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Bitdefender GravityZone EDR vs Elastic Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Bitdefender GravityZone EDR
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
13th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
60
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Elastic Security
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
16th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
61
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (5th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (5th), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (6th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category, the mindshare of Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is 3.4%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Elastic Security is 2.8%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
 

Featured Reviews

Kevin Mabry - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 26, 2024
Provides telemetry, risk assessment, and behavior monitoring
I like the risk assessment tool built into Bitdefender GravityZone EDR because I'm really into risk assessments and vulnerability testing. I think that is crucial and needed, and I don't see that often with most EDRs. The telemetry I get from the tool can be used in a SOC I use. The solution has behavior monitoring that allows you to monitor people's specific behaviour and practices. You can then ask the person to stop or start doing something. You can also do application management and access management. You can do many things within Bitdefender GravityZone EDR because it is like a one-stop shop scenario.
Gajewski Marek - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 13, 2024
Provides good anomaly detection and connectivity reporting
I use Elastic Security to aggregate all logs from different devices in one place. It works pretty well and provides one overview of everything The solution's most valuable features are anomaly detection and connectivity reporting. Elastic Security also has many automation capabilities, which can…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra has many features, such as VPN, web filtering, and email filtering. The product has many good reviews, and I like how straightforward it is to implement. It's also easy to access and use."
"If you detect a virus, you can isolate the PC from the network and prevent access to the internet, network and routers. Once fixed, you can give access back to the client. We have not had this functionality using other solutions."
"The solution is probably one of the top five, best security solutions on the market at the moment."
"We have clients who are also migrating from other anti-virus solutions to GravityZone because of the ease of use, ease of installation and the fact that it can be deployed in the cloud and the same software; you can actually install on other server or workstation. It automatically knows what it's protecting."
"GravityZone can be controlled from the cloud."
"We like the dashboard, the console, the reporting. It's very easy to deploy."
"It's hard to pick just one valuable feature as almost all of the main features are very useful. However, the ability to manage it centrally and have detailed control over settings, exceptions and other configurations is extremely beneficial."
"It is stable."
"The intelligence of the system has been very impressive. It's not quite AI, but the technical bit where it correlates information, based on the seen attacks within an organization is good."
"It is an extremely stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Just the ability to do a lot more than just up-down is nice, which a lot of people take for granted."
"The most valuable feature is the machine learning capability."
"The feature that we have found the most valuable is scalability."
"The indexes allow you to get your results quickly. The filtering and log passing is the advantage of Logstash."
"It can handle millions of loads at a time, and you can always use the filters to find exactly what you are looking for and detect errors in every log message you are searching for, basically."
"Elastic provides the capability to index quickly due to the reverse indexes it offers. This data is crucial as it contains critical information. The reverse index allows fast data indexing because of Elastic's efficient search engine."
 

Cons

"I have not had used the EDR portion of the solution to do any custom scripting to allow further advanced operations on the endpoints. From what I understand from reading the comments on reviews is that it is not particularly flexible in this regard."
"There is a need to work on the deployment, when it comes to deploying to Windows machines with regards to downloading the size of the package."
"The one thing that we are missing and want to see is user analytics. So, that is what I'm really interested in: behavior analytics and end user behavior."
"There's room for improvement in terms of protection. That's my primary concern."
"Sometimes, the platform takes a while to allow connectivity on the Mac endpoints."
"Technical support could be faster and more responsive."
"We find it's making the machines run slow."
"I would like to see a remote desktop for installed endpoints so administrators can see what is on a user's screen or what a user is doing."
"The process of designing dashboards is a little cumbersome in Kibana. Unless you are an expert, you will not be able to use it. The process should be pretty straightforward. The authentication feature is what we are looking for. We would love to have a central authentication system in the open-source edition without the need for a license or an enterprise license. If they can give at least a simple authentication system within a company. In a large organization, authentication is very essential for security because logs can contain a lot of confidential data. Therefore, an authentication feature for who accesses it should be there."
"In terms of what could be improved with Elastic, in some use cases, especially on the advanced level, they are not ready made, so you'll have to write some scripts."
"The solution should generate an automatic product that integrates with ELK Stack to use artificial intelligence."
"The price of this product could be improved, especially the additional costs. I would also like to see better-quality graphics."
"We're using the open-source edition, for now, I think maybe they can allow their OLED plugin to be open source, as at the moment it is commercialised."
"This solution cannot do predictive maintenance, so we have to build our own modules for doing it."
"There isn't really a very good user experience. You need a lot of training."
"It's a little bit of a learning curve to understand the logic of searching for things and trying to find what you're looking for in Elastic Security."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has a suitable price for every company and organization."
"If you look at the solution's price point, it's actually low market value, especially in comparison to other ones."
"Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is cheaper than Kaspersky. There are no additional costs apart from licensing ones."
"I rate the product's price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high."
"The price is per license per endpoint. The price is different for everyone, but we find the price is cheap for us."
"Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra's pricing is competitive in the market."
"The solution's price is mid-ranged."
"The licensing cost has been manageable for our small team."
"Compared to other tools, Elastic Security is a cheaper solution."
"The price is reasonable. It probably costs the same as ArcSight and LogRhythm SIEM. FortiSIEM might cost less than Elastic Security. There are no hidden or additional costs."
"We use the open-source version, so there is no charge for this solution."
"We are using the free, open-source version of this solution."
"Its price is fine. Its licensing works on a yearly basis. We have to renew the license every year. I also have a good experience with Darktrace. When we buy Darktrace, we get training free of cost, which is not there in Elastic. We have to pay extra for training. There is certainly room for improvement."
"The solution is free."
"Elastic Security is free to use."
"Affordable but with additional costs"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
10%
University
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Elastic Security?
Elastic provides the capability to index quickly due to the reverse indexes it offers. This data is crucial as it contains critical information. The reverse index allows fast data indexing because ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Elastic Security?
Compared to other tools, Elastic Security is a cheaper solution.
 

Also Known As

Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra, Bitdefender GravityZone
Elastic SIEM, ELK Logstash
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Mentor Graphics, Rudersdal Kommune
Texas A&M, U.S. Air Force, NuScale Power, Martin's Point Health Care
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