Security Operations Center (SOC) Director at a tech company with 51-200 employees
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Top 20
Provides a better, holistic top-down view, helping us see potential gaps in our coverage
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is that it has native MSSP capabilities and maintains perfect data separation. It does all of that in a very easy-to-manage cloud-based solution."
  • "The biggest area with room for improvement in Devo is the Security Operations module that just isn't there yet. That goes back to building out how they're going to do content and larger correlation and aggregation of data across multiple things, as well as natively ingesting CTI to create rule sets."

What is our primary use case?

I'm a SOC director for a Fortune 500 company, and we use it as our primary SIEM for our leverage SOC service.

How has it helped my organization?

Devo has streamlined a lot of our processes. We now have the ability to generate content and create alerting, and we can view all of that across a larger plane than we could with our previous tool.

Devo uniquely provides a direct view into the raw data, as opposed to a lot of tools that give you an ingested, parsed, and normalized view. Normalization is great for some things, but there are other things that it's not so great for. Devo allows you to have both simultaneously. You can parse the data and do some normalization but still have all the raw data the way it came from whatever it came from. That allows you to do deeper dives and look directly at what's coming in, versus a representation of what came in.

It also dramatically shortens the amount of time that we spend doing research in the tool. It has taken the average time that one of our analysts spends on an alert from 10 minutes down to roughly five. They're spending half the amount of time doing research because of the way that we are able to set up the data within Devo. And they can use things like Activeboards to provide a lot more context than our previous toolset could.

We're able to find things quicker and more efficiently, and with broader visibility than we had in our previous toolset.

We're also able to take a look at the data a bit more holistically, and that provides us with a better top-down view so that we can better see where there might be gaps in our coverage.

In terms of ingesting data, Devo literally takes anything we throw at it and as much as we're throwing at it. Our ingestion of events has increased by a full one-third compared to ingestion with our previous SIEM. That increase is a result of our increased customer base as well as the increasing number of things that we're ingesting from our customers.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is that it has native MSSP capabilities and maintains perfect data separation. It does all of that in a very easy-to-manage cloud-based solution.

And when the Devo Exchange came out, for access to community-driven content, I was one of the first folks who used it. I was part of the advisory board that really pushed to get that product created for them. I'm all about the Devo Exchange. When compared to Devo's peers in the SIEM market, that was the area that they were lacking in: the ability to share types of content. Other platforms have definitive user bases and large external communities that look at how to do different types of alerting, configuring, and threat hunting within their platforms. Because it was relatively new to the market, Devo just didn't have that built up yet. The fact that they have not only built it but have integrated it directly into their product is absolutely fabulous.

The Devo Exchange is literally point-and-click. If you see something you like, you click on it. It tells you whether you have the applicable tables to make that content work. If you do, you can click a button and it automatically installs for you. All you have to do is go in and create any alerting rules that you want associated with it. It's absolutely amazing.

The Exchange has made it much easier for us to deploy new content. We don't have to spend a whole lot of hours cycling through and creating the content ourselves when someone has created similar or exactly the same content that we would be creating. It has shaved 15 to 20 percent off of our deployment times for new alerts, saving us the time that we would have put into building those things.

In addition, there are things in the Exchange that we weren't sure how to do. Once we saw them in the marketplace we pulled them down and they have given us deeper insights into the data that we have.

What needs improvement?

The biggest area with room for improvement in Devo is the Security Operations module that just isn't there yet. That goes back to building out how they're going to do content and larger correlation and aggregation of data across multiple things, as well as natively ingesting CTI to create rule sets. Exchange has gone a long way to fix some of those gaps, but there's still room for improvement in that area.

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For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using Devo since December of 2020.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Very early on it had some stability issues, but for the last eight months or so, it's been rock-solid. Even when they have put out notices that there has been an issue, rarely have I ever actually seen that impact our operations. Compared to when we onboarded and where we are now, it is a night-and-day difference.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution has been able to scale to whatever we have thrown at. There have been zero problems scaling.

It is the primary toolset that we have settled on for our leverage service. The core of our service offering is around the solution. It is absolutely important.

How are customer service and support?

