We performed a comparison between NetWitness Platform and Splunk Enterprise Security 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."What is most useful, is that it has a good connection to the Microsoft ecosystem, and I think that's the key part."
"The data connectors that Microsoft Sentinel provides are easy to integrate when we work with a Microsoft agent."
"We didn't have anything similar. So, it really provides value from the incidents and automation point of view. The overview of the security fabric is most valuable."
"The automation feature is valuable."
"The machine learning and artificial intelligence on offer are great."
"One of the most valuable features is that it creates a kind of a single pane of glass for organizations that already use Microsoft software. So, when they have things like Microsoft 365, it is very easy for them to kind of plug in or enroll those endpoints into the Azure Sentinel service."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Sentinel is that it's cloud-based."
"The UI of Sentinel is very good and easy to use, even for beginners."
"What we are mainly using are the RSA concentrator, RSA Decoder, Archiver, Broker, and Log Decoder."
"The most valuable features are the threat prediction and network forensics."
"The most valuable features are the integration and ease of use."
"Alerting Module: It provides real-time event processing language on all the logs/packets stream for advanced alerting, i.e., using SQL LIKE statements."
"The most valuable feature is the security that it provides."
"It gives the ability to investigate into network traffic in the Net and the organization what we couldn't do before."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to write rules and triggers for network communication, and then being able to investigate based on that."
"The product has a user-friendly interface and a valuable feature for threat intelligence integration."
"The connections to the database are very good and updating the data files is simple to do. The dashboards are useful and user-friendly."
"The initial setup is really straightforward. It's one of the easiest installations."
"It is easy to use, and easy to implement."
"Its integration is most valuable. Its UI is also pretty much easy."
"Aggregation searches have reduced time and difficulty of identifying trends and conditions which need to reviewed."
"On the cloud, we are pushing through less than half a petabyte of data. So far, it has been fairly stable because it runs on all the underlying AWS infrastructures."
"The most useful feature for me is the ability to create different kinds of alerts and set a different kind of denominator that will capture the real event. That is helpful for a power user like me."
"The level of robustness on offer is very good."
"Sentinel still has some anomalies. For example, sometimes when we write a query for log analysis with KQL, it doesn't give us the data in a proper way... Also, the fields or columns could be improved. Sometimes, it is not giving the desired results and there is a blank field."
"We are invoiced according to the amount of data generated within each log."
"We'd like also a better ticketing system, which is older."
"Microsoft Sentinel is relatively expensive, and its cost should be improved."
"Sentinel could improve its ticketing and management. A few customers I have worked with liked to take the data created in Sentinel. You can make some basic efforts around that, but the customers wanted to push it to a third-party system so they could set up a proper ticketing management system, like ServiceNow, Jira, etc."
"We do have in-built or out-of-the-box metrics that are shown on the dashboard, but it doesn't give the kind of metrics that we need from our environment whereby we need to check the meantime to detect and meantime to resolve an incident. I have to do it manually. I have to pull all the logs or all the alerts that are fed into Sentinel over a certain period. We do this on a monthly basis, so I go into Microsoft Sentinel and pull all the alerts or incidents we closed over a period of thirty days."
"If I can use Sentinel offline at home and use it on a local network, it would be great. I'm not sure if I can use Sentinel offline versus the tools I have."
"The only thing is sometimes you can have a false positive."
"RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets can improve the threat level aspect, it is lacking compared to other solutions. Whenever any hacking activity or any other threat factor occurred they used to provide the coverages very fast when comparing RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets. I heard the other three solutions, from a discussion with my team members who had experience in other solutions, they used to say that. Whenever any issues happened across the globe RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets are a little bit slow improving those detection mechanisms."
"The initial setup is complex. There are other solutions that are easier to implement."
"I'd like to see improvement in its ease of use. It's basically unusable. It's overly complex."
"I believe that integrating the solution with other products such as Oracle would be beneficial."
"The multi-tenant capabilities are lagging compared to IBM QRadar."
"The initial setup was complex because it takes a lot of time to complete the implementation."
"It should have a monitoring feature. It would help us analyze the current state of attacks faster from a single platform."
"They should implement algorithms to digest that data and produce additional, more advanced reporting, alerting and support of internal security teams."
"The solution could improve by giving more email details."
"It's difficult to set up initially, and their billing model is also a bit complicated."
"Its pricing model and integration with third-party services can be improved. We had faced an issue with integration. The alerting feature is currently not available with Splunk, but it is definitely available with Datadog and PagerDuty. They should include this feature. A few dashboards in Splunk look quite old and are not that modern. They aren't bad, but improving these dashboards will definitely make Splunk more attractive and usable. I read in a few blog posts that there were a few security incidents related to Splunk agents. So, it can be made more secure."
"The administration of the cluster and app deployment to indexers or search heads can be done only using ssh access and command line, there is no GUI tools for that."
"Adding custom visualization in Splunk has been improved over the years but can still be made better by integrating more and more JavaScript visualization sources."
"The threat detection library needs to increase the frequency at which the playbooks are updated."
"The product must improve insider threat detection."
"The configuration could be better."
NetWitness Platform is ranked 20th in Log Management with 36 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 227 reviews. NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". 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 ". NetWitness Platform is most compared with RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Trellix Network Detection and Response and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Azure Monitor. See our NetWitness Platform vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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