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Evolven vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 29, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Evolven
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
17th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
301
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (1st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Evolven is 0.9%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 28.8%, down from 35.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

MF
Provides visualization of risk levels. However, alerting needs improvement.
Our primary use case is operational analytics. It gives insights into a changing landscape, which was not possible before. It facilitates infrastructure readiness and consistency. Provides visualization of risk levels. Alerting needs improvement. Less than one year.
Avinash Gopu. - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers good visibility into multiple environments, significantly reduces our alert volume, and speeds up our security investigations
There are limitations with Splunk not detecting all user activity, especially on mainframes and network devices. This is because Splunk relies on agents, which cannot access certain workstations. In these cases, we have to rely on application data. For example, with mainframes, manual reports are generated and sent to Splunk, limiting visibility to what's manually reported. This lack of automation for specific platforms needs improvement from Splunk. Additionally, API access is limited for other applications that rely on API calls and requests. This requires heavy customization on Splunk's end. These are the main challenges we've encountered. Monitoring multiple cloud platforms, like Azure, GCP, and AWS, with Splunk Enterprise Security presents some challenges. While Splunk provides different connectors for each provider, consolidating data from two domains across distinct cloud environments can be complex. However, leveraging pre-built templates and Splunk's data collation capabilities can help overcome these hurdles. Despite initial difficulties, I believe Splunk can effectively address this task, earning it an eight out of ten rating for its multi-cloud monitoring capabilities. While Splunk Enterprise Security offers insider threat detection capabilities, its effectiveness could be enhanced by integrating with additional tools, such as endpoint security solutions. This integrated approach is particularly crucial for financial institutions, which often require dedicated endpoint security teams. While using multiple tools is valuable, further improvements within Splunk itself are also necessary. Considering both external integration and internal development, I would rate its current insider threat detection capabilities as three out of ten. Threat detection is where Splunk falls behind. While it offers tools, other use cases require additional work. PAM is an enterprise tool that centralizes information about users, servers, and everything else. It needs real-time monitoring, which I haven't seen in any of the companies I've worked for. They only rely on Splunk for alerting, but real-time monitoring should be handled by the endpoint security team's tools. This means there's no detection or analysis at the machine or endpoint level. Additionally, threat analysis reporting is also absent.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It provides visualization of risk levels."
"It facilitates infrastructure readiness and consistency."
"The solution allows easy gathering and ingestion of the data."
"It allows us to digest the information, the data, the different data streams, so we can make decisions based upon information that we receive, and it is pretty robust."
"It's very flexible. If you look from the cloud implementation it is there. Reports are made quickly. Unlike other tools, it caters to all kinds of technical information on the front very easily. There's no need to put in any technical information. You can pull on the reports very easily, take action, and notify stakeholders."
"It definitely does help with both auditing and as well as regular monitoring. SOC does more monitoring, but ES also gives you other features that are auditing-related. The dashboards are also beneficial."
"We can easily configure things as required in relation to our use cases."
"The flexibility of the search capability is most valuable. You can use it for more than just a basic log aggregator. It is powerful in that regard."
"It gives us good visibility into multiple environments, including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid; irrespective of platform."
"I really like the user interface and how it works."
 

Cons

"Alerting needs improvement."
"It takes time to train people."
"The support and the pricing can be better"
"I would like to see an updated dashboard. The dashboard is a little out-of-date. It could be made prettier."
"I have concerns about the architecture as well since I can see it is not very well defined."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is complicated in terms of developing specific cybersecurity use cases."
"My biggest struggle with Splunk in general is memorizing all the commands. If I want to know which users have logged in between certain hours, I cannot write that query out. It would be helpful to have AI so that I can explain in simple terms what I want and then the search gives that back to me. I am waiting for that."
"Sometimes, the data does not match what we're looking for, or the tool contains incorrect data."
"The user experience could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price is comparable."
"I think that most of the log analytics solutions are expensive and I'm not sure if it's worth it."
"It can be expensive, especially the licensing costs. However, there is added value in what it can do, not just log aggregation."
"The pricing depends on the bandwidth of an organization and is good compared to some SIEM tools. IBM, for example, is quite costly. But Microsoft Sentinel is notably cheaper."
"The price of Splunk is too high for our market."
"Splunk is not free."
"It is quite expensive."
"The pricing is a little bit on the higher side, but looking at what Splunk provides us, it is reasonable."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?
It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...
How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?
Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...
 

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Aegon, Barclays, Chubb, Deloitte, DLL, HP, Huber, imshealth, ING, JPMorgan Chase, Moody's, Quintiles, Southboro Medical Group, Tullet Prebon, VSE Corporation, Western Union
Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.
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