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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Splunk Enterprise Security

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ASplunk Enterprise Security is an analytics-driven SIEM that helps to combat threats with actionable intelligence and advanced analytics at scale.N/A

    Virtana

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AVirtana delivers enterprise-grade deep hybrid infrastructure observability, enabling organizations to achieve visibility and control across their entire IT estate. The platform unifies monitoring of on-premises, cloud, and Kubernetes environments, to transform complex infrastructure management into a strategic advantage. Core Platform Capabilities Deep Infrastructure Observability: · Automated topology discovery and mapping · Real…

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    Pricing
    Splunk Enterprise SecurityVirtana
    Editions & Modules
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    Free
    $0
    Pro
    $5
    per month per device
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Splunk Enterprise SecurityVirtana
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Volume discounts are available (600+ devices / month) A device is any running AWS EC2 or Azure VM evaluated by Virtana Optimize in a given month
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    Community Pulse
    Splunk Enterprise SecurityVirtana
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Virtana
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    109 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    90 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    103 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    90 Answers
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    Splunk Enterprise SecurityVirtana
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Splunk Enterprise Security and Virtana
    Feature
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    8.9
    108 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Virtana
    -
    Ratings
    Centralized event and log data collection8.6106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Correlation8.9105 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management9.5106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility8.0107 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools8.9102 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces9.9108 Ratings00 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection8.5102 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data integration/API management8.5104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining9.4100 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds8.5101 Ratings00 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation9.093 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management8.9101 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching9.0107 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Splunk Enterprise SecurityVirtana
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (110 ratings)
    8.8
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    6.8
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.7
    (98 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Splunk Enterprise SecurityVirtana
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Splunk ES is great for organizations with complex IT environments, and real-time visibility into their infrastructure is critical. We use it as the central platform to sort through alerts, run diagnostics, and respond to incidents. We have integrated it with SOAR and automations; both help keep our security posture up to date.
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    Virtana
    Overall I would say that we have been very happy with Zenoss. It has been a great server monitoring tool. There are certain aspects that we would like to expand into, such as Capacity Planning, Network Performance Monitoring, and log analysis. We have coupled Zenoss logs with Splunk for external log management, but would like to start using some of the built-in analysis tools.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Writes Powerful Queries: The queries that can be written using the Splunk Query Language are very powerful and highly customizable to meet every need. Ex: Writing queries to search the intersection of two different sources like Network and Endpoint Logs.
    • Offers Dashboard Abilities: Helps build complex panels for Dashboards in addition to providing several out-of-the-box panels. Ex: creating panels to calculate the performance of analysts in a given timezone.
    • Helpful Search Aids: It helps to set up complex custom alerts very easily. The interesting fields section is very helpful while threat hunting. Ex: It shows all the users and the frequency of each in a failed login event. The user list on the interesting fields is useful to look for suspicious logins.
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    Virtana
    • Monitoring Windows, Unix/Linux, Infra apps, storage, virtualization, converge infra etc..
    • Integrate with other monitoring tools and receive events for aggregation and correlation
    • Integration with ITSM( SNOW) for auto ticket creation
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Improved User Interface Customization: While the interface is generally intuitive, providing more options for users to customize their dashboards and views would enhance the overall user experience. Tailoring the interface to specific roles or use cases could be a valuable addition.
    • Simplified Alert Management: Streamlining the process of managing alerts, such as grouping or categorizing them based on severity or type, would make it easier for security teams to prioritize and respond to incidents effectively.
    • Expanded Threat Intelligence Feeds: Increasing the variety and sources of threat intelligence feeds available within ES would provide a broader context for identifying and mitigating emerging threats, ensuring a more comprehensive defense against evolving attack vectors.
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    Virtana
    • It can be tricky to set-up depending on what you want to do.
    • They have their own proprietary way of visualizing metrics, which is clever but does have a slight learning curve.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    We are very happy with Splunk and would advise anyone to take a serious look at it. It might look pricey but the rewards Splunk offers seem endless.
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    Virtana
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    Usability
    Cisco
