ConnectWise SIEM vs NetWitness NDR comparison

ConnectWise and NetWitness are both solutions in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category. ConnectWise is ranked #54 with an average rating of 6.0, while NetWitness is ranked #57. ConnectWise holds a 0.8% mindshare in EDR, compared to NetWitness’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 66% of ConnectWise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of NetWitness users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

NetWitness NDR and ConnectWise SIEM are both leading solutions in network detection and response. ConnectWise SIEM appears more favorable due to its robust customization and integration capabilities.

Features: NetWitness NDR offers advanced threat detection, comprehensive visibility, and forensic capabilities. ConnectWise SIEM provides easy integration with other tools, customizable dashboards, and automated remediation.

Room for Improvement: NetWitness NDR needs a more intuitive setup process, improved reporting features, and reduced complexity. ConnectWise SIEM could benefit from enhanced real-time monitoring, fewer false positives, and better real-time capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetWitness NDR deployment is more complex and time-consuming but has strong customer support. ConnectWise SIEM offers a straightforward deployment process and comprehensive customer service and support.

Pricing and ROI: NetWitness NDR is noted for its competitive pricing, although some users feel the ROI could be improved. ConnectWise SIEM, while potentially more expensive, is often seen as offering a better ROI due to its extensive features and capabilities.

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ConnectWise SIEM vs. NetWitness NDR

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Review summaries and opinions

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Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.4%, down from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ConnectWise SIEM is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetWitness NDR is 0.9%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks	3.4%
ConnectWise SIEM	0.8%
NetWitness NDR	0.9%
Other	94.9%

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH

Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk

Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration

Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.

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reviewer2711757

Cyber Security Software Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Automated alerting and reporting excel while cost and feature limitations remain

I find automation to be one of the best and most valuable features of the product. Machine learning is incorporated into the solution, though AI is a broader term that I wouldn't apply here. I haven't personally explored AI yet, but I will investigate it. Machine learning functions more as automation in my experience, as there's no training involved yet. I want to conduct R&D on another project with Wazuh to determine how to capture usage, for example, tracking user logins and time spent. This is where I need to implement machine learning. Additionally, the extraction of GeoIP adds complexity. The solution is effectively reducing incident response times in operations.

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reviewer1799727

Manager, IT Security Operations at a non-profit with 11-50 employees

Reliable and good support but can be expensive

I have no real complaints about the solution. Threat detection could be better. They need to enhance their threat intelligence feeds. We would like to have more IOCs or more trade intelligence to not only rely on the intelligence of the engineer in charge but to have some threat intelligence and some seeds of IOCs and to have the host have some artificial intelligence to reduce the number of false positives. I don't see this solution being very scalable. The solution is pricey.

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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

"If the user leaves our premises or network, Palo Alto Traps will still be on that endpoint and will still apply our policies."

"The normal protection was really effective, and we detected situations that if we didn't have Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, it's highly likely that we would have been affected, but it protected the infrastructure."

"We use it for malicious connections from malicious websites, to identify payloads that might be inside the traffic, to identify malicious processes or bugs that are running on the network, and any activities that tend to lead to data infiltration."

"The information the dashboard provides is very clear."

"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."

"The positive impacts I see from Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks include a complete 360-degree view of our security posture altogether, being a uniform platform where we are ingesting logs from multiple resources."

"I like that the product has behavior-based detection which offers many benefits over signature-based detection."

"They did what they said. This solution could apply to any scenario."

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"We have found the solution has great functionality and it is easy to use."

"The integration capabilities of ConnectWise SIEM are off the shelf, making it easy to buy and use; you just unpack it and use it."

"We have found the solution has great functionality and it is easy to use."

"One valuable feature of ConnectWise Fortify is the ability to add other teams and receive notifications when customers make changes or remove multi-factor authentication in Microsoft or SAP environments."

"It is very easy to use, and its usability is great. The use cases are also very easy. The visualizations of the use cases are magnificent. You cannot find this in any other solution. From my point of view, it is great."

"The most valuable feature is the way it captures the traffic, and it contains every detail of the communication."

"The most valuable feature of RSA NetWitness Network is the single unified dashboard from which you can manage all the different products of RSA, and the integration with native applications is good."

"The most valuable feature is the way it captures the traffic, and it contains every detail of the communication."

"We use it for IT security purposes; this is our central log management solution, so we incorporate all of our servers and PCs into this software and can monitor the logs from there."

"The detection rate and tracking features including historical tracking, tracking of the fires on the desk, and tracking of the file last monitored are all quite valuable for us."

"It is very easy to use, and its usability is great."

"It helps our security team respond more accurately when there are threats, then we get less false positives or negatives."

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Cons

"The solution needs better reports. I think they should let the customer go in and customize the reports."

"The solution should offer more dashboards and they should be better customized."

"I have seen lagging with Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. There was one time when we faced a threat actor trying to gain access to our system. When our team utilized the tool, we were all on the same dashboard and we faced a lag issue at that time of around five minutes, which was quite significant."

"They've been having some issues with updating their endpoint agents, and it has been quite frustrating."

"It should support more mobile operating systems. That is one of the cons of their infrastructure right now."

"The installation should be easier and the Palo Alto pre-sales and sales teams should have more information on the product because they don't know what they are selling."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks could improve its user interface, which is more complicated compared to competitors such as SentinelOne."

"The solution should offer more dashboards and they should be better customized."

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"ConnectWise SIEM is primarily focused on notifications and is limited in that aspect, while Wazuh can automate the elimination process."

