We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Trellix ESM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ability of all these solutions to work together natively is essential. We have an Azure subscription, including Log Analytics. This feature automatically acts as one of the security baselines and detects recommendations because it also integrates with Defender. We can pull the sysadmin logs from Azure. It's all seamless and native."
"I like the ability to run custom KQL queries. I don't know if that feature is specific to Sentinel. As far as I know, they are using technology built into Azure's Log Analytics app. Sentinel integrates with that, and we use this functionality heavily."
"The scalability is great. You can put unlimited logs in, as long as you can pay for it. There are commitment tiers, up to six terabytes per day, which is nowhere close to what any one of our customers is running."
"The standout feature of Sentinel is that, because it's cloud-based and because it's from Microsoft, it integrates really well with all the other Microsoft products. It's really simple to set up and get going."
"Sentinel is a Microsoft product, so they provide very robust use cases and analytic groups, which are very beneficial for the security team. I also like the ability to integrate data sources into the software for on-premise and cloud-based solutions."
"The best functionality that you can get from Azure Sentinel is the SOAR capability. So, you can estimate any type of activity, such as when an alert was triggered or an incident was found."
"Sentinel is a SIEM and SOAR tool, so its automation is the best feature; we can reduce human interaction, freeing up our human resources."
"Sentinel uses Azure Logic Apps for automation, which is really powerful. This allows us to easily automate responses to incidents."
"I can look at events from more than one source across multiple different locations and find patterns or anomalies. The machine learning capabilities are helpful, and I can create rules for notifications to be more proactive rather than responding after something has gone wrong."
"The most valuable feature is the search function, which allows me to go directly to the target to see the specific line a customer is searching for."
"The cost is reasonable. It's not overly pricey."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"The most valuable feature for me is Discover."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. We are in Indonesia, more engineers understand Elastic Security here. So it is easier to scale and also develop. In features, the discovery to query all the logs is very important to us. It is very easy, especially with the query function and the feature to generate alerts and create tools. Sometimes we use the alert security dashboard to monitor our clients."
"It's a good platform and the very best in the current market. We looked at the Forester report from December 2022 where it was said to be a leader."
"I rate the tool's deployment an eight out of ten. The deployment is completed in two days."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to correlate different events from different platforms that we feed into it."
"It is easy to use."
"The solution is 100% stable. We really have had a great time working with it. It hasn't let us down."
"The most valuable feature is for the security operation center because it provides visibility of all traffic within the company infrastructure."
"The solution's technical support is great."
"The product’s most valuable feature is log monitoring."
"I like the ease of deployment."
"The only thing is sometimes you can have a false positive."
"I would like to be able to monitor applications outside of the Azure Cloud."
"Everyone has their favorites. There is always room for improvement, and everybody will say, "I wish you could do this for me or that for me." It is a personal thing based on how you use the tool. I do not necessarily have those thoughts, and they are probably not really valuable because they are unique to the context of the user, but broadly, where it can continue to improve is by adding more connectors to more systems."
"Add more out-of-the-box connectors with other SaaS platforms/applications."
"There is room for improvement in entity behavior and the integration site."
"The built-in SOAR is not really good out-of-the-box. The SOAR relies on logic apps and you almost need to have some kind of developer background to be able to make these logic apps. Most security people cannot develop anything..."
"Sentinel should be improved with more connectors. At the moment, it only covers a few vendors. If I remember correctly, only 100 products are supported natively in Sentinel, although you can connect them with syslog. But Microsoft should increase the number of native connectors to get logs into Sentinel."
"They should just add more and more out-of-the-box connectors. It is quite a new product, and it has a lot of connectors, and even more would be good."
"If the documentation were improved and made more clear for beginners, or even professionals, then we would be more attracted to this solution."
"It's a little bit of a learning curve to understand the logic of searching for things and trying to find what you're looking for in Elastic Security."
"Elastic Security's maintenance is hard and its scalability is a challenge. There are complications in scaling and upgrading. The solution needs to also provide periodic upgrade checks."
"I think because we are a cybersecurity company, the thing that can be improved is the prebuilt tools, especially quality. Compared to its competitor, they still have fewer prebuilt security rules. Elastic Security, in terms of generating alerts, cannot group the same products into one another. Even though the alerts are the same, they still generate them one by one. So, it is very noisy in our dashboard. I would like the Elastic Security admin to group all the same alarms into one alarm so that our dashboard is not noisy."
"Anything that supports high availability or ease of deployment in a highly available environment would help to improve this solution."
"The solution's query building is not that intuitive compared to other solutions."
"The training that is offered for Elastic is in need of improvement because there is no depth to it."
"The setup process is complex. You need a solid working knowledge of networking, operating systems, and a little programming."
"We acquired the IBM product because McAfee is slightly confusing to use, and it's broader."
"Product-wise, adding accounts on a single data source by batch would be a really great help."
"Product currently requires Flash."
"There are some banking and transactional cases that are local, South America transactions. I would like to see them add features that can be used locally, to make those transactions more reliable."
"McAfee is no more providing security updates on this product, and the enhancements to this product seem to have stopped. Moreover, we don't get proper support, and we struggle to get its support. It would be good if they can add some AI engine and out of the box use cases because it is currently limited to the same scenario and the same setup. I have done a POC for Securonix, LogRhythm. These products are much more ahead as compared to McAfee ESM. They have included multiple modules in the same solution. Correlation is very easy. If McAfee ESM can improve, especially in such implementations, then I believe it would be much better."
"I have to purchase a new box now. Its existing box is not scalable and I can't use it anymore."
"The initial setup is difficult and could improve."
"Update to user interface from version 9 is cosmetic in some aspects, and after a few clicks you are back on the old interface."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 59 reviews while Trellix ESM is ranked 19th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 34 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Trellix ESM is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trellix ESM writes "Provides visibility of all the traffic within the company infrastructure". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and CrowdStrike Falcon, whereas Trellix ESM is most compared with ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), IBM Security QRadar, LogRhythm SIEM, Splunk Enterprise Security and Cybereason Endpoint Detection & Response. See our Elastic Security vs. Trellix ESM report.
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