NetWitness Platform vs Netsurion comparison

Netsurion and NetWitness are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. Netsurion is ranked #54, while NetWitness is ranked #33 with an average rating of 8.3. Netsurion holds a 0.7% mindshare in SIEM, compared to NetWitness’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Netsurion users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of NetWitness users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

NetWitness Platform and Netsurion are prominent cybersecurity solutions. Users prefer Netsurion for its feature set, while appreciating the pricing and support of NetWitness Platform.

Features: NetWitness Platform is known for comprehensive threat detection, responsive analytics, and scalability for large enterprises. Netsurion is valued for ease of use, efficient incident response capabilities, and integration with existing systems. Users favor Netsurion's streamlined functionality and user-friendly experience.

Room for Improvement: Users of NetWitness Platform suggest improvements in integration with other security tools, a more intuitive learning curve, and better automation features. Netsurion users seek higher customization options, better integration with third-party tools, and enhancements in automation. Both products show room for improvement, focusing on these areas.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetWitness Platform’s deployment is complex but supported by strong customer service. Netsurion offers straightforward deployment and proactive support, making it easier for users to get started. Both have robust support, but Netsurion's simpler deployment process is advantageous.

Pricing and ROI: NetWitness Platform’s setup cost is reasonable, offering significant ROI through enhanced threat management. Netsurion is highlighted for cost-effectiveness and quicker ROI, suitable for smaller businesses and budget-conscious organizations. Both provide good ROI, with Netsurion’s pricing more accessible for various organizational sizes.

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Categories and Ranking

Netsurion

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

54th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Managed Security Services Providers (MSSP) (33rd), SOC as a Service (15th), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (39th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (43rd)

NetWitness Platform

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

33rd

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (34th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Netsurion is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetWitness Platform is 0.9%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
NetWitness Platform	0.9%
Netsurion	0.7%
Other	98.4%

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

John-Berry

Information Technology Manager at ProfitSolv

The SOC center monitors, hunts, and notifies us of threats around the clock

I know they are working to resolve this issue, but Netsurion is currently unable to retrieve logs from S3 buckets. We use WP Engine for a lot of web hosting as well as AWS, and both of these platforms use S3 buckets. I would like Netsurion to be able to pull logs from Linux devices. We have some of that capability, and I believe they can do it. However, the way it works with Amazon is strange and glitchy. Therefore, working something out with Amazon would be great. Netsurion's SOC can be a bit too aggressive at times. We have asked them to adjust their playbook because I am tired of being notified about the same issue multiple times a day. I am aware of the issue, and it is not a cause for concern. Let's only take action on this issue if we see an actual problem.

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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

"The managed service has been invaluable to us in terms of being able to narrow the scope of what really needs to be looked at and bringing those things to our attention to be dealt with."

"Having this in place gives us the ability to see what's going on, on a daily basis, on all of our systems across the enterprise."

"The network alert is the most valuable feature. That way, we in the IT department are aware of user lockout and invalid password attempts way before a user ever even calls in."

"The most valuable feature is definitely real-time alerting, especially in situations where someone might attempt to exploit or hack into our network."

"We don't have the eyeballs available to stare and watch for things, or even have the capability of building internal alert systems. So, the managed SOC has been huge for freeing up staff to work on other responsibilities. We are saving on at least one full-time employee."

"We have also integrated our endpoint security into the Netsurion SIEM. That's important because we have all the events in one place; we don't have to manage them in multiple places. In addition, the embedded MITRE ATT&CK Framework was paramount in our decision to choose Managed Threat Protection because the MITRE Framework is the industry standard for threats."

"The biggest lesson I have learned is that the outsourcing of this service has a dramatic impact on the organization."

"Expediting incident response is really great."

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"It gives customers visibility about their most important servers and devices."

"Technical support is very good; they try to resolve issues with the proper SLAs which are defined by them and they understand the client's requirements as well as the client's infrastructure in a better manner."

"Integration is exceedingly minimal, since its project development is much easier than that of LogRythm or IBM."

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

"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."

"The most valuable feature is that we can create our own connectors for any application, and NetWitness provides the training and tools to do it."

"RSA NetWitness is a SIEM and real-time network traffic solution that collects logs and packets, applies a set of alerting, reporting, and analysis rules on them, and thus provides the enterprise with full visibility of the networks and activities of the systems."

"Since the solution has been under way we have seen a large decrease of threats and proactive reactions to incidents."

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Cons

"Using Netsurion has not meant we have consolidated cybersecurity technologies."

"The system requirements are very, very high. So I need a pretty powerful server to run. If they could lighten that load so that the on-premise part of their product didn't impact my systems as much that would be ideal."

"I would like to see the dashboard come up more quickly."

"I would like to see a faster response when we see things like 15,000 lockouts. I really wished that I had known that on Friday afternoon rather than waiting until I got the weekly report today. By the same token, they are looking at it from the point of view that this is a system or software malfunction. This is not a bad actor repeating the exact same password three times a second. Therefore, they can tell that this is not a bad thing. However, it's not a security event but it is an operational event for me. Knowing this sort of thing would help my team and me out more because then we would be able to clear out a lot of network traffic that we didn't know was going on. So, we would like quicker updates on non-high security events."

