Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) vs. Splunk User Behavior Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Forcepoint DLP
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protects sensitive data everywhere it resides and moves, across endpoints, cloud apps, web, email, and on-premises environments. It delivers unified policy management and centralized control from a single console.N/A
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
SolarWinds LEM is security information and event management (SIEM) software.N/A
Splunk User Behavior Analytics
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Splunk supplies security analytics as a standalone solution or priced as an add-on for users of its popular SIEM products, to protect enterprises against unknown threats and malicious behavior, via the Splunk User Behavior Analytics application.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Forcepoint DLPSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)Splunk User Behavior Analytics
Free Trial
NoYesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Forcepoint Data Loss PreventionSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)Splunk User Behavior Analytics
Considered Multiple Products
Forcepoint DLP

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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Solarwinds Security Event Manager (SEM) is the best solution for price/performance. The solution has an easily understandable architecture and also the solution can be installed easily. The solution is a very stable and fast solution for our company size.
Splunk User Behavior Analytics

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Features
Forcepoint Data Loss PreventionSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)Splunk User Behavior Analytics
Data Preparation
Comparison of Data Preparation features of Product A and Product B
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
5.5
2 Ratings
35% below category average
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
-
Ratings
Splunk User Behavior Analytics
-
Ratings
Data Encryption5.52 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
-
Ratings
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
8.9
18 Ratings
13% above category average
Splunk User Behavior Analytics
-
Ratings
Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
Correlation00 Ratings8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings8.018 Ratings00 Ratings
Deployment flexibility00 Ratings10.018 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings8.013 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings9.017 Ratings00 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Forcepoint Data Loss PreventionSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)Splunk User Behavior Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
6.7
(35 ratings)
8.0
(46 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.6
(7 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.6
(3 ratings)
8.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
5.3
(12 ratings)
7.5
(17 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Forcepoint Data Loss PreventionSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)Splunk User Behavior Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
Forcepoint
-Where companies need to secure their attachment, which goes outside, means from their company to outside -Where companies need to ensure their client's personal information -Where companies need DLP. They need to look for Forcepoint only, as they have the upper hand over the rest of their competitors.
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SolarWinds
Optimal for SolarWinds Security Event Manager needs for smaller companies - it is a very cool product but has some limitations around EPS (which gets chewed up quickly if you're doing it the right way & adding servers/storage/FW & other network devices)... Also pricing model is GREAT (not consumption-based, which is the greatest grift the SIEM industry has created).
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Cisco
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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Pros
Forcepoint
  • It has predominantly protected us from unauthorized parties and has provided us with better visibility and control over our data.
  • This software has also successfully prevented us from both malicious and accidental tasks, which are quite flexible actions when it comes to the violation of data loss prevention policies.
  • This product has been successful in improving compliance and even mitigating compliance violations, which further facilitated IT security.
  • I think there is room for improvement, as the user interface is slightly rough and difficult to adopt in the beginning. The software also hangs up at a few instances, which leads to some wasting of time and annoyance, but other than that, this software is good. The technical staff should work on the complexities for a better user experience.
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SolarWinds
  • It does a great job of notifying us when accounts have been locked out. We can then find out the device on the network where the login attempt occurred.
  • Searching for incidents is now a lot faster with the implementation of the HTML 5 interface.
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Cisco
  • Monitor and troubleshoot for any system errors.
  • Get the insights on application data sets and do some predictive analysis.
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Cons
Forcepoint
  • Forcepoint technical support--specially for users who go with essential support--is challenging to get support on time. You need the ticket to be raised long beforehand to get support from TAC. However, in the case of enterprise support, its is not like this technical person will come on a priority basis.
  • However it comes with higher prices, especially for SMB, it is allowed to pay that amount for support only.
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SolarWinds
  • All SolarWinds product suffer from slow response times in management portals. SolarWinds SEM is no exception. While it is much preferred over a "thick client" there is much room for improvement in speed.
  • If you use the email alert features with SolarWinds make sure to prepare you staff and team for the large amount of emails they could receive. Make sure to reduce the number of alerts so your team does not ignore the alerts.
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Cisco
  • Performance-wise, it can be improved. Queries take a long time.
  • Dataset exploration - More data visualization charts can be added.
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Likelihood to Renew
Forcepoint
We have been fairly happy with the product and how it has worked. We have looked at other vendors for url filter and such and have not found one that meets our needs or does what we have been doing with Websense. The product has been fairly stable and we have only had a few issues in the past. We have all seen that it was one of the highest leaders from the Gartner Group Magic Quadrant for Web Gateways.
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SolarWinds
It is pretty likely that we will renew SEM when the time comes up. It is easy to use and maintain so there isn't much of a need to replace this product. It is also a pretty fair price for the capabilities provided by the SEM
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Cisco
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Usability
Forcepoint
For us, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention was difficult to administer, did not work well when it did work, was incredibly expensive for the feature set you get, and was difficult to uninstall when we moved on from the software. Once it was fully set up, it worked occasionally for us.
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SolarWinds
If you are familiar with SolarWinds then you can use this product it's as easy as that. If you have never used a SolarWinds product then it will take a minute to get how they do reports and make dashboards but that being said the tool is great and can make things very easy once you get a feel for how it works and get everything setup how you like it.
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Cisco
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Support Rating
Forcepoint
Support from Forcepoint has been lacking. When calling in with a high priority issue we rarely are able to work with a technician immediately. The queue waits are very long and when you get through there are no support engineers available and we need to wait for a call back for hours it seems.
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SolarWinds
The quality of support can vary depending on whom you end up speaking with. I was fortunate enough to work with a support representative who was very familiar with the product. He had even authored some of the support documentation on the website. On the flip side, I had two other experiences where I was simply directed to online training material.
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Cisco
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Alternatives Considered
Forcepoint
User friendly solution that makes it easy to deploy and manage. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention very effective to protecting our valuable data on endpoints and where data lives like in the Cloud, server and on-premises disk drives and its valuable to just set policies once and start utilizing Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention solution.
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SolarWinds
Fortianalzyer can only do logs from FortiGate so usefulness is limited. Elasticsearch was a lot slower than Solarwinds and the filters were a lot harder to set up and use. The connectors for SEM were far more stable.
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Cisco
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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Return on Investment
Forcepoint
  • The exchange of financial documents with customers creates extreme risk as data loss could result in financial and reputation damage to the customer. The cost of deploying Forcepoint is fractions of pennies compared to the potential financial impact of data loss.
  • There is some administrative overhead associated as false positives are inevitable, requiring a manual review and a potential loss of productivity.
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SolarWinds
  • For the price, it produced a decent value. It did a lot of the easy stuff well. I can't give any specific data given the objective of the product was to monitor very basic events in the environment.
  • There are free options that can do a better job.
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Cisco
  • 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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