Darktrace alternative
Smarter Network Detection Without Blind Spots
While Darktrace relies on hardware and traffic mirroring, generating excessive alerts, Exeon offers lightweight, hardware-free log analysis — full network visibility, quick deployment, & more.
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Exeon vs. Darktrace
Darktrace’s network analytics rely on hardware sensors and mirrored traffic, but encryption and core-switch constraints create blind spots and force a shift to metadata analysis.
Features
Machine learning
Integration flexibility
Deployment complexity
Data sources support
Agent requirement
Scalability
On-prem support
Threat scoring logic
Analyst explainability
Asset discovery & mapping
False positives & whitelisting requirements
Exeon
Transparent, white-box models can be tuned and enhanced by the user
Open integration via REST API (e.g., Splunk, ServiceNow, Qualys)
Lightweight — no sensors or agents needed
Supports diverse log & flow sources, including data lake
Fully agentless
Efficient metadata analysis: greatly scales for environments up to 100.000+ flows per second
Full support for on-prem, cloud and hybrid deployments
Clear & tunable scoring logic across multiple data sources
Designed for analyst clarity and root cause tracing
Integrated asset discovery and correlation
Minimal tuning needed due to baseline & transparent ML; event correlation, device/network-specific scoring
Darktrace
Proprietary unsupervised ML; limited model transparency
Integrates with SIEM/SOAR and firewall systems; optimized for native platform use
Requires deployment of sensors or virtual appliances; can add complexity
Focuses on real-time behavioral telemetry; limited direct log ingestion
Requires sensors or virtual sensors for data collection
Scales across environments; sensor architecture may introduce management overhead
Supports on-prem and hybrid, with features optimized for cloud
AI-generated scoring using proprietary models; not fully transparent
AI narratives provided; deeper forensic insights may require manual analysis
Device discovery via behavioral data; external asset correlation may require integration
May require tuning and whitelisting to reduce false positives and alert volume
Darktrace vs. Exeon
Why Exeon is the chosen platform
Exeon provides transparent, explainable AI with significantly lower false positives, ensuring actionable insights. Here’s how Swiss excellence changes the game.
Full visibility without hardware
Complete visibility across physical, virtual, and cloud networks using lightweight log analysis, unaffected by encryption.
Efficient detection with minimal alerts
Advanced machine learning ensures efficient detection while avoiding alert fatigue caused by excessive false positives.
Quick deployment & seamless integration
Exeon deploys rapidly, integrates seamlessly with existing tools, and provides comprehensive protection frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK.
Why our customers trust us
Our valued customers gain unmatched network visibility and AI-driven detection with flexible deployment.
Christian Keller
CISO, SWISS International Airlines
“As the Swiss national airline, we are driven by a passion for exceptional performance, in the spirit of our guiding principles. A stable and secure IT is the most important basis for an excellent customer service. For the security of SWISS IT, we use Exeon as a central cybersecurity tool, fully managed by our long-term partner Reist Telecom AG. A perfect combination and solution to monitor our network and quickly detect any kind of anomalies.”
Dietmar Kolasch
Head Infrastructure & Applications, 3 Banken IT
“We especially appreciate the comprehensive network visibility that Exeon.NDR offers us.
The anomaly detection is also extremely accurate and allows our analysts to focus on the essential threats.”
Patrick Käppeli
Network & Security Engineer, Solothurner Spitäler
“Exeon is our cybersecurity alarm system, alerting us to any network anomalies. What also really convinced us is the platform’s intuitive interface—it has become a tool to reliably monitor and secure our data and network.”
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Use cases
Exeon.NDR in action
See how our AI-driven, encryption-agnostic technology closes visibility gaps left by other security tools—explore our use cases.
How AI benefits threat triage
Here’s how security teams increase precision by using AI-empowered vulnerability scoring.
Less false positives with AI
Save time and focus your efforts on what matters most with AI-supported alerting.
On-prem vs. cloud deployment
Considering factors such as security, compliance, customization, scalability, and budgetary constraints, evaluate your cybersecurity infrastructure deployment options.
