We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Trend Micro Smart Protection 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."ELK is open-source, and it will give you the framework you need to build everything from scratch."
"Just the ability to do a lot more than just up-down is nice, which a lot of people take for granted."
"The solution is quite stable. The performance has been good."
"I like that it's a SIEM platform. I like that I can sell Elastic Security quickly. Elastic Security has a large community that can support users."
"The most valuable feature for me is Discover."
"Elastic is straightforward, easy to integrate, and highly customizable."
"It's simple and easy to use."
"It's very stable and reliable."
"The stability is good and I like the level of performance I can get."
"Trend Micro Smart Protection includes compliance features where you can establish rules against endpoint vulnerabilities and attack parameters. It offers Smart Detection, Smart Update, and sandboxing to detect and analyze suspicious files, providing a smart approach to zero-day threat detection. Trend Micro Smart Protection offers rapid response to zero-day threats with a strong team backing up the discovery process. Virtual patching is a crucial feature, effectively closing vulnerable ports and access points. Regarding web reputation services, aggregating data from multiple sources, including Trend Micro, Proofpoint, and others, helps inform threat prevention efforts and automate responses."
"The most valuable feature of Trend Micro Smart Protection is automatic scanning."
"The tool will query the information from the cloud to identify suspicious or malicious files that can be a threat. It will provide you with real-time updates on the latest and ongoing attacks and malware information."
"The administration through the cloud is valuable."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is that it also protects our smartphones. It's one of the reasons we use Trend Micro specifically."
"It is their most comprehensive endpoint protection solution. It includes DLP and Office 365. It also includes device control and the rest of the little bells and whistles that the traditional AV vendors have."
"The solution gives users peace of mind that, form an endpoint perspective, they are protected once it is installed."
"Its documentation should be a bit better. I have to spend at least a couple of hours to find the solution for a simple thing. When we buy Elastic, training is not included for free with Elastic. We have to pay extra for the training. They should include training in the price."
"Upgrades currently released as stacks when it should be a plugin or an extension to save removal and reinstallation."
"Elastic Security's maintenance is hard and its scalability is a challenge. There are complications in scaling and upgrading. The solution needs to also provide periodic upgrade checks."
"This type of monitoring is not very mature just yet. We need more real-time information in a way that's easier to manage."
"There is room for improvement in the Kibana dashboard and in the asset management for the program."
"There is an area of improvement in the Logs list. The load list may need to be paginated as there are limits."
"We are paying dearly for the guy who is working on the ELK Stack. That knowledge is quite rare and hard to come by. For difficulty and availability of resources, I would rate it a five out of 10."
"Sometimes, the solution isn't the easiest to use."
"Trend Micro Smart Protection is a very system-intensive product, and it would be better if it could be made less burdensome on the resources."
"Recently our end users are feeling that their system resources are too occupied and slowed because of the Trend Micro agent - that the agent is doing lots and lots of background activities which include that Application Control, Advanced Threat Protection. We raised the complaint with them and are waiting for their technical support. The support could be faster for all the Trend Micro solutions."
"I'm not sure about the cloud migration part, in terms of whether it is seamless or not."
"It does not provide insights into what is being done."
"I've not explored all of the features up to now. I still need to see all of the features implemented first to be able to see if anything is missing. However, as of right now, it's working very well for us."
"I cannot recall noticing any missing features."
"It is onsite. It does have its challenges in terms of scalability."
"The solution could be more stable and secure."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews while Trend Micro Smart Protection is ranked 31st in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 38 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Trend Micro Smart Protection 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 Trend Micro Smart Protection writes "Offers strong, all-around cybersecurity but is expensive". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Trend Micro Smart Protection is most compared with Trend Micro Apex One, Check Point Harmony Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, HP Wolf Security and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. See our Elastic Security vs. Trend Micro Smart Protection report.
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