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    Overview
    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

    WatchGuard Network Security

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AWatchGuard Network Security is a network security and firewall software. WatchGuard includes secure Wi-Fi, multi-factor authentication, and network intelligence products and services designed for SMB’s.N/A
    Pricing
    Splunk Enterprise SecurityWatchGuard Network Security
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Support
    Contact sales team
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    Basic Security
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    Total Security
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Splunk Enterprise SecurityWatchGuard Network Security
    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
    Splunk Enterprise SecurityWatchGuard Network Security
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    109 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    427 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    90 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    410 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    103 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    436 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    366 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    90 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    405 Answers
    Features
    Splunk Enterprise SecurityWatchGuard Network Security
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Splunk Enterprise Security and WatchGuard Network Security
    Feature
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    8.9
    108 Ratings
    11% above category average
    WatchGuard Network Security
    -
    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
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Splunk Enterprise Security and WatchGuard Network Security
    Feature
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    -
    Ratings
    WatchGuard Network Security
    8.2
    541 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Identification Technologies00 Ratings8.3497 Ratings
    Visualization Tools00 Ratings7.0489 Ratings
    Content Inspection00 Ratings8.4521 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls00 Ratings8.9537 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP00 Ratings8.8452 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console00 Ratings8.6528 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging00 Ratings6.5525 Ratings
    VPN00 Ratings8.7518 Ratings
    High Availability00 Ratings8.4471 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection00 Ratings8.2483 Ratings
    Proxy Server00 Ratings8.0348 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Splunk Enterprise SecurityWatchGuard Network Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (110 ratings)
    8.9
    (559 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    8.2
    (46 ratings)
    Usability
    6.8
    (13 ratings)
    7.9
    (124 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.5
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    9.3
    (33 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (270 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    6.6
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.7
    (98 ratings)
    8.8
    (7 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Splunk Enterprise SecurityWatchGuard Network Security
    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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    WatchGuard Technologies
    Watchguard is perfect for a small to medium business. At that price point, few competitors offer the same set of functions. Once you move into higher-tier enterprise gear, competition increases, but WatchGuard is still a viable choice for securing your network.
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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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    WatchGuard Technologies
    • Ease of management - Seeing and managing firewall rules and NAT port forwards in one interface keeps things simple.
    • Security - The range of security services is comprehensive, and implementing them is also simple.
    • Monitoring - When something isn't working, the live logs show what has been blocked. Overall, keeping the interface simple and consistent across models makes the device much easier to implement securely. I have used WSM for over 20 years to manage WatchGuard Fireboxes, and while additional features have been added, it has remained consistent over that time frame, so new features are not difficult to implement.
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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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    WatchGuard Technologies
    • Better integration with VoIP services, such as templates for policies handling traffic for Bria or Asterisk endponts and servers.
    • Get webblocker to work without breaking secure websites.
    • Lower cost on endpoint agents for antivirus and include application control and webblocker with the agents.
    • Make the cost per endpoint with TDR and Netowrk access control lower than the cost of Antivirus licensing that is not integrated.
    • Make it easier to set up network access control and VLAN assignment by device, perhaps with templates.
    • Get webblocker and application control working with QUIC.
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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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    WatchGuard Technologies
    We have been renewing and purchasing new equipment for the last 20 years. This is because the equipment is easy to use and manage and also quite affordable. Compared to other products, Watchguard just works and has not had the issues with device security seen in other products. They have been a reliable partner.
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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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    WatchGuard Technologies
    Although it might take some time to figure out, we have been able to use WatchGuard's online reference library and tech support to create/implement/modify all of our filtering rules and exceptions needed. There really has not been a shortcoming other than perhaps a learning curve.
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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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    WatchGuard Technologies
    Availability has always been a strong point of this product, it is rare that watchguard does not have a solution for customers' network monitoring needs.
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    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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    WatchGuard Technologies
    The performance of WatchGuard Network Security is very good, in the years that we have used the solution we have only had a single error and Watchguard itself was able to solve it. Furthermore, when purchasing any product, the partner always evaluates the capacity of the solution to recommend the most appropriate product for our needs.
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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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    WatchGuard Technologies
    We have only had to contact them once during the initial set up to help bring the internet back on line. After that for the most part our systems have been automated, and could easily be checked form their online FAQ and Knowledge base that they provide. Everything else is easily handled from their browser based interface
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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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    WatchGuard Technologies
    We participate to a in person training and the three days of learning was really useful and complete to gain skill to solve the major part of the problem we encounter during our life. And more the in person training give us the opportunity to create a network with other WatchGuard partner.
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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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    WatchGuard Technologies
    Online training is good for learning how to use the product. It does not teach security strategy because that is not its intent.
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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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    WatchGuard Technologies
    WatchGuard Network Security offers varied methods of implementation. Their devices are very easy to set up manually, and for a more automated setup where many devices need to be deployed, they have different offerings like RapidDeploy (prepopulate a config for a specific device in the portal), registering the device's serial number to manage it through cloud services on first boot (including the option to populate a USB stick with basic interface setup if required) and the ability to run your own Management Server and register to be deployed serial numbers, so the device connects to your own hosted management server on first boot.
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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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    WatchGuard Technologies
    I was not involved with the decision making for WatchGuard versus another product. However, I know WatchGuard is significantly less expensive than other brands. My overall preference would be Ubiquiti due to their continuous improvement of the product with tons of great features. I know WatchGuard is making great advances, but the progress seems slower in comparison.
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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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    WatchGuard Technologies
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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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    WatchGuard Technologies
    This product is very scalable since previously everything related to Watchguard was on premises but that has now changed with the inclusion of watchguard cloud. Now the product has evolved to have full control of firewalls at the cloud level.
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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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    WatchGuard Technologies
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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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    WatchGuard Technologies
    • We are blocking about 90% of malicious traffic coming into our network.
    • Our firewall allows us to setup a secondary WAN interface for redundancy.
    • We can isolate issues and determine whether traffic is being dropped outside our network or on the LAN.
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    ScreenShots

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    Screenshot of WatchGuard Cloud Customizable DashboardScreenshot of Threat Monitoring SummaryScreenshot of Device Security SummaryScreenshot of Automated ReportingScreenshot of User Authentication SummaryScreenshot of Endpoint Protection Summary