The tech support has been absolutely amazing. We have a technical account manager and I can email him anytime and I generally get an answer back within a few hours. Either that or he'll escalate to the appropriate team to get it taken care of for us.

The only drawback is that we have asked for capabilities and, because of where they are in their growth and funding, getting them has been a little slower than what we would have liked.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Our previous solution just wasn't as robust in both processing power and the ability to analyze data.

How was the initial setup?

Migrating to Devo was super simple. Their professional services gave us a lot of assistance, making sure that we had the right parsers in Devo at the platform level. Getting stuff pointed to it was relatively simple.

We essentially dual-fed both our SIEM products for a few months and it was fairly seamless. We did the switch from our previous SIEM into Devo about three months earlier than we had planned, based on how robust we were in Devo at that point.

That ease of migration was definitely important to us. Anytime you migrate from one tool to another, there are significant costs in personnel training and rewriting all of your processes and procedures, because it's a new tool. Devo had a very smooth process with their training platform and the professional services when we first onboarded it. That made it a relatively smooth transition.

We started our proof of concept in December and were live by the beginning of March. That's a really short timeline to get into production with them. We saw return of value almost immediately.

It was relatively simple to get our staff up to speed on the solution. Devo provides an amazing training platform to get them set up on the solution itself, as well as some of the modules within it. Typically folks can go through that and get going in the platform, working as analysts, within a week. And that's for someone with no SIEM background at all. If they have a SIEM background it's even faster.

The learning curve is fairly shallow, especially if you've done SIEM tasks before. It's very much like what you'd expect. It involves a slightly different language than what some other SIEMs use. Azure Sentinel uses "KQL," Devo uses "link," which is very SQL-like. If you have a background in anything remotely related to databases or SIEM, the learning curve is fairly negligible once you understand how Devo works. The training platform does a great job of bringing you up to speed on why Devo is different.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We analyzed a bunch of options. Devo was not even one that we had on the map. They put in a response to our request for proposal and, bar none, they outperformed their peers across all of our key requirements. In addition, they had roadmaps for all the things that we wanted to do.

Among the things that were important to us that Devo could provide were its ability to 

  • do true MSSP in the cloud with actual data separation per client
  • give individual clients access to their data, and only their data, based on the way the data is separated
  • give us the ability to do analytics, rule sets, and alerting across all of those environments at one time, which doesn't sound like a huge ask but it's actually monumental.

The ability to have data segregated but still do analytics across multiple data sets is something that's just not really used in a lot of other products. Either everything is mashed into one set of data, and you don't have true separation of that data so you can't, in turn, give customers view sets into that; or it's all separated and you have to do all the work against each silo rather than having a unified view, which is something we have within the Devo platform.

What other advice do I have?

Definitely take a good, hard look and considerate it. It's the fast-growing leader in the SIEM field.

Overall, Devo is awesome, but it's got some room to grow. I would like to see better native ingestion of cyber threat intelligence and building out of deeper correlation capabilities. They have some work that they're doing in Flows to do some of that stuff, but it still has room for some additional maturity.

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Features an intuitive UI with robust alerts, although it could be faster
Pros and Cons
  • "The alerting is much better than I anticipated. We don't get as many alerts as I thought we would, but that nobody's fault, it's just the way it is."
  • "There are some issues from an availability and functionality standpoint, meaning the tool is somewhat slow. There were some slow response periods over the past six to nine months, though it has yet to impact us terribly as we are a relatively small shop. We've noticed it, however, so Devo could improve the responsiveness."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case is so we have historical logs in case of an event or if we need to do any troubleshooting.

Our secondary use of Devo is for incident detection; certain logs trigger alerts, so we now have a 24/7 monitoring service that detects and alerts us to incidents. 

How has it helped my organization?

We can ingest virtually any log source, which is much better than our previous solution. We can access those logs more quickly and efficiently, with a better focus on our points of interest.

Cloud log sources were more difficult with our previous solution. Devo isn't wholly worry-free, but it's much more manageable.

With Devo, we don't have desperate multiple log storage solutions; we can do it for the most part with one. The sheer breadth of logs we can ingest is very beneficial.

