AWS CloudTrail vs Ekran System comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Ekran System are both solutions in the User Activity Monitoring category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.8, while Ekran System is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 10.3% mindshare in UAM, compared to Ekran System’s 17.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Ekran System users who would recommend it.

AWS CloudTrail

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100% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between AWS CloudTrail and Ekran System based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

AWS CloudTrail

Ranking in User Activity Monitoring

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Ekran System

Ranking in User Activity Monitoring

4th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Privileged Access Management (PAM) (23rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the User Activity Monitoring category, the mindshare of AWS CloudTrail is 10.3%, down from 11.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Ekran System is 17.4%, up from 16.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Bireshwar Adhikary

Senior Consultant at ATOS

Very comprehensive logs with good points of view for auditing and compliance

The solution is good as a central logging platform for showing all cloud events. For example, it records new users and their activities or events. When you open the solution, you get good details about what has been going on for the entire day. The auditing and compliance points of view are good.

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Andreas Lalos

Director of Professional Services at Besecure

Early threat detection and diverse OS support with enhanced security

Ekran System offers a lightweight solution that does not impact the systems where it is implemented. It provides rich metadata for monitored activities and includes threat analysis capabilities for early alerting and investigation of unauthorized actions. Additionally, it supports diverse operating systems and allows for monitoring and enforcement policies, like blocking actions for policy violations, and provides a retention of historical data in a lightweight format.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"What I found most valuable in AWS CloudTrail is that it provides a good context of what's happening in the environment, so it's an excellent way to baseline what's occurring. I also like that AWS CloudTrail helps with audits."

"AWS CloudTrail helps in accelerating incident investigation and response. It increases it because I pull out the logs to CloudTrail, and from CloudTrail watch, I'll send it to the Security Hub and do a visualization with Prometheus and Grafana."

"AWS CloudTrail integrates with AWS Config and provides custom event, security, and compliance auditing."

"It is a stable solution. AWS handles it well."

"From a scalability point of view, the tool has no issue, and it is completely fine."

"In one specific scenario, we encountered a situation where a terminated employee still had access to our environment without our knowledge. With AWS CloudTrail, we could track and monitor the employees' activities, revealing that they were downloading specific files from our customer's environment. Without it enabled, we wouldn't have been aware of this."

"The management events and CloudTrail Insights are valuable."

"The solution is good as a central logging platform for showing all cloud events."

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"It supports diverse operating systems and allows for monitoring and enforcement policies, like blocking actions for policy violations, and provides a retention of historical data in a lightweight format."

Cons

"More controls should be introduced in CloudTrail, especially to see the logs in CloudTrail itself without saving them in S3, as S3 starts to incur charges."

"Maybe if we could do direct queries on CloudTrail without needing to export it to Athena, that'd be great."

"Filtering multiple values within the console is a feature that has yet to exist in AWS CloudTrail. You can look up a user identity, service, or action, but you can't search for multiple dimensions."

"Once the organization defines its policies, it must immediately enable AWS CloudTrail and integrate it with auto-remediation procedures using Lambda functions. This ensures that the main administrator can receive information quickly and on time without delay."

"The solution should incorporate visibility for CloudWatch events."

"The product's initial setup phase is not pretty straightforward."

"The solution's operation visibility could be improved."

"The platform’s reporting log sheet feature could be more user-friendly."

"Ekran System could improve in terms of communication to the market, particularly after their rebranding as Shiteka."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a very cheap service because management is a SaaS offering from AWS."

"The solution is free if you don't need customizations but is not expensive otherwise."

"AWS CloudTrail is a cheap solution."

"AWS CloudTrail is free."

"AWS CloudTrail is pretty affordable, and I have to double-check, but the service is free to use. I can add logs on the console, but if I want to store logs long-term, then I have to pay a storage fee, but it's relatively inexpensive."

"CloudTrail itself is free of cost."

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Government

14%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AWS CloudTrail?

In one specific scenario, we encountered a situation where a terminated employee still had access to our environment without our knowledge. With AWS CloudTrail, we could track and monitor the emplo...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS CloudTrail?

CloudTrail is a very cost-effective solution. It can be rated three or four on a scale where ten is the most expensive price.

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What needs improvement with AWS CloudTrail?

More controls should be introduced in CloudTrail, especially to see the logs in CloudTrail itself without saving them in S3, as S3 starts to incur charges. Real-time log submission could be improve...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Ekran System?

The business model has become more complex with changes in feature licensing, yet they provide affordable options, particularly with the standard edition, which doesn't charge for the management co...

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What needs improvement with Ekran System?

Ekran System could improve in terms of communication to the market, particularly after their rebranding as Shiteka. The solution does not support other protocols beyond traditional monitoring chann...

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What is your primary use case for Ekran System?

The primary use case for Ekran System is third-party vendor monitoring and privileged access management monitoring. It is also used for privilege access management solutions.

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Overview

AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account. With CloudTrail, you can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail provides event history of your AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services. This event history simplifies security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting. In addition, you can use CloudTrail to detect unusual activity in your AWS accounts. These capabilities help simplify operational analysis and troubleshooting.

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