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Darktrace vs Hive Pro

Darktrace sells security for AI systems and agents, for network, cloud and OT environments, and for email and collaboration tools. Hive Pro sells The Hive Pro Platform, one platform offering threat exposure management through exposure assessment and adversarial exposure validation. CISO Tribune files both under OT and ICS security. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Darktrace vs Hive Pro: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
DarktraceDarktrace sells security for AI systems and agents, for network, cloud and OT environments, and for email and collaboration tools.darktrace.comHive ProHive Pro sells The Hive Pro Platform, one platform offering threat exposure management through exposure assessment and adversarial exposure validation.hivepro.com
What it sells
  • Darktrace / EMAIL[14][15]Email security that catches phishing, business email compromise, executive impersonation and social engineering attacks.
  • The Hive Pro Platform[1][2]The Hive Pro Platform offers threat exposure management through exposure assessment and adversarial exposure validation.
  • Exposure Assessment[2]Exposure Assessment identifies and evaluates vulnerabilities, prioritizes them by threat impact, and provides remediation options.
Categories
Headquarters
Cambridge, United Kingdom[2]Not stated on its pages
Founded
2013[2]Not stated on its pages
Ownership and funding
Owned by Thoma Bravo since 2024[3][12][13][17]Not stated on its pages
Named customers
  • Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast[4]
  • HARMAN International[5]
  • City of Las Vegas[6]
  • Centre Parcs[7]
  • Banco Galicia[8]
Not stated on its pages
Recent news
  • September 24, 2026Darktrace launched Signal Labs, a research unit that tests how AI models and agents misbehave in sandboxed environments, and published its first findings.[9]
  • September 22, 2026Darktrace made its SECURE AI product generally available, giving enterprises tools to discover AI use, monitor people and agents, and act on policy risks.[10]
  • August 4, 2026Darktrace announced an integration that feeds behavioral risk signals about AI agents from its SECURE AI product into the Microsoft Agent 365 portal.[11]
Not stated on its pages
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 3, 2026[13]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 14, 2026[12]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
Not written yetNot written yet
Last verified
October 10, 2026November 13, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Darktrace and Hive Pro are both filed under OT and ICS security.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Darktrace's primary category is Network detection and response; Hive Pro's is Exposure prioritisation and CTEM.
  • Darktrace is also filed under Email security. Hive Pro is also filed under External attack surface management and Vulnerability management.
  • Darktrace lists Darktrace / EMAIL. Hive Pro lists The Hive Pro Platform and Exposure Assessment.
  • Darktrace is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  • Darktrace was founded in 2013.
  • Darktrace is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2024.
  • Darktrace publicly names Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast, HARMAN International, City of Las Vegas, Centre Parcs and Banco Galicia.

What it sells: Darktrace

What Darktrace / EMAIL does[14][15]
Darktrace / EMAIL learns from each organization's own activity and users, not a shared cross-customer model. Darktrace says it catches phishing, business email compromise, executive impersonation, and social engineering attacks. Behavioral detection extends across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Slack. Each employee's risk score adapts their email controls.

What it sells: Hive Pro

What The Hive Pro Platform does[1][2]
The Hive Pro Platform ingests vulnerabilities, cloud drift, identity exposure, and EASM findings from existing scanners. Hive Pro pushes validated remediation actions into Jira and ServiceNow workflows.
What Exposure Assessment does[2]
Hive Pro lets customers scan with 6 built-in scanners and EASM, or bring their own. The Hive Pro Platform manages security scans, tests, and assessments in-platform, including manual pen-tests and assessment results.

