Exabeam vs Splunk SOAR comparison

Exabeam and Splunk are both solutions in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category. Exabeam is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.6, while Splunk is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.1. Exabeam holds a 1.8% mindshare in SOAR, compared to Splunk’s 8.3% mindshare. Additionally, 72% of Exabeam users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 8, 2024

Splunk SOAR and Exabeam compete in the cybersecurity automation and analytics category. Splunk SOAR appears to have the upper hand with its robust automation and integration capabilities, particularly valuable in reducing incident response times.

Features: Splunk SOAR provides robust automation, extensive integration options, and customizable playbooks, making it efficient in workflow automation. Exabeam excels in advanced analytics, user behavior analysis, and intuitive AI capabilities that support effective threat detection.

Room for Improvement: Splunk SOAR needs better integration with non-Splunk data sources, improved case management customization, and a more user-friendly playbook editor. Exabeam requires enhancements in system adaptability, better integration with cloud environments, and reduced false positives.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Splunk SOAR offers flexible deployment through private, public, and hybrid clouds with generally responsive technical support. Exabeam provides both on-premises and cloud deployment, with mixed feedback on technical support effectiveness.

Pricing and ROI: Splunk SOAR is seen as expensive but provides a strong ROI due to its automation capabilities. Exabeam's pricing is reasonable, offering a flexible model that delivers cost-effective operations and a significant ROI through tool consolidation.

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Categories and Ranking

Exabeam

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

7th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (14th), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (2nd), Security Incident Response (6th), Threat Intelligence Platforms (7th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (9th)

Splunk SOAR

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category, the mindshare of Exabeam is 1.8%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk SOAR is 8.3%, down from 9.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

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Stephen-Armstrong

Cyber Security Analyst at Capgemini

The SIEM provides a user-friendly UI experience

When events come into the system, the dashboard categorizes them by the highest risk score, not when they appear on the system. When you've got multiple ongoing incidents you can only see the highest risk score at the top of the list rather than the most recent detection. Exabeam's reporting dashboard could have included a filtering option to filter by the most recent detection.

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Shubham Sinha.

Senior Principal Information Security Analyst at Veritas Technologies LLC

Helped eliminate repetitive and redundant tasks, but custom functions and reporting need a lot of work

The visibility of the solution’s playbook viewer depends on the right you assign to the analyst. SOAR has the flexibility to distinguish between the roles of analyst and owner. If the analyst's role is to just work on a ticket, they cannot view the playbook design platform. That is limited to the owner. That can be both a good and bad thing. A major problem I have faced in SOAR's rights distribution is roles and responsibilities. Suppose I am initially granted user rights or analyst rights, but later on, I also get admin rights. SOAR is unable to amend the limitations of my role. I raised a support ticket with Splunk about this. They said it's a bug in their 5.3.5 version. To fix this, I had to reinstall the entire platform from scratch, just to amend the rights and responsibilities of one role. This bug was not fixed. Also, the latest GUI is terrible. The previous one was better. Another point is that while using Splunk SOAR in an investigation is not difficult, there are some complex parameters. We have SOAR case management, but the licensing is going to put a big hole in your pocket. Also, there is an issue with investigation node addition. When you are doing node additions you cannot grant the entire environment to have SOAR visibility into the incident. So when you integrate it with an ITSM tool, like ServiceNow or Jira for ticketing purposes, there is a challenge. When you do nodes for investigation on a regular basis, sometimes it does not update our ServiceNow platform, which is terrible. It is a redundant activity for an analyst to update that in the case management as well as in the ITSM tool. Although SOAR provides integration, the functionality of investigation and nodes is terrible when it comes to integration. An additional area for improvement is custom function creation. It's terrible. A newbie cannot create custom functions right away. They would require a solid understanding first. Also, the reporting is really awful. If I want to do a report for a customized time period, such as the last three days or the last four days, or from the 10th to the 12th of June, that is not available in SOAR at all. That kind of feature is available in Cortex XSOAR. Reporting is a real challenge.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The way it can connect with AWS is very useful, and the integrations are pretty good."

"The advanced analytics has a really great overview of user behavior."

"The most valuable feature of Exabeam is the timeline creation based on log sources, which helps in security investigations."

"The UI was very clean."

"The ThreatHunter in Advanced Analytics is the most valuable. It helps analyze compromised assets and provides analysis for any entity within my client's environment."

"The solution's automation capabilities are great."

"The setup is not difficult. It was easy."

"Exabeam is very easy to use, with a straightforward platform and workflow, unlike other tools that require more expertise."

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"The most valuable features of Splunk SOAR are the easy integration with other solutions, including other Splunk solutions. The most important playbooks we need on the market come already on the Frontend. However, nowadays, Splunk changed its name, it's not Frontend anymore, it's Splunk Store. This is a very strong point."

"Splunk has many features that make work easier, and it's simple to implement in a large production environment. Splunk collects a massive amount of data from cloud servers and handles it perfectly."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the playbook automation just because it allows us to reduce the manual actions that SOC has to handle."

"The most valuable feature is the API connector, depending on how it's formatted and who made the actual app offering for it. The REST API is my favorite component. It's very easy to use. The filters are also really valuable. Those are the two primary features but I enjoy using the rest of it."

