Elastic Security vs McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator comparison

Elastic and McAfee are both solutions in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category. Elastic is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.7, while McAfee is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.3. Elastic holds a 5.0% mindshare in SOAR, compared to McAfee’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Elastic users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 81% of McAfee users who would recommend it.

Elastic Security

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86% willing to recommend

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

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81% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and Elastic Security are competitors in the cybersecurity space. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator leads in attractive pricing and support, while Elastic Security is preferred for its comprehensive feature set.

Features: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator offers centralized management capabilities, integration with numerous third-party products, and straightforward deployment. Elastic Security provides advanced threat detection, a supportive open-source community, and high scalability.

Room for Improvement: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator could enhance its flexibility and depth in threat detection. Elastic Security could benefit from simplifying deployment processes, optimizing cost-effectiveness, and improving initial user support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is known for its easy deployment and strong customer support, ideal for quick implementation needs. Elastic Security offers a complex deployment process but has extensive online resources and community support.

Pricing and ROI: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is cost-effective with low setup costs, offering a good ROI for budget-sensitive businesses. Elastic Security, although more expensive, provides a strong long-term ROI for organizations requiring flexible and comprehensive security solutions.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Elastic Security

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

6th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (7th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (5th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (16th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (8th)

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category, the mindshare of Elastic Security is 5.0%, down from 5.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is 0.6%, down from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Nikhil-Kumar

Assistant Manager - IT Security at Photon inc

Customizable with great dashboards but the premium support is poor

The initial setup can be complex if you don't have technical knowledge. However, once it is deployed, it works well. I'm not sure how long it took to deploy. I wasn't there when it was set up and configured. We have an internal team that handles deployment and maintenance. It doesn't require too many people to deploy. Five or six people would be enough. However, for 24/7 monitoring, you need to have someone always on it.

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DavidJones7

Head of Content at Pharmaflow

Offers automation alert features with easy integrations and impressive scalability

I would rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. There are a few technical challenges with the deployment, but it can easily solved by an experienced professional but not by a beginner user of the tool. The complete implementation and migration to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator will take around three months. If someone is using a software platform already with implemented use cases in their environment, it might be difficult to implement the same use cases when the customer is migrating to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator. The conditions and prior alert settings needs to be accurate when migrating to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, otherwise false positive alerts might get generated.

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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

"I can look at events from more than one source across multiple different locations and find patterns or anomalies. The machine learning capabilities are helpful, and I can create rules for notifications to be more proactive rather than responding after something has gone wrong."

"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."

"I use the stack every morning to check the errors and it's just so clear. I don't see any disadvantage to using Logstash."

"Enables monitoring of application performance and the ability to predict behaviors."

"The performance is good and it is faster than IBM QRadar."

"Elastic Security is a highly flexible platform that can be implemented anywhere."

"The solution's most valuable features are anomaly detection and connectivity reporting."

"We chose the product based on the ability to scan for malware using a malware behavioral model as opposed to just a traditional hash-based antivirus. Therefore, it's not as intensive."

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"Application control and traffic encryption are the most valuable features."

"It is a scalable solution...I rate its scalability a nine out of ten."

"McAfee is helping us to clean all of the viruses from the machines, protecting our desktops from the latest threats."

"From a single dashboard, I can take a look at several things including the endpoint protection, the file integrity section, the data activity monitor, and more."

"Technical support is very helpful."

"The DLP feature in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is good."

"We get fewer false positives than with other solutions."

"We implemented data transfer protection, which allows transfer in one direction only. Users can copy from the PC to the USB but not from the USB to the PC. That way, if someone is carrying a virus on a USB, it will not be transferred to the PC."

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Cons

"Elastic Security could improve the documentation. It would help if they were more simple and clean."

"Authentication is not a default in Kibana. We need to have another tool to have authentication and authorization. These two should be part of Kibana."

"I think because we are a cybersecurity company, the thing that can be improved is the prebuilt tools, especially quality. Compared to its competitor, they still have fewer prebuilt security rules. Elastic Security, in terms of generating alerts, cannot group the same products into one another. Even though the alerts are the same, they still generate them one by one. So, it is very noisy in our dashboard. I would like the Elastic Security admin to group all the same alarms into one alarm so that our dashboard is not noisy."

"It is difficult to anticipate and understand the space utilization, so more clarity there would be great."

"This type of monitoring is not very mature just yet. We need more real-time information in a way that's easier to manage."

"The tool needs to integrate with legacy servers. Big companies can have legacy servers that may not always be updated."

"With Elastic, you have to build the use cases for the specific requirement. Other products have a simple integration and more use cases to integrate out-of-the-box solutions for SIEM."

"If you compare this with CrowdStrike or Carbon Black, they can improve."

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"The detection aspect should be improved so that signatures are updated more quickly."

