We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Malwarebytes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the speed, detail, and visualization. It has the latest standards."
"The most valuable feature is the search function, which allows me to go directly to the target to see the specific line a customer is searching for."
"The most valuable thing is that this solution is widely used for work management and research. It's easy to jump into the security use case with the same technology."
"The indexes allow you to get your results quickly. The filtering and log passing is the advantage of Logstash."
"Elastic is straightforward, easy to integrate, and highly customizable."
"The feature that we have found the most valuable is scalability."
"It's open-source and free to use."
"The solution has a good community surrounding it for lots of helpful documentation for troubleshooting purposes."
"We have seen a decrease of approximately ninety percent in the number of events."
"The solution has a good management interface."
"The installation process is very easy, especially since it is on the cloud."
"The product keeps our company safe."
"The dashboard actually is good and it is simple."
"The pricing of the product is very good."
"It allows us to have better knowledge of the way people use the tool and how we can improve their workflows."
"Being able to carry out a full scan on your system."
"The setup process is complex. You need a solid working knowledge of networking, operating systems, and a little programming."
"In terms of what could be improved with Elastic, in some use cases, especially on the advanced level, they are not ready made, so you'll have to write some scripts."
"The solution's query building is not that intuitive compared to other solutions."
"Their visuals and graphs need to be better."
"Technical support could respond faster."
"Elastic Security could improve the documentation. It would help if they were more simple and clean."
"They don't provide user authentication and authorisation features (Shield) as a part of their open-source version."
"There should be a simulation environment to check whether my Elastic implementation is functioning perfectly fine. Other solutions have their own Android and iOS applications that I can install on my mobile so that I am continuously connected to the SIEM."
"We have noticed that when the solution is doing the scanning, all the scanning activities make the device heavier. It slows down your machine."
"Malwarebytes is not there in the reports from Gartner or IDC...If we look at the market trends and the industry, most customers look at Gartner's reports to identify whether a product is a leader, challenger, or a big product, depending on which they choose."
"Overall, I haven't found any ways the solution lacks in features or usability."
"It's not good in search hunting."
"Requires increased efficiency in terms of detecting false positives."
"They should make it faster, less taxing on the processor."
"If they want to compete with bigger players, they should consider adding items like threat detection and website warnings."
"They can include advanced scanning and improve reporting. I scan malware on the pen drive. Some more reports need to be added for that. It should also provide better protection because we have a new version of the malware."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews while Malwarebytes is ranked 28th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 33 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Malwarebytes is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Malwarebytes writes "Intuitive, easy to use, and does a good job of catching and stopping things for the most part and has a unique rollback feature". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Malwarebytes is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, HP Wolf Security and ESET Endpoint Protection Platform. See our Elastic Security vs. Malwarebytes report.
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