FileAudit vs NetWitness Platform comparison

IS Decisions and NetWitness are both solutions in the Log Management category. IS Decisions is ranked #51, while NetWitness is ranked #34 with an average rating of 8.3. IS Decisions holds a 0.3% mindshare in Log Management, compared to NetWitness’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IS Decisions users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of NetWitness users who would recommend it.

FileAudit

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100% willing to recommend

NetWitness Platform

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75% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

NetWitness Platform and FileAudit are two prominent solutions in cybersecurity and data auditing, respectively. Based on user reviews, FileAudit seems to have the upper hand in terms of deployment simplicity and cost-effectiveness, whereas NetWitness Platform stands out for its extensive features and strong customer support.

Features: NetWitness Platform is praised for its advanced threat detection capabilities, comprehensive security analytics, and extensive integration options. FileAudit, on the other hand, is valued for its simplicity, real-time monitoring, and detailed auditing reports.

Room for Improvement: NetWitness Platform could improve in interface intuitiveness, initial setup complexity, and scalability. FileAudit users suggest enhancing its scalability, adding more advanced reporting tools, and refining the user interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: FileAudit stands out for its quick and easy deployment process, often highlighted by users as a major advantage. NetWitness Platform generally requires a more involved setup but is supported by strong customer service, providing thorough assistance.

Pricing and ROI: FileAudit’s pricing model is cost-effective, delivering a good return on investment by minimizing operational disruptions. NetWitness Platform, though more costly and with a longer ROI horizon, is justified by its extensive feature set and enhanced security benefits.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

FileAudit

Ranking in Log Management

51st

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

64th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetWitness Platform

Ranking in Log Management

34th

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

30th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of FileAudit is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetWitness Platform is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
NetWitness Platform	0.5%
FileAudit	0.3%
Other	99.2%

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AntoSebastin

Cyber Security Consultant - APAC at Logon Software

A scalable SIEM solution for monitoring a user's activity in the file server

The most valuable features of the solution are its quick and simple features related to advanced permissions for files, allowing for what permission needs to be granted to the users when it comes to the monitoring folder in the solution. If someone who has been denied permission to use a particular folder tries to go to that folder, then the administrator gets a notification. In general, the administrator can easily gather and maintain records if a person who has been denied permission to a particular confidential folder tries to access it.

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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

"It is a good and stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

"Our customer acquires the complete report which is kept for future auditing purposes."

"Alerting upon file changes is the most valuable aspect of the product."

"The solution is really scalable for the high-end power, enterprise customer."

"Alerting Module: It provides real-time event processing language on all the logs/packets stream for advanced alerting, i.e., using SQL LIKE statements."

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

"The most valuable feature is the security that it provides."

"The software is scalable to whatever is required, and you can also put a lot of resources in the cloud."

"It gives the capability for the incident response team to correlate logs to identify any kind of problem like malware and incidents in a general sense, both for logs and packets."

"Incident management is its most valuable feature."

"Their technical support responds quickly and are knowledgable."

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Cons

"The DLP function, including installation of the agent on the workstation and controlling the DLP restrictions, are areas where the product lacks."

"Whenever someone cuts and paste, it shows as "file is deleted"."

"The updates management and central management console could be improved."

"There is no support for this product in this country, so problems have to be resolved through global technical teams."

"Security needs improvement."

"An area for improvement would be better automation and more inbuilt use cases."

"The tool's integration capability isn't so great."

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

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

"The documentation is not as structured as I would like, personally, and I think that it can be improved and made much more user-friendly."

"The system looks like it is a mix of a bunch of different systems, and nothing looked like it was quite together."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"FileAudit provides a trial license for 30 days, and after that, customers can choose between perpetual licensing or the annual-based licensing option offered by FileAudit."

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

"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."

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

"It’s cheaper to run virtual machines in a VMware environment."

"We have yearly licensing costs. The license fee can be based on the volume of EPS. Some organizations may have, as a gentlemanly gesture, 10,000 EPS and get a 3,000 EPS license but actually use 5,000 EPS."

"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 licenses are good but the cost is very expensive."

"This is a pricey solution; it's not cheap."

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Comparison Review

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Feb 26, 2015

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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 9% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Overview

Agentless, remote and non-intrusive, FileAudit offers a simple more user-friendly way to safeguard and secure file access in a Windows environment. FileAudit provides real-time monitoring and alerting on all access (or access attempts). FileAudit also implements contextual functions such as mass access and alteration alerts, tracking source IP address information for remote data access, and providing granular time and date alerting parameters to monitor folder and file access at unusual or unexpected times.

IS Decisions

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.

NetWitness

Sample Customers

CommuniCare Health Centre, DP World, BAE Systems, Moet Hennessy, Ernst & Young, Honda, Volswagon, VTech, GlakoSmithKline, Lockheed Martin, US Navy, University of Alabama, Ministry of Interior Saudi Arabia, Total

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