Exabeam Fusion vs. Splunk User Behavior Analytics

As a SIEM tool for investigations, Exabeam is the best in class. The AI assigns numeric values to observed logs them presents high scores to the analyst in a simple dashboard. We can see what is a real threat and ignore so many false positives. Exabeam is the best SIEM was used from an alert fatigue perspective. The simple interface allows other teams not just InfoSec to utilize the tool; helpdesk for asset diagnoses, HR for staffing questions, etc.

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Splunk is well suited for applications with large amounts of data, and large enterprise applications. Especially if the application has interconnected modules, it helps us to analyze and monitor the application greatly.

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• Simple graphical interface
• Plan text searching, no need to know another coding language
• Very very fast response
• All saved logs up to 7 years instantly searchable
• Not cold or frozen buckets for years old logs

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• Monitor and troubleshoot for any system errors.
• Get the insights on application data sets and do some predictive analysis.

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• Improvements on top of Lucene/KQL to add more search functions.
• Stability of the overall deployment.
• Ability to run version upgrades quicker and without data ingestion problems afterward.
• More documentation and examples about the API functionality available.

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• Performance-wise, it can be improved. Queries take a long time.
• Dataset exploration - More data visualization charts can be added.

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The system is set up to run out of the box. It has a simple easy to understand the graphical interface. Exabeam designed its SIEM from the ground up to be user-friendly and intuitive. They designed it to use plain text searches so no special training is needed. You do NOT have to learn another programming language and keep up with it daily to be proficient and productive with the tool, unlike all other SIEMs we have used before. Did I mention we love Exabeam?

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The engineers working to support Exabeam are very professional and competent. They always arrive prepared for troubleshooting meetings and provide helpful input to resolve most issues without requiring excessive escalation whenever possible. Their support team is good at promptly providing parsers that can be used to enhance the product's functionality and ensure fields are all populated.

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Easier we were using Splunk Enterprise on heavy forwarder on which all the add-on were installed and were using Splunk Cloud with respect to search head and indexers stack. And with Splunk Enterprise Security premium app, we were relying on correlation rules which were throwing more number of false positive but after implementing Splunk UBA, we are now getting real-time true positive threat or incidents.

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• Reduced time to triage alerts.
• Reduced number of alerts which need escalation to senior tiers.
• The ability for analysts to quickly run playbooks for additional information and enrichment.
• Ability to retain data for longer periods for forensics purposes.
• Improved search performance compared with other SIEM solutions.

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• Fewer team members to work on real threats.
• Less time required to deal with real incidents.
• Easy to implement across the network.

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