LMNTRIX vs
Darktrace
Darktrace: Over-promises with flashy AI marketing but Always under-delivers
Darktrace over-promises with flashy AI marketing but consistently under-delivers in practice. Users are left dealing with high false positives, a confusing interface, and excessive costs, especially for small to mid-sized businesses. Coupled with inconsistent support and poor documentation, it becomes more of a burden than a solution.
Detection
Hyperconverged Multi-tenanted Cyber Defense Platform
Designed from day inception as a Native XDR.
Natively unifies 12 detection capabilities into a single platform to detect threats across all threat vectors.
Generates too many false positives, overwhelming security teams with unnecessary alerts, and lacking accuracy in distinguishing real threats from normal network activity, which undermines its efficiency in protecting against actual attacks.
Remediation
Contain across endpoint, network, email, web and cloud.
Instant Recovery. Undo malicious actions with a single click—remediate and rollback effortlessly.Contain across endpoint, network, email, web and cloud.
Instant Recovery. Undo malicious actions with a single click—remediate and rollback effortlessly.
Overly restrictive and lacking flexibility, with automated responses often causing excessive blocking of legitimate activities. The platform’s remediation features also fall short, as it primarily alerts and quarantines threats rather than providing comprehensive containment and remediation.
Deployment
Distributed and Multi-Tenant Design
Extensively validated for mission-critical environments.
Proven reliability and engineered for high redundancy.
Designed with multi-tenancy at its core, offering full control over deployment schedules and minimizing the need for frequent updates.
Complex and requiring significant time and expertise to configure correctly. Users report that initial setup is far from seamless, with many facing challenges in tuning the system to avoid unnecessary alerts and properly integrating it with their existing infrastructure.
AI
AI-Driven Immediate Protection
The LMNTRIX Aegis AI offers built-in AI capabilities that operate instantly, minimizing the need for frequent updates and allowing for the creation of generative AI-driven workflows.
Over-promising advanced threat detection but under-delivering with excessive false positives and limited ability to differentiate between real threats and normal network behavior, leading to wasted time and resources
Architecture
Reliable and Lightweight Agent Ensures Continuous Operation
The modern agent is optimized for current threats, with restricted kernel access, primarily for visibility and anti-tampering purposes, while all modifications occur in user space. AI integration enhances threat detection and prevention.
Kernel updates are reserved for version upgrades, processed through Microsoft’s driver signing and undergo canary release testing to ensure stability.
Resource usage is efficient and transparent, minimizing impact on system performance.
Overly complex and difficult to manage, with users reporting issues in accurately mapping network traffic and identifying devices. Its reliance on AI can lead to inconsistent results, and the platform struggles with scalability and integration across diverse environments.
Performance
Top-Ranked, Real-Time, and Autonomous
Offers complete protection and detection capabilities with proven real-world deployments. Boasts the industry’s lowest signal-to-noise ratio, ensuring you can focus on the most crucial tasks without distraction.
Zero client breaches.
Generates excessive false positives, which overburden security teams and reduce operational efficiency, while its resource-heavy processes can slow down network performance, making it less suitable for organizations that require seamless, high-speed operations.
Platform
Consolidate all your data within a unified location.
Streamline the ingestion and normalization of data from both internal and external sources into a single, centralized data repository called the LMNTRIX GRID.
Utilize AI-driven SIEM capabilities for real-time data streaming and employ Hyperautomation techniques to enhance the return on your investment.
Generates high false positives, having a complex and confusing interface, and being costly, especially for smaller businesses. Despite its flashy AI marketing, many users feel it under-delivers, with poor support and a steep learning curve, making it more difficult to manage effectively.
SIEM
Blazing speed and performance without the premium price tag
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Engineered for the modern SOC, LMNTRIX XDR for SIEM redefines breach prevention with lightning-fast alerts, rapid search capabilities, and top-tier threat intelligence. Processing petabytes of data with sub-second latency, LMNTRIX delivers this unmatched performance more cost-effectively than competing SIEM solutions.
No SIEM solution or any ability collect and correlate logs from other sources that is critical for post breach forensics.
Intelligence
Leading Threat and Spatial Intelligence
Integrated into the platform, this solution leverages top-tier threat intelligence, including feeds from 21 vendors such as Google, Emerging Threats, Talos as well as our own sensor network and 170+ open source feeds, ensuring comprehensive protection.
LMNTRIX Labs research together with the LMNTRIX Active Offense risk advisory services offer impactful geopolitical intelligence, enabling you to maintain a broad and effective security strategy.
Offers no TIP or threat intelligence capability or any ability to correlate 3td party threat feeds with its solution.Â
Cloud
Leading Cloud Security Solution
The LMNTRIX XDR Platform, which is cloud-native and agentless, provides immediate protection without needing kernel-level access. This approach reduces disruptions and utilizes advanced performance controls. It supports diverse environments, including public, private, hybrid, on-premises, and various workloads, even those without servers.
Falls short when it comes to Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), Cloud Detection and Response (CDR), and Application Security Posture Management (ASPM). While heavily marketed, the platform struggles to deliver the depth of protection required in these areas, offering limited visibility and inadequate controls compared to leading cloud security solutions. This makes it difficult for organizations to properly secure complex cloud environments, leading to gaps in cloud security​.
