AHEAD vs. Trustwave Managed Detection and Response

They are easily our go to company for anything revolving around VMware suite, whether that is infrastructure related, automation related, or monitoring related. It's a no brainier to get their assistance with a lot of tasks as they can competently implement complex designs. Also on the storage architecture side they are great. I'm sure there is much more but for my team we mainly leverage them in these areas.

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Trustwave firewall is a nice way to provide and maintain a secure connection between your Managed NGFW Device(s) and their platform for overall efficient security. The software comes with adequate documentation that outlines clearly your duties and theirs and I constantly remind my team to read through; prevents several conflicts. Trustwave also conducts frequent updates so you're confident while the software handles the most sensitive of data.

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• The provided pre-req documentation was thorough and well thought out, making it easy to jump into the project.
• The design session to gather our requirements was very helpful, Sovereign's familiarity with the vRealize product line along with diagramming our desired layout confirmed our decision to bring in assistance with the project.
• When we ran into some issues with Sovereign's custom code their development team was on top of it and solved the issue in a matter of a few days.

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• It is very reliable in environments without permanent refrigeration.
• The rules that it handles are static, but it has some mechanisms for detecting instruments, which for the current users are very good.
• It maintains VPNs in a stable way and its configuration is similar and compatible with other brands.

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• Coordination of product orders with the vendor although I think the vendor is the bigger issue. Insuring delivery time frames are met is of great importance with these kinds of projects.
• Communication between scheduled project meetings. There could be more contact between meetings.
• Provide a customer portal for project tracking.

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• Trustkeeper portal can be slow
• Trustwave sales and support are lacking
• The endpoint client is a little large in size

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I would not call it training, rather would call it knowledge transfer.

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Having extensive pre-implementaton dialogue really made the process much smoother. We had most of our bases covered and were ready for the equipment installation/implementation, except for the previously mentioned network configuration issues that arose.

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After considering several major providers, we realized Trustwave will provide deeper visibility into our data lake which will allow powerful enrichment, investigation, hunting, and strong orchestration for incident response due to its robustness. Moreover, the professional services team at Trustwave delivered a turnkey setup and configuration, as well as continuous fine-tuning, to eliminate any transition-related complications

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• It has alleviated time from technicians who do not have to find RCA's for all incidents.
• It actively protects and monitors all traffic and reports in timely fashion.
• Support can be tricky to work with, but incident response makes up for that.

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