Guided threat detection tour
A video demonstration of exeon.NDR including domain generation algorithms, machine learning for behavioral analysis, lateral movement, and much more.
Your DORA Checklist
Assessing your IT systems and network, facilitating your DORA implementation, improving your cybersecurity posture, and more.
PostFinance Use Case
How exeon.NDR detects security incidents in the heterogenous network of PostFinance and its unit of the national courier services.
DORA, NIS2 & KRITIS Guide
A comparison of various cybersecurity regulations and a deep dive into technological solutions for optimal compliance and security.
DORA Use Case
How a large German bank complies with DORA, tackles APTs and ransomware, and achieves better threat detection and faster responses within months.
Detect APTs: Finance Edition
Clear guidelines for organizations in the financial industry to protect against, detect, and respond to
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT).
Monitoring ATM Machines
Unique approach to monitoring OT assets such as ATM machines: how extended logs are used to create custom, new use cases and solve even complex requirements in a very simple way.
NIS2 Compliance Checklist
An action plan that addresses all of the requirements for your IT & OT security, as well as the lifespan of your corporate network.
NIS2, DORA & KRITIS Guide
For clarity and actionable insights, we’ve compared several cybersecurity regulations and reported on technological solutions to comply.
DORA Compliance Checklist
Comprehensive approach to the assessment of your IT systems and network, your DORA implementation, cybersecurity posture, and more.
DORA Banking Use Case
How a large German bank complies with DORA, tackles APTs and ransomware, and achieves better threat detection and faster responses within months.
NIS2 Manufacturing Use Case
Read how a mechanical engineering company meets European compliance requirements and increases their cybersecurity posture with NDR.
Use Case: Bank in Germany
DORA compliance, tackling threats like APTs & ransomware, improved threat detection, and faster response times.
Success Story: Logistics
Fast-moving, international logistics company defeats system interruptions from cyber incidents with Exeon.NDR.
Exeon.NDR for IT, OT & IoT
Advanced ML and network log analysis for full visibility and any existing cybersecurity infrastructure — without agents or data leaving your network.
Success Story: Banking
A cybersecurity case study on PostFinance, one of Switzerland’s leading retail financial institutions.
Use Case: Manufacturing & NIS2
OT/IIoT integration and compliance: how a mechanical engineering company increases their cybersecurity posture.
Success Story: Swiss Hospitals
Read how our platform became an integral security monitoring tool to safeguard Solothurner Spitäler’s IT & OT networks.
Use Case: Healthcare & Compliance
Centralized visibility and monitoring of hybrid environments to safeguard critical medical systems.
Zero Trust in the finance sector
Support DORA compliance, while also eliminating inherent trust in networks by enforcing continuous identity verification, limiting access to critical assets & more.
Meeting the unique needs of OT
Effective OT security, as part of a Zero Trust strategy, must ensure visibility over all OT assets, protection against sophisticated threats, compliance & more.
From patient data to regulatory compliance
By enforcing strict access controls, audit logs, and real-time monitoring, Zero Trust helps healthcare providers meet data security requirements—and much more.
Financial sector applications
Exeon monitors transactions and user behavior in real-time to identify suspicious activity, prevent insider threats, and more.
Made for the industrial world
Comprehensive OT and IT monitoring to secure production facilities and machine controls, detect anomalies, and more.
Secure patient data & compliance
Sensitive patient data protection and compliance (HIPAA, etc.) by detecting anomalous behavior of users and devices.
Public security, private data protected
Robust and precise monitoring and security for critical infrastructure and confidential government data.
AI against advanced threats
A comprehensive guide on the current threat landscape, and precisely how to improve detection and response capabilities.
Global Manufacturer WinGD
In this video testimonial, our customer WinGD explains how Exeon.NDR strengthens their cybersecurity.
Public Sector Use Case
A municipality’s hybrid infrastructure of over 12,000 IT and OT devices uses Exeon.NDR for elevated cybersecurity.
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