Securonix Next-Gen SIEM Reviews

We have customized the uses of the platform for our benefit. In general, we use it for failed access attempts, network issues, and allowed/blocked, and we have use cases for platforms such as Windows Server.

We are a service company and partners of various vendors. We provide support to customers. Our strategy is that each piece of equipment sold to customers comes with value-added service, and Securonix protects our customers.

It is an excellent tool that helps us optimize threat-hunting operations, detect intrusive events on the network, and respond to security incidents. It is a tool that helps debug false positives and eliminate noisy alerts. It helps us focus on the alerts that we should take into account for analysis.

Using old, traditional SIEMs did not provide us with the same responsiveness and ability to operate. And if they did provide us with something similar, we needed more staff to review things, event by event. That meant some risky events could occur unnoticed. With Securonix, those issues no longer exist. Securonix shows us information that we must consider as a threat and helps us know when to start an investigation to avoid an incident.

It's very good at adding contextual information to security events. It has reduced the time spent by admins on the dashboard. They can now see information connected to attack risks or even users. The single dashboard alerts them and quickly reports if there is any threat.

It has helped us to better understand what is happening in our network through the indicators of compromise. We have saved days of work. And it optimizes the time that analysts take to review events, compared to other tools that do not have as much intelligence and as many indicators. With Securonix, the information automatically enters and adds intelligence to the indicators. This saves a lot of time that would otherwise be spent reviewing noisy data. It saves our analyst between four and eight hours when analyzing events.

When it comes to advanced threats, it shows us the threats or events that have been detected, with their risk level. It shows us a vulnerability bar and that helps us see who is looking at us, who is trying to deliver certain information to our systems, who exploited us, or if there is any alert due to someone extracting certain information. The automation of information delivery has facilitated everything, saving us three or four days.

For optimization and data analysis, it has a good evaluation engine for repeat offenders and that has helped us to detect, on time, what other basic SIEMs did not detect. Those other solutions needed more time to detect at that same level.

We can customize our use cases with the tools provided by Securonix.

It is an excellent tool that can ingest data in different ways and is very flexible.

Securonix could open up information regarding the indicators of compromise or cyber-threat intelligence databases that they use. The idea is that they share what threats they are detecting.

I have been using Securonix Next-Gen SIEM for about a year.

It is stable, both in the cloud and on the servers. We have never had access problems or experienced any performance issues.

Scaling is flexible. If we fall short in terms of EPS, we would simply increase the EPS. And if the RIN server has low resources, as it is a virtual machine we could increase the resources according to the data quantity.

It is an excellent option for the cloud in terms of scalability. It is flexible for both us and our clients. We have plans to increase usage for certain customers.

The support is excellent. At the service level, they attend to us quickly. We have a post-sale person who follows up in some cases. He can also see the tickets and can escalate something according to the urgency.

Positive

We used a traditional SIEM where everything was very manual. It did not have threat intelligence or threat hunting of compromises, while Securonix has those features.

We changed because we wanted a good tool to automate certain manual processes so that everything is more flexible. With Securonix, you have the option of integrating with other indicator-of-compromise services, and that helps create a more powerful platform and eliminate false positives.

I started the process of design and continued with onboarding and implementation. The initial implementation was simple, but we had some delays because we had new solutions and we had to create new templates. But in general, if you have traditional solutions that have a template, it is easy to implement. It would take a week.

As for our implementation strategy, the tool that we had previously had a forwarding functionality, so what we did was deploy information to the RIN and, from there, sent the information to the cloud. After that, we created a pipeline and sent the rest of the events so that we could take the previous SIEM out of production.

The sources took a month to incorporate. It took us a month to get access to the teams because we do not manage certain teams. It was a bureaucratic process.

Securonix does the maintenance. It doesn't require work from us. They send us emails indicating that the system is going to have a brief reboot and it takes a short amount of time. 

We hired an onboarding engineer from Securonix who helped us with the implementation of the RIN. He explained the process to us until we understood everything.

Our experience with the onboarding engineer was good. He helped us with any questions we had and followed up through emails.

For the implementation of Securonix, we only needed one person from our side. I was the point of contact with our other areas.

Where we see our best return on investment is in the time and manpower we save. Before Securonix, our staff had to investigate events constantly. Now, one engineer with some expertise is enough to speed things up and give the rest of the admins time to do other things.

The pricing is fine compared to the market but I think that at some point the competitors will catch up on price. It would be good if, for example, there were an option to offer customers who have used the solution for more than a year some kind of additional trial or service.

There is no cost outside of the standard licensing fee, other than an initial installation service charge. Otherwise, there is simply a monthly cost for the service.

We were thinking about Splunk, QRadar, and Rapid7. One of the drawbacks of those systems would be the infrastructure. Many of the other platforms, including McAfee, need boxes or deployment servers in our infrastructure or our clients' infrastructures and, in many cases, the infrastructure is growing continuously.

With Securonix, that does not happen. It is a cloud solution that only requires a small deployment server with low resources, depending on how many events are received. And all that information is stored in the cloud as well.

The cost, compared to other solutions, is better.

Compared to other platforms, it is very simple yet, at the same time, it is very efficient because it packs information into a glance. After that, it gives you the option of hunting threats and that can be initiated on the dashboard.

It is very intuitive. A person who has a certain notion of cyber security can move quickly since it gives you information about any attack. It gives you a summary and it gives you links to receive information. And if you don't have much knowledge of the tool, you can always take the courses that are free on the web. Doing so helped us understand the solution.

This is a solution that will help you a lot in hardware processing and in optimizing the time it takes to review events, which is what admins often spend their time doing.

There are things on the network that you can't see with traditional tools. There are tools that don't give you the visibility that Securonix gives you.

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¿Cuál es nuestro caso de uso principal?

Hemos personalizado los usos de la plataforma para nuestro beneficio. En general, lo usamos para intentos de acceso fallidos, problemas de red y permisos/bloqueos, y tenemos casos de uso para plataformas como Windows Server.