"Communication is always something that can be improved, but I feel that any time we've had a communication issue, it's quickly addressed when we bring those up at the monthly meetings. Usually, it's an individual that wasn't clear in the communication, it's not the process per se. You always have to be able to segregate if the process didn't work or an individual either didn't say the right thing or my people didn't understand what they were being told."

"It would be helpful if the SOC spent a little more time with us going through some of those reports."

"I would also like to have a dashboard that I can access anytime to review the real-time data from their website."

"The solution's dashboard is okay. The one thing that we ran into are issues when we upgraded to the newer version. It uses Elasticsearch for the different dashboard entries. So, we were running on spinning disks, and Elasticsearch didn't work that well. A number of the different dashboards, like my dashboard or different things like that, pull from Elasticsearch. Since Elasticsearch really wasn't working, we were having some issues with that, but we just migrated."

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"Log aggregation is an issue with this solution because there are a huge number of alerts in a single instance."

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

"The initial setup was complex because it took a lot of time to complete the implementation."

"The log system is a bit complex and has room for improvement."

"Security needs improvement."

"One thing to be improved in NetWitness is the capability to correlate event logs in a general sense."

"We have encountered issues with unresolved crashes."

"If we have the ability to run a dynamic analysis through malware in the same suite, it would be great to have a sandbox solution to analyze malware through dynamic analysis."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing and licensing seem very reasonable. The managed service part of it feels like it gives me the equivalent of a full-time engineer for a lot less money. So, I feel it's a good value."

"Netsurion's pricing is competitive. At the same time, they're the only ones who do what we want to do the way we want it. I can't say we would've paid more, but we would've had to have come up with our own solution if they weren't providing that."

"When we first got the EventTracker product, we were using SIEM Simplified. At the time they didn't call it that, but it was more of a service thing. So, there was a bit more hand-holding and getting stuff set up, along with failure reports, that they did during the first one to two years. Then, we decided that the the additional money to have someone do these daily reports wasn't terribly useful, so we discontinued that service."

"We have seen time and cost savings. It prevents us from having to hire specialized people for this type of work. We would need to hire six staff members to accommodate the same service."

"EventTracker's subscription-based model is interesting as far as yearly license type stuff. It's nice because you know what it's going to be next year. We haven't really looked at any other solutions. The pricing at the time compared to the other solutions was a lot less. A couple of years ago, we actually looked at Splunk. The amount in Splunk's licensing model is based on 20 gigs a day, or something like that. Based on our number of logs and stuff that we were already generating, the costs would be substantially more for the amount of logs that we would be getting."

"Licensing is very easy. Our CIO takes care of the billing, but in terms of price point, he hasn't complained, so it must be good."

"We put together the package of what we needed. It was based pretty much on the number of agents that we were deploying. If we needed to manage logging from certain specific applications, like Active Directory and SQL Server, there has been no additional cost for that. We had agents deployed for those specific servers and the applications were included, then there was just an additional installation that they had to do for us."

"It is a bit expensive as compared to some of the other products that have come out in recent years. Expense-wise, the only downside is that it is not cheap."

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"Our license is for one year."

"It is cheap."

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

"We are on an annual license for the use of the solution."

"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 product price was reasonable for my region and the market."

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

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

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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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Also Known As

Netsurion Managed Threat Protection, Netsurion EventTracker

RSA Security Analytics

Overview

Netsurion offers robust SIEM capabilities enhanced by managed services, facilitating efficient threat identification and response with real-time alerts and comprehensive reporting.

Netsurion stands out for its integration of SIEM, IDS, and vulnerability management. Its real-time threat alerts and dashboards enhance user response capabilities. With centralized logging from Windows, Linux, Cisco devices, firewalls, and Active Directory, Netsurion enables effective compliance support for HIPAA and PCI standards. Managed Threat Protection with the embedded MITRE ATT&CK Framework enhances threat intelligence, while its evolving interface aims to improve user interactions. However, some users find deployment and searching challenging, pointing to areas for improvement.

What are Netsurion's key features?

SIEM Capabilities: Efficient threat identification using real-time alerts and dashboards.
Managed Services: Provides remote monitoring and advisory support.
Comprehensive Reporting: Assists in compliance and actionable insights.
MITRE ATT&CK Framework: Enhances threat intelligence and management.
Seamless Integration: Works with existing systems for streamlined operations.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Threat Response Tool: Rapid identification and response to security incidents.
Usability: Efforts to evolve and simplify user interactions.
Operational Efficiency: Streamlined processes through integration and managed services.
Compliance Support: Assistance with industry standards like HIPAA and PCI.

Netsurion is frequently implemented in industries requiring comprehensive security monitoring and compliance, such as healthcare and finance. It aids businesses in consolidating security efforts, offering insights into user activities and system changes, an asset for companies lacking substantial internal resources.

Netsurion

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.

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