McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator vs Splunk SOAR comparison

McAfee and Splunk are both solutions in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category. McAfee is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.7, while Splunk is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.5. McAfee holds a 0.7% mindshare in SOAR, compared to Splunk’s 7.7% mindshare. Additionally, 82% of McAfee users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 21, 2025

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and Splunk SOAR are competing in the security operations category. Splunk SOAR has the upper hand due to its advanced automation and integration capabilities.

Features: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator offers centralized management, threat protection, and compliance capabilities. It provides automatic updates and reports for virus signatures and patch levels, saving administrative time. Splunk SOAR features extensive automation and integration with security tools, offering playbooks for incident management and reducing response times, enhancing operational efficiency.

Room for Improvement: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator can enhance its AI tools for more advanced automation and provide more customizable reporting options. Additionally, better clarity in its management interface can streamline user experience. Splunk SOAR can improve the ease of use for less technical users and reduce the learning curve. Enhanced built-in documentation for new features can also help users maximize the product’s potential.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is straightforward to deploy with comprehensive support options, facilitating easy integration into existing setups. Splunk SOAR offers thorough documentation, though it presents a more complex deployment process. Its strong community support partly mitigates the steeper learning challenges.

Pricing and ROI: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is more budget-friendly initially, offering reasonable ROI for smaller enterprises. In contrast, Splunk SOAR has higher initial costs but offers greater ROI through its enhanced threat management and automation capabilities, particularly suiting larger organizations with complex security needs.

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Categories and Ranking

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Splunk SOAR

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category, the mindshare of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is 0.7%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk SOAR is 7.7%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Splunk SOAR	7.7%
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator	0.7%
Other	91.6%

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

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Binu Haneef

System Administrator at Sky News Arabia

Comprehensive security management enabled through efficient integration and automation

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator helps automate routine security tasks. We created customized automation. For example, when we did not have an EDR or XDR solution, we created tasks exclusively for detection and response automation and automatic segregation of infected PCs. The ability to customize the dashboard in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator helps us significantly. The main feature is automation for auto-segmentation and segregation. As we are in an AI era, McAfee can focus on AI tools. Instead of putting manual effort into each security-related task, it can implement more advanced automation using AI. This enhancement could improve cybersecurity significantly. Regarding the reporting area in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, we are satisfied with what we currently have. Our cybersecurity team needs customized reports beyond the default ones. We have more than 20 separate reports for identifying threats, managing, and understanding the security posture of our company and assets.

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Mack Scott

Cyber Security Network Security Engineer at Cirrus Logic

Improves response time by consolidating tools and automating threat detection

I haven't gone too far into it to see anything that needs improvement yet. We can likely include some features related to the integration with on-premises resources, rather than focusing solely on the existing automation. These are the additional features that could be included in the future. Splunk's Unified Platform does help consolidate networking security and IT observability tools. They should integrate Splunk Enterprise Security better into Splunk Cloud.

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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 highly scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"The best part is management in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator."

"The security is a key feature and the console is very user friendly."

"From a single dashboard, I can take a look at several things including the endpoint protection, the file integrity section, the data activity monitor, and more."

"The DLP feature in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is good."

"Application control and traffic encryption are the most valuable features."

"I like the solution's feasibility. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is also better and easier to use than other ePOs."

"The policy auditing, policy management, and device auditing are all valuable features. Our customers appreciated the ability to get alerts to system-wide events from a single view."

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"The best feature in Splunk SOAR is the visual Playbook Editor. The drag-and-drop interfaces make visualizations and understanding workflows easy."

"The ability to automate Splunk SOAR and customize the playbook use cases is the most valuable feature and is very exciting for me."

"The automation part of the product is great."

"The solution’s dashboard is really good and customizable. It also has a good UI."

"The best feature is the integration and the custom Python code that we can write. Splunk SOAR provides us with both of these capabilities, allowing us to integrate different security solutions with Splunk SOAR and take remediation actions directly on those security tools."

"So far, the interface is very easy to use."

"The most valuable feature of Splunk SOAR that stands out is it has a great SOAR. The automation and orchestration module is highly mature. A lot of use cases are on user entity and behavioral analytics (UEBA), which is artificial intelligence and machine learning-based (AIML)."

"The customization of the playbook in Splunk SOAR is very beneficial."

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Cons

"As for improvements, I think that putting everything on a cloud and one console would be a great idea and would be useful for customers."

"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator needs to upgrade its technology since the solution's EDR function is not good compared to other vendors in the market."

"There are some issues we are having with updating our Windows server. So we need to contact support or access our support portal."

"There is a problem when it comes to agent communication and duplicate records, where the rebooting of a machine leads to the installation of a new agent and you get a lot of duplicate records that ultimately affect your compliance monitoring."

"Some drawbacks include difficulty in supporting improvements because we don't get proper response from Trellix support, so there is a need to improve the support."

