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Over 2 years ago
Answered a question: What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Enterprise Security?
Too expensive. There are much more cost-effective and good solutions out there like ELK stack SIEM, etc
About 3 years ago
You're right Ayesha. ELK stack is not for the faint of heart. One needs strong Linux admin skills and also to understand KQL, data structures, data pipelines, etc
It is a very customizable product and if using an on-prem solution one needs to understand Sharding, Index…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: What SOC product do you recommend?
I haven't used these big-name ones like Splunk etc. but I feel they're overpriced. I think they charge an arm and a leg for each module.
The ROI justification is not there. Why not try a cheaper and robust alternative like Elasticsearch?
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: SCCM vs BigFix: what are pros and cons?
SCCM is very robust but you need more time and people to manage it.
For a company of 200 employees only can use something easier to manage such as PDQ deployment S/W. it's a lot cheaper and easier to manage.
Kumar.
Almost 4 years ago
Contributed a review of Elastic Search: Powerful, graphical, good customer support and full featured
About 4 years ago
Contributed a review of SolarWinds Security Event Manager: Easy to install and will tell you such things as Failing MS SQL Server backups (Full, Diff or Transactional) etc
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About 4 years ago
SolarWinds Security Event Manager
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Over 2 years ago
Log Management
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