"The manage portion of the solution is complicated and should be simplified by having different versions to meet the needs of different size companies."

"ConnectWise Fortify could work on covering more areas, like phishing messages, which have become more complicated to detect."

"The manage portion of the solution is complicated and should be simplified by having different versions to meet the needs of different size companies."

"The problem with this product is that it's a bit slow."

"When analyzing something, you have to click several times. It requires a lot of effort to find something."

"Its price could be improved. It is an expensive product."

"Its price could be improved. It is an expensive product. Its training is also too expensive. It would be great if they can have a better pricing scheme for the training."

"RSA NetWitness Network could improve on integration with non-native application integration."

"NetWitness Endpoint's blocking feature does not work properly - if there's a malicious process, it's not possible to kill it via a custom rule unless and until it's flagged as malicious."

"I don't see this solution being very scalable."

"This solution needs an upgrade in reporting. I have heard from RSA that they are working on this, but as of yet it is not available."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't recall what the cost was, but it wasn't really that expensive."

"Cortex XDR's pricing is ok."

"The price of the solution could be reduced. I have customers that have voiced that the solution is good for the value but if I want to sell more of the solution the price reduction would help."

"Every customer has to pay for a license because it doesn't work with what you get from a managed services provider."

"The pricing is okay, although direct support can be expensive."

"I am using the Community edition."

"I don't like that they have different types of licenses."

"The price is on the higher side, but it's okay."

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"The solution is expensive."

"They can easily adjust if you have the requirements which are required. If you have a budget cut or a budget constraint, they can bend."

"I do not have any opinion on the pricing or licensing of the product."

"The cost depends on the number of endpoints that you want to monitor, but it is not expensive."

"It is highly scalable. It can be bought based on your requirements."

"The price of the solution depends on the environment. If the environment is large then it will cost more. However, the larger the environment with more endpoints, you will receive an increased discount. If the environment is very small, then you might think it is expensive. It is always better to buy in bulk to receive a discount. The minimum number of assets is usually 500, with discounts on 1000 and 2000."

"It is an expensive product."

"We are on a three-year contract to use RSA NetWitness Network."

"The pricing is not very economical. It is a quite costly product for India. One thing is that when you purchase it, you have to purchase a module separately."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Construction Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

16%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Construction Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	46
Midsize Enterprise	20
Large Enterprise	49

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	6

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

ConnectWise Security Management, ConnectWise Fortify, Continuum Fortify, ConnectWise SIEM, ConnectWise SASE

RSA ECAT, NetWitness Network

Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

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ConnectWise SIEM is a cybersecurity platform designed to enhance threat detection and response capabilities, integrating seamlessly into sophisticated IT infrastructures.

Developed to address complex cybersecurity challenges, ConnectWise SIEM offers robust monitoring and analytics, enabling businesses to detect threats faster and with greater accuracy. It combines security information and event management with advanced intelligence to create a comprehensive security solution that supports real-time analysis and immediate action.

What are the most important features of ConnectWise SIEM?

Advanced Threat Detection: Leverages machine learning to identify potential threats quickly.
Real-Time Alerts: Provides instant notifications to ensure swift response to incidents.
Comprehensive Reporting: Delivers detailed insights to inform decision-making.
Scalability: Adapts to the growing needs of any organization.
Seamless Integration: Connects effortlessly with existing IT tools and platforms.

What benefits or ROI should users look for in reviews?

Reduced Downtime: Minimizes disruptions with proactive threat management.
Cost Efficiency: Lowers overall security expenditure through strategic resource allocation.
Improved Compliance: Assists in meeting industry regulations with comprehensive logs and reports.
Enhanced Security Posture: Strengthens defenses with continuous monitoring and analysis.

ConnectWise SIEM is widely implemented in industries such as finance, healthcare, and retail, where data security is crucial. These sectors benefit from its capability to handle large volumes of data while maintaining regulatory compliance. Its flexibility allows customization to meet specific industry requirements, providing targeted security solutions to protect sensitive information.

ConnectWise

NetWitness NDR provides robust network security features, offering full visibility and effective incident response. Its seamless integration and user-friendly interface support malware detection and real-time threat tracking.

NetWitness NDR stands out for its comprehensive traffic details and compatibility across operating systems. It features a unified dashboard and lightweight installation, making it user-friendly without IT support. The system supports orchestration features and user behavior analytics. While deployment is somewhat modular and complex, it serves well for network security, malware analysis, and digital forensics. NetWitness integrates smoothly with third-party apps using its intuitive API, though improvements could be made in areas like SOAR integration, hunting features, and scalability, alongside addressing pricing and licensing complexities.

What are NetWitness NDR's Key Features?

Full Visibility: Offers comprehensive insight into network activities.
User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies navigation and management.
Real-Time Threat Tracking: Enables quick detection and action against threats.
Seamless Integration: Works easily with external applications and systems.
Unified Dashboard: Provides one-stop access to all security metrics.

What Benefits Should Users Look For?

Effective Malware Detection: Identifies and mitigates threats efficiently.
Flexible Deployment: Adapts to both on-premises and IT security needs.
Comprehensive Analytics: Offers detailed traffic and behavior analysis.
Ease of Use: Minimal need for IT support.

Banks and telecom companies utilize NetWitness NDR for detecting indicators of compromise, analyzing intrusion history, and providing risk scores. It functions as both a SIEM tool and a network forensic instrument, proving essential for sectors focused on network security and threat prevention.

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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

Techvera, Syrex, Clark Integrated Technologies

ADP, Ameritas, Partners Healthcare

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