Snare and syslog-ng are both solutions in the log management field. Syslog-ng appears to have the upper hand due to its superior feature set, making it preferred despite its higher pricing.
Features: Snare is known for simplicity and ease of integration. It efficiently collects Windows event logs and requires minimal configuration. Syslog-ng provides comprehensive log analysis, a broad range of options, and adaptability across different system environments.
Room for Improvement: Snare could benefit from enhanced advanced filtering and real-time analytics, along with more customization options. Syslog-ng users seek better documentation, clearer configuration guidelines, and improvements for complex scenarios.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Snare is easy to deploy due to minimal configuration and responsive customer service. Syslog-ng, although complex in setup, benefits from supportive and knowledgeable customer service throughout deployment.
Pricing and ROI: Snare is affordable with favorable ROI, attracting budget-conscious users. Syslog-ng, while initially more costly, provides significant long-term value and improved operational outcomes, justifying the expense.
Snare customers consistently tell us that as the financial and reputational consequences of data breaches, cyber threats like malware and ransomware and the constant risks from insider threats increase that they have urgent and ongoing requirements for maintaining regulatory compliance, auditing and managing cyber threat detection and response. They also tell us that existing solutions like SIEM are often complex to implement and maintain, require specialised technical resources or are increasingly unaffordable or variable in their pricing. As a result of these increased requirements Prophecy International has created the Snare product suite.
Compliance requirements can include any number of regulatory mandates including PCI-DSS, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, NERC, GDPR and more. This makes Snare a high value solution for companies in the Government, Defence and Military sectors, Banking, Finance and Insurance, Retail, Health, Energy, Oil & Gas markets.
Snare is a complete suite of Centralised Log Management (CLM), Security Analytics and SIEM tools.
Created by ex military personnel for military use it offers the highest level of security.
Designed to work as part of your security ecosystem Snare also integrates with most other SIEMs including SPLUNK, QRadar, ARCSight and many more. With over 3,000 customers worldwide using Snare for compliance, auditing and threat response, Snare is the name you can trust.
From Enterprise Agents for Windows, Unix, Linux, OSX, Flat files and Databases to a complete forensics and long term log storage platform, agent management console, multipoint log reflector, advanced log analytics and next gen SIEM capability. Either hosted or on prem with both Opex and Capex pricing models, Snare is a one stop shop for CLM and SIEM. Snare product suite is broadly split into two areas:
Centralised Log Management incorporates and 4 core technologies
Snare Analytics incorporates another 4 core technologies
These products can be bought independently or combined into a compete solution. You can also “mix and match” with your current security technologies ensuring that you can leverage your existing investments.
Optimizing SIEM
syslog-ng is the log management solution that improves the performance of your SIEM solution by reducing the amount and improving the quality of data feeding your SIEM.
Rapid search and troubleshooting
With syslog-ng Store Box, you can find the answer. Search billions of logs in seconds using full text queries with Boolean operators to pinpoint critical logs.
Meeting compliance requirements
syslog-ng Store Box provides secure, tamper-proof storage and custom reporting to demonstrate compliance.
Big data ingestion
syslog-ng can deliver data from a wide variety of sources to Hadoop, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and Kafka as well as many others.
Universal log collection and routing
syslog-ng flexibly routes log data from X sources to Y destinations. Instead of deploying multiple agents on hosts, organizations can unify their log data collection and management.
Secure data archive
syslog-ng Store Box provides automated archiving, tamper-proof encrypted storage, granular access controls to protect log data. The largest appliance can store up to 10TB of raw logs.
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