Somos una empresa de servicios y socios de varios proveedores. Brindamos soporte a los clientes. Nuestra estrategia es que cada equipo vendido a los clientes venga con un servicio de valor agregado, y Securonix protege a nuestros clientes.

¿Qué es lo más valioso?

Para optimización y análisis de datos tiene un buen motor de evaluación de reincidentes y eso nos ha ayudado a detectar, a tiempo, lo que otros SIEM básicos no detectaban. Esas otras soluciones necesitaban más tiempo para detectar al mismo nivel.

​​Podemos personalizar nuestros casos de uso con las herramientas proporcionadas por Securonix.

Es una excelente herramienta que puede ingerir datos de diferentes maneras y es muy flexible.

¿Por cuánto tiempo he usado la solución?

He estado usando Securonix Next-Gen SIEM durante un año aproximadamente.

¿Qué opino de la escalabilidad de la solución?

El escalado es flexible. Si nos quedamos cortos en términos de EPS, simplemente aumentaríamos el EPS. Y si el servidor RIN tiene pocos recursos, al ser una máquina virtual podríamos aumentar los recursos según la cantidad de datos.

Es una excelente opción para la nube en términos de escalabilidad. Es flexible tanto para nosotros como para nuestros clientes. Tenemos planes para aumentar el uso para ciertos clientes.

¿Cómo son el servicio de atención al cliente y el soporte?

El soporte es excelente. A nivel de servicio nos atienden rápido. Contamos con una persona de post venta que da seguimiento en algunos casos. También puede ver los tickets y puede escalar algo según la urgencia.

¿Cómo calificaría el servicio y soporte al cliente?

Positivo.

¿Qué solución usé anteriormente y por qué cambié?

Usamos un SIEM tradicional donde todo era muy manual. No tenía inteligencia de amenazas o búsqueda de amenazas de compromisos, mientras que Securonix tiene esas características.

Cambiamos porque queríamos una buena herramienta para automatizar ciertos procesos manuales para que todo sea más flexible. Con Securonix, tienes la opción de integrarte con otros servicios de indicadores de compromiso, y eso ayuda a crear una plataforma más poderosa y eliminar los falsos positivos.

¿Cómo fue la configuración inicial?

Comencé el proceso de diseño y continué con la incorporación e implementación. La implementación inicial fue simple, pero tuvimos algunos retrasos porque teníamos nuevas soluciones y tuvimos que crear nuevos modelos. Pero, en general, si tiene soluciones tradicionales que tienen un modelo creado, es fácil de implementar. Tardaría una semana.\

En cuanto a nuestra estrategia de implementación, la herramienta que teníamos anteriormente tenía una funcionalidad de reenvío, entonces lo que hicimos fue desplegar información al RIN y de ahí enviamos la información a la nube. Después de eso, creamos una canalización y enviamos el resto de los eventos para que pudiéramos sacar de producción el SIEM anterior.

Las fuentes tardaron un mes en incorporarse. Nos tomó un mes tener acceso a los equipos porque no administramos ciertos equipos. Fue un proceso burocrático.\

Securonix hace el mantenimiento. No requiere trabajo de nosotros. Nos envían correos electrónicos que indican que el sistema se reiniciará brevemente y normalmente no tarda mucho.

¿Y el equipo de implementación?

Contratamos a un ingeniero de incorporación de Securonix que nos ayudó con la implementación del RIN. Nos explicó el proceso hasta que entendimos todo.

Nuestra experiencia con el ingeniero de incorporación fue buena. Nos ayudó con cualquier pregunta que tuviéramos y nos dio seguimiento a través de correos electrónicos.

Para la implementación de Securonix, solo necesitábamos una persona de nuestro lado. Yo era el punto de contacto con nuestras otras áreas.

¿Cuál fue nuestro Retorno de Inversión?

Donde vemos nuestro mejor retorno de la inversión es en el tiempo y la mano de obra que ahorramos. Antes de Securonix, nuestro personal tenía que investigar eventos constantemente. Ahora, un ingeniero con algo de experiencia es suficiente para acelerar las cosas y dar tiempo al resto de los administradores para hacer otras cosas.

¿Cuál es mi experiencia con los precios, el costo de configuración y las licencias?

El precio está bien en comparación con el mercado, pero creo que en algún momento los competidores alcanzarán el precio. Sería bueno que, por ejemplo, hubiera una opción para ofrecer a los clientes que han utilizado la solución durante más de un año algún tipo de servicio adicional.

No hay ningún costo fuera de la tarifa de licencia estándar, aparte de un cargo por servicio de instalación inicial. De lo contrario, simplemente hay un costo mensual por el servicio.

¿Qué otras soluciones evalué?

Estábamos pensando en Splunk, QRadar y Rapid7. Uno de los inconvenientes de esos sistemas sería la infraestructura. Muchas de las otras plataformas, incluida McAfee, necesitan cajas o servidores de implementación en nuestra infraestructura o en las infraestructuras de nuestros clientes y, en muchos casos, la infraestructura crece continuamente.

Con Securonix, eso no sucede. Es una solución en la nube que solo requiere un pequeño servidor de implementación con pocos recursos, dependiendo de cuántos eventos se reciban. Y toda esa información también se almacena en la nube.

El costo, en comparación con otras soluciones, es mejor.

Comparado con otras plataformas, es muy simple pero, al mismo tiempo, es muy eficiente porque empaqueta la información en un vistazo. Después de eso, le da la opción de cazar amenazas y eso puede iniciarse en el tablero.

Es muy intuitivo. Una persona que tiene cierta noción de ciberseguridad puede moverse rápidamente ya que te da información sobre cualquier ataque. Te da un resumen y te da enlaces para recibir información. Y si no tienes mucho conocimiento de la herramienta, siempre puedes tomar los cursos que están gratis en la web. Hacerlo nos ayudó a comprender la solución.

¿Qué otro consejo tengo?

Esta es una solución que ayudará mucho en el procesamiento de hardware y en la optimización del tiempo que lleva revisar los eventos, que es a lo que los administradores suelen dedicar su tiempo.\

Hay cosas en la red que no puedes ver con las herramientas tradicionales. Hay herramientas que no te dan la visibilidad que te da Securonix.

