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Devo pros and cons

Vendor: Devo

4.2 out of 5

23 reviews
95% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Devo reduces log analysis time from 40 hours to 5-8 hours with high-speed and scalable capabilities, crucial for security analysis and multinational organizations. Its cloud-native architecture supports data consolidation, but integration with cloud SaaS is limited. While offering powerful querying and log retention for 400 days, the documentation and customization features need improvement. Parsing limitations and a developing Security Operations module affect customer onboarding and data aggregation. Scalability across diverse log sources is an advantage.

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Prominent pros & cons

PROS

Devo allows rapid querying of multiple data sources, enabling faster security analysis and response.

Real-time analytics and high-speed processing improve efficiency in handling security data.

Devo has extensive parsing capabilities, with over 450 parsers to handle various log types.

Devo offers 400 days of data retention, supporting long-term trend analysis and operational insights.

Devo provides a multi-tenant, cloud-native architecture, ideal for global organizations needing data consolidation and separation.

CONS

Documentation needs improvement with better focus on tech writing and updates.

Activeboards' functionality is limited to a single graphics format without customization options.

There is significant room for improvement in parsing different log types, including support for logs from major vendors.

Technical support and agent infrastructure require enhancements for handling large volumes of data.

Security Operations and monitoring capabilities need expansion, particularly in pre-built monitoring applications and dashboard customization.

Devo Pros review quotes

JG

Manager of Security Services at OpenText

Jan 7, 2020

Being able to build and modify dashboards on the fly with Activeboards streamlines my analyst time because my analysts aren't doing it across spreadsheets or five different tools to try to build a timeline out themselves. They can just ingest it all, build a timeline out across all the logging, and all the different information sources in one dashboard. So, it's a huge time saver. It also has the accuracy of being able to look at all those data sources in one view. The log analysis, which would take 40 hours, we can probably get through it in about five to eight hours using Devo.

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reviewer1287654

Security Analyst at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Dec 18, 2020

The user interface is really modern. As an end-user, there are a lot of possibilities to tailor the platform to your needs, and that can be done without needing much support from Devo. It's really flexible and modular. The UI is very clean.

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reviewer1315713

CEO at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 24, 2020

Even if it's a relatively technical tool or platform, it's very intuitive and graphical. It's very appealing in terms of the user interface. The UI has a graphically interface with the raw data in a table. The table can be as big as you want it, depending on your use case. You can easily get a report combining your data, along with calculations and graphical dashboards. You don't need a lot of training, because the UI is relatively very intuitive.

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Jordan Mauriello

SVP of Managed Security at CRITICALSTART

Sep 23, 2021

The ability to have high performance, high-speed search capability is incredibly important for us. When it comes to doing security analysis, you don't want to be doing is sitting around waiting to get data back while an attacker is sitting on a network, actively attacking it. You need to be able to answer questions quickly. If I see an indicator of attack, I need to be able to rapidly pivot and find data, then analyze it and find more data to answer more questions. You need to be able to do that quickly. If I'm sitting around just waiting to get my first response, then it ends up moving too slow to keep up with the attacker. Devo's speed and performance allows us to query in real-time and keep up with what is actually happening on the network, then respond effectively to events.

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JH

Director at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 3, 2020

The real-time analytics of security-related data are super. There are a lot of data feeds going into it and it's very quick at pulling up and correlating the data and showing you what's going on in your infrastructure. It's fast. The way that their architecture and technology works, they've really focused on the speed of query results and making sure that we can do what we need to do quickly. Devo is pulling back information in a fast fashion, based on real-time events.

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CB

CISO at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Feb 16, 2021

The thing that Devo does better than other solutions is to give me the ability to write queries that look at multiple data sources and run fast. Most SIEMs don't do that. And I can do that by creating entity-based queries. Let's say I have a table which has Okta, a table which has G Suite, a table which has endpoint telemetry, and I have a table which has DNS telemetry. I can write a query that says, 'Join all these things together on IP, and where the IP matches in all these tables, return to me that subset of data, within these time windows.' I can break it down that way.

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AF

Director Cyber Threat Intelligence at IGT

Mar 3, 2021

The user experience [is] well thought out and the workflows are logical. The dashboards are intuitive and highly customizable.

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MU

IT manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 28, 2021

It's very, very versatile.

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Cyber Security Engineer at H&R Block, Inc.

Jun 23, 2021

The most valuable feature is definitely the ability that Devo has to ingest data. From the previous SIEM that I came from and helped my company administer, it really was the type of system where data was parsed on ingest. This meant that if you didn't build the parser efficiently or correctly, sometimes that would bring the system to its knees. You'd have a backlog of processing the logs as it was ingesting them.

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reviewer1685601

Digital Security VP at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Oct 1, 2021

In traditional BI solutions, you need to wait a lot of time to have the ability to create visualizations with the data and to do searches. With this kind of platform, you have that information in real-time.

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Devo Cons review quotes

JG

Manager of Security Services at OpenText

Jan 7, 2020

Their documentation could be better. They are growing quickly and need to have someone focused on tech writing to ensure that all the different updates, how to use them, and all the new features and functionality are properly documented.

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reviewer1287654

Security Analyst at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Dec 18, 2020

The Activeboards feature is not as mature regarding the look and feel. Its functionality is mature, but the look and feel is not there. For example, if you have some data sets and are trying to get some graphics, you cannot change anything. There's just one format for the graphics. You cannot change the size of the font, the font itself, etc.

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reviewer1315713

CEO at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 24, 2020

There's always room to reduce the learning curve over how to deal with events and machine data. They could make the machine data simpler.

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Jordan Mauriello

SVP of Managed Security at CRITICALSTART

Sep 23, 2021

There is room for improvement in the ability to parse different log types. I would go as far as to say the product is deficient in its ability to parse multiple, different log types, including logs from major vendors that are supported by competitors. Additionally, the time that it takes to turn around a supported parser for customers and common log source types, which are generally accepted standards in the industry, is not acceptable. This has impacted customer onboarding and customer relationships for us on multiple fronts.

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JH

Director at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 3, 2020

Devo has a lot of cloud connectors, but they need to do a little bit of work there. They've got good integrations with the public cloud, but there are a lot of cloud SaaS systems that they still need to work with on integrations, such as Salesforce and other SaaS providers where we need to get access logs.

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CB

CISO at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Feb 16, 2021

There's room for improvement within the GUI. There is also some room for improvement within the native parsers they support. But I can say that about pretty much any solution in this space.

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AF

Director Cyber Threat Intelligence at IGT

Mar 3, 2021

Some third-parties don't have specific API connectors built, so we had to work with Devo to get the logs and parse the data using custom parsers, rather than an out-of-the-box solution.

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MU

IT manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 28, 2021

Technical support could be better.

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Cyber Security Engineer at H&R Block, Inc.

Jun 23, 2021

From our experience, the Devo agent needs some work. They built it on top of OS Query's open-source framework. It seems like it wasn't tuned properly to handle a large volume of Windows event logs. In our experience, there would definitely be some room for improvement. A lot of SIEMs on the market have their own agent infrastructure. I think Devo's working towards that, but I think that it needs some improvement as far as keeping up with high-volume environments.

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reviewer1685601

Digital Security VP at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Oct 1, 2021

I would like to have the ability to create more complex dashboards.

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