Questions about Darktrace and Hive Pro

What do Darktrace and Hive Pro sell?
Darktrace sells Darktrace / EMAIL. Hive Pro sells The Hive Pro Platform and Exposure Assessment.
Are Darktrace and Hive Pro in the same category?
They share OT and ICS security. Darktrace's primary category is Network detection and response and Hive Pro's is Exposure prioritisation and CTEM.
Where are Darktrace and Hive Pro headquartered?
Darktrace is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
When were Darktrace and Hive Pro founded?
Darktrace was founded in 2013.
Who owns Darktrace and Hive Pro?
Darktrace is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2024.
Which customers do Darktrace and Hive Pro name?
Darktrace publicly names Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast, HARMAN International, City of Las Vegas, Centre Parcs and Banco Galicia.
What have Darktrace and Hive Pro announced recently?
September 24, 2026: Darktrace launched Signal Labs, a research unit that tests how AI models and agents misbehave in sandboxed environments, and published its first findings.

About Darktrace

Darktrace sells security for AI systems and agents, for network, cloud and OT environments, and for email and collaboration tools. Darktrace says it understands behavior across people, networks, applications, cloud, and AI. Darktrace says its Adaptive AI learns an organization's own operational patterns, unlike security tools that rely on static rules or training data from other organizations. Darktrace says its AI learns from each organization's own business data to identify anomalous activity for each asset across domains.[1][14]

Darktrace says a dynamic understanding of every email user in an organization allows Darktrace / EMAIL to take a targeted response to threats that others miss. Darktrace learns from each organization's own activity and users, not a shared cross-customer model. Darktrace says its email security catches phishing, business email compromise, executive impersonation, and social engineering attacks. Darktrace says its behavioral detection extends across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Slack. When credentials are compromised, Darktrace responds autonomously by terminating sessions, forcing re-authentication, and restricting access across email, SaaS, and cloud. Darktrace says each employee's risk score adapts their email controls, so protection strengthens for higher-risk users as training progresses. The Darktrace Email Analysis Agent integrates with Microsoft Defender and Security Copilot to streamline investigation and response for SOC teams.[1][15][16]

Darktrace says one solution detects, investigates, and contains threats across network, cloud, OT, endpoint, and identity, and learns the environment from the ground up. Darktrace / HYBRID NETWORK passively ingests traffic from on-premises and virtual networks, multi-cloud environments, OT, endpoints, and identities. Darktrace analyzes encrypted and decrypted traffic across network, cloud, and OT to surface activity that does not fit the environment. Darktrace then contains that activity with response actions taken natively or through firewalls, EDR, SOAR, and ITSM tools. Darktrace says it can flag account takeover, privilege escalation, and insider misuse when an identity stops matching how that identity normally behaves. When a threat is identified, Darktrace automatically acquires host and workload artifacts across endpoints, cloud, containers, and SaaS environments. Darktrace says its approach detects zero-day threats an average of 8 days before public CVE disclosure.

For cloud, Darktrace says its Adaptive AI continuously monitors activity across cloud assets, workloads, APIs, containers, and identities. Darktrace says Cyber AI Analyst automatically investigates alerts and connects related cloud and infrastructure activity. Darktrace's coverage extends across Compute, Serverless, Containers, IAM, Storage Services, and beyond. Darktrace draws data from lightweight host-based server agents or a combination of traffic mirroring and API logs. Darktrace supports security investigations by combining its detection and response capabilities with Amazon Security Lake.[18][19]

For operational technology, Darktrace maintains a live asset inventory, obtained through passive and active scanning, and immediately reveals CVEs and End-Of-Life status. Darktrace says it identifies and contains threats across converged IT and OT environments with Adaptive AI. Darktrace says Cyber AI Analyst automatically investigates alerts and correlates related activity across OT and IT environments. Darktrace says it automatically maps its models to the MITRE for ICS attacks/techniques, and says it helps organizations meet NIST and other regulations and standards.[20]

Darktrace calls its endpoint functionality Network Endpoint eXtended Telemetry (NEXT), which shows the endpoint process root cause for network threats. Darktrace says Cyber AI Analyst autonomously investigates alerts, gathers evidence, tests hypotheses, and delivers incident context. Darktrace responds autonomously with targeted actions that contain threats and avoid business disruption. Darktrace lets customers set response policies with configurable actions based on device types, user groups, locations, business hours, and operational requirements. Darktrace complements Microsoft Defender for Endpoint by connecting endpoint signals with behavioral understanding across a wider infrastructure.[15][21]