It is a good tool. My company uses it for all our SIEM projects. 

It doesn't take as much time to work on policies or injectors, saving us time.

We can now process more data in 20 minutes.

It has improved analyst efficiency by 30%.

We haven't experienced any data loss, which is good.

The policy violation feature is quite interesting. Policy violations trigger before the end of the month and they go into effect.

We haven't seen any security complaints or data breaches, reducing the time needed for investigations by 30%.

The user interface is easy to learn and navigate.

Sometimes, the injectors lag and are not loading. It would be nice if that could be improved.

Securonix Next-Gen SIEM is good for helping us ingest all our log sources when investigating threats. However, there is a glitch where we can't get it up and running. They are working on this issue, which is good.

I have been using Securonix Next-Gen SIEM for the last eight months. Before that, I didn't have much experience in Securonix. These days, I am training people on how to use the solution.

It is quite stable.

The solution hasn't required maintenance so far.

It is scalable.

The technical support is fine. I would rate them as eight out of 10.

Positive

We haven't used another solution apart from this one.

I am just an analyst. I didn't take part in the deployment.

It took us a month to realize the solution's benefits.

This is one of the best tools that I have seen.

When we started, there were a lot of false positives. Now, the amount of false positives has been reduced. It is much better than before.

I would definitely recommend this solution to others. I would rate Securonix Next-Gen SIEM as nine out of 10.

We use Securonix to monitor attempted malware attacks. It sends us alerts, so we can investigate suspicious entities. We'll refer it to the consent team, who will give their solution or comments. 

We have a server where all the data is stored. The Securonix people will take the data from that server, encrypt it, and send it back to the application. From there, we can work on the alert and monitor the data.

The product reduced our investigation times by about 85 percent. Data and geolocation enrichment are the two essential components of the detection part. When there is an IPS alert, we generally need to check to see where the IP is located. Securonix will tell you where the IP is located in the city and country. Securonix helped a lot when the Log4j cybersecurity attack broke out last year. It enabled us to investigate that threat deeper. 

The behavioral analytics features reduce our false positive rate compared to traditional antivirus and cut the time spent detecting and responding to threats by about two hours each week. 

Next-Gen SIEM provides valuable contextual information about security events. We are adding all the information, like user data, from Active Directory. Whenever a user is terminated or retires, we will get an alert stating that the user has separated. 

The built-in management tool improved our security teams' efficiency. You can raise a ticket with one click when you see something suspicious. You can work on it and do your analysis in the backend. It will open a ticket and send it to the teams. 

The analysis will be completed in 15 to 25 minutes. The solution will email the consent team to tell them they need immediate action. In other tools, we have to go to another third-party tool to raise a ticket, and we need to escalate the issue ourselves. There is typically another procedure, but Securonix has a built-in management tool. This reduces a process that would typically take an hour to about 15 or 25 minutes.

It also helped us avoid data loss because we integrated SharePoint into Securonix. We get a notification when someone deletes files in Sharepoint that reports the SharePoint link, the user, deleted files, etc. We will investigate whether it's a legitimate activity or something else. 

The most attractive feature of Next-Gen SIEM is UEBA. The solution creates a user baseline and detects spikes and outliers. Before we started using Next-Gen SIEM, we used traditional signature-based detection. Signature-based detection checks whether a malware signature exists in the database, whereas behavioral detection analyzes all the data.

For example, let's say a given user accessed a device ten times in the last 30 days during regular business hours on weekdays. Next-Gen SIEM will send an alert if the user accesses the device on the weekend or 20 times in a single day. Based on that, we will investigate and email the manager.

The correlation rules and the Spotter carriers are essential in any SIEM. One new feature I like is the Autonomous Threat Sweeper. We will get a notification that a recent attack has entered the environment. They'll provide all the information we need to investigate. It's an excellent feature, but we've only been using it for three to four months. Threat Sweeper does the job in the background whenever we all have some other work. We go through the notifications and decide whether they're essential or not. 

Threat Sweeper is handy. It will clearly show where the anomaly in the data occurs. There is clear information about the IOCs, IP addresses, domain names, etc. We can easily run it in the background and forward the same threat detection report to the other consult teams, like the network and server teams. Another new feature is XDR. I haven't used it, but I've heard it uses signatures and behavioral analysis efficiently.

When I started to use Securonix, I was a little confused, but I could pick it up after a week. Everything is UI-based, and all the information is available on one page, so you don't need to go to different tabs to get what you need. It's very user-friendly. With a click, you can open all the reports you want and generate as many queries as you need. There's no need to use commands.

It takes too long to generate Spotter reports. For example, a 90-day report is around 100 megabytes. That takes a while, but a one-day report can be generated in a few seconds. We would be happy if they sped up the process. 

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

We can rely on Securonix. Whenever we get a new solution or new part, we'll always follow the vendor's suggestions, and they will give us an idea about what is happening or what we have to do.

Securonix is scalable.

I rate the technical support a nine out of ten. They're friendly. Whenever we have a P1 issue, we write an email and our issue is resolved in one or two hours. 

I previously used McAfee's SIEM solution. I switched because I shifted to another project using Securonix. Securonix is faster and more user-friendly. McAfee takes five minutes to load, whereas Securonix will load in the blink of an eye, and I never face any slowness in the application in Securonix. It takes an hour to generate a report on McAfee. It's no competition for Securonix.

I joined after the implementation, but it requires very little maintenance after deployment. We have one or two hours of downtime for quarterly maintenance. 

I rate Securonix Next-Gen SIEM nine out of ten. If you plan to implement Securonix, I recommend buying it now because they're offering a limited-time discount. It's an excellent SIEM, and anyone can afford it right now. 

We mainly use Securonix for SIEM software architecture and for logs. We generate all the logs from different APIs and firewalls. We also have created other policies. Securonix is the primary tool we use to get everything done for our projects and architecture. We even use it for other solutions like AD.

Primarily, I work on violations and policies, not the backend. As an analyst, I work on SIEM.

