We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Symantec Endpoint Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is quite stable. The performance has been good."
"I use the stack every morning to check the errors and it's just so clear. I don't see any disadvantage to using Logstash."
"ELK documentation is very good, so never needed to contact technical support."
"It is an extremely stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution has a good community surrounding it for lots of helpful documentation for troubleshooting purposes."
"It is the best open-source product for people working in SO, managing and analyzing logs."
"We chose the product based on the ability to scan for malware using a malware behavioral model as opposed to just a traditional hash-based antivirus. Therefore, it's not as intensive."
"The most valuable thing is that this solution is widely used for work management and research. It's easy to jump into the security use case with the same technology."
"Symantec Endpoint Security is easy to use, fast, and good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"The mobile application is valuable. You are able to see the reports of intrusions and the like on mobile devices. That is one of the coolest aspects."
"The solution is easy to use"
"With Symantec, I always know this tool will be reliable and with the latest protection."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Endpoint Security is the protection of our systems."
"This solution helps in that I can control quite a few computers from our central location, with ease."
"The solution is very stable."
"It seems to be user-friendly. Our users seem to like it for the most part."
"I would like the process of retrieving archived data and viewing it in Kibana to be simplified."
"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."
"The biggest challenge has been related to the implementation."
"The solution's query building is not that intuitive compared to other solutions."
"We had issues with scalability. Logstash was not scaling and aggregation was getting delayed. We moved to Fluentd making our stack from ELK to EFK."
"This solution is very hard to implement."
"They don't provide user authentication and authorisation features (Shield) as a part of their open-source version."
"Elastic has one problem. In the past, Elastic Security was free. Now, they currently only offer the basic license or a certain period of time."
"Automation of tasks should be improved on SEPM. It is currently manual, and we should be able to automate installation and deployment from the client side."
"Sometimes, when we are creating a new policy, some of the clients are not being updated with the latest policy."
"It would be helpful if this product provided patch management functionality."
"SONAR could be improved. The false/positive rate is a little high."
"The tool switches off automatically, and I have to restart it. Also, we had to manually fix some issues that cropped up while using the tool."
"Since the acquisition by Broadcom, we are no longer receiving the proper support."
"It would be nice to be able to manage the endpoints a bit further. A valuable attribute would be the management of software inventory, software deployment, and third-party software deployment. I would like to see the ability to deploy and delete unlicensed software. Many users try to install what they shouldn't, so that would be really useful."
"They're just starting to get into this now, but I think they can do better - they're just starting out with I think is called the SEP Cloud Console. It has more limited functionality. It will be good once we can run SEP from the cloud. That would be good."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 140 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6. 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 Symantec Endpoint Security writes "The solution has given us visibility into compliance within our whole system and helped us ensure everything is updated". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Trend Micro Deep Security, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business. See our Elastic Security vs. Symantec Endpoint Security report.
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