We performed a comparison between ArcSight Analytics and Microsoft Defender for Identity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The two most valuable features of this solution are its stability and scalability."
"ArcSight Analytics has improved our system and network policy monitoring."
"Allows multiple integrations with multiple systems in a stable and flexible fashion."
"The solution is easy to implement."
"One of the most valuable features is the alerts."
"The most valuable features are that you get lots of connectors, which make it easy to log in to my ASM, and lots of prebuilt roles from the company."
"The most valuable feature is the log monitoring."
"The data collection and the integration with different products are valuable features."
"The basic security monitoring at its core feature is the most valuable aspect. But also the investigative parts, the historical logging of events over the network are extremely interesting because it gives an in-depth insight into the history of account activity that is really easy to read, easy to follow, and easy to export."
"Defender for Identity has not affected the end-user experience."
"The most valuable aspect is its connection to Microsoft Sentinel and Defender for Endpoint, and giving exact timelines for incidents and when certain events occured during an incident."
"This solution has advanced a lot over the last few years."
"It automates routine testing and helps automate the finding of high-value alerts."
"The solution offers excellent visibility into threats."
"All the integration it has with different Microsoft packages, like Teams and Office, is good."
"Microsoft Defender for Identity provides excellent visibility into threats by leveraging real-time analytics and data intelligence."
"I would like to see integration with automation products, such as Phantom Automation."
"I would like to see orchestration."
"Their support team could be better."
"It's a difficult product to navigate, it's complex."
"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."
"Inactive connections from servers, which are upgraded or downgraded within a VM, should be automatically revoked."
"Network integration is very crucial, and you need to have the knowledge to get it done."
"I faced stability issues with Windows Operating System. The installed connectors hang if they remain idle for a long period of time."
"I would like to be able to do remediation from the platform because it is just a scanner right now. If you onboard a device, it shows you what is happening, but you can't use it to fix things. You need to go into the system to fix it instead."
"The impact of the sensors on the domain controllers can be quite high depending on your loads. I don't know if there's any room for improvement there, but that's one of the things that might be improved."
"When the data leaves the cloud, there are security issues."
"And when you are working in a priority IP address, Identity is not able to know that those IPs are from the company. It sees that the IPs are from Taiwan or from Hong Kong or from India, even though they are internal IPs, resulting in a lot of false positives."
"The tracking instance needs to be configured appropriately."
"The technical support needs significant improvement. Documentation for more minor issues in the form of guides or walkthroughs could help to resolve this issue. The number of tickets raised would decrease, removing some pressure from the support team and making it easier to clear the remaining tickets."
"The solution could be better at using group-managed access and they could replace it with broad-based access controls."
"Microsoft should look at what competing vendors like CrowdStrike and Broadcom are doing and incorporate those features into Sentinel and Defender. At the same time, I think the intelligence inside the product is improving fast. They should incorporate more zero-trust and hybrid trust approaches. They need to build up threat intelligence based on threats and methods used in attacks on other companies."
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ArcSight Analytics is ranked 17th in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) with 15 reviews while Microsoft Defender for Identity is ranked 1st in Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) with 13 reviews. ArcSight Analytics is rated 7.0, while Microsoft Defender for Identity is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of ArcSight Analytics writes "It has improved our system and network policy monitoring". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Identity writes "Offers robust protection from insider threats, but the customer support is poor". ArcSight Analytics is most compared with Securonix UEBA, whereas Microsoft Defender for Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID Protection, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Entra Verified ID, Splunk User Behavior Analytics and Microsoft Sentinel. See our ArcSight Analytics vs. Microsoft Defender for Identity report.
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