NetWitness Platform vs Trellix ESM comparison

NetWitness and Trellix are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. NetWitness is ranked #22 with an average rating of 7.6, while Trellix is ranked #27 with an average rating of 7.2. NetWitness holds a 0.6% mindshare in SIEM, compared to Trellix’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of NetWitness users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of Trellix users who would recommend it.

NetWitness Platform

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75% willing to recommend

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75% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

NetWitness Platform and Trellix ESM are comprehensive cybersecurity solutions. Based on user feedback, Trellix ESM is often seen as having the upper hand due to its superior feature set, making it worth the price despite higher costs.

Features: NetWitness Platform offers advanced threat detection, incident response capabilities, and a highly scalable architecture. Trellix ESM provides extensive integration options, robust analytics, and comprehensive coverage with flexible integrations.

Room for Improvement: NetWitness Platform users suggest enhancing reporting functionalities, reducing setup complexity, and improving user experience. Trellix ESM users indicate a need for stability enhancements, faster performance, and more streamlined updates.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetWitness Platform receives positive feedback for its scalable deployment models, though it has a steep learning curve. Trellix ESM is praised for its straightforward installation process and responsive customer support.

Pricing and ROI: NetWitness Platform users feel the setup costs are high but provide a strong ROI. Trellix ESM has higher upfront costs, yet users believe its advanced features offer better long-term value.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

NetWitness Platform

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

22nd

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (22nd)

Trellix ESM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

27th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of NetWitness Platform is 0.6%, down from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Trellix ESM is 0.9%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

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MdZaman

IT manager at a agriculture with 10,001+ employees

Really scalable for enterprise customers

The solution should have more integration capabilities with different platforms. The API is nearly open and scalable, so the solution can integrate with many platforms. The solution has more than 200 log sources in the scalability to support, but this is its limit. Installation is pretty easy. However, there are a couple of modules involved, so it is not as easy as it could be. We are talking about a distributed module, not a single-module type. This is what makes things a bit complex, instead of easier. I rate it as a seven out of ten on its installation and configuration capabilities.

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Daniel Durian

Senior Information Security Manager at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees

Helps to monitor and detect cyberattacks

The tool's effectiveness depends on how you define your log sources. To build visibility of incoming and outgoing traffic, you need logs from perimeter defense, firewalls, web application firewalls, and endpoint protection. With good traffic visibility, incident response time is really quick. Trellix ESM provides situation awareness. On the dashboard, I can see outbound and inbound communications to known threat hosts, IPS/IDS activity, and threat intelligence of the perimeter defense in the firewall. This information helps preempt attacks.

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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 most valuable feature is the ability to write rules and triggers for network communication, and then being able to investigate based on that."

"Possibility to investigate incidents based on logs and raw packets, such as extracting files sent over the network"

"NetWitness Platform is valuable for creating rules that the solution must detect."

"The packet capture aspect of it is a valuable feature because it is quite different from a traditional SIEM solution that only carries out investigations based on captured logs."

"Offers a good wireless feature."

"It gives the ability to investigate into network traffic in the Net and the organization what we couldn't do before."

"Alerting Module: It provides real-time event processing language on all the logs/packets stream for advanced alerting, i.e., using SQL LIKE statements."

"NetWitness Platform offers flexibility for deployment and robust integration capabilities."

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"We are now able to completely monitor our environment so we can review what is there, which is a big win for us."

"The solution's technical support is great."

"The most valuable feature for us is that it comes with many correlations, reports, and dashboards already available. It's also very easy to use."

"The most valuable features of McAfee ESM are intrusion detection, malware protection, and the device controller."

"It can be easily deployed with the other solutions."

"It is a good central viewpoint for issues. These can then be investigated in more detail on the subnet server(s)/endpoints."

"Trellix ESM is very user-friendly."

"The most valuable feature is the capability to correlate different events from different platforms that we feed into it."

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Cons

"Health monitoring of the event sources and devices."

"Log aggregation is an issue with this solution because there are a huge number of alerts in a single instance."

"The user interface is a little bit difficult for new users and it needs to be improved."

"The initial setup was complex because it takes a lot of time to complete the implementation."

"The implementation needs assistance."

"Its technical support could be better."

"Technical support could be improved."

"RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets can improve the threat level aspect, it is lacking compared to other solutions. Whenever any hacking activity or any other threat factor occurred they used to provide the coverages very fast when comparing RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets. I heard the other three solutions, from a discussion with my team members who had experience in other solutions, they used to say that. Whenever any issues happened across the globe RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets are a little bit slow improving those detection mechanisms."

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"The only drawback is that they don't have any packet capturing or network behavior analysis."