The solution allows us to ingest much more data; our event volume is around 100 GB. That's ten times the volume we were ingesting before. 

What is most valuable?

The alerting is much better than I anticipated. We don't get as many alerts as I thought we would, but that nobody's fault, it's just the way it is. 

Having at least one year of data was one of our requirements, so 400 days of hot data benefits us. We are used to this capability, as our previous solution offered the same, and we wouldn't have purchased Devo if it didn't provide that.  

What needs improvement?

There are some issues from an availability and functionality standpoint, meaning the tool is somewhat slow. There were some slow response periods over the past six to nine months, though it has yet to impact us terribly as we are a relatively small shop. We've noticed it, however, so Devo could improve the responsiveness.

When we first started implementing the solution, the staff that helped us with the migration and getting it set up seemed very new. The tool could be more mature, which we knew going in, but we were hopeful for quick improvements. We would prefer to be further along than we are in that respect, but 18 months later, we still feel pretty good about adopting Devo.

The price could be more friendly as we pay significantly more than what we were paying before, but it's in line with other solutions on the market.

For how long have I used the solution?

We've used the solution for 18 months. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is relatively stable; I'd rate it eight out of ten here. We heard about somewhat shaky performance from other customers over the last six to nine months, but we were fine.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution seems scalable, though we're a small shop, so we're probably not the best to answer that well.

We have 400-450 end users across three locations. 

How are customer service and support?

Once we get a hold of someone and they respond, customer support is fine. It isn't extraordinary, and the escalation process is a little below average for the industry.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We previously used IBM QRadar, and we switched because it was antiquated. We had difficulty ingesting logs from cloud solutions, which is the direction our organization is moving in. We have several cloud solutions now versus two or three years ago, so the migration to Devo from QRadar was very timely for us in that regard.

QRadar's interface was pretty antiquated. They have updated it now, but we weren't satisfied with it at the time. We also had some support-related issues around updating the solution as it was on-prem. We were coming to a point where we had to update the hardware and software, so it was a good time for us to look for another product.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was relatively straightforward. 

In terms of maintenance, I go through every quarter to ensure that each of our log sources is still sending logs to Devo. We were a little disappointed that they didn't have a good way of informing us if a log source stopped sending logs. I appreciate that each source sends on a different frequency, but we should be able to define that frequency and receive a notification of any issues.

What was our ROI?

As is often the case with security solutions, it's hard to measure an ROI because we only need it once an incident occurs. The hope is that we get a return if an incident takes place. Devo is much better than we previously had, but it's also a lot more expensive, so it should be so.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Devo is a hosted or subscription-based solution, whereas before, we purchased QRadar, so we owned it and just had to pay a maintenance fee. We've encountered this with some other products, too, where we went over to subscription-based. Our thought process is that with subscription based, the provider hosts and maintains the tool, and it's offsite. That comes with some additional fees, but we were able to convince our upper management it was worth the price. We used to pay under 10k a year for maintenance, and now we're paying ten times that. It was a relatively tough sell to our management, but I wonder if we have a choice anymore; this is where the market is.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We focused on four solutions: Splunk, AlienVault OSSIM, the incumbent QRadar, and Devo. We narrowed it down pretty quickly to Splunk and Devo, and the latter was a bit cheaper, though less mature. We took a chance and went with Devo.

What other advice do I have?

I rate the solution seven out of ten.

Devo's cloud-native SIEM increased our threat visibility, though we had hoped for a bit higher. Visibility is critical, as we rely upon knowing about security incidents as soon as possible. We expected the solution would provide additional insight, but we're finding it isn't. Devo gives us the historical logs, a fantastic capability we are very happy with. However, the incident and threat detection is not what we had hoped for. Regarding security operations, the tool is different from what we wanted.

Getting our staff up to speed with the solution was right in the middle in terms of difficulty. It wasn't as easy as we had hoped, but it wasn't insurmountable by any stretch of the imagination. Devo provided us with several training sessions, and I wonder how much that helped because our group is very technical. The tool's interface is intuitive, so our staff can find what they need. With regular use, the learning curve is relatively low, but without that, it can take some getting used to, as with any solution. Devo is broad and encompassing, so it requires familiarity to leverage it fully. We don't have dedicated internal staff to manage the solution, so we outsourced the monitoring to an MSP.  

