ArcSight Analytics vs Splunk User Behavior Analytics comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

ArcSight Analytics
Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
16th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk User Behavior Analytics
Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (12th)
 

Featured Reviews

AK
Feb 9, 2020
Good log monitoring, but the interface is not user-friendly and it needs better integration with third-party solutions
We use this solution for monitoring our network. It does authentication failure monitoring, VPN log monitoring, internal threat monitoring, and outside threat monitoring. It also looks for IOCs and malicious activity that is originating from internet connections The most valuable feature is the…
NS
Aug 18, 2019
Easy to configure and easy to use solution that integrates with many applications and scripts
Actually, the most valuable aspect of Splunk is the data. You do not need to use your databases to perform all things from on all the servers we have. Splunk has three big things it can do with data: it can show it hot, warm and cold. The hot of it allows you to see the data as soon as things happen — maybe to the second. We have the warm, the warm will segment the data up to the hot up to three months ago. The cold will store all of the archives of all the data after the six months. After that, you can't make comparisons any further. In the future, we make Splunk in the SOC (Security Operations Center). In the SOC now, we use one feature, it's called the alert system. So in the future, we want to make it so we can send all the data and we can build its security and its management. It will be published in all the places as it is now. We need to do this so we can build more data centers from all the past and existing data crunch.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The features I have found most valuable are it capabilities for behavioral analytics and anomaly detection."
"ArcSight Analytics is used to get a deeper insight and threat analysis about the network."
"One of the most valuable features is the alerts."
"The data collection and the integration with different products are valuable features."
"This solution makes it easy to create use cases, and it is easy to move queries from use cases to the report to the dashboard."
"The ability to correlate different logs is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the log monitoring."
"The correlation engine is good."
"The product is at the forefront of auto-remediation networking. It's great."
"The solution is definitely scalable."
"It's easily scalable."
"We are really pleased with Splunk and its features. It would be practically impossible to function without it. To provide a general overview of the system, it's important to note that the standard log files are currently around 250 gigabytes per day. It would be impossible to manually walk through these logs by hand, which is why automation is essential."
"The solution is extremely scalable. Our customers are regularly scaling up after installing Splunk."
"The most valuable features are its data aggregation and the ability to automatically identify a number of threats, then suggest recommended actions upon them."
"This is a good security product."
"The solution's most valuable feature is Splunk queries, which allow us to query the logs and analyze the attack vectors."
 

Cons

"The GUI interface is not always intuitive and easy for non-technical users to work with."
"Their support team could be better."
"ArcSight is not a user-friendly solution and the interface needs to be improved."
"Currently, there are no compatible connectors for this solution, which means we have to depend on FlexConnectors."
"Network integration is very crucial, and you need to have the knowledge to get it done."
"Inactive connections from servers, which are upgraded or downgraded within a VM, should be automatically revoked."
"I would like to see orchestration."
"The interactive dashboard is complicated and you need to have training in order to use it, so I think that it could be made easier to use."
"We want to have an automated system for bot hunting that enables us to detect anomalies predictively based on historical data. It would be helpful if Splunk included process mining as an alternative option. We have a threat workflow, but it would be useful if we could supplement that with some process mining capabilities over time."
"The ability to do more complicated data investigation would be a welcome addition for pros, though the functionality now gives most people what they need."
"They should work to add more built-in correlation searches and more use cases based on worldwide customer experiences. They need more ready-made use cases."
"The initial setup was complex because some of the configurations that we required needed customization."
"It could be easier to scale the solution if you are using it on-premise, not in the cloud."
"The price of Splunk UBA is too high."
"Currently, a lot of network operations need improvement. We still need people to handle incidents. Our vision is to leverage status and convert it directly from the network devices. It would be ideal if we could take action using APIs and API code and remove manual processes."
"The correlation engine should have persistent and definable rules."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"ArcSight Analytics is a bit expensive compared with other tools in terms of licensing costs, training, hardware implementation, and support."
"This solution is expensive."
"The monthly licensing fee is around $20,000. There aren't any costs in addition to the standard licensing fee."
"In addition to the costs of standard licensing fees, there is the cost of labor for maintenance."
"My customers pay a yearly licensing fee for ArcSight Analytics."
"It can range between $30,000 and $40,000 USD, and can go up to $500,000 and $600,000 USD."
"Pricing varies based on the packages you choose and the volume of your usage."
"There are additional costs associated with the integrator."
"I am not aware of the price, but it is expensive."
"My biggest complaint is the way they do pricing... You can never know the pricing for next year. Every single time you adjust to something new, the price goes up. It's impossible to truly budget for it. It goes up constantly."
"I hope we can increase the free license to be more than 5 gig a day. This would help people who want to introduce a POC or a demo license for the solution."
"The licensing costs is around 10,000 dollars."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Educational Organization
16%
Computer Software Company
11%
Energy/Utilities Company
7%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What do you like most about ArcSight Analytics?
ArcSight Analytics is used to get a deeper insight and threat analysis about the network.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ArcSight Analytics?
My customers pay a yearly licensing fee for ArcSight Analytics.
What do you like most about Splunk User Behavior Analytics?
The solution's most valuable feature is Splunk queries, which allow us to query the logs and analyze the attack vectors.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk User Behavior Analytics?
I am not aware of the price, but it is expensive. A rough estimate would be around 150 gigabytes, given the huge amount of data. At the moment there are no additional costs for maintenance.
What needs improvement with Splunk User Behavior Analytics?
Sometimes, we need to write explicit queries. It would be good if the solution had an analytics tool that allowed us to analyze the data without writing specific queries. The solution's user interf...
 

Also Known As

ArcSight User Behavior Analytics, ArcSight UBA
Caspida, Splunk UBA
 

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Sample Customers

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8 Securities, AAA Western, AdvancedMD, Amaya, Cerner Corporation, CJ O Shopping, CloudShare, Crossroads Foundation, 7-Eleven Indonesia
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