"We would welcome integrations with some of the new McAfee acquisitions, e.g., behavioural analytics."

"I would like to see fingerprint recognition included in the next release of this solution."

"There are always multiple bugs in the product. For example, the console page was hanging multiple times. Afterwards, they released multiple upgrades for the same, multiple patches from McAfee."

"It cannot integrate with our Next-Generation Firewall and few applications such as Cisco ACI."

"McAfee ESM is not user-friendly and the log is not accurate. For instance, if I were assigned to generate a log for changes made today, I wouldn't be able to see all the modifications. While Palo Alto allows us to see all changes, McAfee ESM only captures one out of every ten changes. It's crucial to have visibility into all changes made."

"Customized reports and alerting functionality could be included in the dashboard."

"The product is mature and needs little improvement, but we could enhance the customized dashboarding based on use cases."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have yearly licensing costs. The license fee can be based on the volume of EPS. Some organizations may have, as a gentlemanly gesture, 10,000 EPS and get a 3,000 EPS license but actually use 5,000 EPS."

"It provides tools to assist in selecting the appropriate license and usage scenarios."

"The product is expensive."

"Many clients are not able to purchase the packet capability because there is a huge amount of data, and the cost depends on the number of EPS (Events per second), as well as the number of gigabytes of data per day."

"There is a licensing fee and the customer can choose whether he wishes this to be subscription-based or perpetual."

"The new pricing and licensing mechanisms are fair. I would advise always to get the full solution (i.e., not only Logs)."

"The licenses are good but the cost is very expensive."

"It’s cheaper to run virtual machines in a VMware environment."

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"McAfee is the right choice for a low-budget solution."

"Regarding pricing, Trellix ESM is not that expensive. It's less than half the cost of IBM QRadar."

"The cost is all included. The finance department handles the financial part, and we mostly don't get involved in it."

"The cost is dependent on the customer's environment and requirements."

"The product is slightly expensive."

"When compared to IBM Security QRadar and other similar platforms, the pricing of McAfee ESM is reasonable and comparatively less expensive."

"The pricing is fair."

"The price is good. It's moderate. We follow a pay-as-you-go model. There are different models available, and they can also be monthly. You can choose monthly or yearly. It's very flexible. If our existing customers exceed the current plan, you can just call McAfee and get it extended."

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Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at Deloitte & Touche

Feb 26, 2015

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about NetWitness Platform?

The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult.

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

The pricing is comparable to others, and I consider the cost to be intermediate. Specific cost details are unknown to me.

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What needs improvement with NetWitness Platform?

There is currently no need for improvement in the SIEM ( /categories/security-information-and-event-management-siem ), though there could be potential enhancements by integrating with AI.

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What do you like most about McAfee ESM?

The solution's technical support is great.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for McAfee ESM?

Regarding pricing, Trellix ESM is not that expensive. It's less than half the cost of IBM QRadar.

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What needs improvement with McAfee ESM?

The product is mature and needs little improvement, but we could enhance the customized dashboarding based on use cases.

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Comparisons

Splunk Enterprise Security vs NetWitness Platform

Compared 27% of the time

IBM Security QRadar vs NetWitness Platform

Compared 16% of the time

Elastic Security vs NetWitness Platform

Compared 13% of the time

Trellix Network Detection and Response vs NetWitness Platform

Compared 11% of the time

RSA enVision vs NetWitness Platform

Compared 10% of the time

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ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) vs Trellix ESM

Compared 26% of the time

Splunk Enterprise Security vs Trellix ESM

Compared 19% of the time

LogRhythm SIEM vs Trellix ESM

Compared 16% of the time

IBM Security QRadar vs Trellix ESM

Compared 11% of the time

Fortinet FortiSIEM vs Trellix ESM

Compared 11% of the time

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Also Known As

RSA Security Analytics

McAfee ESM, NitroSecurity, McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Overview

NetWitness Platform is an evolved SIEM and threat detection and response solution that functions as a single, unified platform for ALL your security data. It features an advanced analyst workbench for triaging alerts and incidents, and it orchestrates security operations programs end to end. In short: NetWitness Platform is all you need to run an intelligent SOC.

NetWitness

Make your organization more resilient and confident with Trellix Security Operations. Filter out the noise and cut complexity to deliver faster, more effective SecOps. Integrate your existing security tools and connect with over 650 Trellix solutions and third-party products.

Trellix

Sample Customers

Los Angeles World Airports, Reply

San Francisco Police Credit Union, Wªstenrot Gruppe, Volusion, California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, Government of New Brunswick, State of Colorado, Macquarie Telecom, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Cologne Bonn Airport

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