The solution is deployed on a private cloud. It is deployed with Microsoft Azure.

Everyone has access to SIEM, but they don't have admin access. We mainly have three people and a team lead on the Azure Securonix team. I am the backup and work on the operational side of that team. Everyone has read-only access except the three team members. 

Securonix primarily helps with our log code situation. We found a vulnerability last December, so it helped us gather logs for that. We informed our vendor, and they provided some queries on how to get those vulnerabilities and logs.

I normally work on policies and face a lot of false positives. We reduced many false positives since using this solution. Securonix has definitely helped improve our threat detection response and reduced noise from false positives.

Sometimes we face threats and sign-in logs from different countries, but we're able to resolve those. Sometimes we face malicious activities from traffic but it's very rare. It happens about twice a month.

Securonix helps a lot with monitoring. My project is in the monitoring and operational stage, so it's a primary tool I use to monitor everything. The implementation stage has already been completed. We have created policies for all kinds of tools and APIs.

As we are the client, most of us don't have the SIEM threat model feature. There isn't a lot of proper information about how to implement that. Customer service doesn't have a proper idea either. We are lagging in this area, but it's good overall.

In some cases, we have observed that people start getting login failures, so we checked the logs from Securonix and resolved the issue. In that way, it's helped.

Securonix Next-Gen helps us detect advanced threats faster and gives us lower response times. Sometimes we face a data source delay and it's impacted badly, but overall it serves us a lot.

I haven't faced any data loss since using Securonix.

The most valuable feature is that it works on user behavior and event rarities. Those features are in Splunk too, but they're not as effective. Securonix's customer service is also pretty good.

It's not difficult to use the interface, but there's a lot of documentation to read.

We haven't experienced any performance issues when ingesting log sources and investigating threats. The response is good.

Parsing needs to be improved. Every time we integrate a new, specific data source, we face a lot of problems in parsing, even for the old data source. That should be updated on a regular basis.

In some of the policies, the geographical location for a single IP is from a specific country, but the IP doesn't match. For instance, if the log is from China, the actual location of that IP will be from somewhere else, not China.

I have been using this solution for more than a year.

It's reliable and very stable. We haven't faced any major or even minor issues with security.

It's definitely scalable and fulfills my needs.

Technical support is good, but sometimes we face delays with responses.

I would rate technical support as nine out of ten.

Positive

The solution was already in the mid-stage of implementation when I joined the organization. I mostly worked on fine-tuning the policies.

We have a team that takes care of maintenance updates. The solution needed some updates because the user behavior wasn't working properly for some of the policies. As of now, instead of using user behavior, we use event rarity. After version 6.4 is implemented, the issue will be resolved. There are two or three more issues we have that will be resolved after the update.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. 

My advice is to get a proper idea of the tool you are working on and be sure to read the documentation.

We are using it for monitoring firewalls, Windows operating systems, some Linux operating systems, active directories, and some of the solutions in the cloud such as Office.

In terms of deployment, everything is in the cloud. Our licenses are on the cloud. We don't deploy anything on premises except the RIN.

We are a managed service provider, and we offer this service to third-party clients. Most of our clients are very happy with the solution. We can detect a lot of threats, which are not false positives, and we can describe the threats very well. A lot of information can be obtained from this SIEM, and we can provide very good incident reports to our clients.

We were using another solution previously. The other solution couldn't compete with the features and functionality that we were looking for as a managed service provider. Some clients ask for specific features, and we couldn't complete those needs with other products. They were more about calculations, such as events per second (EPS). With Securonix, it is easier to sell the product and make quotes for our clients. It has helped us a lot at the administration, commercial, and operation levels.

It provides actionable intelligence on threats related to our use cases. It can detect violations and reduce false positives. This actionable intelligence is one of the most important parts because we have suffered with some of the other solutions in terms of receiving a lot of events and alarms where most of them were false positives, which made it a bit difficult for us to investigate and generate incident reports. Securonix is handy for engineers and the security operations center.

Its analytics-driven approach is pretty good at finding sophisticated threats and reducing false positives. When it comes to monitoring network devices, such as firewalls, it can detect behaviors that would be difficult for other solutions to detect or for normal engineers to detect manually. It has a lot of violation policies, and it is very handy and helpful at this level.

It adds contextual information to security events, which is one of the most important points. We can fill a lot of information into our reports for our clients.

Everything is saved for us and indexed. We can review any event we need within three or six months. We can review even when the data is in the cold phase. We never faced any case where we lost any event data. When clients asked about some events in the past, we could find them very easily and without any issues by using the queries.

It improves analysts' efficiency to do more with less time. Spotter is one of the best tools for me for searching and visualizing various things such as policies. With the Spotter language, you can search for whatever you need. You can search for any endpoint, any IP, any hostname, or any violation name. Even though it is not very fast, it is fine for us. Splunk or Elasticsearch is faster than Securonix because this is their job. Even though Spotter is not as fast, it has been helpful for us.

The detection of threats and reduction of false positive alarms as compared to other solutions are valuable features. It has improved threat detection response and reduced a lot of noise from false positives as compared to our previous SIEM solutions. This was one of the reasons we decided to try or move to Securonix. Other products generated thousands of events, and a lot of them were false positives, which made it difficult for us to handle all the events. For example, we were monitoring a firewall internally, and that firewall generated about five million events per month. The previous product detected almost 1,000 to 1,500 events as positive events, whereas Securonix generates less than 200 events, and most of them are not false positives.

It can integrate with a lot of solutions. Being able to ingest all our log sources when investigating threats is one of the good points of Securonix. After we started to use Securonix, we could integrate a lot of solutions, which we couldn’t do previously. It works with many devices, platforms, and cloud solutions. It is pretty good in terms of integration.

The incident response area should be improved.

It is more difficult than other products, but overall, it is good. The platform has a lot of options and functionality. So, you need to check almost everything. For new engineers or people who don’t have much experience with this kind of platform, it is a bit difficult, but for experienced engineers, it is not that difficult.