MDR
All Inclusive MDR
As a leader in Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and one of the 20 vendors featured in the Gartner MDR Market Guide, we offer comprehensive protection.
Our service ensures full-spectrum response across your network, endpoints, identity, cloud, and mobile platforms. We eliminate the need for customer handoffs, saving time and reducing risk during attack remediation.
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All our XDR subscriptions come with Unlimited DFIR, Containment & Remediation, and Proactive Threat Hunting at no additional cost.
With LMNTRIX, you can also eliminate the need for an Incident Response (IR) retainer, helping you save on fees while maintaining top-tier security.
Darktrace’s MDR capabilities often disappoint, with users reporting high false positives, slow response times, and a lack of customization in alerts, making it difficult to tailor to specific business needs. The flashy AI-driven marketing often over-promises but struggles to deliver consistent value in real-world incident response​.
Customer Feedback
Source: TrustRadius, SoftwareReviews, G2, Gartner Peer Review
False Positives
A consistent complaint across multiple reviews is the high rate of false positives.
High Cost
Many reviewers mentioned that the platform is expensive, particularly for small to mid-sized businesses.Â
User Interface and Complexity
Several users found the user interface confusing and difficult to navigate. Some mentioned that it was not intuitive, which made it harder to interpret the data provided by the system.
Limited Documentation and Support
Many users have also expressed frustration with the lack of comprehensive documentation and limited training materials.
Excessive Blocking and Restrictiveness
Certain functionalities can be resource-intensive under specific conditions.
Inaccurate Device Identification
Many users reported that Darktrace’s device identification features were inaccurate, sometimes even outperformed by simpler tools like nmap scans, which frustrated security teams trying to manage network traffic effectively.
Limited Customization and Reporting
Several users mentioned the lack of advanced reporting features and customization options.
- Vendor offers limited capability
- Optional cost - applies to MDR only
- Offered by Vendor
- Not offered by vendor
| MXDR – Features / Capabilities | Darktrace | LMNTRIX |
|---|---|---|
| Platform Feature | ||
| Behavioral Analytics and Protection | Y | Y |
| Automated Secops | L | Y |
| Containment and Remediation | N | Y |
| Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence | L | Y |
| XDR Dahsboard/Portal | N | Y |
| XDR Dahsboard/Portal Whitelabaleing + Custom URL | N | Y |
| SIEM Integration | Y | Y |
| Cloud-Based Solution | Y | Y |
| Compliance and Reporting | Y | Y |
| Data Sovereignty | Y | Y |
| Customer Specific Tenancy | Y | Y |
| Powerful Visualizations | Y | Y |
| MDR | ||
| 24 x 7 Monitoring | Y | Y |
| End-to-End Platform & Tech Stack Management | N | Y |
| Proactive Threat Hunting (endpoint+network) | N | Y |
| Active Threat Hunting (endpoint+network) | N | Y |
| Forensic Investigation (endpoint+network) | N | Y |
| False Positive Reduction | N | Y |
| Managed Remote Host Tactical Threat Containment | N | Y |
| Managed Remote Network Tactical Threat Containment | N | Y |
| Managed Remote Cloud-Based Threat Containment | N | Y |
| Managed Remote Web Security Threat Containment | N | Y |
| Managed Remote Email Security Threat Containment | N | Y |
| Unlimited Remediation Support | N | Y |
| Automated Threat Response to Known Threats | Y | Y |
| Incident Response and Forensics | N | Y |
| Breach Warranty | N | N |
| Managed Security Services Support | N | Y |
| Tech Stack | ||
| Multilayered endpoint protection | N | Y |
| SIEM – NextGen SIEM (UBA, ML, Graph Analysis) | N | Y |
| Packet Capture – Network forensics | N | Y |
| Attack Paths | N | Y |
| AD Audit – AD Topology Best Practices Report | N | Y |
| Endpoint Protection & Visibility (NGAV+EDR) | N | Y |
| Network Visibility (NDR, Packets) | Y | Y |
| Log Visibility (SIEM – on-premises & cloud) | N | Y |
| Cloud Visibility (CSPM, CIEM, CDR) | N | Y |
| Mobile Security (MTD) | N | Y |
| Identity Protection | N | Y |
| Automated Attack Validation (Automated PenTest) | N | Y |
| Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) | N | Y |
| Device Control (USB) | N | N |
| Local Host Firewall Management | N | L |
| Deception Technology | N | Y |
| Deep and Dark Web Intelligence | N | Y |
| Multi-Vector Detection | Y | Y |
| Operational Technology: SCADA/ICS Support | L | Y |
| Cloud Security Analytics | Y | Y |
| Threat Intelligence Feeds | N | Y |
| Attack Surface Reduction | N | Y |
| Next-Generation Signatureless AV Protection | N | Y |
| Vulnerability Management | N | N |
| Vulnerability Scanning | N | N |
| Patch Management | N | N |
| Sandboxing | N | Y |
Retail 1B-3B USD
Media 1B-3B USD
Mininf 30B+ USD