"The areas of concern where improvements are needed are related to the product's assignment policy and tag assignment, where users can assign the policies with the help of tags and sort out the systems."

"Lacks a single plug-in for multiple uses."

"It would be highly beneficial if the metrics or dashboards could be customized"

"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator needs to upgrade the technology; it's like their area function is not quite as good as compared to other market vendors."

"There is a problem when it comes to agent communication and duplicate records, where the rebooting of a machine leads to the installation of a new agent and you get a lot of duplicate records that ultimately affect your compliance monitoring."

"The issues with the integration capabilities of the product, specifically the ones that are deployed on an on-premises model, need to be improved."

"The solution sometimes has some false positives on IP addresses, from the web control aspect of the product. This needs to be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's a monthly cost with Elastic SIEM, but I am not sure of the exact cost."

"I can say that the product is cheaply priced."

"We are using the free, open-source version of this solution."

"The solution is not expensive and costs around ten dollars a month."

"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."

"Affordable but with additional costs"

"The pricing is in the middle. I think it is not an expensive experience if we compare it with big names, for example, QRadar, and also Oxide. I think Elastic Security is quite cheap. I would rate the pricing of this solution a five out of ten."

"The solution is free."

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"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is a cheaply priced product, meaning it is not expensive since McAfee provides a free version of ePO, which includes phone support as well."

"Compared to other Antivirus products, the cost of this solution is a bit high."

"It is attractively priced. It is a fraction of what we're going to pay for CrowdStrike or SentinelOne, but it only has a fraction of the capabilities as well."

"It's an expensive solution"

"This solution is priced in the mid-range."

"McAfee tries to package different things into different products, then sell them as different products with different licenses. They just split everything up into multiple things. That's just their sales pitch and how they do it."

"There is a license required to use this solution. If we use the additional components, such as DLP encryption, there is an additional cost. However, it is similar to a separate product altogether. If you want to use that or not, it is optional, but when you use it, it will cost you additional pricing."

"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is not an expensive solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Government

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

University

Government

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

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With Datadog, we have near-live visibility across our entire platform. We have seen APM metrics impacted several times lately using the dashboards we have created with Datadog; they are very good c...

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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 ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Elastic Security?

Elastic Security is considered cost-effective, especially at lower EPS levels. However, a direct comparison was not made due to different pricing structures.

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Which is better - Mcafee's MVision ePO or ePolicy Orchestrator?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Mcafee's MVision ePO or ePolicy Orchestrator network security software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Mcafee's ePolicy O...

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What do you like most about McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator?

I like the solution's feasibility. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is also better and easier to use than other ePOs.

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What needs improvement with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator?

The installation process is quite difficult and requires technical support.

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Also Known As

Elastic SIEM, ELK Logstash

McAfee ePO, ePolicy Orchestrator, Intel Security ePolicy Orchestrator, McAfee MVISION ePO

Overview

Elastic Security is a robust, open-source security solution designed to offer integrated threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities across an organization's entire digital estate. Part of the Elastic Stack (which includes Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), Elastic Security leverages the power of search, analytics, and data aggregation to provide real-time insight into threats and vulnerabilities. It is a comprehensive platform that supports a wide range of security needs, from endpoint protection to cloud and network security, making it a versatile choice for organizations looking to enhance their cybersecurity posture.

Elastic Security combines the features of a security information and event management (SIEM) system with endpoint protection, allowing organizations to detect, investigate, and respond to threats in real time. This unified approach helps reduce complexity and improve the efficiency of security operations.

Additional offerings and benefits:

The platform utilizes advanced analytics, machine learning algorithms, and anomaly detection to identify threats and suspicious activities.
It offers extensive integration options with other tools and platforms, facilitating a more cohesive and comprehensive security ecosystem.
With Kibana, users gain access to powerful visualization tools and dashboards that provide real-time insight into security data.

Finally, Elastic Security benefits from a global community of users who contribute to its threat intelligence, helping to enhance its detection capabilities. This collaborative approach ensures that the solution remains on the cutting edge of cybersecurity, with up-to-date information on the latest threats and vulnerabilities.

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McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) is the most advanced, extensible, and scalable centralized security management software in the industry. Unifying security management through an open platform, McAfee ePO makes risk and compliance management simpler and more successful for organizations of all sizes.

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Sample Customers

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

Brelje & Race, Cognizant, Sutherland Global Services, Eagle Rock Energy, Arab National Bank, Bank Central Asia, Kleberg Bank, Leading Mexican Bank, SF Police Credit Union, Macquarie Telecom, Seagate Technology, Blackburn & Darwen Council, California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, IRCEP, Major U.S. State Government, State of Alaska, State of Colorado, Cemex, Deutsche Edelstahlwerke

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