The migration from QRadar to Devo was relatively straightforward and painless; we essentially cut the cord on QRadar, maintained the logs and moved them over to the new solution. The ease of migration was relatively important, the old solution was antiquated, so we expected any newer tool to be better. 

Migrating the bulk of the initial logs took about three months. We got some aspects up and running during a proof of concept while we were still using the old solution. Once we went live, we migrated the POC environment to a production environment, so it was much less stressful than it could have been. 

The Devo team was intimately involved in the migration. They weren't as responsive as we had hoped, and they seemed new and didn't completely understand the product. We received better support on escalation; overall, they were critical to the migration.

Before going down this path, I advise potential customers to document their log sources and what information they need based on their use cases.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Microsoft Azure
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Director of Security at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
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Top 20
Gives us one pane of glass to query all our log data, making investigations much more efficient
Pros and Cons
  • "The querying and the log-retention capabilities are pretty powerful. Those provide some of the biggest value-add for us."
  • "Where Devo has room for improvement is the data ingestion and parsing. We tend to have to work with the Devo support team to bring on and ingest new sources of data."

What is our primary use case?

We're mostly using it for log retention and investigations into events or security issues within our environment. We're pumping a lot of the logs from our SaaS tools into it, from tools like Google Workspace (G Suite) and OneLogin and the like. When we have questions or investigations from a security perspective, we go into Devo to help answer them.

How has it helped my organization?

With Devo, we now have a method to investigate things across our platforms. Before Devo, we had to go to individual platforms. For example, if we suspected something was happening, we'd have to go to tool A's logs, and tool B's logs, and tool C's logs. Now all those logs are in one place and we can use one pane of glass to query all of that data. Especially when it comes to security investigations, Devo has made things more efficient.

Previously, an investigation across various logs might have taken an hour for one individual to put together. Now, in Devo, we can do it in minutes, because it's all in one place and we have access to it right away.

And as a result of some of the alerting we've put in, Devo has certainly helped improve visibility into threats. For example, we only have employees in certain parts of the world, and not in that many countries. We put in alerting so that we know if an employee seems to log in from a country we're not based in. That's a red flag. We have other kinds of alerts as well, and that has definitely helped give us more visibility into the overall risk profile for our organization.

What is most valuable?

The querying and the log-retention capabilities are pretty powerful. Those provide some of the biggest value-add for us.

We also find their Activeboards, which are their dashboards, useful for just displaying data and seeing historical trends.

We also use their alerting capability to a limited degree, although we don't really have too much invested in alerting yet.

What needs improvement?

Where Devo has room for improvement is the data ingestion and parsing. We tend to have to work with the Devo support team to bring on and ingest new sources of data. 

I know the Devo Exchange is supposed to make some of that easier, but we've had situations in the past where our data collectors, which are hosted by Devo, have gone down and we've not seen data ingested until we've opened a support ticket with them. 

In general, their data intake process, whether it's how to get new sources in or keep them continuously ingesting, is the biggest area for improvement.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Devo for about a year and a half.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's stable but it's not extremely stable. There have been cases where the ingestion of our log data has stopped, which affects the platform. We've also seen issues where the UI becomes unresponsive, or some of the queries have become really slow. Devo itself is not down a whole lot, but sometimes performance can be a problem. Overall, the stability is okay. It's not the best, but it has not been horrible either.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

From a customer's perspective, I just scale in terms of what data tier I want, but everything else is hidden from me.

How are customer service and support?

Their tech support has been great, once we've raised issues with them. They've been pretty responsive and I'm pretty happy with that part.

Whenever we've opened a ticket, especially when it's been high-priority, they've responded fairly quickly. They're certainly friendly and they try to be helpful, within the limits of whatever they can do. They also escalate quickly if it looks like it's not getting to a solution within the purview that they have.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Devo is the first SIEM for us. We didn't have anything before this. We're growing as an organization, and SIEM in general, and Devo in particular, let us scale up our capabilities without having to scale up our manpower.

