McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator vs NetWitness NDR comparison

McAfee and NetWitness are both solutions in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category. McAfee is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.8, while NetWitness is ranked #22 with an average rating of 7.5. McAfee holds a 0.6% mindshare in SOAR, compared to NetWitness’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 81% of McAfee users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of NetWitness users who would recommend it.

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

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81% willing to recommend

NetWitness NDR

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87% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and NetWitness NDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator vs. NetWitness NDR Report (Updated: September 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetWitness NDR

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

22nd

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (53rd), Threat Intelligence Platforms (24th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (50th), Network Detection and Response (NDR) (15th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (28th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2024, in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category, the mindshare of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is 0.6%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetWitness NDR is 0.3%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

JohnBlack

Founder and CEO at Offset3, LLC

Feb 5, 2024

Provides our customers alerts to system-wide events from a single view

I worked at McAfee, and we deployed the solution for our customers. The primary use case is policy management, as the solution supports robust policy management. The customer deployments were on-premises McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator significantly streamlines policy management and compliance…

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SupravatMaji

Associate Vice President - IT Security at Inspira Enterprise

Jun 23, 2022

Beneficial single unified dashboard, good native application integration, and high availability

The most valuable feature of RSA NetWitness Network is the single unified dashboard from which you can manage all the different products of RSA. Additionally, the integration with native applications is good RSA NetWitness Network could improve on integration with non-native application…

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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

"The graphical interface of the solution is its most valuable aspect."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the central management console, which is used for DLP, endpoint security, drive encryption, and application control."

"The general endpoint protection is valuable, and it is easy to manage."

"Their support is really good. I would rate it a nine out of ten. I have never any issues with their support. They always reply and follow our queries on time."

"I really like the auditing component because it really looks at exactly what has happened on the network."

"The valuable feature of the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is the management of the policies."

"The best part is management in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator."

"The solution's best part is that it is very easy to manage McAfee Agent."

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"The stability of the RSA NetWitness Endpoint is very good."

"It is very easy to use, and its usability is great. The use cases are also very easy. The visualizations of the use cases are magnificent. You cannot find this in any other solution. From my point of view, it is great."

"It's a scalable solution. We have around five to eight customers using RSA NetWitness Endpoint, and we hope to increase the number of users."

"Technical support is knowledgeable."

"The most valuable feature is the way it captures the traffic, and it contains every detail of the communication."

"The most valuable feature of RSA NetWitness Network is the single unified dashboard from which you can manage all the different products of RSA. Additionally, the integration with native applications is good."

"It helps our security team respond more accurately when there are threats, then we get less false positives or negatives."

"It is stable. We have been using it for some time, without any issues."

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Cons

"One thing that I don't like is that McAfee products change very often and upgrade very often."

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

"I would like to see McAfee reduce the amount of manual work required."

"The solution is difficult to tune to avoid false positives."

"There needs to be support for Mac computers. Currently, McAfee does not work on iOS."

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

"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator needs to upgrade its technology since the solution's EDR function is not good compared to other vendors in the market."

"The impact of the agent on the endpoint's performance - the resources it takes. Additionally, the difficulties we experience with inheriting and breaking inheritance on the organization's structure breakdown for policy inheritance and then for rules inheritance. We are actually struggling with this."

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"NetWitness Endpoint's blocking feature does not work properly - if there's a malicious process, it's not possible to kill it via a custom rule unless and until it's flagged as malicious."

"The deployment process is complex. I don't know why, but this solution will suddenly stop working. Logs stop coming. Often, one thing or another stops working. Most of the time, one of my team members is working with troubleshooting and working with technical support. Log passing is also one of the biggest challenge."

"The solution lacks a reporting engine."

"We would like to see the hunting and investigation features of this solution improved, in order to provide better visibility of issues."

"I would like to see Security Orchestration and Response Automation (SOAR) integration."

"Threat detection could be better."

"When analyzing something, you have to click several times. It requires a lot of effort to find something."

"The integration of the solution needs to be improved. The dashboard needs lots of updates as well. In the next release, we would like to see advanced fraud detection features."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"$The price of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is expensive, it is approximately $6,000 to $9,000 per license annually."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is not an expensive solution."

"It's an expensive solution"

"For large enterprise companies, the price should be alright, but for small businesses, the uptake might be slow because, for these clients, the price doesn't look very attractive."

"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 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."

"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."

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"NetWitness Endpoint is less costly than its competitors, but it offers fewer features."

"They can easily adjust if you have the requirements which are required. If you have a budget cut or a budget constraint, they can bend."

"The cost depends on the number of endpoints that you want to monitor, but it is not expensive."

"It is highly scalable. It can be bought based on your requirements."

"I do not have any opinion on the pricing or licensing of the product."

"We are on a three-year contract to use RSA NetWitness Network."

"The pricing is not very economical. It is a quite costly product for India. One thing is that when you purchase it, you have to purchase a module separately."

"With RSA, there is flexibility in choosing the service, products, and the range that meets your requirement, as well as they are flexible in terms of pricing."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

13%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator?

I do not have exact pricing details, however, I would rate the price at a four out of ten overall. There may be some extra costs for support if you get it from a partner.

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What do you like most about NetWitness XDR?

Technical support is knowledgeable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetWitness XDR?

The solution is expensive. I'd rate it at a one or two out of five. They need to adjust it to keep up with the competition. I cannot speak to the exact pricing of the product.

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What needs improvement with NetWitness XDR?

I have no real complaints about the solution. Threat detection could be better. They need to enhance their threat intelligence feeds. We would like to have more IOCs or more trade intelligence to n...

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Also Known As

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

RSA ECAT, NetWitness Network

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Overview

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.

Using a centralized combination of network and endpoint analysis, behavioral analysis, data science techniques and threat intelligence, NetWitness NDR helps analysts detect and resolve known and unknown attacks while automating and orchestrating the incident response lifecycle. With these capabilities on one platform, security teams can collapse disparate tools and data into a powerful, blazingly fast user interface.

Sample Customers

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

ADP, Ameritas, Partners Healthcare

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