Likelihood to Recommend As a SIEM tool for investigations, Exabeam is the best in class. The AI assigns numeric values to observed logs them presents high scores to the analyst in a simple dashboard. We can see what is a real threat and ignore so many false positives. Exabeam is the best SIEM was used from an alert fatigue perspective. The simple interface allows other teams not just InfoSec to utilize the tool; helpdesk for asset diagnoses, HR for staffing questions, etc.
Read full review The most highlighted feature of Varonis Data Security Platform is the data analyzing mechanism. It analyzes your data all the time with some special algorithms to detect any unusual activities so that it can identify any unusual behavior or users and take necessary action to save your sensitive data. They also offer a complete dashboard solution for their customers to control across different data stores, see their current state, and any security breaches to be addressed manually.
Read full review Pros Fast search times, unlike other competing solutions. The ability for engineers to obtain access to the command line interface for troubleshooting, at least for on-premise deployments. License is suitable for organisations with lots of logs to ingest. Hardware required for on premise deployments is well supported. Read full review Varonis logging is very robust and captures all audit events being sent from the file servers. The ability to report and alert on Active Directory account events works very well with file activity monitoring. It can show the complete picture of what an account did while being used. Have a customizable dashboard is great for being able to show upper management information that only pertains to them. Read full review Cons More and better drop-down menus, some items in threat hunter require you know subsets. Less dashboards, combine AA and DL without having separate logins. More complete playbooks are already built out. You have the structure set up for templates like malware and phishing, go further and completely build them out from start to finish, most companies would just use them and not personalize their configurations. Quarterly health checkup diagnostics of systems sent out to users. Read full review Implementation can be challenging in some areas and can only be executed by the vendor Implementation can only be executed by the vendor and additional work can be chargeable Licensing can be improved upon Agent based so implementation can be longer than expected Read full review Usability Exabeam is very good at processing lots of logs without excessive licensing costs. It has a professional support team that's very quick to resolve any issues and provides custom parsers quickly and enables our analysts to search vast data sets without having to wait long for results to be returned. The product is getting more mature with new features every major release.
Read full review I wish the cost was a little bit lower and increase functionality and features would give it 10/10.
Read full review Support Rating Exabeam Fusion has so many diffferent out reach meetings, webinars, community virtual coffees, and events that you can always stay abreast of what if happening and get new ideas for use cases. Their support actually answers their phones and can respond in chat instantly. With our cloud deployment Exabeam support teams can instantly see our systems and help us.
Read full review Support has always been very responsive and addressed any issues we may have had in the past. Some local engineers are willing to come onsite or work over a web session to discuss creating a new rule set or look at some issues. Getting issues address has never been a problem. There was one feature we had trouble getting to function correctly, but support and local engineers were willing to work with us as much as needed to get it working correctly for our organization.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Actually, we didn't expend much time evaluating other file auditing platforms. We chose Varonis just after a serious incident and we had already heard about Varonis at a Netapp event. So it was an easy choice. We called Varonis and asked them for a PoC, that's it. The PoC became a production and it is running until this day.
Read full review Return on Investment Reduced time to triage alerts. Reduced number of alerts which need escalation to senior tiers. The ability for analysts to quickly run playbooks for additional information and enrichment. Ability to retain data for longer periods for forensics purposes. Improved search performance compared with other SIEM solutions. Read full review We have identified data classifications issues that our organization was not aware of prior to the implementation. The tool does take a dedicated resource for it to be effective. Varonis has improved the speed with which we can fulfill audit requests, leaving us more time for other tasks. Read full review ScreenShots