How was the initial setup?

The complexity comes from getting the data sources ingested. There are some easy ones for common tools like Google or OneLogin or AWS. Getting the logs of those big SaaS tools into Devo was not too difficult. But there are a lot of SaaS tools out there and, especially in the beginning, Devo had to create custom collectors and parsers for us for some of the smaller ones, and that took a while to do.

In terms of getting our staff up to speed on using the solution, on a scale of easy to difficult, it was in the middle. The basic functionality, especially the dashboards and where the data is, is not that difficult. Where the complexity comes in is when it comes to getting value out of that data. There's a query language, called LINQ, which is SQL-like but has quirks that are Devo-specific. That takes some time to learn, but that would probably take time on any platform. Overall, the learning curve is not really easy, but it's not really that difficult either.

What about the implementation team?

Devo certainly helped us deploy it initially.

What was our ROI?

More than anything, we have seen ROI in the amount of time saved during investigations. From that perspective, it has paid for itself. 

Within the first quarter after we started using it, there were incidents that Devo was able to help us quickly assess and investigate. As a tool, it showed its value pretty quickly.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The way Devo prices things is based on the amount of data, and I wish the tiers had more granularity. Maybe at this point they do, but when we first negotiated with them, there were only three or four tiers.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We definitely looked at competitors, the standard players in this space: Splunk, LogRhythm, and others. We ended up choosing Devo because of two or three things.

First, as an organization, they were very responsive. The support, even during our PoC and evaluation process, and afterward, was and continues to be phenomenal. We know that they're a smaller company like us, and it felt like they were more attentive to us as customers.

The second factor was the price point. If we had to stand up similarly sized solutions from some of the other vendors, it would be much more expensive.

And one of the biggest reasons we went with Devo was that we're a small security team, and we didn't want to have to manage SIEM infrastructure. Devo meets that requirement for us because it's SaaS. There are other SaaS SIEMs, but Devo seemed like the best. All we had to do was pump logs. With other platforms there are infrastructure aspects, like storage and indexers that you have to worry about. We don't have to do any of that. We just put in the logs that we want, up to a limit, and that's it. It allows us to focus on getting the actual value-add out of the logs, rather than spending a lot of bandwidth managing the infrastructure.

What other advice do I have?

We plan on using the Devo Exchange. It's a pretty new feature. Part of the constraints, for us, has been manpower. Our organization is growing pretty rapidly, and we're working on hiring to keep Devo up to date. We just haven't had the bandwidth to invest more into exploring all the features yet.

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Versatile, scalable, and has a very useful single user interface
Pros and Cons
  • "It's very, very versatile."
  • "Technical support could be better."

What is our primary use case?

We are primarily using the solution as a cloud observability platform.

Most use cases are related to service operations, not security operations. This is due to the fact that in security operations our company uses Splunk and other platforms. In this case, in my team, we are using Devo for service operations requirements. We correlate across metrics and trace on that data to understand root causes. For example, we'll look at metrics in jobs, time processes, root cause investigations where we have fails, job performance, deals, payments, et cetera. 

What is most valuable?

With Devo, you integrate and run as a fully managed service. We are very interested in the total of severability for IT and the organization all in a one user interface. With Devo, all analysis is done in a graphical user interface. That gives our analysts the confidence to investigate a problem and fix it.

For example, we can have a lot of matrices and trace data in a single user interface. We can eliminate swivel chair analysis among tools for a streamlined workflow that gives us the most direct path to the root course. 

Devo provides great structural data. Its business-rich data set means better, smarter machine learning and this leads to a smarter analysis of anomalies and a stronger predictive analysis.

Devo, unlike other vendors, doesn't charge extra for playbooks and automation. 

It's very, very versatile. 

Service Operations is a tool inside the product. It offers a constant standard with advanced machine learning. The Devo machine learning workbench also enables you to bring in your own custom-built machine learning models. This is very interesting for us.

What needs improvement?

