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Cofense Platform vs Splunk SOAR comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Cofense Platform
Average Rating
0.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Email Security (45th), Security Incident Response (13th), Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) (44th), Security Awareness Training (27th)
Splunk SOAR
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. Cofense Platform is designed for Email Security and holds a mindshare of 0.7%, up 0.3% compared to last year.
Splunk SOAR, on the other hand, focuses on Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR), holds 7.8% mindshare, up 7.3% since last year.
Email Security Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Cofense Platform0.7%
Microsoft Defender for Office 3659.6%
Proofpoint Email Protection7.9%
Other81.8%
Email Security
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Splunk SOAR7.8%
Microsoft Sentinel13.0%
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR8.9%
Other70.3%
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
 

Featured Reviews

MohamedShaker - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Team Leader at ITVikings
Secures the business for customers quickly and accurately
It secures the business for the customers. For instance, if any phishing emails come into the environment and employees see it, we direct the email to Triage. The Triage system will investigate it through AI technology to see if it's a phishing email or not. If it is a phishing email, it will quarantine it and erase it from the environment.
SS
Manager cybersecurity at Hexion Inc.
Automates threat response and reduces investigation time but needs better threat intelligence integration
One thing that we would like to see with Splunk SOAR is the expandability to the threat intelligence feed. Currently, we have limited ingestion to the threat intelligence feed for the correlation purpose. We would like to see it being integrated, with license cost or without license cost, to leading threat intelligence sources such as Recorded Future, Feedly, or Flare. That is something we would appreciate having integrated. The second thing on the improvement side is about exposed credential-related information. If we start ingesting those data to Splunk SOAR or SIEM with some sort of integration with threat intelligence feed, that will also improve our detection and prediction method or help us with the investigation.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"For instance, if any phishing emails come into the environment and employees see it, we direct the email to Triage. The Triage system will investigate it through AI technology to see if it's a phishing email or not. If it is a phishing email, it will quarantine it and erase it from the environment."
"The most valuable features of Splunk SOAR are the easy integration with other solutions, including other Splunk solutions. The most important playbooks we need on the market come already on the Frontend. However, nowadays, Splunk changed its name, it's not Frontend anymore, it's Splunk Store. This is a very strong point."
"Splunk SOAR saves time in threat response, and the time to solve an incident is currently the best in the market."
"In Splunk SOAR, I find the playbooks valuable. We get to create multiple playbooks, and within each playbook, there is a different type of investigation attached to it, which helps out an analyst or new analysts coming on board."
"When you design a playbook, you can integrate multiple log sources and define rules... After that, the platform automatically compiles all these activities and, based on the results, the analyst only has to indicate whether the result is a true or false positive. That reduces the time and effort involved."
"The features of Splunk SOAR that I appreciate most are the integrations with all the other applications and tools."
"The customization continues to be excellent."
"The customization of the playbook in Splunk SOAR is very beneficial."
"Our customers find it easy to conduct searches and consider it an excellent content management system."
 

Cons

"If they continue improving and enhancing this solution, it could be even faster and more accurate."
"It could be easier to implement."
"They should integrate Splunk Enterprise Security better into Splunk Cloud."
"The Splunk SOAR platform was not designed specifically for case management which is why this area needs improvement."
"Splunk's support for integration is subpar and has room for improvement."
"We have playbooks written to extract these events and put them into the workflow since it wasn't structured as expected. It was a miss for us. We couldn't figure out why it broke or what actually happened there. It was something in this feed with legitimate and security events, so we tried to understand the names and what we would call them."
"Splunk SOAR can improve IoT/OT security-related case studies or your use cases. Their integration with identity and access management (IAM) solutions is a bit shaky. They don't have good integration with a lot of IAM solutions. They do have good capability in terms of user access management internally, but even with privileged user access, they have a good module. However, if they have to integrate with solutions, such as CyberArk or IBM IAM solutions they are lacking, the visibility of user access is not that much."
"The solution must provide more AIOps to improve predictability."
"Improving the integration ecosystem can raise the quality of the bottom tier of the integrations so that they can work better out of the box."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"When we first purchased our Splunk SOAR license, it was based on an event-count model. It was based on the number of events. I had strong opinions at the time that automation should not be stifled by the amount of automation you can accomplish, so the previous structure was not as beneficial for us. Later that year, we got told or saw at a conference that they announced user-based pricing. We are now in a renewal period, so we migrated to a user-based license model, which is more appropriate for us so that we no longer have to worry about stifling our automation based on the quantity."
"Splunk SOAR is more expensive compared to other options for SOAR."
"It's very overpriced because it is based on the number of users. There is no bulk licensing."
"The cost is high and the licensing is on an annual basis."
"The tool is not cheap."
"In my opinion, the price is high, but if you want good products, you have to be willing to pay for them."
"I found the price of Splunk SOAR to be good."
"While I can't confirm the exact pricing, some colleagues have mentioned that Splunk SOAR may be on the costlier side."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Insurance Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
University
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise31
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Splunk Phantom?
Splunk SOAR's quick response to incidents is the most valuable part.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Phantom?
I am familiar with the pricing aspect, setup cost, and licensing cost of Splunk SOAR, and it is pretty much similar to what industries are offering these days. We never had any issue when we had to...
What needs improvement with Splunk Phantom?
The visibility of Splunk SOAR's playbook viewer is rather unclear to me; I wonder what the visibility is for. There are indeed some problems with integrating Splunk SOAR with other Splunk products ...
 

Also Known As

Cofense Intelligence, PhishMe Intelligence, Intelligence ThreatHQ, Cofense Triage, Cofense LMS
Phantom
 

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Sample Customers

Jackson Health System
Recorded Future, Blackstone
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