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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ACisco IPS Sensors have reached EOL, and EOS.N/A

    Splunk Cloud Platform

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASplunk Cloud Platform is a data platform service thats help users search, analyze, visualize and act on data. The service can go live in as little as two days, and with an IT backend managed by Splunk experts.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Splunk Cloud Platform
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Splunk Cloud Platform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Splunk Cloud Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    Chose Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)
    IPS sensors provides the necessary network visibility my company needs to satisfy its security appetite. By doing so, we have been able to stay compliant and up to date with today's network security requirements and procedures. We are able to be proactive with vulnerabilities …
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    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Splunk Cloud Platform
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued) and Splunk Cloud Platform
    Feature
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Splunk Cloud Platform
    8.2
    20 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings9.019 Ratings
    Correlation00 Ratings8.419 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings9.220 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility00 Ratings7.220 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings7.718 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings8.920 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings8.217 Ratings
    Data integration/API management00 Ratings7.310 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings7.28 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings8.210 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings7.48 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings8.810 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings8.711 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Splunk Cloud Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Splunk Cloud Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    IPS sensors are more suited for companies that do not have visibility into their network with third-party analyzing tools. Scenarios would be to place IPS sensors at the perimeter firewalls mainly. IPS sensors are less appropriate for companies that have third-party analyzing tools that will mitigate vulnerabilities and malicious traffic and activities already.
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    Cisco
    Splunk is excellent when all your data is in one location. Its ability to correlate all that data is intuitive (once the hurdle of learning the query language is overcome). It is also easy to standardize the presentation of information to the company. When data is siloed/standalone, other systems can be cheaper and faster to implement.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Identifies and blocks malicious traffic.
    • Detects unwanted traffic and allows your company to be proactive, let alone reactive.
    • Comprehensive Threat protection allows companies to adjust thresholds and policies at will.
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    Cisco
    • This SIEM consolidates multiple data points and offers several features and benefits, creating custom dashboards and managing alert workflows.
    • Splunk Cloud provides a simple way to have a central monitoring and security solution. Though it does not have a huge learning curve, you should spend some time learning the basics.
    • Splunk Cloud enables me to create and schedule statistical reports on network use for Management.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • The web GUI is somewhat slow.
    • Sometimes difficult to adjust policies.
    • Fail open feature may not work properly all the time.
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    Cisco
    • The SPL programming language that the queries are built in is not very intuitive.
    • There should be a better repository of pre-built queries for what I would think of as common Active Directory usage monitoring.
    • I would like to see more free training/familiarization information made available.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    Ease of use and have all the features we need
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    Usability
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    Splunk AI Assistant for SPL is good tool, as I said, it is really useful for educational purpose, taking in its hands small and simple tasks (ex:small query dashboard,...), but it's not a ten because the contextual memory for complex issues/dashboarding/reports etc can be limited, and can sometime suggets none optimized query which are not always checked by teammates and can cause issue on the long term.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    Cisco TAC has been great at helping with configurations and issues that may arise
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    Cisco
    Splunk Cloud support is sorely lacking unfortunately. The portal where you submit tickets is not very good and is lacking polish. Tickets are left for days without any updates and when chased it is only sometimes you get a reply back. I get the feeling the support team are very understaffed and have far too much going on. From what I know, Splunk is aware of this and seem to be trying to remedy it.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    IPS sensors provides the necessary network visibility my company needs to satisfy its security appetite. By doing so, we have been able to stay compliant and up to date with today's network security requirements and procedures. We are able to be proactive with vulnerabilities and reactive to malicious traffic and intrusions in our day to day operations.
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    Cisco
    Vs elastic: - SPL's statistical functions superior to KQL for complex correlations - Better enterprise support, less operational overhead - Splunk Cloud Platform's detection engineering more mature vs Sentinel: - SPL more powerful than KQL for custom analytics - Better cross-platform visibility (non-Azure environments) vs Datadog - SPL enables deeper forensic Investigations - Superior compliance/audit capabilities
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Provided less need to purchase third party analyzing tools.
    • Needed more dedicated staff to build/review/and maintain policies and such.
    • Answers companies need for network security.
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    Cisco
    • End-end visibility across your departmental silos
    • Strengthen the overall global monitoring posture
    • Move from Reactive to Proactive Monitoring
    • Highly secure environment at your finger-tips
    • Takes you away from managing infrastructure/administration, allows saving time & money. Reduce the overall TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
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