Covalence vs Arctic Wolf
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Simple, powerful, and proactive cybersecurity
—no add-ons required.
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By natively integrating multiple layers of protection, Covalence stops threats across your endpoints, networks, and cloud services, all from a single dashboard. Eliminating complexity and noise, Covalence gives you the tools to confidently identify and stop cyber threats no matter your technical background—giving SMBs and their MSP partners a superior solution that outpaces all others on the market.
Arctic Wolf
Arctic Wolf offers a single layer of reactive protection in your overall tech stack to monitor for and investigate threats in your environment, but does not provide the critical tooling required to identify and block these threats in real time. Clients are forced to purchase additional tooling to achieve comprehensive protection.
Arctic Wolf’s siloed visibility also makes the solution noisy and difficult to tune, requiring additional support from their concierge team to establish baseline protection. Clients are left to investigate false positives themselves, and must address threats after they have already entered their system and potentially caused damage.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Covalence | Arctic Wolf |
|---|---|---|
| COVERAGE | 24/7 human-led monitoring | |
| Enhanced | ||
| 24/7 monitoring and analysis for endpoints, networks, and cloud services, backed by powerful automation and human oversight. | Manual | |
| 24/7 monitoring and analysis for endpoints, networks, and cloud services with manual response. | ||
| Detection & response | Included | |
| World-class protection that combines sophisticated data analysis with real-time detection and response for known threats, malicious behavior, and more. | Limited | |
| Relies on third-party EDR tools to provide comprehensive protection. | ||
| DETECTION | Real-time | |
| Automated alerting correlates and verifies security events from across your environment and notifies you of the most important information. | Near-real time | |
| Manually verified alerting creates delays and slows time to alert and remediate. | ||
| Threat hunting | Sophisticated | |
| Combined defensive and offensive threat hunting catches the widest variety of attacks, as well as new and emerging vulnerabilities that would otherwise pose a risk. | Limited | |
| Defensive threat hunting only looks for attackers already in your system. | ||
| RESPONSE | Automatic | |
| Automatically isolate hosts and personalize risk tolerance to tailor response, accommodating for device type, severity of risk, and other factors. | Manual | |
| Manual host isolation creates delays, increasing the time required to contain threats and exposes users to risk. | ||
| Alert volume | Manual | |
| Jargon-free remediation instructions are automatically shared to speed up resolution. Access to 24/7 support is included for further assistance. | Complex | |
| Siloed tooling, limited visibility, and the inability to tune alerts to environment creates fluctuating alert volumes and high rate of false positives. | ||
| FEATURES | Sophisticated | |
| 24/7 scanning and alerting detects vulnerabilities throughout your environment, including configuration errors, unpatched systems, legacy protocols, and more. Identified vulnerabilities are shared alongside proactive, easy-to-understand steps for remediation. | Immature | |
| Scheduled scans detect vulnerabilities and rely on support to share context and remediation steps. | ||
| Email analysis | Included | |
| Covalence’s Suspicious Email Analysis Service (SEAS) allows employees to flag suspicious emails for expert review. User-friendly results are shared with employees to support further education on cyber threats. | Not included | |
| Capability not provided. | ||
| DNS firewall | Included | |
| Covalence provides a DNS firewall to ensure safe web browsing and Internet access by blocking access to known malicious sites. | Not included | |
| Capability not provided. | ||
| ONBOARDING | Simple | |
| Plug-and-play appliance, simple click-to-enable cloud monitoring, and industry standard endpoint installers compatible with Mac, Linux, and Windows devices. | Complex | |
| Time intensive and complex, deployment requires heavy concierge involvement and can often take up to a month to install. | ||
| PRICE | Simple | |
| Cost effective, all-in-one pricing, billed on a per-employee basis. | Complex | |
| Expensive, modular pricing, billed on a per-endpoint basis. | ||
| Overall cost | High value for SMBs and MSPs | |
| Highly sophisticated and comprehensive protection offers an all-in-one solution, the best coverage and value on the market for SMBs and MSPs. | Low value for SMBs and MSPs | |
| Limited functionality will require added tooling to achieve comprehensive protection, driving total costs upwards and diminishing value. |
The most sophisticated cyber threat monitoring on the planet, made simple.
Covalence is an award-winning cybersecurity solution that provides transparent, holistic managed detection and response for your whole IT infrastructure in one platform, no matter where you are or where your endpoints are located.
No add-ons, no modules, and no gaps in your security. Learn more about Covalence.
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