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    Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR

    Score1.1 out of 10
    N/ACortex XSOAR, formerly Demisto and now from Palo Alto Networks since it was acquired in March 2019, provides orchestration to enable security teams to ingest alerts across sources and execute standardized, automatable playbooks for accelerated incident response. Its playbooks are powered by hundreds of integrations and thousands of security actions, striking the right balance between rapid machine execution and nuanced human oversight.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
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    Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOARSplunk Cloud Platform
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOARSplunk Cloud Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Palo Alto Networks
    Chose Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR
    I haven't used any other SOAR platforms to compare XSOAR against.
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    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    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
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOARSplunk Cloud Platform
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR and Splunk Cloud Platform
    Feature
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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 Ratings8.117 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
    Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOARSplunk Cloud Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (8 ratings)
    8.8
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOARSplunk Cloud Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Palo Alto Networks
    XSOAR is well suited for phishing detection and response. Phishing alerts are as much of a
    problem today as they were decades ago. This is because: ●Attackers Can leverage automation to launch high-quantity phishing attacks with the click
    of a button.
    ●Spear Phishing attacks are sophisticated and sometimes indistinguishable from real
    emails, resulting in compromise through human error.
    ●Security Teams aren’t able to follow set processes while responding to phishing alerts.
    They must coordinate across email inboxes, threat intel, NGFW, ticketing, and
    other tools. Each tool has different consoles, data conventions, and contexts,
    making it difficult for security teams to fill in the gaps while minimizing
    errors. XSOAR is less suited for analyzing traffic.
    Incentivized
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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
    Palo Alto Networks
    • Automation with immediate security responses.
    • Comprehensive phishing protection and increased email protection.
    • Analysis and reporting feature.
    • Intuitive and easy-to-view panels.
    • Alerts by email and sms of incidents for the administration.
    • Centralized monitoring.
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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.
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    Cons
    Palo Alto Networks
    • The XSOAR bot creates a lot of noise on the summary page of any XSOAR incident. Although the filter is available to reduce the view, by default this should not be visible cluttering the whole scenario.
    • The interface has too much data on a single pane. I would love to have many buttons to just click and do stuff.
    • Also, I would love to have search areas more interactive and easier to navigate.
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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
    Palo Alto Networks
    It has proven to be far to valuable and effective to consider getting rid of it. Until something better comes along, this is staying in our product stack.
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    Cisco
    Ease of use and have all the features we need
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    Usability
    Palo Alto Networks
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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
    Palo Alto Networks
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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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    Implementation Rating
    Palo Alto Networks
    It was much easier than we all anticipated.
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    Cisco
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    Alternatives Considered
    Palo Alto Networks
    The quantity of integrations with security solutions is highest in Palo Alto Solution. The capacity to identify anomalous events is much better in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR. The flexibility of increased storage area is better as well. The dashboard is very intuitive about showing the most important incidents and how to resolve them.
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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
    Palo Alto Networks
    • Demisto has Eased malware analysis and threat hunting
    • With Demisto, it is simple to create playbooks and scripts
    • This is helped automate policy configurations on our PA firewalls through Panorama
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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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