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We performed a comparison between IBM X-Force Exchange and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"This product has helped to increase staff productivity.""The most valuable feature is you have the expertise of human experience directly involved. There is a team of experts.""It's quite integratable so you can actually integrate and get IP malware and URL information. It also gives you some form of intelligence into what you're trying to investigate or what you're trying to understand."

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"Splunk has facilitated the correlation of information security logs to look for incidents which could cause damage to the company's infrastructure, as well as financial losses from leaks.""The search function for spam is like a google search. You just enter and it will quickly show you the results.""Integrity with many vendors: This simplifies the implementation and integration with different devices""We are much faster finding and addressing issues with Splunk.""I like Splunk's data aggregation and search capabilities.""The alerts are very effective.""Its dashboard is valuable. If you have a good knowledge of how to create a dashboard, you can create any dashboard related to cybersecurity. If fine-tuned, the alarms that are triggered for instant review are also very valuable and useful.""Internal tracking is helpful because we do not like to deal with multiple ticketing systems, and I am not a fan of ServiceNow. We are able to keep everything internal and utilize Enterprise Security."

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Cons
"You have to look for the new information from X-Force. X-Force will provide it but you have to look for it. We need clearer visibility.""I would like to see better integration with other systems, solutions, and vendors.""We would like to have more AI capabilities to detect threats and improve its productivity from a cybersecurity standpoint."

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"The upgrading process could be smoother.""The ingestion happens quickly, so you can run up the data costs if you use the default settings. It isn't a problem for government agencies in the Saudi market, but many of the corporations in India are small or medium-sized enterprises that cannot afford that kind of ingestion system.""It needs integration with a configuration management solution.""The Enterprise Security app could be improved. We have had trouble with it working from the first day.""I find the graphical options really limited and you don't have enough control over how to display the data that you want to see.""​Not even Splunk's support guy, who came to our firm, could help with defining proper role management.​""It is a challenge to manage the environment in such a way, that one’s log, even with the bandwidth license, isn’t exceeded.""The UI can be improved. Dashboards and reports can be better in terms of graphics."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Cost is clearly a consideration, but the important thing is what we do with the data and how we protect it."
  • "One of the fastest ways to cut costs is reducing staff, and this product can reduce staff by 70 percent."
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  • "Pricing and licensing is quite expensive. But for the value the product provides, it seems at par in the market."
  • "Although Splunk is an expensive product, it is designed to be utilized across your organization in order to maximize your ROI and lower your TCO."
  • "It is not cheap."
  • "Splunk Enterprise becomes extremely expensive after the 20GB/month license."
  • "You will eat up whatever you purchase quickly. The level of insights that Splunk empowers is addictive."
  • "Splunk licensing model might seem expensive but with all the gain in functionalities you will have compared to traditional SIEM solutions I think it’s worth the price."
  • "Pricing is pretty fair."
  • "While licensing can be a concern, there are ways to reduce the licensing costs including filtering some events."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature is you have the expertise of human experience directly involved. There is a team of experts.
    Top Answer:I would like to see better integration with other systems, solutions, and vendors.
    Top Answer:Our primary use case is for threat intelligence. We are feeding intelligent information from cybersecurity all over the world and letting them know how to actively protect their system.
    Top Answer:For tools I’d recommend:  -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also,… more »
    Top Answer:It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log… more »
    Top Answer:Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we… more »
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    Also Known As
    X-Force Exchange, X-Force
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    Overview
    IBM X-Force Exchange is a cloud-based threat intelligence sharing platform enabling users to rapidly research the latest security threats, aggregate actionable intelligence and collaborate with peers. IBM X-Force Exchange is supported by human- and machine-generated intelligence leveraging the scale of IBM X-Force.

    Splunk Enterprise Security is a SIEM, log management, and IT operations analytics tool. The solution provides users with the ability to secure their information and manage their data in the cloud, data centers, or other applications. Splunk Enterprise Security also offers visibility from different areas, levels, and devices, rather than from a single system, thus, providing its users with flexibility. Splunk Enterprise Security can monitor data and analyze, detect, and prevent intrusions. This benefits users as it provides alerts to possible intrusions, helps users to be proactive, and reduces risk factors. 

    Full visibility across your environment

    Break down data silos and gain actionable intelligence by ingesting data from multicloud and on-premises deployments. Get full visibility to quickly detect malicious threats in your environment.

    Fast threat detection

    Defend against threats with advanced security analytics, machine learning and threat intelligence that focus detection and provide high-fidelity alerts to shorten triage times and raise true positive rates.

    Efficient investigations

    Gather all the context you need and initiate flexible investigations with security analytics at your fingertips. The built-in open and extensible data platform boosts productivity and drives down fatigue.

    Open and scalable

    Built on an open and scalable data platform, you can stay agile in the face of evolving threats and business needs. Splunk meets you where you are on your cloud journey, and integrates across your data, tools and content.

    Sample Customers
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    Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Healthcare Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Government10%
    Energy/Utilities Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise68%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise57%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    IBM X-Force Exchange is ranked 7th in Threat Intelligence Platforms with 3 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. IBM X-Force Exchange is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM X-Force Exchange writes "Speed threat assessment ,security investigations leveraging on real time actionable threat intel integrated to your Security Intelligence Platform". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". IBM X-Force Exchange is most compared with VirusTotal, IBM Security QRadar, ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP), Recorded Future and USM Anywhere, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security.

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