Splunk Enterprise Security Reviews

• Cybersecurity defense
• Web app monitoring
• VMware monitoring
  

• Troubleshooting
• Cyber defense
  

• Drill down
• Apps
• REST API
  
• Software development kits
• Architecture
• Replication capabilities
  

• Multi-tenancy support
• Improved user interface
• Non-proprietary search language
• Different licensing model

• Log monitoring and alerts
• Looking up information 
• Dashboards for nice, fast information about various application servers.

• It is easier to find problems and exceptions.
• It is used by any factor in the firm.
• Easy dashboards creation.
• The visibility is amazing.  

• Regex for fields creation is great.
• High availability
• Easy to use in any environment.

Make it easier to include roles and user controls, as it is horrible now.

Not even Splunk's support guy, who came to our firm, could help with defining proper role management.

It is a pretty high cost solution, but if your organization has the funds, it can bring many benefits.

• Collects data from any source
• Powerful search, analysis, and visualization
• Easy to build system on any platform
• API and easily integrated search
• Action script

We have over 7000 devices in our network infrastructure for monitoring, maintenance, and performance assessment.

We achieve this by collecting data and applying the analysis.

I have used this solution for one year.

We did not encounter any issues with scalability. Everything is normal with no bugs.

It’s easy to obtain support from Splunk for technical issues. We also have enough knowledge ourselves to apply fixes.

We used to deploy Elastic Stack. The search language of Splunk is easier and friendlier than Elastic Stack. It has helped me to search quickly and easily. Based on the results, it’s easy to visualize and add results to a previously built, personal dashboard.

Licensing is free. Pricing is based on usage.

We evaluated Elastic Stack and Sumo Logic.

If you are an enterprise and you need the best service for critical business analysis, Splunk would be one of the best choices.

• Can ingest data from various data sources.
• Is very useful for organizations who are attempting to meet compliance requirements.
• Is able to fully configure and integrate various solutions into one tool and provide actionable results.

My use of Splunk at my previous place of employment improved how we functioned.

I have used Splunk for three years.

We didn’t have any stability issues.

We didn’t have any scalability issues.

During our use of Splunk, we had professional services assisting and not actual technical support. However, the professional services team was great.

Our organization did not have an established SIEM tool.

The initial setup is straightforward, depending on the level of implementation of the tool.

Take into consideration the labor costs for a dedicated Splunk developer who can craft the required queries needed for each organization. Organizations usually have their own form of implementation of each tool.

We didn’t evaluate any alternatives.

We enjoy the whole solution. It is meeting our requirements, especially the SIM solution. 

The alerts are very user-friendly.

We can easily configure things as required in relation to our use cases.

The search functionality is good. It works like Google. 

Onboarding is quite easy.

The scalability is good.

Product-wise, the performance is good. 

From the commercial point of view, they have to bring down their costs. It's a bit pricey right now. The license is quite expensive. 

Much like the SOAR platform, which has security, orchestration, and automation response, all of that should be part of the SIM solution itself. Currently, it is actually separated.  We understand that we have to integrate a SIM with a SOAR platform, however, if they could combine these two products together, that would be ideal. It would make things easy to implement and make more automation possible to avoid false-positive alerts.

We've been using the solution for the last four years. It's been a while. 

The performance is good. It's stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

The scalability of the solution is very good. If a company needs to expand, it can do so. It's easy.

The solution can be expensive. It's not cheap.

We are customers and end-users. 

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. 

We use it to do SIEM. 

It can log more logs than other solutions. It's a good way to troubleshoot problems.

Splunk is a good solution to collect more events than other solutions. It's a good solution, for me, for this reason.

Cybersecurity and infrastructure monitoring have room for improvement. 

On a scale from one to ten I would rate the initial setup a seven for its complexity. 

We also looked at AlienVault.

I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

Splunk is more efficient than other solutions but it's also more expensive. 

• SIEM
• Security information 
• Event management

The tool itself is very difficult to configure. It's great for its number of inputs, for the different types of systems devices, and things that it could collect information from. To actually make good use of it, you need a fairly dedicated team of people that have some reasonably good programming or modeling skills to be able to do the things that you need to do with it. Whereas a lot of the other tools are better packaged for that, and so require a lot less training and a lot less dedication.

What they need to do more than anything else is, they need to take a serious look at purpose-built modules like the SIEM and put a lot more effort into making them more robust. If they did that I think they would have a better chance on the market. The base tool was great, and if the organization that they're looking to sell into requires a good, solid logging solution then they would have a very good sales statement to make because you could get the logging solution you need that could give you the SIEM at the same time.

It's extremely scalable. It's a very robust solution and certainly has the capability of handling far bigger data requirements than a lot of the other tools. Generally what ends up happening with me is that my clients tend, for the most part, to be mid-tier organizations where the cost of that solution would be accompanying requirements for people just becomes way too prohibitive. Especially considering the model that they use for costing, which is based on the volume of data. Of course, they're going to put everything including the Coke machine as the ability to collect data off of it, because of course the more they can put through the tool the more money they make.

• AlienVault
• LogRhthym
• ArcSight
• QRadar

I've used a whole bunch of different solutions. For a SIEM based solution, they are more purpose-built for that function. Where Splunk is purpose-built for a general logging and data capture solution so you'd be able to capture a lot of different information.

Anything that's not out of the box requires codding. Even up until recently when they finally released their SIEM or their security add-on. Before then there was not security stuff at all. I would actually have to go in and code that within the system to able to do the necessary searches to pull that information. Where a lot of the other tools, they already have those preconfigured which means I don't have to go and recreate the wheel. Now, we finally figured that out to a certain degree, and started putting the new tool in a place that gives you some SIEM functionality.

As a logging solution, I would say it's probably an eight or nine. If you're talking about the SIEM I'd say it's probably about a five. For logging, I think they would have to change the costing model. The costing model is way out of line. It's built for very large organizations.