We performed a comparison between IBM Watson for Cyber Security and Splunk Enterprise Security 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 most valuable features of IBM Watson for Cyber Security are ease of use and out-of-the-box reports and compliance policies. Additionally, if there are aspects that are missing IBM add them in the next release."
"IBM Watson for Cyber Security is very stable."
"The customer support is very good."
"The most valuable feature of this product is innovation, where the research and upgrading of technology never ends."
"It is the best tool if you have a complex environment or if data ingestion is too huge."
"What I really like is that even if you have already collected the data, you can extract fields and can build searches."
"The scalability is good."
"On the cloud, we are pushing through less than half a petabyte of data. So far, it has been fairly stable because it runs on all the underlying AWS infrastructures."
"The ability to quickly search logs, performance data, and other inputs has helped tremendously with troubleshooting."
"Easy to deploy and simple to use."
"Splunk's advantage is its search capability. Its search is notably faster. With Splunk, I can search easily on keywords. That is great."
"Splunk is extremely flexible, which allows us to create custom visualizations along with other customizations."
"In the future, I would like to see threat intelligence included."
"The dashboard could improve in IBM Watson for Cyber Security."
"They need to continue to build the AI capabilities."
"This is an expensive product, so making it more cost-effective would be an improvement."
"Our two main complaints are about the difficulty of the initial setup and the licensing model."
"The historical data extraction needs improvement. I would like the capability of taking data and having it trend longer."
"Make it easy to use and the cost cheaper. This will help all organisations to implement Splunk."
"The price of the solution could be cheaper."
"The use cases provided by Splunk are a good starting point, but could cover many additional topics to ensure that a smaller or less experienced shop might maximize the value of an ES deployment."
"The product's price may be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The threat management part is still lagging. There are some gaps in threat management. Other vendors have built-in threat management systems, but Splunk lacks the threat management component in its portal. The UEBA and everything else is perfect, but it lacks a unified threat intelligence and management part."
"Deployment is not difficult but the lock sources and configurations can take time."
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IBM Watson for Cyber Security is ranked 45th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 4 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 246 reviews. IBM Watson for Cyber Security is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Watson for Cyber Security writes "An innovative and stable product that is well maintained and always up-to-date". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". IBM Watson for Cyber Security is most compared with IBM Security QRadar and i-SIEM, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our IBM Watson for Cyber Security vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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