"They have to do something to make the solution more resilient or recoverable from power failure events, which may include creating their own database."

"Sometimes agents hang. We have to reinstall the agents."

"There needs to be support for Mac computers. Currently, McAfee does not work on iOS."

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"The application does not work properly and does not pass the log-based configuration. I feel that some kind of review should happen in the application. This review should validate things so that we can get the right information. Splunk does not tell us where the IP address is associated with."

"There are areas where Splunk SOAR can continue to improve, particularly regarding the synchronization of information, as sometimes it takes longer than other tools."

"Various aspects of the playbook development process itself can be optimized."

"Splunk SOAR has room to improve its offering for small-sized customers. The price is not fair for smaller-sized customers."

"The number of playbooks on offer should be increased."

"It would be ideal if we could automate processes even more."

"In my opinion, the focus should be on improving its simplicity, specifically the interface, and configuration."

"The creation of playbooks is complex in Splunk SOAR, and the number of integrations needs enhancement. Although it enhances alert handling, it still has a journey to compete with Palo Alto SOAR and FortiSOAR."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"McAfee tries to package different things into different products, then sell them as different products with different licenses. They just split everything up into multiple things. That's just their sales pitch and how they do it."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"This solution is priced in the mid-range."

"It's an expensive solution"

"It is attractively priced. It is a fraction of what we're going to pay for CrowdStrike or SentinelOne, but it only has a fraction of the capabilities as well."

"For large enterprise companies, the price should be alright, but for small businesses, the uptake might be slow because, for these clients, the price doesn't look very attractive."

"Compared to other Antivirus products, the cost of this solution is a bit high."

"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is a cheaply priced product, meaning it is not expensive since McAfee provides a free version of ePO, which includes phone support as well."

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"The cost is high and the licensing is on an annual basis."

"Splunk SOAR is an expensive solution for an organization of our size."

"The tool is not cheap."

"It's very overpriced because it is based on the number of users. There is no bulk licensing."

"I don't know the exact price, but for my region, it is very expensive."

"When we first purchased our Splunk SOAR license, it was based on an event-count model. It was based on the number of events. I had strong opinions at the time that automation should not be stifled by the amount of automation you can accomplish, so the previous structure was not as beneficial for us. Later that year, we got told or saw at a conference that they announced user-based pricing. We are now in a renewal period, so we migrated to a user-based license model, which is more appropriate for us so that we no longer have to worry about stifling our automation based on the quantity."

"The licensing cost is reasonable."

"Splunk SOAR is more expensive compared to other options for SOAR."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

University

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	19

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	30

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Mcafee's MVision ePO or ePolicy Orchestrator?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Mcafee's MVision ePO or ePolicy Orchestrator network security software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Mcafee's ePolicy O...

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What do you like most about McAfee MVISION ePO?

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator's performance is good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for McAfee MVISION ePO?

It's an expensive solution.

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What do you like most about Splunk Phantom?

Splunk SOAR's quick response to incidents is the most valuable part.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Phantom?

I don't have experience with costs; management handles that aspect.

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What needs improvement with Splunk Phantom?

I'm not an expert on Splunk SOAR, but I'm sure our team members know what areas could be improved. I haven't spoken to them specifically about what could be improved or what they would want Splunk ...

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Also Known As

McAfee ePO, ePolicy Orchestrator, Intel Security ePolicy Orchestrator, McAfee MVISION ePO

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Overview

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) is the most advanced, extensible, and scalable centralized security management software in the industry. Unifying security management through an open platform, McAfee ePO makes risk and compliance management simpler and more successful for organizations of all sizes.

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Splunk SOAR offers features like automation and orchestration of manual tasks, speeding up work, detection and response to advanced and emerging threats.

Go from overwhelmed to in-control

Automate manual tasks. Address every alert, every day. Establish repeatable procedures that allow security analysts to stop being reactive and focus on mission-critical objectives to protect your business.

Force multiply your team

Orchestrate and automate repetitive tasks, investigation and response to increase efficiency and productivity, and do more with the people you already have. Make a team of three feel like a team of 10.

From 30 minutes to 30 seconds

Work faster with Splunk SOAR. Respond to threats in seconds. Lower your mean time to respond (MTTR) by automating security tasks and workflows across all of your security tools.

End-to-end security operations made easy

Take advantage of Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk SOAR joining forces to provide a seamless and intuitive SecOps platform to prevent, detect and respond to advanced and emerging threats.

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Sample Customers

Brelje & Race, Cognizant, Sutherland Global Services, Eagle Rock Energy, Arab National Bank, Bank Central Asia, Kleberg Bank, Leading Mexican Bank, SF Police Credit Union, Macquarie Telecom, Seagate Technology, Blackburn & Darwen Council, California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, IRCEP, Major U.S. State Government, State of Alaska, State of Colorado, Cemex, Deutsche Edelstahlwerke

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