I need more empowerment in reporting. For example, when I'm using Qlik or Power BI in terms of reporting for the operations teams they also need analytics. They also need to report to the senior management or other teams. The reporting needs to be customized. You can build some widgets in terms of analytics and representations, however, I want to export these dashboards or these widgets in a PDF file. While you can explore everything as a PDF, it's not very complete. I am missing some customization capabilities in order to build a robust, meaningful report.

The initial setup is a little complex.

Technical support could be better.

There do seem to be quite a few bugs within the version we are using.

In the next update, I'd like it if they explain more about the Devo framework. The Devo framework is a tool inside the product. It's a prototype. It is a tool that provides to the customer a map of processes or a workflow, for example, with an HTML application with a front end. My understanding is that each component of this front attaches data with the queries. It might be customized. I'd like to generally understand this better.

I'd like to understand DevoFlow. Up to now, usage could send data to the platform, retrieve it and enrich it by generating graphs and analytics. However, it's my understanding that Flow provides users the ability to process the data in real-time by defining complex workflows as soon as data arrives in the platform so that you can make analytics in a sequence. I'd like to better understand these new capabilities.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been working with the solution for one and a half to two years or so. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

At this moment I consider the solution to be stable. However, I find that I perform any little fixes throughout a project. There are bugs here and there that I do contend with. I'd prefer to have these fixed as opposed to having to install a whole new version.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

In the beginning, there were not more than 20 to 25 users. However, our objective remains to get 100 people on the product. We add them little by little due to the nature of our projects.

In terms of scalability, it's a product well-focused on expansion. As a SaaS, they provide you more architecture, more machines in terms of performance, et cetera. We're quite happy with its capability to expand.

How are customer service and technical support?

Technical support needs to be more direct. For example, when we submit a ticket, the support team will delegate a task to the operations team, for example, or various other teams. This muddles the transparency. We're unsure as to who is in charge of fixing the problem. I simply want an answer to my problem and I want them to fix it and tell me what is wrong. I don't need to know it was sent here, there, or there. We are not 100% satisfied with the level of service provided to us.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was a little bit complex, however, we had great support from the Devo team. We are using the public cloud - not on-premise. They provided us the infrastructure. The complexity was mostly around how to build the VPN securitization, the tunnel, as this tunnel was built by us, not by Devo. We, therefore, had to build a lot of technical tests of communications. This was complex.

With Devo, we have to connect by LLDP protocol. For example, Devo at the beginning shows the users as an email and a password. In our company, we needed to connect this mechanism of access to our own mechanism of the corporation. We had to deal with the protocol of connectivity of users, FSAA, for example. Sometimes this was difficult and we had to make a lot of test connections, et cetera.

There isn't too much maintenance required. Devo provides the product. I have to ensure that the mechanism of communication is stable and in continuous service. Our VPN with the tunnel is the responsibility of us while the persistence of data and the performance of searching data representation is the responsibility of Devo.

What about the implementation team?

Devo assisted us with the implementation process.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Devo, like other vendors, doesn't charge extra for playbooks and automation. That way, you are only paying for the side on the data ingestion. If you sign a contract, you are able to process as much as 500 gigabytes per day. With this price, you can connect 10 people, 20 people, 18 people, 80 people - it's very good. It's very efficient in terms of the cost of the license. 

Depending on if you are ingesting more than you sign up for, you have to pay more. There is potential for extra costs only in this one aspect, and not in the other services, or in other people who connect to the product. 

Devo provides you professional services. Professional services is a manner to give service to the clients in terms of consultants. Expert consultants help the customer to design the business case and can show them how to build it. This is an extra option, for people who want to take advantage of their insights.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I have done a lot of assessments with Devo against other products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Splunk, and Datadog, among others.

What other advice do I have?

We're just customers and end-users.

We are using the most recent version of the product.

We are using Devo in a public cloud with some other web service we have secured with a VPN built in the company so that it's tunnel secured.

I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten. If the solution required fewer fixes and was a bit more flexible, I would rate it higher.

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Public Cloud
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Digital Security VP at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Top 20
Scales well, good support, high-speed search capabilities, and offers good visibility
Pros and Cons
  • "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."
  • "I would like to have the ability to create more complex dashboards."

What is our primary use case?

We have several use cases for Devo. The first is related to the security center (SOC) operations, and they do the log correlation for Devo security.

