Blumira vs. Splunk Enterprise

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Blumira
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Blumira’s cloud SIEM platform offers both automated threat detection and response, enabling organizations of any size to more defend against cybersecurity threats in near real-time. It's goal is to ease the burden of alert fatigue, complexity of log management and lack of IT visibility.
$12
per month per employee
Splunk Enterprise
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Splunk is software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface. It captures, indexes and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations.N/A
Pricing
BlumiraSplunk Enterprise
Editions & Modules
SIEM Starter
$12
per month per employee
SIEM +
$16
per month per employee
XDR Platform
$21
per month per employee
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BlumiraSplunk Enterprise
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing is based on the total number of “employees” or knowledge workers in an organization (it does not refer to the number of users or admins with Blumira accounts). A knowledge worker is an employee with a corporate email address and workstation/device (may not include number of factory workers or students at a university).
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Community Pulse
BlumiraSplunk Enterprise
Features
BlumiraSplunk Enterprise
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
Blumira
8.8
Ratings
13% above category average
Splunk Enterprise
7.1
Ratings
8% below category average
Centralized event and log data collection10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Correlation9.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management9.00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Deployment flexibility9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools9.00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces9.00 Ratings5.90 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection9.00 Ratings4.90 Ratings
Data integration/API management9.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds9.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation8.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management8.00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching8.00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings5.90 Ratings
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User Ratings
BlumiraSplunk Enterprise
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
7.8
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BlumiraSplunk Enterprise
Likelihood to Recommend
Blumira is great for a small IT team in a small to medium sized environment. It gives you unlimited logging (no limit on the number of logs sent) and doesn't require advanced knowledge or expertise in SIEMs to get the system up and running.
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Pros: Splunk is very well suited if you have multiple log sources of related data. All of them can be correlated and tasks can be automated based on the requirement. Other than alerts, Splunk can also run a specific script of your choice, based on some defined conditions. Cons: If you have a few logs but a large number of log sources, Splunk can be very expensive.
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Pros
  • The user interface (for managing, reporting) is intuitive and is easy to use
  • The setup / onboarding process was very easy
  • Support has been wonderful (and personal)
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  • Real-time + Scheduled alerts - i-e you can set up alerts which are actively monitoring your logs
  • Pretty good response time for search results. With our key/value logging, Splunk makes it blazing fast to query the data.
  • Dashboards provide insights into historical data
  • Love how Splunk indexes all of the data and provides keys to search on
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Cons
  • We've had a few suggestions for improving some of the built-in "workflows" -- steps that we are instructed to take by Blumira for specific "findings"
  • There are a few improvements about reporting I'd like to see
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  • Even though there is a search tool as a help function, you still have to read through many documentation to find the answers you're looking for and sometimes you don't find it. The help function in Splunk could be improved to be more intuitive or have a built-in help per report, panel or dashboard.
  • Creating a Splunk dashboard is rather straightforward however, customization is not. Splunk could be improved to provide more tools or features for customization such as adding colors and font options for text and graphs or graphics.
  • My dashboard has a lot of useful information and I want the important panels and reports at the top but there is no easy way to do this. Perhaps Splunk could be improved to allow features such as adding URL links to other dashboards or some other clever way to emphasize the important data in my dashboard without compromising space.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We are using Splunk extensively in our projects and we have recently upgraded to Splunk version 6.0 which is quite efficient and giving expected results. We keep track of updates and new features Splunk introduces periodically and try to introduce those features in our day to day activities for improvement in our reporting system and other tasks.
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Usability
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Splunk Enterprise has plenty of storage space for security logs and can search and correlate suspicious activities up to 30+ days back. Splunk Enterprise can integrate with a ticketing system to track threats and correlate with IoC between security events. Splunk Enterprise can provide reports of account lockouts. Splunk Enterprise can consolidate multiple security alerts into one entry with a number showing how many events occurred.
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Reliability and Availability
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When properly setup and configured, Splunk is extremely reliable.
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Support Rating
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Splunk maintains a well resourced support system that has been consistent since we purchased the product. They help out in a timely manner and provide expert level information as needed. We typically open cases online and communicate when possible via e-mail and are able to resolve most issues with that method.
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Online Training
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The online course was simple clear and described the main capabilities of the solution. There is also an initial module that can be done for free so anyone can familiarize themselves with the functionality of this solution. On the other hand, however, there could be more free online courses. Maybe even with a certificate, this would broaden the group of people who are familiar with the platform while increasing familiarity with the solution itself.
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Implementation Rating
No answers on this topic
Smooth without too many major issues.
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Alternatives Considered
Blumira is "right-sized" for my small organization. It is not a strain on our resources (people, system, or monetary). It gives us exactly what we needed
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A lot of products have natively inside their own dashboards and or their own logging repositories. And each one is difficult to learn or they're too complex or they're not verbose in the sense that they're not easy to mine the data that you're looking for. So that could be anything from the native logging that you find in other Cisco products. It's easier to use Splunk to draw the data that you're looking for as opposed to going to the individual's products themselves to get the logs that you're looking for.
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Scalability
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Splunk can scale in to the petabyte per day range which of course is awesome
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Return on Investment
  • Now when we have a security audit or need to completed a cybersecurity insurance application, we answer "Yes" to the "Do you have a SIEM?" question.
  • It has provided awareness and visibility of events and situations on our system that we were completely blind to before.
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  • Splunk has allowed developers to diagnose production issues when access of control was taken away from them to be allowed to view items in production environments and I believe that is invaluable.
  • At times some developers weren't super happy about using it, but it was more of the fact that they were used to having production access and not creating their splunk queries to get information.
  • Going one place to view logs was very beneficial to have.
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