Splunk Enterprise Security vs. Splunk SOAR

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Splunk Enterprise Security
Score 9.6 out of 10
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Splunk Enterprise Security is an analytics-driven SIEM that helps to combat threats with actionable intelligence and advanced analytics at scale.N/A
Splunk SOAR
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Splunk now offers a security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) platform via its acquisition of Phantom. Splunk Security Orchestration and Automation (Splunk SOAR) provides playbook automation and is available as a standalone solution.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Splunk Enterprise SecuritySplunk SOAR
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Splunk Enterprise SecuritySplunk SOAR
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
Splunk Enterprise Security
8.4
Ratings
8% above category average
Splunk SOAR
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Ratings
Centralized event and log data collection9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Correlation8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Deployment flexibility8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Data integration/API management8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral analytics and baselining7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
Splunk Enterprise SecuritySplunk SOAR
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
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8.1
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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7.5
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Usability
7.5
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8.2
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Availability
9.1
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-
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Performance
8.2
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8.2
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Support Rating
6.6
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8.2
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In-Person Training
9.1
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Online Training
8.2
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8.2
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Implementation Rating
9.1
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8.2
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Configurability
7.3
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8.2
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Ease of integration
6.4
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Product Scalability
9.3
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8.2
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Vendor post-sale
8.2
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Vendor pre-sale
8.2
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User Testimonials
Splunk Enterprise SecuritySplunk SOAR
Likelihood to Recommend
Well-Suited Scenarios:
Real-Time Threat Response: ES excels in swiftly detecting and responding to security threats through data correlation.
Compliance Management: ES streamlines compliance with detailed logs and reports, ideal for regulated industries.
User Behavior Analytics: Effective in monitoring user and entity behavior, particularly for insider threat detection.
Large-Scale Environments: Valuable for organizations with diverse data sources and high volumes of data.
Incident Investigation: ES aids in post-incident analysis, reconstructing events to understand root causes.
Less Appropriate Scenarios:
Smaller Organizations: For simpler setups, ES may be complex and costly.
Static Environments: In low-risk settings, ES's advanced features may be unnecessary.
Limited Resources: Tight budgets or sparse IT resources may hinder effective ES use.
Lack of In-House Expertise: Without security experts, optimizing ES can be challenging.
Budget Constraints: ES may be cost-prohibitive for budget-conscious organizations, prompting consideration of more affordable alternatives.
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Our company has very complex and dynamic security operations because of the large number of security tools and systems that we need to manage and coordinate. Moreover, it helps us to meet many regulatory and compliance requirements because it helps us to automate and document our security operations. We also use it to streamline our security operations and improve our response to potential threats.
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Pros
  • Its best feature is its user interface, which is easy to navigate and understand. All you need is a little tutorial on how to use the Splunk query language and you're done.
  • Logs can be easily uploaded or shared across multiple platforms and display a highly insightful graphical representations of data using graphs, tables, and many other formats.
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  • Its security orchestration and integration capability that supports multiple tools.
  • Easy coding that automates our security actions.
  • Enables us to easily collaborate and respond to security issues faster.
  • Splunk SOAR is a flexible product that is easy to deploy.
  • Efficient tracking and monitoring capability.
  • Excellent real-time reporting functionality.
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Cons
  • To identify User Behaviour analysis is lacking component which we get in Splunk UBA.
  • The documentation part is hard to work on because if the new user tries to learn ES then the documentation is not user-friendly.
  • ES must ass more Knowledge objects by default to make security-related aspects more reliable and enhance the details.
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  • A lack of instruction It can be difficult to contact the support staff. Limited experience from current users.
  • It takes some effort to set up and learn new technology at first. More assistance is required from the support staff. The product's price needs to go down.
  • Cost of the larger version.
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Likelihood to Renew
We are very happy with Splunk and would advise anyone to take a serious look at it. It might look pricey but the rewards Splunk offers seem endless.
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As we already have a lot of clients being catered with Splunk SOAR and because Splunk SOAR is robust and efficient, we are already using it, and we have understood the product to a certain extent, I feel we are personally more enticed to use and scale it to a lot of business.