When you have been doing a lot of work for about one or two hours, and you have a lot of tabs open, it slows down or gets stuck. There is a delay of 10 to 15 seconds in opening tabs or dashboards. I don't know why this happens, but for me, it is not a big issue. I just wait, and that's all.

I have been using this solution for one year.

It is stable, but it slows down or gets stuck when you have a lot of tabs open.

Overall, it is scalable, but when you are investigating a lot and you have a lot of tabs open and are involved in big work, it sometimes becomes slow or gets stuck.

In terms of its users, our SOC team has three engineers, and I am the fourth one. We have three clients for now for Securonix. We use it internally to monitor our company. Overall, there are five or six users using the interface, investigating, and reporting to the clients.

Most of the time, their support is very good, but sometimes, we had to escalate the issues. Sometimes, we opened a ticket, and we immediately received an answer for fixing the issue, but at other times, we got a response after one, two, three, or even seven days. I guess it is based on the impact or severity, but when we have an urgent issue or problem, Securonix solves it very fast. I would rate them an 8 out of 10.

Positive

We were previously using Splunk, and we wanted to continue, but when we did the evaluation, we found Splunk to be more difficult to implement than others. It is fine to operate it, but its implementation is more difficult. It also had fewer features than Securonix. Securonix is dedicated to security information event management, but this is not the main functionality of Splunk. Even though Splunk is very strong in security, and we have been using it, when it comes to, for example, machine learning, Securonix has pre-configured policies. So, we don't have to spend that much time, whereas when it comes to Splunk, we have to configure everything. We have to install the applications and configure the dashboards. Considering the functionalities, features, and pricing, we felt that Securonix would be the best option.

It is better than previous solutions in terms of threat investigations and onboarding. That's because most of the other solutions are based on rules. Sometimes, there is no intelligence when it comes to detection, whereas Securonix has policies that are a collection of rules. Securonix doesn't only extract the log and tells us that it is a low-impact event or informative event. It also tries to correlate most of the events according to the policies and takes us to the main point. This is how Securonix has helped us to reduce a lot of false positives. Other solutions only worked with rules, and they only sent us events. We had to review most of those events, which is not the case with Securonix. It has a lot of policies for all types of detections. There are almost 1,000 policies, and Securonix can correlate various types of behaviors and pieces of evidence to detect advanced threats. It is good at this level.

We have the cloud license of Securonix. Everything is on the cloud. We only implement RIN on-premises, which is straightforward. You just download the executable, give it permission, and execute it. You provide the information it asks. There are a few packages that you need to install previously, but overall, it is very handy and straightforward.

I implemented it on my own. 

Its price is fine. We found it to be cheaper than LogRhythm, Exabeam, Splunk, as well as Elastic Security. A few months ago, when we were comparing Securonix with Elastic Security, we found Securonix to be cheaper than Elasticsearch. We were pretty surprised that Elastic Security is more expensive than Securonix because Elasticsearch is just starting, and it cannot compete with Securonix at this time. So, the pricing of Securonix is pretty good for now.

We tried to evaluate some of the other products, but we decided to go with Securonix for the business part. It was easier for us to meet the needs of our clients related to calculations.

We evaluated LogRhythm. The first problem that we faced with LogRhythm was that it would have been pretty difficult for engineers to handle in terms of the user interface. As compared to Securonix, it was also very expensive. Securonix had most of the features or functionalities that we were looking for. We also evaluated Exabeam, and we had the same problem with the price and features.

It has somewhat reduced the amount of time we require for investigation. It hasn't probably helped in detecting advanced threats faster along with lower response times because there is this gap between the RIN receiving the information and then sending this information to the cloud. This gap makes it a little bit late as compared to other solutions. Other than that, it is good.

I would rate it a 9 out of 10.

We mostly use it for user-behavior analytics. It is used for all the behaviors related to users. In terms of the environment, there are multiple connections at different sites and locations, and there is also integration with other platforms. For some endpoint use cases, I have to do integrations with different customers who already have the platform.

Its deployment is hybrid. The cloud providers are Amazon and Google Cloud Platform.

When we have an endpoint threat, we have to move very quickly. We detect it through another tool that is associated with Securonix, and automatically the endpoint is isolated from the network. We also get some information for investigation and forensics allowing us to understand the type of threat. We get to know whether it is related to the endpoint or user behavior. We can get information on web-application firewalls and other solutions connected to Securonix, which allows us to understand the depth of the threat for a specific use case.

It provides actionable intelligence on threats related to our use case. After the alerts, we can isolate the endpoints and make some modifications. We can also do some searches about the related IP on the internet and intelligence platforms. That's very nice.

This actionable intelligence is pretty important. When we integrate different platforms, Securonix provides a lot of visibility and allows us to see the whole environment, not just a part. I have been working mostly on the endpoint side, but other people who are working on wider use cases can see all the dashboards and improve the security posture with Securonix.

Its analytics-driven approach to finding sophisticated threats and reducing false positives is very important. With other similar tools, we have to work a lot to reduce or manage false positives. We have to improve the rules and integrations because there are a lot of false positives. With Securonix, we have fewer false positives, and there is also automatic recognition for false positives allowing us to move very quickly.

It adds contextual information related to the use cases. My use case is very specific, but my partners and other teams get a lot of contextual information related to the whole company. It provides a lot of analytics related to a threat in terms of user behavior, environment, and target applications, such as databases, which is very important.

It has saved a lot of investigation time. As compared to other solutions, it has saved more than 50% time.

It has improved the threat detection response and reduced noise from false positives as compared to our previous SIEM solutions. The improvement in the response time is dependent on the scenario, but generally, it is about 40% more effective. When it comes to false positives, it is about 60% more effective.

It has been helpful in detecting advanced threats faster and lowering response times, but I don't have the metrics. 

Its console is very easy to use and configure. It is very intuitive for our use cases. App integrations are also pretty nice. 

It could be improved a little bit more for admin users. There should be more administrative options related to security for admin users. For example, for forensic purposes, the admin should be able to stop a specific user from erasing some information. I would be helpful in certain situations, such as during an internal fraud.

I have used it for two years separately, in 2020 and the last year, 2021.

