Insider Risk Platform Comparison

Above vs. DTEX

Teramind records everything: screens, keystrokes, sessions. It leaves your analysts hours of footage to review.

Above sees and investigates everything too, with AI, and surfaces only what matters, without putting your people under a microscope.
DTEX surfaces alerts and risk scores. Real investigations mean buying i3 — their human analyst team, capped at a fixed number each year.
Above’s AI agents investigate every signal, included and unlimited — and each alert arrives already investigated.
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Why teams switch

Where DTEX hands the investigation back to you

DTEX is strong at signal. Getting to a finished case is where the cost and the wait show up.

Investigations cost extra

Real investigations mean subscribing to DTEX i3, their human analyst team, as a separate paid service on top of the platform.

Alerts without the answer

The platform surfaces risk scores and activities of interest. Turning them into a contextual case is still on your analysts.

Capped, on a cadence

i3 investigations are capped per tier (roughly 6 to 12 a year) and run on a schedule. Real risk doesn’t wait for a quarterly cadence.

At a glance

Above vs. DTEX, side by side

DTEX surfaces the risk; investigating it means your analysts or paid i3 services. Above runs the investigation on every signal, included.

Recommended
Teramind
Primary output
Screen recordings, keystrokes & alerts
Finished AI investigations
Who does the investigating
Your analysts, by hand
AI investigative agents
Detection approach
Rules + UEBA baseline deviation
AI behavioral investigation
Employee privacy
Screen & keystroke surveillance
Investigation, not blanket recording
AI & agent activity
No AI-agent monitoring
Seen and investigated
Coverage
Desktop & servers (agent)
SaaS, endpoint, identity & AI
Response
Block / quarantine
Real-time guidance + recommended actions
Time to resolution
Hours reviewing footage
Minutes
DTEX
Who runs investigations
DTEX i3 analysts (paid add-on)
AI investigative agents, built in
Investigation volume
Capped per i3 tier (6 to 12 / yr)
Unlimited, every signal
Primary output
Risk scores & alerts
Finished investigations
Context with each alert
Built by analysts / i3
Timeline + context, automatic
Role of AI
Ai³ assistant (helps a human)
Agents do the investigation
Time to a finished case
Days to weeks
Minutes
AI & agent activity
Monitored
Seen and investigated
Cost model
Platform + i3 services
Investigations included
DTEX
Who runs investigations
AI Investigative agents, bulit in
DTEX i3 analysts (paid add-on)
Investigation volume
Unlimited, every signal
Capped per i3 teir (6 to 12 / yr)
Primary output
Finished investigations
Risk scores & alerts
Context with each alert
Timeline + context, automatic
Bulit by analysts / i3
Role of AI
Agents do the investigation
Ai3 assistant (helps a human)
Time to a finished case
Minutes
Days to weeks
AI & agent activity
Seen and investigated
Monitored
Cost model
Investigations included
Platform + i3 services
Integrate with your current tech

Above plugs into the identity, HR, EDR, and cloud tools you already run, so every investigation arrives with full context.

Integrations

Built for Investigation, Not Just Logging

Above and DTEX both connect to your stack. The difference is what the connections are for.

Above's integrations pull context in

Identity, HR, and SaaS activity data feed directly into every AI-driven Above investigation, building a real narrative around who did what and why it matters. Teramind's integrations push logs out; activity and alerts are formatted and shipped to your SIEM or SOAR for your team to interpret manually.

Identity and HR context are built into every Above investigation

Above connects to Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, and Deel to pull role, department, manager, hire date, and account status for the specific person involved in an incident automatically, as part of the AI investigation itself. You get a narrative that already knows who someone is and what's normal for their role, not just a username to look up separately.

Above leverages SaaS activity as a real evidence source

Above ingests Google Workspace activity directly as investigation evidence, not just endpoint capture. That means visibility into what happened in the apps themselves, correlated alongside browser and identity signals in the same investigation.

Above gives you context instead of logs

Above's integrations are built to answer "who is this, what's normal, what changed, is it risky" automatically, inside the investigation. Teramind, like most monitoring platforms' integrations, is built to format and forward events to your SIEM, SOAR, or ticketing system, leaving the interpretation to your team.

Above's integrations pull context in
Identity, HR, and SaaS activity data feed directly into every AI-driven Above investigation, building a real narrative around who did what and why it matters. DTEX's integrations push logs out; activity and alerts are formatted and shipped to your SIEM or SOAR for your team to interpret manually.
Identity and HR context are built into every Above investigation
Above connects to Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, and Deel to pull role, department, manager, hire date, and account status for the specific person involved in an incident automatically, as part of the AI investigation itself. You get a narrative that already knows who someone is and what's normal for their role, not just a username to look up separately.
Above leverages SaaS activity as a real evidence source
Above ingests Google Workspace activity directly as investigation evidence, not just endpoint capture. That means visibility into what happened in the apps themselves, correlated alongside browser and identity signals in the same investigation.
Above gives you context instead of logs
Above's integrations are built to answer "who is this, what's normal, what changed, is it risky" automatically, inside the investigation. DTEX, like most monitoring platforms' integrations, is built to format and forward events to your SIEM, SOAR, or ticketing system, leaving the interpretation to your team.
What sets Above apart

The investigation runs itself

AI runs every investigation

No i3 contract, no analyst queue, no annual cap. Above’s agents produce the finished case on every signal. It’s the work DTEX bills to its human i3 team.

Every alert arrives investigated

DTEX hands you a risk score and an activity of interest. Above hands you the timeline, the context, and the recommended action: a case, not a to-do.

Sees and investigates everything

SaaS, endpoint, identity, plus the AI era: custom GPTs, OAuth-scoped agents, personal AI. Every surface, one investigation.

An honest take

When DTEX might be the right call

If you want a vendor’s expert analysts to run insider investigations for you as a managed service, and you value DTEX’s pseudonymized, low-footprint telemetry and threat-research pedigree, i3 is a strong offering. Above is for teams that want investigations run automatically by AI, on every signal, included, with no services contract or annual cap.

Moving off DTEX? We handle the switch.

Run Above alongside DTEX during evaluation, compare investigations on your own data, and drop the i3 contract when you’re ready. No rip-and-replace risk.

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Questions teams ask when comparing

How is Above different from DTEX?
DTEX surfaces risk scores and alerts, and offers i3, a paid team of human analysts, to run investigations. Above’s AI agents produce the finished investigation on every signal, included, with no services contract and no annual cap.
Do I need a managed service to get investigations?
Not with Above. AI runs every investigation automatically. With DTEX, full investigations typically mean subscribing to i3 or tasking your own analysts to build the case from alerts.
Does Above just give alerts and risk scores?
No. Every signal arrives as a finished investigation: behavioral timeline, context, and recommended actions, not a score to triage.
How long does it take to switch?
Run Above in parallel with DTEX, compare investigations on your own data, and switch when you’re ready. We handle policy mapping and data connection.

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