AWS Security Hub vs NetWitness Platform comparison

The compared Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NetWitness solutions aren't in the same category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #13 in CSPM , with an average rating of 7.6, and holds a 4.1% mindshare in the category. NetWitness is ranked #33 in Log Management , with an average rating of 8.3, and holds a 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of NetWitness users who would recommend it.

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75% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

NetWitness Platform and AWS Security Hub are key players in the security monitoring domain. Based on user reviews, AWS Security Hub has the upper hand due to its seamless integration with AWS services and centralized security alerts, although NetWitness Platform is noted for its advanced threat detection.

Features: NetWitness Platform is recognized for its detailed packet capture and analysis capabilities, advanced threat detection, and granular threat analysis. AWS Security Hub is favored for its integration with various AWS services, aggregated security findings, and ease of use within the AWS ecosystem.

Room for Improvement: NetWitness Platform needs to enhance scalability, improve support documentation, and streamline the complexity of its tools. AWS Security Hub should offer more comprehensive out-of-the-box rules, faster alerting mechanisms, and improvements in rule comprehensiveness.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetWitness Platform provides robust deployment options but can be complex, requiring significant effort and expertise. Customer service is strong but support processes need streamlining. AWS Security Hub’s deployment is straightforward and users value its simplicity and comprehensive customer support.

Pricing and ROI: NetWitness Platform's setup costs are high, but its advanced security capabilities justify the investment. AWS Security Hub offers predictable, lower initial costs with a strong ROI driven by integration efficiencies and reduced security incidents.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Security Hub

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (5th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (13th)

NetWitness Platform

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (33rd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (30th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. AWS Security Hub is designed for Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and holds a mindshare of 4.1%, down 4.9% compared to last year.
NetWitness Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Log Management, holds 0.4% mindshare, up 0.3% since last year.

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
AWS Security Hub	4.1%
Wiz	19.8%
Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks	10.7%
Other	65.4%

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Log Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
NetWitness Platform	0.4%
Wazuh	11.4%
Grafana Loki	7.6%
Other	80.6%

Log Management

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Karthik Ekambaram

Director at Scybers

Has helped identify misconfigurations and prioritize risks but lacks multi-cloud support and deeper integration features

AWS Security Hub cannot scale up to multiple different cloud environments; it only works for AWS. There are other products in the market for CSPM that can give you multi-cloud environment misconfigurations, even Microsoft for that matter. Regarding the integration of AWS Security Hub with third-party tools, I am not certain whether we can integrate them, but there is no need to do so. However, AWS Security Hub cannot integrate with other cloud providers, so it only supports the AWS environment. The compliance checks within AWS Security Hub are good, but we don't use them much. We utilize compliance frameworks such as CIS compliance frameworks and ISO 27017 framework, which are beneficial, but it can improve in other areas too, such as including NIST and other frameworks beyond just ISO and CIS. Improvements can be applicable for scalability, particularly on integration with multi-cloud environments, and compliance frameworks can be added for more variety as well. The unified dashboard in AWS Security Hub is adequate; I cannot say it is exceptional, but the content available in the dashboards is satisfactory for now.

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MOTASHIM Al Razi

CISO at One Bank Limited

It is a stable solution, but they should make the user interface easier to understand

The solution's initial setup takes work. We have to organize multiple paths and many features. The deployment process takes less than a week. But it takes a month to complete if we want to make the solution smarter by integrating it with various devices. I rate the process as a six out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most beneficial aspect of Security Hub is its proactive capability, allowing us to identify potential security issues before they escalate."

"I find all of the features to be highly valuable."

"Currently, our organization utilizes AWS for various purposes, including SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), and hosting applications in the cloud. We develop our applications and use AWS services as a platform for basic functions and secondary development needs. Additionally, we rely on PaaS for accounting services. Approximately, 50% of our applications are hosted in the cloud environment, making it a significant part of our current setup."

"Easily integrates with third-party tools"

"AWS Security Hub has very good integration features. It allows for AWS native services integration, and it helps us to integrate some of the services outside of AWS. They have partners, such as Amazon Preferred Network Partners (APN). If you have different security tools around APN, we can integrate those findings with AWS Security Hub reducing the need to refer to different portals or different UIs. You can have AWS Security Hub act as a single common go-to dashboard."

"The most valuable feature of AWS Security Hub is the ability to track when monitoring is not enabled on any of my resources."

"The platform has valuable features for security."

"AWS Security Hub provides comprehensive alerts about potential compliance issues with CIS standards. The integration with third-party tools is another excellent feature. All our workloads are on AWS."

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"The product has a user-friendly interface and a valuable feature for threat intelligence integration."

"The newer 11.5 version that my team is using has found it to have good mapping."

"NetWitness Platform is valuable for creating rules that the solution must detect."

"It's quite economical compared to other solutions in the market."

"Possibility to investigate incidents based on logs and raw packets, such as extracting files sent over the network"

"The most valuable features are the packet decoder, log decoder, and concentrator."

"What we are mainly using are the RSA concentrator, RSA Decoder, Archiver, Broker, and Log Decoder."

"I can have enterprise security, email security, next generation firewall security log, HIDS and NIDS logs, etc. all on the same dashboard. It makes it easy to pinpoint or correlate our server to this. I can find out if there is lateral movement. This is the biggest advantage of this solution."

