes, we had installed it over 200 servers or workstations.

We are a nonprofit. The MSP had provides pretty decent nonprofit rates for us. This was one of the key factors that made us choose Deep Instinct over its competitors who were significantly more expensive.

We compared Deep Instinct with Cylance and CrowdStrike, and we ended up going with Deep Instinct. We felt it was going to give us better coverage, and the cloud management platform was also much easier to use.

It is definitely worth looking at before you make a decision. 

I would rate Deep Instinct a seven out of ten. There are a few kinks, but it is a new company, so we can't expect everything from day one. With that understanding, we accepted some of the shortfalls.

I use it quite extensively. I use it on my PC, server, and mobile phone for my own testing. I also use it for testing of some of my business partners, including telecommunications, construction companies, banks, EFSIs, different industries, and different scenarios.

The installation and configuration are simple in Deep Instinct. The policy is easy, taking maybe a couple minutes to set it up. Usually, we use the default policy setting and enable the SMTP and SYSLOG to configure the administrator information, as the configuration work is low.

We do need to set up some releases for different environments. Some customers have some custom-made applications in their environments, which are more distinct. However, it doesn't spend too much time for every deployment, benefiting the customer.

We use this solution for classification of unknown malware without human involvement. I collect malware from the internet. I put it into the testing environment of Deep Instinct, and it can always be detected.

• High accuracy
• High detection rate
• Low false positive rates
• Easy deployment
• It is not necessary to update signatures.
• There is no database.

The detection rate is very high. In all the testing with around 20 partners in different environments, quite a lot of them had installed with other anti-malware applications, like Sophos. This software can co-exist with those applications in the same machine. This is impressive.

I found Deep Instinct can detect a lot of unknown malware early. Others, like Sophos, could find the same malware maybe a couple weeks weeks or a month later, since a lot of malware is not being reported to the virus websites.

Deep Instinct's detection rate is close to 100 percent.

After they introduced the behavior analysis engine, I even detected attacks via vulnerabilities in Microsoft. Its false positives are very low, because the behavior analysis engine double checks them.

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.

At this point, they don't have a local quarantine feature that can be triggered by the agents. It has to be done by whitelisting. Deep Instinct has also said that this will be available in Q2 2019. 

It is quite stable. So far, there was one bug in a previous version, which I couldn't uninstall. I consulted with an Deep Instinct engineer, and they had a quick check, then spent 15 minutes easily fix it. 

Besides, that one issue, I haven't had any serious problems with the software.

Scalability is fine. The server can easily take up to 1000 agents. The server is simply a management console.

Our customers are looking to scale up pretty quickly because they have seen the benefit of its use.

The technical support is quite good. The engineer who I usually contact is in a different time zone. They do have another engineer who is in a similar time zone, but he is not the one who was my initial contact. While the new contact is in Singapore, I usually contact the engineer in Israel since his understanding is better. Every question that I have asked, he can answer it. Even for cases where there is an unknown malware. For example, I ask him, "Can you check it out? What type of malware is it? What is that behavior? What's its background?" He can return to me within one or two days with an answer. Also, if there are any problems, he can do the remote troubleshooting quickly.

The initial setup is straightforward and easy. Deployment takes three to five seconds. There is no configuration on the agent side. The policy setting is all on the web console. Usually, we use the same implementation for all customers, this is to use the default strategy.

They use a cloud management server. So, I can check logs and do the configuration by simply using the web browser, no matter where I am. This is quite convenient. Also, deployment is easy because it takes one command and three to five seconds. In some cases, when we deploy Deep Instinct, especially in conjunction with existing anti-malware software, we don't need to delete the existing anti-malware. It can co-exist together. Therefore, the company doesn't need to risk removing the existing anti-malware. 

It's not easy to remove an anti-malware application. Usually, you will have some trouble.

For Deep Instinct, it doesn't need me to download a database. It doesn't need any configuration. I can deploy a hundred machines in maybe an hour.

The time savings is very obvious. For ongoing maintenance, I don't need to take care of it at all. I just let it run.

Another thing is it does not need an expert to work with it. Sometimes, when you set up a policy or different settings on another solution, you need a network engineer and a systems engineer, and even someone who specialized in antivirus or security. For Deep Instinct, we just need an operator who can do this. 

