ActivTrak vs. Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA)

This is excellent software if you wonder what your team is doing when you aren't there. If you want to improve your team's workflows and efficiencies so they get more done with less fatigue, this is a great thing to have. This is not spyware. It isn't designed to capture keystrokes. It is designed to help your team improve performance and for management to understand what they are doing and help them improve. If you want to micromanage your team, then don't use this.

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Splunk User Behavior Analytics application is necessary when any company wants to capture the threat based on user behavior instead of just counting the number of occurrences of particular event. With Splunk UBA, we can analyse number of anomalies captured and which in turn creating threats which are nearly true positive.

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• Detailed listings of actions at times. done by the second in many cases, very useful.
• the productive/unproductive listings allow managers at a glance to see their employees use of time
• Snapshots ( when properly utilized) are very helpful in troubleshooting, strange, occurrences, as well as they're used by Human resources.
• The IT help desk is very efficient. log in to your portal, bottom right, and in minutes your talking to someone.

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• Monitor and troubleshoot for any system errors.
• Get the insights on application data sets and do some predictive analysis.

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• Alerts for when someone is not working during scheduled hours (although this may already exist and we don't utilize it as I know the alarm feature is pretty comprehensive)
• Because of our IT configurations, a lot of weird "groups" show up on the dashboard which looks a bit confusing
• Not having to create a group for 1 employee to see their own data, just allow each user to see their own data once their access account is created

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• Performance-wise, it can be improved. Queries take a long time.
• Dataset exploration - More data visualization charts can be added.

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We are in agreement that the tool is very handy as a security companion. The system collects and retain relevant historical data to be queried when you desire e.g. in security reviews once a week.

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ActivTrak is a great product that just keeps growing. Having used it for quite some time, we have been able to see ActivTrak grow and evolve as a product. The ActivTrak webinars are also helpful to get to know and learn the product. ActivTrak really just works with little effort needed after the initial installation

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It's never been down.

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Have not received any issues with Activtrak's performance in regard to loading pages, reports, or other systems.

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Support is always fast and the agents are ready at all times to help when an issue arises, if the tier 1 agent isn't able to provide a solution to the issue they're asked about they quickly escalate the issue to tier 2 or 3 to ensure that the appropriate support is given to the issue at hand to have it quickly solved. No issue we've had so far has taken more than two days to be solved.

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There should be a way to automatically implement the system without giving users the opportunity to accept or deny the program on their computers.

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We selected ActivTrak for the features we were looking for. One of the main reasons was the deployment for Chromebook's and of course the price. During our demo held with each party, we were impressed with presentation from ActivTrak. One thing we would've liked is for ActivTrak to also be available for deployment to Android phones.

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Easier we were using Splunk Enterprise on heavy forwarder on which all the add-on were installed and were using Splunk Cloud with respect to search head and indexers stack. And with Splunk Enterprise Security premium app, we were relying on correlation rules which were throwing more number of false positive but after implementing Splunk UBA, we are now getting real-time true positive threat or incidents.

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The product's overall scalability is good as our team grows. We would like to see updates to meet market demands.

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• Defensive capabilities immediately avoided data exfiltration from an outgoing employee.
• Trends for underperforming or underdeveloping users can be spotted, analyzed by managers, and used within their overall development management to help staff reach their best potential.
• Costing for targeted use is relatively low and therefore a "no brainer."

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• Fewer team members to work on real threats.
• Less time required to deal with real incidents.
• Easy to implement across the network.

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