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Cons

"Shortening the response time for support tickets, particularly in production issues, could make the service more efficient."

"It is not flexible for multi-cloud environments."

"The telemetry doesn't always go into the control center. When you have multiple instances running in AWS, you need a control tower to take feeds from Security Hub and analyze your results. Sometimes exemptions aren't passed between the control tower and Security Hub. The configuration gets mixed up or you don't get the desired results."

"Whenever my team gets some alarms from the central team, my team needs to initiate whether it's a real or false trigger. The central team needs to keep adjusting to the parameters or at least the concerned IPs, whether it's really from the company's pool of IPs, so the trigger process can be improved. In the next release of AWS Security Hub, I'd like a better dashboard that could result in better alert visibility."

"AWS Security Hub should improve the time it takes to update. It takes a long period of time when updating. It can take 24 hours sometimes to update. Additionally, when integrating this solution with more security tools, takes time."

"From an improvement perspective, there is a need to add more compliance since, right now, AWS Security Hub only provides four to five compliances to control the tool."

"There is room for improvement in implementing AI capabilities."

"AWS Security Hub's configuration and integration are areas where it lacks and needs to improve."

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"Nowadays, their support is a little subpar compared to other solutions. I rate RSA support six out of 10."

"RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets can improve the threat level aspect, it is lacking compared to other solutions. Whenever any hacking activity or any other threat factor occurred they used to provide the coverages very fast when comparing RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets. I heard the other three solutions, from a discussion with my team members who had experience in other solutions, they used to say that. Whenever any issues happened across the globe RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets are a little bit slow improving those detection mechanisms."

"I'd like to see improvement in its ease of use. It's basically unusable. It's overly complex."

"The initial setup was complex because it takes a lot of time to complete the implementation."

"Log aggregation is an issue with this solution because there are a huge number of alerts in a single instance."

"The system architecture is complex and sometimes it’s hard to troubleshoot potential problems."

"Health monitoring of the event sources and devices."

"I believe that integrating the solution with other products such as Oracle would be beneficial."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost is based on the number of compliances, core checks, and services required, and for more than 10,000 recommendations, the charge is just one dollar."

"The pricing is fine. It is not an expensive tool."

"AWS Security Hub's pricing is pretty reasonable."

"Security Hub is not an expensive solution."

"The price of the solution is not very competitive but it is reasonable."

"The price of AWS Security Hub is average compared to other solutions."

"AWS Security Hub is not an expensive tool. I would consider it to be a cheap solution. AWS Security Hub follows the PAYG pricing model, meaning you will have to pay for whatever you use."

"There are multiple subscription models, like yearly, monthly, and packaged."

"Compared to the competition, the is price is not that high."

"Many clients are not able to purchase the packet capability because there is a huge amount of data, and the cost depends on the number of EPS (Events per second), as well as the number of gigabytes of data per day."

"The new pricing and licensing mechanisms are fair. I would advise always to get the full solution (i.e., not only Logs)."

"There is a licensing fee and the customer can choose whether he wishes this to be subscription-based or perpetual."

"It provides tools to assist in selecting the appropriate license and usage scenarios."

"The NetWitness Platform may be affordable only for enterprise-level customers, as it may not be within the budget of small and medium-sized businesses."

"In comparison to other SIEM solutions such as Splunk, NetWitness is less costly."

"We have a perpetual license, so the total cost of ownership is not very expensive. It's a good investment."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Performing Arts

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	20

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Azure Sentinel or AWS Security Hub?

We like that Azure Sentinel does not require as much maintenance as legacy SIEMs that are on-premises. Azure Sentinel is auto-scaling - you will not have to worry about performance impact, you will...

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What do you like most about AWS Security Hub?

The most valuable features of the solution are the scanning of all the cloud environments and most of the compliances available in the cloud.

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What needs improvement with AWS Security Hub?

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What do you like most about NetWitness Platform?

The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetWitness Platform?

The pricing is comparable to others, and I consider the cost to be intermediate. Specific cost details are unknown to me.

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What needs improvement with NetWitness Platform?

There is currently no need for improvement in the SIEM ( /categories/security-information-and-event-management-siem ), though there could be potential enhancements by integrating with AI.

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 22% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Also Known As

SQRRL

RSA Security Analytics

Overview

AWS Security Hub is a comprehensive security service that provides a centralized view of security alerts and compliance status across an AWS environment. It collects data from various AWS services, partner solutions, and AWS Marketplace products to provide a holistic view of security posture. With Security Hub, users can quickly identify and prioritize security issues, automate compliance checks, and streamline remediation efforts.

The service offers a range of features including continuous monitoring, threat intelligence integration, and customizable dashboards. It also provides automated insights and recommendations to help users improve their security posture. Security Hub integrates with other AWS services like Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Config, and AWS Macie to provide a unified security experience. Additionally, it supports integration with third-party security tools through its API, allowing users to leverage their existing security investments.

With its user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities, AWS Security Hub is a valuable tool for organizations looking to enhance their security and compliance posture in the cloud.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

NetWitness Platform is an evolved SIEM and threat detection and response solution that functions as a single, unified platform for ALL your security data. It features an advanced analyst workbench for triaging alerts and incidents, and it orchestrates security operations programs end to end. In short: NetWitness Platform is all you need to run an intelligent SOC.

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