Its stability is pretty nice because we don't have too many problems with it. The complexity is related to what we want to see. There are no issues with the performance. We have not experienced any performance issues when the solution is ingesting all of our log sources. 

It is 100% cloud. So, its scalability is pretty nice. We have all the capabilities and options to grow. Our environment has more or less four locations with about 1,000 devices. We don't have any plans to increase its usage in the near future.

I have had to call support three or four times, and I would rate them a ten out of ten.

Positive

I have worked with Splunk and LogRhythm. I am using Securonix because, in this company, most of our clients are using Securonix. So, I had to learn how it works and understand its architecture and capabilities. It is very easy to understand for anyone who has worked with similar solutions. It is 90% easier than Splunk, which has a lot of code. Securonix is very radical and intuitive.

I wasn't involved in its setup and onboarding process, but I would assume that it is very quick. That's because it is very simple to use for my use cases, and they have nice support and help.

Its maintenance is pretty lightweight. We have another team that is in charge of that. There are most probably two people who take care of SIEM and cybersecurity solutions.

Securonix cloud-native platform helps to minimize infrastructure management. It allows us to focus on threats versus engineering or managing the platform.

We have surely seen an ROI when we look at multiple threats that we have been able to prevent.

It improves analysts' efficiency to do more with less time. By using the contextual information that it provides, we can be more accurate in our investigation. It has saved about 30% time.

Its pricing is quite similar to others and is very competitive. The other solutions have different types of licensing, but when you do the math, it is competitive.

You should know your environment and connectivity requirements very well. You should understand the analytics that Securonix is providing for the team. You can make a lot of improvements based on those analytics.

I would rate it a ten out of ten.

We were using it for data loss prevention and data acceleration. We wanted a platform with a proper ticketing facility, and as and when we reviewed a user, we also needed a proper documentation setup. Securonix provided that. We were able to integrate playbooks and a lot of other modules so that we not only looked at a particular problem area but also at other factors. We didn't only want to look at exfiltration but also at any lateral movement inside the company by a user. We wanted to look at the outliers in a better way, not only in terms of a user's activity but also in relation to the peer activity to show that it is not a team; it is just a team member doing something wrong.

We most probably were using version 6.0.

It was very easy for us to do our manual threat hunting. We had a lot of instances where we found our internal users exfiltrating data. We were able to see that they were exfiltrating data. We could confirm that through the platform by taking a deeper look, which was very nice. It is user-friendly and handy. It allowed us to look at all kinds of activities and logs.

It provides actionable intelligence on threats related to the use cases. After you have done the configuration, it triggers an alert for any incident. This actionable intelligence is very important because it allows us to respond in time without missing the window of being able to take an action. Sometimes, threats are small, and the indicators do not pop up, but with manual analysis, we can get a complete view. So, it is very important to have real-time triggers.

We have been able to find a few true positives. Based on the triggers from the tool, we got to know that people have been exfiltrating data over a period of time. They had been doing it in small amounts, and that's why it went unnoticed. After the tool notified us, we discovered that one or two users have exponentially exfiltrated data over a period of time. Without the solution, just by looking at the logs, we wouldn't have known that. The tool understood the behavior and triggered a notification, and we got to know that. The users were not just sending our data to themselves but also to another vendor. They were contractors, and they were exfiltrating the data to another vendor. They were about to leave the company, and we were able to catch them before they left.

It reduces the amount of time required for investigations. If I had to check logs from different log sources or tools from different vendors and create tickets, it would have taken time. With SNYPR, we were able to perform a lot of actions within the same platform, and we were also able to push tickets to our SOAR management tool. Everything was in one place. We didn't have to navigate between different things. It was helpful for incident management. It took time for analysts to check whether an alert was a false positive or not and provide the right evidence. Having incident management within the tool reduced time in creating and closing some of the incidents. Instead of 30 minutes before, it was reduced to 10 to 15 minutes per incident. We didn't have back-and-forth navigation. Everything was in one place. 

It saved us a couple of hours of our day-to-day activity because everything was consolidated. Once I logged in, one or two hours were enough for me to look at everything and identify things to take an action on.

It has definitely helped us with threat management. Because of the sample use cases that we saw from Securonix, we were able to design a few of our own use cases. We would not have thought of those use cases in the past. We were able to add use cases that were helpful for our data internally. We were able to understand logs even better and create our specific use cases. It was good learning.

It is user-friendly. Its user interface is better than the other tools.

I like the playbook integration. In the beginning, we had a few hiccups because the tool was developing, but after that, the threat intelligence tool that we integrated got more accurate and better. The whitelisting and blacklisting of IPs, domains, or users were also working. 

Risk scoring was nice. We could exactly see which user had the highest risk score, and then we could pick it up and work on it. 

Securonix accommodates customer requests in the upcoming versions very well. They do their best to bring in the features required by a customer. We were able to have custom widgets for different departments or specific use cases. All tools do not provide such customization. Securonix was good at taking a request, reviewing it, and if it made sense, adding it. We got at least one or two features added. 

When they did upgrades or applied patches, sometimes, there was downtime, which required the backfill of data. There were times when we had to reach out and get a lot of things validated. 

I have been using this solution for about 2.5 years. Right now, I'm not using it, but I have used it in the last 18 months.

Initially, during patch management, we did see a few downtimes, which required a backfill of data. Before I moved out of the previous company, patch management and upgrades had improved, and the tool had become stable. The queries we were running weren’t breaking the tool. We were able to fetch reports for more roles and data as compared to when we started.

The company that I was working with was midsize. We didn't have a huge amount of data. We were accommodated pretty well. We didn't have any thresholds or limits, but I cannot speak for companies that have a huge amount of data. 

Their archiving and deletion policies also worked well for us. We didn't see any performance issues when the solution was ingesting all log sources. Its scalability was pretty nice. We started with six to seven data sources, and then we moved on to add a few more. It could easily accommodate any increase in the number of users or data. We didn't have to just stop at a particular point.