The pricing is okay. 

• Compared to Symantec, the pricing is a bit more expensive. 
• Compared to Sophos Intercept X, the price is about the same or slightly cheaper. 
• Compared to Carbon Black, it's much cheaper. 

If I include the false positive rate and the detection rate in the comparison, Deep Instinct is worth its price.

While there is some malware which can be detected by other applications, all malware can be detected by Deep Instinct.

I tested Symantec, and it took two days to install and configure one Symantec Management Server and a client agent, which is troubling. Then, I had to install the other agents and the installation may have taken 30 minutes. Afterward, I could spend three to six hours downloading the database for one machine. I had to do this for every machine. On the other hand, Deep Instinct took me five seconds to install. Even then, Symantec only detects 60 percent of the malware.

For my own laptop, Deep Instinct takes less than one percent of the CPU and less than 50MB of memory. In addition, I have a Symantec Endpoint Protection testing environment, and while it's just a testing environment and there is no malware with nothing running on it, Symantec takes about 20 to 30 percent of the CPU quite frequently and 80MB to 100MB of memory.

In a production environment of a construction company, Deep Instinct detected 160 malware while Sophos Intercept X detected two malware in the same environment.

For unknown malware, McAfee has a 20 to 30 percent fail detection rate. Symantec has a failed detection rate at 50 percent. Traps is better at ten percent, while Deep Instinct is at one to two percent. This difference is due to the behavior in the Deep Instinct engine.

Put it on your Internet with your existing anti-malware. You will be amazed.

Our information security officer thinks this is a good solution. He definitely gives it a thumbs up.

For financial company or banks, they should know that Deep Instinct does not require internet connection nor require frequent updates for a plan agent or server. Once they know that, Deep Instinct is the only choice. Usually, for the banking and finance industry, there are a lot of servers or PCs, and they are in a closed network which can't access the Internet. So, they always have a problem updating a signature and a plan agent, patching it, etc. Deep Instinct totally fits this gap.

Installation is easy. I taught a partner in China by spending 30 minutes showing them the installation steps and every setting in the web console. Now, they can do it by themselves.

It is currently in the testing phase for two of my customers, one with a large enterprise and another medium-sized company. We have tested both to understand which company is best suited for this solution.

It's a new solution that is beneficial for the endpoint because they have a new perspective on cyber security. 

The agent and this platform do not require the endpoint to be connected to the network because the agent is designed to understand the threat, and tags it. 

When the platform is connected to the network, he receives new mathematics as well as other tools to check the threat.

The documentation could be improved. They have a manual, but it is not excessive.

I have been working with Deep Instinct for approximately one year. It's a new solution in Italy that has been released for one year.

For the moment, stability is not a question, for the amount that it is being used. We hope that it continues to be stable.

The support is very good. They reply and respond very quickly.

I would rate Deep Instinct a seven out of ten. It is a good solution and a good idea, but it is a very, new platform, and we must determine whether or not it is a truly effective security platform. We need more time to understand it.

I'm a security consultant and we are customers of Deep Instinct. 

The user interface is a good feature. It shows which process has been accessed and the flow. The detections for PowerShell are also pretty good as is the active scripts detection feature. 

Some of the features are very resource intensive, such as the ransomware detection. It consumed so much of the resource on the endpoints that we have disabled those functions. If they could improve the detection logic so that those elements would consume less resource, that'd be effective. They could also improve the reporting feature so it coul be more like you find in Maltego or IBM's i2. They could introduce a graph feature to coordinate between search and those things, perhaps a dashboard of some kind.

I've been using this solution for almost a year and a half. 

This is a stable solution. 

This is a scalable solution. We have around 3,000 endpoints and one person in our company who deals with maintenance. 

We had difficulty connecting with them and initially we were not sure who to contact. It took around eight to 10 hours to get hold of that person so support could be improved. 

I would not recommend this solution for small companies but for companies that deal with sensitive data, I would recommend it as an additional layer of security. It cannot be used as a stand alone product from my perspective, but it can be used with a defense-in-depth approach.

I would rate this solution an eight out of 10.