We now have fraud use cases and application monitoring use cases, and we're starting to work on some use cases related to business analytics.

How has it helped my organization?

Devo provides us with high-speed search capabilities and real-time analytics, which is the most important thing for us. The reason is that when we need to analyze something, we need to have the information as fast as possible. It needs to be easy to use because if we have a security incident, or an application monitoring incident, we need to find the problem as quickly as possible, and have the ability to fix it.

It is difficult to correlate in terms of security and application monitoring but in terms of fraud, we have the ability to correlate a lot of different log sources to form a picture. This gives us the ability to reduce fraud cases by 40%.

In our environment, we retain some of our logs for 10 years. This is important for us because of regulatory requirements. We have critical information stored that is related to anti-money laundering, and the law requires us to be able to provide it quickly.

Devo provides us with more clarity when it comes to network, endpoint, and cloud visibility. We use it to ingest a lot of the related information. If you need to detect threats, you need to have the ability to find the network connections, and also the cloud-based connections that the threat actor is trying to access. This is the very reason that we are ingesting all of this information.

This solution helps us to release the full potential of our data, which is one of the most important things that we do. By creating the dashboards that work in real-time, we can see how our services are being used and we can monitor our security ecosystem.

Overall, using Devo has saved us time when compared to our previous security solutions. I estimate that it took us 10 times longer to achieve the same thing without Devo. 

What is most valuable?

What we find most valuable is the ability to create complex features in the engine, and to do real-time dashboarding. 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.

Devo, as with almost all of the analytics products, is a product that you need to learn how to use. Fortunately, with just a short training time of perhaps four hours, you can get a lot of power with the tool. Overall, it's pretty easy to use.

What needs improvement?

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

For how long have I used the solution?

We implemented Devo in 2016 and started using it in production in 2017.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Stability-wise, Devo is a good solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability is one of the most powerful features. We started with five terabytes and we are now at 30, with almost the same performance. That is pretty scalable.

We have more than 500 users. The roles are security analysts, business users, application developers, and the IT operations team.

We plan to increase our usage in the next couple of years.

How are customer service and support?

The vendor monitors the application and it is quite good. When we were last having a problem, it was solved within two hours.

Devo has a customer-first approach. They are quite open to discussing new features, and they like to be close to the customer to understand any problems that they have.

The support team has exceeded our expectations, in particular, when it came to the implementation. We originally had a four-year plan and in six months, everything was completed. The originally planned work was done, and the work for the next three and a half years was also done.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Prior to Devo, we were using QRadar and Elastic. We switched because Devo is more powerful and the scalability is better.

With respect to analyst threat hunting and incident response, you can create a lot of complex dashboards and consequently, it is easier to perform a deep dive. It is really aligned with Splunk in terms of capabilities and usability.  Our analysis had data from different solutions to work with and they preferred to use what was coming from Devo.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward. It took approximately one week to deploy.

The Devo implementation team came to our building and installed everything. After that, we moved all of our information, which included creating a copy of all of the logs that we had in the other solutions. Once that was complete, we were able to start working with Devo.

Our implementation strategy was originally part of a four-year plan. However, we finished the full implementation early and the four years were reduced to six months.

What about the implementation team?

Devo professional services assisted us with the implementation.

We have two full-time people in charge of maintenance. This includes tasks like implementing new services, doing correlations, alerts, and management.

What was our ROI?

Devo allows us to ingest more data compared to other solutions, using the same infrastructure. For example, compared to Splunk using the Capacity Planning Tool, Devo can ingest almost double the information in terms of events per second.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Our licensing fees are billed annually and per terabyte. This seems to be that the market is generally going to.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We created an alternative business plan that used QRadar and Elastic, and finally, we selected Devo because it was most aligned with our strategy.

Comparing the cost and value of Devo versus these other solutions, I think that it's very efficient. We're getting a lot of power for the cost, which is good.

What other advice do I have?

Devo provides multi-tenant cloud-native architecture but in our organization, I would rate it a six out of ten in terms of importance. The feature is important, although not so much for our specific use case. I don't expect that this will change in the next few years.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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