With on-prem, customers have control over the infrastructure, and they can tweak it, but a cloud solution is more simplified. You don't have the headache and overhead of maintaining your resources. So, it is definitely scalable. They partition you based on how big the company is. So, even if you move to a bigger scale, more resources get added to make it work better. It is seamless. We didn't have many issues. We had a few slowness issues at times, but they were resolved. We didn't have to deal with them for a long period of time.

Their support was pretty good. We didn't have any issues there. They were pretty fast. Anytime we had downtime or any issue, we were certainly helped. We got emails telling us how long it will take, and they would stick by it. There were a few times when there was a one-day or two-day delay in response, but eventually, it all worked out. We didn't have major issues. I would rate them a nine out of ten.

They also provide a review with their content team. For the initial few months, they did a lot of threat hunting and showed us why they think a user is doing something in the company and why it is something that is worth taking a look at. It was helpful to have analysts from their side and see how the users are doing it and what are the patterns.

Positive

I have only worked with this solution.

We had another engineering team that took care of its deployment. My involvement in its setup was only for providing the type of data that we need to pull into Securonix. Some log sources took a while in terms of the data format that we wanted and accommodating it with the APIs on the Securonix end. We only had issues with a few data sources. It wasn't a very difficult process, but it did take some time. It took about two months.

Overall, its onboarding was pretty smooth because we were on SaaS. In terms of the strategy, we had to provide the data sources that we needed. They were divided into three levels. We first integrated one or two data sources, and when we saw it triggering, we integrated a few more. We also worked on fine-tuning it for false positives with their content team. They trained us on various use cases and algorithms behind those use cases. If there was any incorrect trigger, they explained the reason for it. It did take quite some time to configure it for our own custom use cases. This phase took more time than the initial integration of data sources. It took at least two to three months to onboard all the sources.

Because it was a SaaS solution, they did the maintenance. It didn't require any effort from our end. It minimizes infrastructure management. In case of downtime or outage, they used to notify us and fix the issue. It did not require our intervention, except monitoring and checking if things are running fine.

They provided flexibility in terms of features and patches. If we wanted to stay on a particular patch or have a few features in the next version, they were able to accommodate that. They were able to add our features even when other customers did not need them. 

There were two people on the engineering team from our side, but I am not sure how many people were there from the Securonix side. For integration, two people were there, and then there were four analysts at the beginning to support the tool and give feedback.

We most probably did see an ROI. I was working only at the analyst level. I do not have the numbers, but it did improve the efficiency to do more in less time. In the beginning, we were hesitant to use a new tool, but it soon became our go-to tool for checking and verifying any issues. We started engaging with the tool quite a lot, and it probably saved four to five hours a day. Documentation and ticketing were the biggest challenges, and it helped in having everything in one place. We could just click on a ticket and see everything.

I had heard that it was much cheaper than Splunk and some of the other tools, and they gave us a nice package with support. They accommodated the number of users and support very well.

My team had definitely looked at other tools, but I was not involved in the PoC. 

I would advise having a look at it. The user experience or the user interface is definitely better than other tools, but you need to see how it interacts with your data sources and how easy it is to integrate it with those data sources.

It took us at least four to five months to realize the benefits of the solution from the time of its deployment. It depends on the log sources you are concentrating on and want to fine-tune. Most SIEM tools, including Securonix, have a lot of use cases that can be tied to Windows, VPN, etc. Modifying and tuning just one log source is not enough. You should tie different log sources so that you get an idea about any lateral movements. Everything that flows into a SIEM solution has to be tuned. If I'm sending a raw log in any format, it needs to be properly sanitized and tuned for my security requirements, which takes time. We had to go back and forth and get a lot of things fixed. It takes a while for the tool to understand and start triggering based on a specific activity.

False positives will always exist. They won't completely go away. When we first deployed it, it used to trigger alerts for 500 to 600 users, which had come down to 20 to 30. It needed continuous fine-tuning, but as an analyst, I was no longer overwhelmed by hundreds of alerts. It took a while to get to that stage and involved a lot of blacklisting and whitelisting. Even though the false positive rate had come down to a pretty good number, we still had to intervene and verify whether it was a false positive or not, but it was easier to do.

It hasn't helped to prevent data loss events, but it has helped to reduce further loss of data. We got to know about an event only when it had already started to happen. When the tool identified that something was happening, it would alert us. If an analyst was active enough to understand that and put a stop to it, it could have prevented any further loss, but I am not sure how much a data loss event would have cost our organization, especially in intellectual property. However, we figured out that about 40 to 50 GB of data was sent over a period of time. It was sent in small bits, and it included confidential reports, meeting keynotes, etc. We would not have known that if the tool had not notified us.

I would rate it a 10 out of 10 based on the experience I had. We didn't have any major issues related to slowness or querying the tool. Querying was pretty simplified, and there were also documents to know the processes. Their support was good, and they were also good in terms of the expansion of the tool. When we wanted a new data source, they were there to review it and modify it with us. They provided good assistance.

We are using it for Azure logins outside of US and Azure brute force use cases. We have use cases for our firewalls, like Palo Alto. These are use cases that we created ourselves. These are not the use cases out-of-the-box that Securonix provided us.

Without this product, my organization would not be able to function at all. It is our main monitoring product for our clients. We monitor everything through it. Securonix Security Analytics is the main process of providing services to our client because we are a 24/7/365 security operations center. So, Securonix is helping me out on daily basis all the time, every minute.

Security Analytics helps provide actionable intelligence on threats related to our use cases, which is very important. They are improving it almost on a daily basis. They send it to us and keep it running on the back-end for all the tenants. If anything gets raised, according to the threat intelligence that they have generated, we will get an alert. We will then start digging into those events. After that, we work with clients to respond to that incident.

The product can help increase efficiency. My analysts were working 12-hour shifts when we started. Now, they are working eight-hour shifts. However, it also depends on the person and how efficient they want to be. My analysts are monitoring, training, and doing their certifications all at the same time. This definitely divides their attention.

Features, like Spotter, are the most valuable. Spotter is a wide range of research for any of the incidents that happened under my clients' data. 