"When you design a playbook, you can integrate multiple log sources and define rules... After that, the platform automatically compiles all these activities and, based on the results, the analyst only has to indicate whether the result is a true or false positive. That reduces the time and effort involved."

"Workflow management is most valuable. It is easily customizable"

"It has definitely saved a decent amount of time for our analysts so they can focus on other tasks."

"The customization continues to be excellent."

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Cons

"Exabeam needs to improve its adaptive nature towards rules and its capability to understand the entire client environment faster."

"Exabeam needs to improve its documentation and provide more customization for dashboards and case management."

"They should provide detailed information about detecting phishing emails."

"We still have questions surrounding hardware deployment."

"One area that needs improvement is interacting with Exabeam's API. There was a headache regarding the API; the documentation wasn't clear, and the syntax wasn't very precise."

"The only problem is that the UI is not very impressive."

"Exabeam should be a bit faster, especially in loading and vulnerability scanning."

"The organzation is rigid and not flexible in the way they operate"

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"We want to see improvements made to the APIs such that we can connect to many different systems and data sources."

"Creating playbooks using the solution’s playbook editor, for me, is very cumbersome. There have been instances where I have said to myself that I just don't want to use this editor. I might just use a code block and write my own code within it... The functionality in the playbook editor is 80 percent there, but that 20 percent is still lacking. They could make it more efficient."

"Various aspects of the playbook development process itself can be optimized."

"It would be ideal for us if Splunk SOAR could integrate with Teams."

"I haven't used it fully, but based on my usage, I could not find simulation tools and features. It currently lacks simulation features, which are important for me for creating a playbook. It is also very expensive for my region."

"The application does not work properly and does not pass the log-based configuration. I feel that some kind of review should happen in the application. This review should validate things so that we can get the right information. Splunk does not tell us where the IP address is associated with."

"The font used in the interface could be changed and made easier to read."

"We've had trouble implementing the solution with Microsoft products. There seems to be an integration gap."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."

"Exabeam Fusion SIEM's pricing is reasonable."

"There is an annual license required to use Exabeam Fusion SIEM. The price of the solution should be reduced."

"They have a great model for pricing that can be based either on user count or gigabits per day."

"Exabeam is not a cheap solution."

"The platform is not extremely expensive compared to its direct competitors; I would rate its pricing around six out of ten."

"I don't know the exact price, but for my region, it is very expensive."

"The licensing cost is reasonable."

"We renewed it this year. This year was the first time there was a dramatic increase in the price. It was kind of non-negotiable. It was just a high increase. We had internal communications, and it was definitely a surprise to us. In a short time frame, we renewed it this year. Prices are going up everywhere, but they are not always justifiable, at least not to our eyes. The pricing this year was definitely a big shock."

"It's very overpriced because it is based on the number of users. There is no bulk licensing."

"In my opinion, the price is high, but if you want good products, you have to be willing to pay for them."

"Splunk SOAR is more expensive compared to other options for SOAR."

"I found the price of Splunk SOAR to be good."

"The cost is high and the licensing is on an annual basis."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Government

10%

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Questions from the Community

What are the biggest differences between Securonix UEBA, Exabeam, and IBM QRadar?

It mostly depends on your use-cases and environment. Exabeam and Securonix have a stronger UEBA feature set, friendlier GUI and are not licensed based on capacity (amount of logs and information in...

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What do you like most about Exabeam Fusion SIEM?

The solution's initial setup process is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Exabeam Fusion SIEM?

I do not have much information about the pricing. However, I am aware that Exabeam is cheaper than Palo Alto based on discussions in meetings.

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What do you like most about Splunk Phantom?

Splunk SOAR's quick response to incidents is the most valuable part.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Phantom?

I rate Splunk SOAR two out of 10 for affordability. Splunk is a fast enterprise tool, but it costs too much. At the same time, it's worth what we pay, in my opinion. We can efficiently perform all ...

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What needs improvement with Splunk Phantom?

The dashboard could be improved and some other features. SOAR should integrate network capabilities, allowing us to also monitor the WLAN network. Splunk is also expensive and difficult for beginne...

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Overview

Exabeam Fusion is a cloud-delivered solution that that enables you to:

-Leverage turnkey threat detection, investigation, and response
-Collect, search and enhance data from anywhere
-Detect threats missed by other tools, using market-leading behavior analytics
-Achieve successful SecOps outcomes with prescriptive, threat-centric use case packages
-Enhance productivity and reduce response times with automation
-Meet regulatory compliance and audit requirements with ease

Splunk SOAR offers features like automation and orchestration of manual tasks, speeding up work, detection and response to advanced and emerging threats.

Go from overwhelmed to in-control

Automate manual tasks. Address every alert, every day. Establish repeatable procedures that allow security analysts to stop being reactive and focus on mission-critical objectives to protect your business.

Force multiply your team

Orchestrate and automate repetitive tasks, investigation and response to increase efficiency and productivity, and do more with the people you already have. Make a team of three feel like a team of 10.

From 30 minutes to 30 seconds

Work faster with Splunk SOAR. Respond to threats in seconds. Lower your mean time to respond (MTTR) by automating security tasks and workflows across all of your security tools.

End-to-end security operations made easy

Take advantage of Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk SOAR joining forces to provide a seamless and intuitive SecOps platform to prevent, detect and respond to advanced and emerging threats.

Sample Customers

Hulu, ADP, Safeway, BBCN Bank

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