Splunk Enterprise Security vs. Splunk User Behavior Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Splunk Enterprise Security
Score 9.8 out of 10
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Splunk Enterprise Security is an analytics-driven SIEM that helps to combat threats with actionable intelligence and advanced analytics at scale.N/A
Splunk User Behavior Analytics
Score 5.9 out of 10
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Splunk supplies security analytics as a standalone solution or priced as an add-on for users of its popular SIEM products, to protect enterprises against unknown threats and malicious behavior, via the Splunk User Behavior Analytics application.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
Splunk Enterprise Security
8.4
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8% above category average
Splunk User Behavior Analytics
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Centralized event and log data collection9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Correlation8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Deployment flexibility8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Data integration/API management8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral analytics and baselining7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Splunk Enterprise SecuritySplunk User Behavior Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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Usability
7.5
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Availability
9.1
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Performance
8.2
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Support Rating
6.6
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9.0
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In-Person Training
9.1
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Online Training
8.2
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Implementation Rating
9.1
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Configurability
7.3
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Ease of integration
6.4
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Product Scalability
9.3
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Vendor post-sale
8.2
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Well-Suited Scenarios:
Real-Time Threat Response: ES excels in swiftly detecting and responding to security threats through data correlation.
Compliance Management: ES streamlines compliance with detailed logs and reports, ideal for regulated industries.
User Behavior Analytics: Effective in monitoring user and entity behavior, particularly for insider threat detection.
Large-Scale Environments: Valuable for organizations with diverse data sources and high volumes of data.
Incident Investigation: ES aids in post-incident analysis, reconstructing events to understand root causes.
Less Appropriate Scenarios:
Smaller Organizations: For simpler setups, ES may be complex and costly.
Static Environments: In low-risk settings, ES's advanced features may be unnecessary.
Limited Resources: Tight budgets or sparse IT resources may hinder effective ES use.
Lack of In-House Expertise: Without security experts, optimizing ES can be challenging.
Budget Constraints: ES may be cost-prohibitive for budget-conscious organizations, prompting consideration of more affordable alternatives.
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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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Pros
  • Its best feature is its user interface, which is easy to navigate and understand. All you need is a little tutorial on how to use the Splunk query language and you're done.
  • Logs can be easily uploaded or shared across multiple platforms and display a highly insightful graphical representations of data using graphs, tables, and many other formats.
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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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Cons
  • To identify User Behaviour analysis is lacking component which we get in Splunk UBA.
  • The documentation part is hard to work on because if the new user tries to learn ES then the documentation is not user-friendly.
  • ES must ass more Knowledge objects by default to make security-related aspects more reliable and enhance the details.
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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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Likelihood to Renew
We are very happy with Splunk and would advise anyone to take a serious look at it. It might look pricey but the rewards Splunk offers seem endless.
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Usability
You definitely need to learn how to use Splunk to get the most of the tool. There are many courses available for free to get up to speed on the usability of the tool but it's not that simple. It will take time to digest all the data and to understand how to query for what you are looking for.
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Reliability and Availability
I'm not an ES user, but, in my implementation I usually try to prevent all service stops to guarantee High availability to the final customers.
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Performance
ES requires a very performant infrastructure: if it has it's performant, otherwise not. I had situation with a very performant infrastructure and I didn't notized that it was a distributed architecture, it seemed that there ware few data on my PC, othewise I experienced less performant infrastructures with less performaces.
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Support Rating
It's good when it's responsive, but I've had times where I had to wait quite a while for a response. But these are typically the exceptions rather than the rule. When you do get a response it is always well-informed and appropriate. I would say they've been trending better over time with this.
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In-Person Training
I experienced only on-line training, but the trainers were very professional and competent. Maybe it could be more useful if they also have an experience in projects because sometimes they didn't have a real project experience to communicate to the students. Anyway, it was very interesting and I learned many thing that's very difficoult (or maybe impossible!) to have by myself, aven if I have more than 10 years of Splunk activity experience.
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Online Training
It was very interesting and I learned many thing that's very difficoult (or maybe impossible!) to have by myself. The only problem was that, when I worked with the Splunk Professional Services, I found some difference between the training contents and the information from PS. In addition is required a long experience on Splunk Enterprise for the data ingestion part, in other words I'm able to work with ES because I'm worling on Splunk since 11 years, otherwise I'd some problem.
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Implementation Rating
It's a fantatic product and it was very useful the presence of Splunk Professional Services for the Design Phase and the final Health Check.
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Alternatives Considered
LogRhythm is good for a team comprising mostly non-technical IT users. Unlike Splunk, it has a GUI log search and a good ticketing system. Splunk is better than Logrhythm for me as it provides me with the ultimate flexibility to write custom queries. Scalyr is a good tool and quite frankly lot faster than Splunk. However, I prefer Splunk because of its better Dashboards and panel customization abilities. Elastic is another amazing tool. It is hard to choose between the two especially because both have different sets of logs on them. I use both. Elastic for internal server logs, Splunk for everything else.
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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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Scalability
We have on prem splunk and it’s mostly east to setup, but we have issues keeping data separated between customer splunk deployments while at the same time only having to look at one SIEM to address events in every environment
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Return on Investment
  • We have a 100% success rate on all our ES implementations due to the amazing documentation and Splunk enablement on the subject.
  • Our Splunk ES business has grown 100% YoY for the last 3 years.
  • In terms of long term management and maintenance, ES has been highly stable and predictable, reducing our overhead on costly services team for ad hoc maintenance work.
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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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