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Usability
You definitely need to learn how to use Splunk to get the most of the tool. There are many courses available for free to get up to speed on the usability of the tool but it's not that simple. It will take time to digest all the data and to understand how to query for what you are looking for.
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Building playbooks through the visual editor is fine for basic tasks, but once you start chaining complex logic or integrating 3rd party APIs you hit a wall that requires deep scripting knowledge.
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Reliability and Availability
I'm not an ES user, but, in my implementation I usually try to prevent all service stops to guarantee High availability to the final customers.
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Performance
ES requires a very performant infrastructure: if it has it's performant, otherwise not. I had situation with a very performant infrastructure and I didn't notized that it was a distributed architecture, it seemed that there ware few data on my PC, othewise I experienced less performant infrastructures with less performaces.
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It has APIs that are useful for integration with third party solutions as well as for absorbing large volumes of data from our servers, networks and apps. Splunk SOAR offers a variety of playbooks that we use in automating workflows for migrating data and for analyzing the data to ensure its security.
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Support Rating
It's good when it's responsive, but I've had times where I had to wait quite a while for a response. But these are typically the exceptions rather than the rule. When you do get a response it is always well-informed and appropriate. I would say they've been trending better over time with this.
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Splunk Support is always great! In addition the Community is very efficient and active.
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In-Person Training
I experienced only on-line training, but the trainers were very professional and competent. Maybe it could be more useful if they also have an experience in projects because sometimes they didn't have a real project experience to communicate to the students. Anyway, it was very interesting and I learned many thing that's very difficoult (or maybe impossible!) to have by myself, aven if I have more than 10 years of Splunk activity experience.
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I never followed an in-person training, I gave my evaluation based on the online training
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Online Training
It was very interesting and I learned many thing that's very difficoult (or maybe impossible!) to have by myself. The only problem was that, when I worked with the Splunk Professional Services, I found some difference between the training contents and the information from PS. In addition is required a long experience on Splunk Enterprise for the data ingestion part, in other words I'm able to work with ES because I'm worling on Splunk since 11 years, otherwise I'd some problem.
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I followed training for Phantom admins and it opened a world for me
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Implementation Rating
It's a fantatic product and it was very useful the presence of Splunk Professional Services for the Design Phase and the final Health Check.
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I already said that the main key insight is the knowledge of Phantom, so a detailed training for all the people involeved.
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Alternatives Considered
LogRhythm is good for a team comprising mostly non-technical IT users. Unlike Splunk, it has a GUI log search and a good ticketing system. Splunk is better than Logrhythm for me as it provides me with the ultimate flexibility to write custom queries. Scalyr is a good tool and quite frankly lot faster than Splunk. However, I prefer Splunk because of its better Dashboards and panel customization abilities. Elastic is another amazing tool. It is hard to choose between the two especially because both have different sets of logs on them. I use both. Elastic for internal server logs, Splunk for everything else.
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If you use Splunk SIEM, you might wanna use Splunk soar, too. one vendor for SIEM and SOAR, and you do not need to think about integration, etc. Easy to use if we compare to other SOARs, chat and war rooms are great, and almost every action that we need is already created in Splunk SOAR.
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Scalability
We have on prem splunk and it’s mostly east to setup, but we have issues keeping data separated between customer splunk deployments while at the same time only having to look at one SIEM to address events in every environment
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me and the customers I encountered found it flexible and scalable
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Return on Investment
  • We have a 100% success rate on all our ES implementations due to the amazing documentation and Splunk enablement on the subject.
  • Our Splunk ES business has grown 100% YoY for the last 3 years.
  • In terms of long term management and maintenance, ES has been highly stable and predictable, reducing our overhead on costly services team for ad hoc maintenance work.
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  • The playbooks are valuable. They are the core component. Being able to implement and build a code process to work through and scale out what we want to do is valuable
  • Before its use, analyzing each email would take at least 15 to 20 minutes, with some complex cases taking up to 30 minutes...With the automation provided by Splunk Phantom, we could significantly reduce the amount of time and human effort required to complete this task
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