Darktrace says action can be taken independently or via integrations with native security controls, and that alerts are sent wherever the customer wants them. Darktrace extends its autonomous response to Check Point firewalls and to Palo Alto firewalls. Darktrace incidents and model breach alerts can be analyzed in CIM compatible Splunk dashboards. Darktrace enriches its AI decision-making with alerts from the Crowdstrike Falcon platform. Darktrace's Cyber AI Analyst integrates with Microsoft Copilot for Security.[14][15][22][23]

HARMAN International uses Darktrace coverage for email, network, and OT systems. Centre Parcs turned to Darktrace to protect its network, email, and cloud environments with a single AI security platform. Darktrace says organizations across all sizes and industries rely on it to get proactive about cyber security.[14][16][20]

Darktrace on the record

Sources

Darktrace full record

  1. [1]ProductsDarktrace · darktrace.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Darktrace named technology pioneer by world economic forumDarktrace · darktrace.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Darktrace announces formal completion of its acquisition by thoma bravoDarktrace · darktrace.com · published October 1, 2024 · Tier A
  4. [4]Coca cola beverages northeastDarktrace · darktrace.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Harman internationalDarktrace · darktrace.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]City of las vegasDarktrace · darktrace.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Center parcs darktraceDarktrace · darktrace.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Banco galiciaDarktrace · darktrace.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Darktrace launches signal labs to research emerging risks of enterprise ai agentsDarktrace · darktrace.com · published September 24, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Darktrace extends behavioral security with general availability of darktrace secure aiDarktrace · darktrace.com · published September 22, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Darktrace among first cybersecurity companies selected to integrate risk signals into microsoft agent 365Darktrace · darktrace.com · published August 4, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Darktrace | The Essential AI Cybersecurity PlatformDarktrace · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Darktrace / HYBRID NETWORK Reviews & Product Details - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier C
  14. [14]AI Cyber Security Solutions | Harden Defenses Inside & OutDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Microsoft Azure Security & Compliance | Security ServicesDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]AI-Based Email Security Software | Email Threat ProtectionDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  17. [17]Network Security Management | AI Network Security ProtectionDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  18. [18]Cloud Security Solutions | AI for Cloud Cyber SecurityDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  19. [19]AWS Data Loss Prevention, Security Compliance, & ProtectionDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  20. [20]Operational Technology (OT) Cyber Security SolutionsDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  21. [21]AI Endpoint Security | Cyber Security Endpoint Protection SuiteDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  22. [22]Network Security Integrations | Darktrace/NetworkDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  23. [23]Integrations | Darktrace/EndpointDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A

Hive Pro full record

  1. [1]hivepro.comHive Pro · hivepro.com · undated page, accessed November 13, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]About UsHive Pro · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Hive Pro | Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) PlatformHive Pro · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Hive Pro | Agentic AI Exposure and Vulnerability ManagementHive Pro · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Exposure Assessment: Vulnerabilities from the Attacker's Perspective | Hive ProHive Pro · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Hive Pro | AI-native Vulnerability Prioritization Management PlatformHive Pro · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]The Hive Pro Platform Integrations | Hive ProHive Pro · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Comprehensive Security Intelligence: Actionable Insights for Threat Exposure ManagementHive Pro · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Security Control Validation & Real-World Breach Simulations | Hive ProHive Pro · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]OT/ICS Security | Exposure Management for Industrial Networks | HiveProHive Pro · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Hive Pro Resources | Demos, Case Studies & ROI CalculatorsHive Pro · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Hive Pros and Cons | User Likes & DislikesG2 · undated page, accessed November 14, 2026 · Tier C

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