We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR and Rapid7 InsightConnect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features in my experience are the UEBA, LDAP, the threat scheduler, and integration with third-party straight perform like the MISP."
"We can use Sentinel's playbook to block threats. It covers all of the environment, giving us great visibility."
"The log analysis is excellent; it can predict what can or will happen regarding use patterns and vulnerabilities."
"Having your logs put all in one place with machine learning working on those logs is a good feature. I don't need to start thinking, "Where are my logs?" My logs are in a centralized repository, like Log Analytics, which is why you can't use Sentinel without Log Analytics. Having all those logs in one place is an advantage."
"We’ve got process improvement that's happened across multiple different fronts within the organization, within our IT organization based on this tool being in place."
"The SOAR playbooks are Sentinel's most valuable feature. It gives you a unified toolset for detecting, investigating, and responding to incidents. That's what clearly differentiates Sentinels from its competitors. It's cloud-native, offering end-to-end coverage with more than 120 connectors. All types of data logs can be poured into the system so analysis can happen. That end-to-end visibility gives it the advantage."
"The in-built SOAR of Sentinel is valuable. Kusto Query Language is also valuable for the ease of writing queries and ease of getting insights from the logs. Schedule-based queries within Sentinel are also valuable. I found these three features most useful for my projects."
"Sentinel enables us to ingest data from our entire ecosystem. In addition to integrating our Cisco ASA Firewall logs, we get our Palo Alto proxy logs and some on-premises data coming from our hardware devices... That is very important and is one way Sentinel is playing a wider role in our environment."
"The repository of playbooks and the integration between Palo Alto and IBM QRadar are some useful features"
"I chose Cortex XSOAR because the client also has Palo Alto firewalls. I can incorporate the data from the Palo Alto firewalls into Cortex and send it into the same data lake to manipulate that data. It lets me manage and monitor the data in one place."
"Its agility and scalability are valuable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution is very reliable."
"It has an extensive list of integrations that are available out of the box which makes it easy to start."
"I have found the solution very useful, it integrates well with other platforms."
"The product can automate security tasks."
"The tool is stable. The initial setup is straightforward. The product is user-friendly."
"I would like Sentinel to have more out-of-the-box analytics rules. There are already more than 400 rules, but they could add more industry-specific ones. For example, you could have sets of out-of-the-box rules for banking, financial sector, insurance, automotive, etc., so it's easier for people to use it out of the box. Structuring the rules according to industry might help us."
"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."
"We'd like to see more connectors."
"It would be good to have some connectors for third-party SIEM solutions. Many customers are struggling with the integration of Azure Sentinel with their on-premise SIEM. Microsoft is changing the log structure many times a year, which can corrupt a custom integration. It would be good to have some connectors developed by Microsoft or supply vendors, but they are not providing such functionality or tools."
"I would like to see more AI used in processes."
"The only thing is sometimes you can have a false positive."
"They should just add more and more out-of-the-box connectors. It is quite a new product, and it has a lot of connectors, and even more would be good."
"We have been working with multiple customers, and every time we onboard a customer, we are missing an essential feature that surprisingly doesn't exist in Sentinel. We searched the forums and knowledge bases but couldn't find a solution. When you onboard new customers, you need to enable the data connectors. That part is easy, but you must create rules from scratch for every associated connector. You click "next," "next," "next," and it requires five clicks for each analytical rule. Imagine we have a customer with 150 rules."
"In terms of improvement, it needs to be more modular. It's not. When you're working in layouts and you create specific apps within layouts, there's no portability right now in order to reuse that code across multiple layouts. I can't take a tab and say I want to use this tab on these other layouts. I have to physically go in there and recreate it from scratch, which is maddening."
"There is room for improvement in terms of the pricing model."
"The configuration of the solution could improve it is difficult."
"The solution's technical support could be better."
"The dashboard performance could be improved."
"The solution’s price and technical support could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in support. The response time could be faster."
"The solution requires DV but does not support open-source DV elastic searches."
"The technical support should be improved."
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Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR is ranked 2nd in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) with 41 reviews while Rapid7 InsightConnect is ranked 22nd in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) with 2 reviews. Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR is rated 8.4, while Rapid7 InsightConnect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR writes "Enables the investigators to go through the review process a lot quicker". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rapid7 InsightConnect writes "Excellent security orchestration and automation AI features". Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR is most compared with Cortex XSIAM, Splunk SOAR, Fortinet FortiSOAR, Swimlane and IBM Resilient, whereas Rapid7 InsightConnect is most compared with ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP), CrowdStrike Falcon, ServiceNow Security Operations and Splunk SOAR. See our Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR vs. Rapid7 InsightConnect report.
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