We performed a comparison between Snare 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 log analysis is excellent; it can predict what can or will happen regarding use patterns and vulnerabilities."
"Mainly, this is a cloud-native product. So, there are zero concerns about managing the whole infrastructure on-premises."
"You can fine-tune the SOAR and you'll be charged only when your playbooks are triggered. That is the beauty of the solution because the SOAR is the costliest component in the market today... but with Sentinel it is upside-down: the SOAR is the lowest-hanging fruit. It's the least costly and it delivers more value to the customer."
"It is able to connect to an ever-growing number of platforms and systems within the Microsoft ecosystem, such as Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365 or Office 365, as well as to external services and systems that can be brought in and managed. We can manage on-premises infrastructure. We can manage not just the things that are running in Azure in the public cloud, but through Azure Arc and the hybrid capabilities, we can monitor on-premises servers and endpoints. We can monitor VMware infrastructure, for instance, running as part of a hybrid environment."
"In Azure Sentinel, we have found, they do have a store in their capability. AI and intelligence features. We found that to be very helpful for us because some other things we do need to integrate again or find another vendor for the store"
"The dashboard that allows me to view all the incidents is the most valuable feature."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Sentinel is that it's cloud-based."
"The Log analytics are useful."
"The best thing about Snare is its format and consistency."
"The most valuable feature of Snare is flexibility or the ability to filter all things you don't want and don't have security value."
"Snare has good agents, especially for Windows."
"It is very easy to use and integrate. There are connectors for every technology."
"You can use it to gather syslog messages from anything."
"We can quickly search for almost anything across many log sources in seconds."
"Its usability is the best part. It is easy for our developers to use if they want to search their logs, etc."
"The solution allows easy gathering and ingestion of the data."
"Good for log collection and log management."
"The scalability is good."
"The stock analysts and security people use one single dashboard (one single location) to check our logs."
"The playbook is a bit difficult and could be improved."
"If I can use Sentinel offline at home and use it on a local network, it would be great. I'm not sure if I can use Sentinel offline versus the tools I have."
"There is a wider thing called Jupyter Notebooks, which is around the automation side of things. It would be good if there are playbooks that you can utilize without having to have the developer experience to do it in-house. Microsoft could provide more playbooks or more Jupyter Notebooks around MITRE ATT&CK Framework."
"The solution could be more user-friendly; some query languages are required to operate it."
"They should integrate it with many other software-as-a-service providers and make connectors available so that you don't have to do any sort of log normalization."
"Improvement-wise, I would like to see more integration with third-party solutions or old-school antivirus products that have some kind of logging capability. I wouldn't mind having that exposed within Sentinel. We do have situations where certain companies have bought licensing or have made an investment in a product, and that product will be there for the next two or three years. To be able to view information from those legacy products would be great. We can then better leverage the Sentinel solution and its capabilities."
"They only classify alerts into three categories: high, medium, and low. So, from the user's point of view, having another critical category would be awesome."
"We do see continuous improvement all the time, however, I haven't got a specific feature that is lacking or not well designed."
"Users will initially find it difficult to identify the event types and installation in Snare."
"The solution is now developing a SIEM-like feature on Snare Central Server, but it's not complete yet."
"Snare should modernize its GUI a little bit."
"Cybersecurity and infrastructure monitoring have room for improvement."
"The product's price may be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"More control with Splunk Cloud as it seems a bit limited. I used to manage an on-premise instance of Splunk Enterprise and really liked having more control over it."
"Splunk Enterprise Security has not helped reduce our alert volume."
"It's difficult to set up initially, and their billing model is also a bit complicated."
"Its pricing model and integration with third-party services can be improved. We had faced an issue with integration. The alerting feature is currently not available with Splunk, but it is definitely available with Datadog and PagerDuty. They should include this feature. A few dashboards in Splunk look quite old and are not that modern. They aren't bad, but improving these dashboards will definitely make Splunk more attractive and usable. I read in a few blog posts that there were a few security incidents related to Splunk agents. So, it can be made more secure."
"My company could benefit from doing more Splunk training with Splunk consultants teaching us how to use it."
"The solution could use a different licensing model."
Snare is ranked 37th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 3 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. Snare is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Snare writes "A highly scalable solution that is easy to manage and super easy to set up". 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 ". Snare is most compared with syslog-ng, SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, LogRhythm SIEM, ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) and Elastic Security, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Datadog. See our Snare vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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