AWS CloudTrail vs. Cofense Managed PDR (Phishing Defense Center)

AWS CloudTrail

Cofense Managed PDR (Phishing Defense Center)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS CloudTrail	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of an AWS account. With CloudTrail, users can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail provides event history of AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services. This event history simplifies security analysis, resource change tracking,…	N/A
Cofense Managed PDR	Score 8.1 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	Cofense Managed PDR (formerly Phishing Defense Center, or PDC) is a security service designed to relieve security operators of the repetitive tasks needed to qualify, investigate, and document alerts. With it the user can focus on responding to verified threats, instead of spending limited time and resources on data gathering. Cofense aims to take the workload off staff, giving them support qualifying and investigating threats, and understand their severity, so in-house security teams can focus…	N/A

Pricing

AWS CloudTrail

Cofense Managed PDR (Phishing Defense Center)

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudTrail	Cofense Managed PDR
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

$40 Custom quotation

Additional Details

You can view, filter, and download the most recent 90 days of your account activity for all management events in supported AWS services free of charge. You can set up a trail that delivers a single copy of management events in each region free of charge. Once a CloudTrail trail is set up, Amazon S3 charges apply based on your usage. You will be charged for any data events or additional copies of management events recorded in that region. In addition, you can choose CloudTrail Insights by enabling Insights events in your trails. CloudTrail Insights analyzes write management events, and you are charged based on the number of events that are analyzed in that region.

The Cofense Phishing Defense Center is available to all customers of Cofense Triage. The Triage solution is a pre-requisite for Cofense PDC services.

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Community Pulse
	AWS CloudTrail	Cofense Managed PDR (Phishing Defense Center)

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User Ratings
	AWS CloudTrail	Cofense Managed PDR (Phishing Defense Center)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (4 ratings)	9.2 (6 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudTrail	Cofense Managed PDR (Phishing Defense Center)
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS It is necessary to enable [AWS] Cloudtrail when using AWS in a production environment, otherwise you will not have any idea what is happening within your accounts. Third party monitoring applications will all require [AWS] CloudTrail to be enabled as well. I would not recommend it solely as a monitoring tool, to get the most out of it you must send the logs elsewhere. Either to Cloudwatch logs or a third party product. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Cofense Cofense Phishing Defense Center (PDC) has saved our team copious amounts of time that we would usually have to spend sifting through all of the hundreds of emails that are reported each day. Having a dedicated team to sort the true positives from the false positives gives ample amount of time to triage the more severe threats that have been reported. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS API Log User activity tracking Real-time alerts Incentivized AS Anton Smyslov Product Owner Read full review	Cofense Instant detection and elimination of phishing email boxes. Easy to set up. Intuitive and complete GUI interface, being able to create rules, configure exceptions, and generate reports. Optimizes time to eliminate phishing and prevent users from being targeted by internet scams. Good artificial intelligence. Incentivized Flavio Pereira Analista de sistemas Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS [In my experience] Cost can easily get out of control with multiple trails on full logging Logs can be difficult to decipher Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Cofense Better integration with established ticketing systems Ability to determine if there were any other recipients of the same email Technical issues when logging into the tool Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS I think in the end, CloudTrail has more features and you can dive deeper inside the logs so it depends on your usage and what you expect in the end to make the right choice, I would say that both tools are really useful and bring a lot of benefits to I.T. companies. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Cofense This product just successfully conquers its competitors and alternatives. This is because upgrades and improvement in software play a very important role, as with upgrades, a user feels connected with the platform. No one likes using outdated software, so [...] I find this product to be the best option out of all, as it is continuously in the race [to become] the best. I always see some upgrades [...] which makes me a happy user, unlike other alternatives. Incentivized Darren Mihalic Software Engineering Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS Allows us to investigate any strange api actions Increases security Audit trail of changes made in AWS Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Cofense Reduced volume to support teams. Provided in-house resources time to work on other projects. Provides a clean and effective interface with teammates. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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