eSentire MDR VS Darktrace MDR

Darktrace MDR is notorious for false positives as they are focused on automation and speed, over quality. They also provide limited contextual information in alerts. This can be frustrating and time-consuming for your security team to manage. Darktrace only provides recommendations and guidance during remediation which must be implemented by the customer.

At eSentire, we provide more than just alerts. We provide complete response capabilities on your behalf by disrupting, isolating, and stopping threats across your full attack surface with a Mean Time to Contain of less than 15 minutes. We detect in seconds and contain in minutes, so your business is never disrupted.

Darktrace’s AI capabilities are more hype than proof.

eSentire’s Agentic AI isn’t just AI — it’s 25 years of SecOps expertise in action. While others chase AI hype, we deliver certainty – faster out of the investigation starting blocks, expert-validated, outcome-driven responses at scale. Our Agentic AI doesn’t just detect — it thinks, acts, and improves protection 24/7.

Darktrace has a platform first approach automating most security alerts and remove the human completely from the process.

We keep human expertise in the loop, always. Every AI-driven decision is reviewed, refined, and actioned by a SOC expert on your behalf. Our AI empowers our Analysts to operate swiftly and accurately at a scale humans alone can’t match. We don’t offer black box AI; just transparent, expert-backed protection you can trust.

Darktrace supports a limited number of available best-of-breed technologies.

eSentire offers complete support of your tech investments with over 300 best-of-breed tech integrations. This allows our MDR service to integrate seamlessly with the existing tools and SaaS platforms in your environment for continuous monitoring across your attack surface. We are constantly expanding our multi-signal ingestion capabilities by adding new detections and runbooks for SaaS platforms and enterprise applications.

Darktrace has limited threat intelligence capabilities and unlike eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU), they do not systematically operationalize threat intelligence.

eSentire’s TRU team is always included in our MDR service. They are a world-class team of seasoned industry veterans committed to helping your organization become more resilient. They operationalize threat intelligence to perform proactive threat hunts and update runbooks, detection rules and machine learning models.