AWS CloudTrail vs. Tripwire Enterprise

Tripwire Enterprise

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS CloudTrail	Score 8.5 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
Tripwire Enterprise	Score 7.8 out of 10	N/A	Tripwire Enterprise, from Tripwire in Portland, Oregon, is an intrusion detection/prevention system. Tripewire is a HelpSystems brand since the early 2022 acquisition.	N/A

Pricing

AWS CloudTrail

Tripwire Enterprise

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudTrail	Tripwire Enterprise
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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.

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Community Pulse
	AWS CloudTrail	Tripwire Enterprise
Top Pros	Pro Easy implementation Pro Extremely powerful Pro Ec2 instance	Pro Track user Pro User access Pro System changes
Top Cons	Minus 90 days Minus User interface	Minus Management console Minus Little hard Minus Hard to navigate

Best Alternatives
	AWS CloudTrail	Tripwire Enterprise
Small Businesses	Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Score 8.2 out of 10	NinjaOne Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.6 out of 10	Nmap Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.6 out of 10	Nmap Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
	AWS CloudTrail	Tripwire Enterprise
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (4 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudTrail	Tripwire Enterprise
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	Fortra Tripwire Enterprise is great for hosting/data center environments and it greatly helps where console screenshots and reporting fill a lot of our client internal audit needs for security and change control. Incentivized Joseph Smith Senior Systems Engineer Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS API Log User activity tracking Real-time alerts Incentivized AS Anton Smyslov Product Owner Read full review	Fortra It allows us to track development changes for engineer accountability. Tripwire Enterprise also allows us to monitor changes/updates being done to our systems in our hosting centers. We use the software to track user access and critical system changes. Incentivized Joseph Smith Senior Systems Engineer 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	Fortra In previous versions the management console was a little hard to navigate in some respects. I'm sure this has changed over time but we hope the reporting system has gotten more granular. I really don't have to many cons for this product, I recommend it for every company I work for! Incentivized Joseph Smith Senior Systems Engineer 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	Fortra Honestly, I haven't used other products to do what Tripwire does, it's always my first recommendation. Incentivized Joseph Smith Senior Systems Engineer 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	Fortra Tripwire has been a positive business impact for us because of its trusted name. Our customers require software like Tripwire because they know their data and security concerns are in good hands when it's deployed. The ROI for Tripwire is also a positive for our business because of the time and man power saved in due diligence and reporting for our clients' internal auditing. Incentivized Joseph Smith Senior Systems Engineer Read full review
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