    I gave it a 6/10 because it's a perfect tool for experienced Splunk users. It's very difficult to add people to the Splunk team due to the complexity of the solutions. It took weeks to write useful SPL queries and even more time to be independent of the solution.
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    Virtana
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    I don't think I've ever seen Splunk ES go fully offline or have any downtime greater than a few minutes on rare occasions.
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    Virtana
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Cisco
    It takes a long time for items to load if you are just generally searching through logs. It is best to use the data models which load faster but can be strange in terms of what is coming from which logs where. Yes, you can look it up, but this also requires familiarity with where things are and how to look them up.
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    Virtana
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    It's good when it's responsive, but I've had times where I had to wait quite a while for a response. But these are typically the exceptions rather than the rule. When you do get a response it is always well-informed and appropriate. I would say they've been trending better over time with this.
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    Virtana
    Anytime we've had issues they have been very responsive and professional.
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    In-Person Training
    Cisco
    I experienced only on-line training, but the trainers were very professional and competent. Maybe it could be more useful if they also have an experience in projects because sometimes they didn't have a real project experience to communicate to the students. Anyway, it was very interesting and I learned many thing that's very difficoult (or maybe impossible!) to have by myself, aven if I have more than 10 years of Splunk activity experience.
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    Virtana
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    It was very interesting and I learned many thing that's very difficoult (or maybe impossible!) to have by myself. The only problem was that, when I worked with the Splunk Professional Services, I found some difference between the training contents and the information from PS. In addition is required a long experience on Splunk Enterprise for the data ingestion part, in other words I'm able to work with ES because I'm worling on Splunk since 11 years, otherwise I'd some problem.
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    Virtana
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    It's a fantatic product and it was very useful the presence of Splunk Professional Services for the Design Phase and the final Health Check.
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    Virtana
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Splunk enterprise is the only solution that we’ve been able to identify that provides risk based alerting, which allows our SOC to reduce analyst fatigue which would be a huge problem without it. Before RBA, there were thousands of alerts a day and it was impossible to review all of them
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    Virtana
    We strongly prefer Metricly for AWS Cost Analysis -- whereas other tools are easier to use on a traditional monitoring basis. To be clear, Merticly's monitoring tools are GREAT, but they require tuning and manual setup that we didn't have the time for on a small Platform Operations team. We have worked closely with Metricly to expand on their cost analysis capabilities, and plan to use them going forward.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cisco
    for my exterience, unit pricing and billing frequency are correct. As I already said, I hint to have more discount flexibility, expecially with new customers, because there are competitors less expensive and very aggressive that are dangerous. In addition the possibility to don't pay the license for the development period could be a very interesting feature for the final customers.
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    Virtana
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    - 8 out of 10 and took 2 for the data pipeline and administration part. Even if you'd like to improve yourself or your team, you have to pay a lot of money and it could be more than GIAC education + cert. - Normalization for Data models and CPU-based searches can be a problem sometimes.
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    Virtana
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    Professional Services
    Cisco
    I had a fantastic experience with Splunk Professional Services: they worked with us in our last SON project (a SOC migration for a very large customer) and helped to build a multi tenent environment even if ES isn't a multi tenant platform. Th Splunk PS was a very professional and competent people, he is italian and was able to speak with our italian customers.
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    Virtana
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • We have a 100% success rate on all our ES implementations due to the amazing documentation and Splunk enablement on the subject.
    • Our Splunk ES business has grown 100% YoY for the last 3 years.
    • In terms of long term management and maintenance, ES has been highly stable and predictable, reducing our overhead on costly services team for ad hoc maintenance work.
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    Virtana
    • We're a reseller/Integrator, so this question has a somewhat different meaning to our business. For us, Zenoss Cloud allows us to provide a single Cloud-based monitoring platform that can address virtually all our clients' use cases, dramatically simplifying our training and staffing requirements. Instead of training Engineers on several platforms, including the installation of physical hardware/software, we can focus on a single platform.
    • The faster time-to-deployment and always-on cloud platform is a great fit for DevOps environments and newer software-defined data center platforms. The ability of Zenoss to support these environments solves what has been a major blind spot, slowing adoption of platforms that have been difficult to effectively manage with legacy monitoring platforms.
    • For clients, the ability to consolidate from multiple prem-based tools to a single cloud-based platform is huge. Eliminating multiple licenses and ongoing hardware & administration costs can show a 1-2 year ROI.
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