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4.6/5 Tines

Automation our analysts build without a developer

The reason this stuck where a previous SOAR failed is that analysts build their own stories without waiting on an engineer. Phishing triage that took twelve minutes now takes under...

Ben Carter Sample · 251-1000 people · Media · deployed 2025 · 9 found this helpful
3.0/5 Darktrace

Interesting signal, needs a sceptical operator

The anomaly detection surfaces things a signature approach misses, and on an OT-adjacent network that was the point. It also surfaces a great deal that is simply unusual rather tha...

Marcus Feld Sample · 251-1000 people · Manufacturing · deployed 2023 · 5 found this helpful

Unavoidable if you are a Microsoft shop, and mostly good

Conditional access is powerful and once you understand the evaluation model you can express policy that used to need three products. The licensing tiers are the frustration: severa...

Lakshmi Venkatesan Sample · 5000+ people · IT services & SaaS · deployed 2022 · 4 found this helpful
4.4/5 Cisco Duo

The MFA everybody actually enrols in

Enrolment friction is the thing that kills MFA rollouts and Duo has the lowest I have seen. Push approval is understood by non-technical staff without training. The risk-based poli...

Karthik Subramanian Sample · 51-250 people · Education · deployed 2022 · 7 found this helpful
3.8/5 Vanta

Sensible automation, watch the scope creep

Vanta did what it said for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 mapping, and the monitoring genuinely catches drift. Where I would caution is treating the dashboard as the programme: a green screen...

Sarah Nkemelu Sample · 1001-5000 people · Insurance · deployed 2024 · 9 found this helpful
4.2/5 Drata

Got us through SOC 2 without hiring a compliance team

The evidence automation is the value: continuous checks against our cloud accounts and HR system meant the audit was mostly reviewing what was already collected. The framework mapp...

Meera Pillai Sample · 51-250 people · Retail & e-commerce · deployed 2025 · 5 found this helpful
3.6/5 Rubrik

Fast recovery, premium price, good ransomware story

Recovery speed is the differentiator and in a ransomware tabletop it changed our recovery time objective conversation entirely. The anomaly detection on backup data has flagged gen...

Omar Haddad Sample · 251-1000 people · Government & public sector · deployed 2023 · 6 found this helpful
4.2/5 Veeam

Backups that restore, which is the only test that counts

We test restores quarterly and Veeam has never failed one, including a full VM recovery after a storage failure last year. Immutable repositories were straightforward to configure....

Jonas Lindqvist Sample · 5000+ people · Manufacturing · deployed 2021 · 7 found this helpful
4.4/5 Semgrep

Custom rules turned static analysis from noise into signal

Off-the-shelf SAST gave us thousands of findings nobody triaged. Writing our own Semgrep rules for the patterns that actually hurt us produced a short list engineers accept. It tak...

Chen Wei Sample · 5000+ people · Telecom · deployed 2025 · 9 found this helpful
4.0/5 Snyk

Developers actually use it, which is the whole battle

The reason we kept Snyk is that engineers run it themselves. IDE and pull request integration means findings arrive where the work happens rather than in a monthly PDF nobody reads...

Ankit Bhargava Sample · 1-50 people · IT services & SaaS · deployed 2024 · 10 found this helpful
4.2/5 Red Canary

Alert quality is the product and it delivers

What we bought was somebody else doing triage properly, and the signal to noise on what reaches us is the best I have worked with. Their detection engineering is transparent enough...

Priya Raghunathan Sample · 5000+ people · IT services & SaaS · deployed 2023 · 6 found this helpful
3.8/5 Arctic Wolf

Bought a team, not a tool, and that was the point

We could not hire a 24/7 SOC in our market so we bought one. The concierge model means a named team that learns our environment, and the quarterly reviews have driven real hardenin...

Ritu Sharma Sample · 251-1000 people · Healthcare & pharma · deployed 2023 · 5 found this helpful
4.8/5 Huntress

Punches far above its price for small teams

For SMB clients where a full EDR plus SOC is unaffordable, Huntress gives us persistence detection and a human triage layer at a price the client will actually approve. The reports...

Gaurav Malhotra Sample · 51-250 people · Professional services · deployed 2024 · 3 found this helpful
3.8/5 Netskope

The best SSE data-protection story we tested

We shortlisted three SSE vendors and Netskope won on inline data protection: the granularity of what it can see and stop in sanctioned and unsanctioned apps was a clear step ahead...

Rahul Deshpande Sample · 251-1000 people · Healthcare & pharma · deployed 2024 · 7 found this helpful
3.4/5 Akamai

Enterprise-grade and priced accordingly

For our traffic profile Akamai has been rock solid and the account team knows our estate properly, which matters during an incident. The interface is a product of its long history...

Tom Whitfield Sample · 5000+ people · Retail & e-commerce · deployed 2019 · 6 found this helpful