They also have a feature that separates violations according to top violators. So, I can go in and see all the use cases that got preserved under them. It is an intensive search type of thing. You can just keep digging in. There are other policies attached to it. There are some remediation steps and recommendations attached to it. 

Securonix’s analytics-driven approach for helping to find sophisticated threats and reduce false positives is pretty good. We are allowed to fine tune according to our requirements and our clients' requirements, which does reduce false positives. In the last 24 hours, the total number of policies with triggers was 233. When I started with this product, the false positives were 561. Therefore, the solution has helped by tuning or reducing false positives.

It helps us find sophisticated threats.

The monitoring, analysis, and visualization of data that Securonix provides is good. However, there are some things that I would love Securonix to change. For example, they don't allow us to make changes on the graphical reports that they have integrated into the platform. We have to create our own. If we just want to take out one thing, our page should allow us to change that template just for our platform. I'm not talking about changing others' platforms; this is just for my platform. They should allow me to make changes according to my scalability. I would like a little bit more changes in the analytics and visual views that they already have out-of-the-box in the platform. They are working on this, but I have not heard from them for a while. I'm satisfied with the visualization that they have, but I would like to get some more out of it. For example, I am taking the report and manually making changes. I want all those changes already integrated and automated, so they are automatically done in the product.

I would not say its threat hunting is easy or difficult to use. It is medium because it totally depends on the data that is coming to you. It does not depend on the platform. It depends on whether you can find the correct attribute that you need to look at, then you can go further on that. They are working on this. They are introducing more features, e.g., they have a couple of updates pending at this time. They are working on it to cut down the steps. If I am doing 28 steps right now just to onboard our data, then they are cutting those steps down. They are also putting more automation in the solution. While they are working on these improvements, it is just a matter of time. 

It ingests 85% of all our log sources already built into the product when investigating threats. If the data sources have the functionality, Securonix will create a custom parser for us on a request. If the functionality is not there in the product, then there is a difficulty, but we can still ingest it through the file base, etc. However, I am not a big fan of the file base because a user is creating a file per day for data that was generated the day before. Specifically for activity that has already taken place, we can prevent it, but we cannot stop the activity.

I have been using it for a year and three months.

It is pretty stable. Out of 100%, I would rate the stability between 80% to 85%. 20% can be unstable for any product. There can be bugs. There can be a failure in the core or a syntax error in the core. When I notify the support of these types of issues, they quickly fix the problem for me.

We have experienced a few performance issues, about 10%, when Security Analytics is ingesting our log sources. This can happen with any product. We informed them that we are facing this issue and get pretty good support on it. 

Scalability is pretty good. It does grow with our license. We work according to EPS. So, as our EPS pool grows, the solution will keep growing.

Cloud Scale is super scalable. You can scale Securonix pretty well. Even if you have too much data coming in, you can figure things out or put more resources on it. Securonix is pretty good at doing these things. For example, they have load balancers already in place, which automatically take care of these things.

There are 12 of us right now using the solution. I'm the senior engineer, and I have eight analysts who are using it. I have a senior manager who is also using it.

Six months ago, if someone asked me about the support, I would say, "Not good." Now, the support is pretty effective. They try to resolve problems ASAP. For example, if it's a critical ticket, they get it fixed within an hour.

I would rate the support as eight out of 10.

Positive

We had a generic system previously, which has none of the things which have helped us by using Security Analytics. This solution automatically detects threats. There is a response bar that we can deploy. There is an email notification. So, if I am not available, then I will get an email that I can respond to pretty quickly. As far as threat detection, we get policy updates every three minutes. Therefore, if anything is detected, it will be right there on my screen.

I have previously trained on FortiGate and Splunk. Securonix and Splunk are not that different. Splunk has a lot of things on one screen. Whereas, Securonix tries to clean it up.

If you follow the documentation, it is straightforward. If you don't want to read, it will be complex. I don't review documentation anymore. I did it twice when I started, then I went in, wrote a batch script, and automated the whole process. Now, I just need to make some changes before running that script.

The deployment takes 35 minutes on the client side.

I am the only person involved in the managing and deployment of the solution.

If there is any kind of setup that needs to be done on the cloud side, Securonix does that for us. I integrate clients with my platform, but Securonix takes care of the back-end.

The Securonix cloud-native platform helps minimize infrastructure management. We don't need that much manpower. If there is infrastructure to maintain, I need an engineer to maintain infrastructure, a software engineer who will look for the application, a security unit who will look for the threats and attacks, and a response person. Now, I don't need a software engineer or infrastructure engineer. That has gone away. Currently, I need only a security engineer and response person, which one person can do. We can also hire two people to do the different jobs. That is no problem. 

We don't have to put more focus on infrastructure, which helps. There is a little bit of an infrastructure included, but that is a one-time setup thing. You don't need to go and maintain it again and again.

Securonix Security Analytics adds contextual information into security events. For example, on a generic system, if I used to put in an hour, now I'm putting in 35 to 40 minutes on this. So, it's saving me about 20 minutes of time.

Compared to the pricing of other products, Securonix's pricing is pretty good. Clients can get half of the price of other companies by going with Securonix. Other products, like IBM and Splunk, have pretty high pricing. Nowadays, we see CrowdStrike as up and coming, and they are pretty expensive. 

Pricing does depend on what model you are looking for, e.g., are you going for an MSP or single tenant?

I don't find a lot of difference between solutions. Everybody tries to improve their product over time. I do free testing for multiple products, and they are basically copying each other's functions.

I like Securonix because I am familiar with it and can do threat hunting in 10 minutes instead of the 30 minutes that it might take if I used other solutions.

According to my clients and the security world, I cannot eliminate all the false positives because you cannot let false positives go. You need to make sure that there are no attacks attached to that false positive. So, we have a team of analysts who monitor it every time. So, if a false positive policy gets an alert, then we just go ahead and make sure to analyze it. That is okay. If it is a false positive, then we mark it as one. We did eliminate a lot of false positives, but not all of them. It is our choice, not Securonix's, what we want to keep or eliminate.

I would rate Securonix as nine out of 10.