Splunk Enterprise Security Reviews

We were using Splunk for our networking to know exactly what kind of the traffic was going from one network to another network because we had a lot of the connections on other sites.

it can explain to management about what kind of traffic is visiting the network. It can also explain other traffic coming in and out, along with protecting against malware.

All the features are valuable. It helps us uncover bottlenecks in the network.

Splunk should be able to integrate with other product using the free version.

The product was difficult to back up the first time.

The stability is fine.

We have two people maintaining it.

Splunk needs local technical support.

We did not use another solution previously.

The deployment was great and took three to four days.

The pricing and licensing of the product are quite high.

Splunk is great product, especially for my organization.

• SIEM
• Security information 
• Event management

The tool itself is very difficult to configure. It's great for its number of inputs, for the different types of systems devices, and things that it could collect information from. To actually make good use of it, you need a fairly dedicated team of people that have some reasonably good programming or modeling skills to be able to do the things that you need to do with it. Whereas a lot of the other tools are better packaged for that, and so require a lot less training and a lot less dedication.

What they need to do more than anything else is, they need to take a serious look at purpose-built modules like the SIEM and put a lot more effort into making them more robust. If they did that I think they would have a better chance on the market. The base tool was great, and if the organization that they're looking to sell into requires a good, solid logging solution then they would have a very good sales statement to make because you could get the logging solution you need that could give you the SIEM at the same time.

It's extremely scalable. It's a very robust solution and certainly has the capability of handling far bigger data requirements than a lot of the other tools. Generally what ends up happening with me is that my clients tend, for the most part, to be mid-tier organizations where the cost of that solution would be accompanying requirements for people just becomes way too prohibitive. Especially considering the model that they use for costing, which is based on the volume of data. Of course, they're going to put everything including the Coke machine as the ability to collect data off of it, because of course the more they can put through the tool the more money they make.

• AlienVault
• LogRhthym
• ArcSight
• QRadar

I've used a whole bunch of different solutions. For a SIEM based solution, they are more purpose-built for that function. Where Splunk is purpose-built for a general logging and data capture solution so you'd be able to capture a lot of different information.

Anything that's not out of the box requires codding. Even up until recently when they finally released their SIEM or their security add-on. Before then there was not security stuff at all. I would actually have to go in and code that within the system to able to do the necessary searches to pull that information. Where a lot of the other tools, they already have those preconfigured which means I don't have to go and recreate the wheel. Now, we finally figured that out to a certain degree, and started putting the new tool in a place that gives you some SIEM functionality.

As a logging solution, I would say it's probably an eight or nine. If you're talking about the SIEM I'd say it's probably about a five. For logging, I think they would have to change the costing model. The costing model is way out of line. It's built for very large organizations.

Splunk is our central locale for cybersecurity and protection.

Once we onboarded all of the required needs, it created a lot of visibility for us.

It is quite extensible. It is a platform that we can build our use of each case instead of each case being limited or restricted to each capability. This is probably the best feature.

I would like to see future development in terms of ML (Machine Learning). 

It is a stable product.

It can be scaled quite easily in comparison to other products on the market.

The tech support response time could be a bit better. Sometimes I need to wait more than 24 hours for a response to my tickets.

I was not involved with the initial setup.

The price could be improved.

We use Splunk for infrastructure monitoring, application monitoring and in the security space for our organization as well as for our customers.

Since Splunk is a platform for data, we can ingest and correlate data from virtually any type of system.

It has a fast turnaround time for setting up monitoring/alerting and forecasting of trends as per our customers' requirements.

The following are top three features that I find quite valuable:

1. Capability to expand the functionality through custom code for data inputs, commands, visualization, alerts, and machine learning.
2. Quick turnaround time for setting up monitoring and alerting with built-in capabilities, plenty of enterprise grade apps available on Splunkbase, and custom coding based on Splunk development skill level.
3. Free Splunk license for PoCs on personal machines and the ability to scale the PoC to an enterprise level app.

• Scheduled PDF generation does not work well for all visualizations, and it does not work for custom visualizations.
• While scheduled reports can be embedded, Splunk dashboard can not be embedded directly without enabling cross origin.
• Missing capability for audio/video and image processing.

It was used for security event management on landscape hosted over AWS.

It helped the organisation to proactively monitor threats and reduce its threat footprint.

Deployment server for deploying changes in one go.

It is quite stable.

No.

Professional support is great, but too expensive. Otherwise content published over website is good.

Not applicable.

Do proper estimation on log ingestion per day as that will impact pricing and licensing.

It was the customer's choice.

It provides a great range of plugins and one can really take great advantage of utilising inbuilt dashboards to derive the desired monitoring.

Our company consults for different customers and are in a good position to recommend the best solution to our clients.

Our company is an IT service provider. We are resellers of Splunk. One of our clients that we monitor is a laboratory that uses this solution.

Splunk is a change management solution. We use the solution as a log collector, and to analyze and provide alerts from the IT instructor.

The product is good, it satisfies our customers.

The price of Splunk is too high for our market.

Our company has been a reseller of Splunk for less than six months.

Splunk is stable.

This is a scalable solution.

We have had no concerns with customer service.

The initial setup of Splunk is somewhat difficult because it was our first time implementing the solution. It was a similar situation to implementing other CM tools like FortiSIEM.

Splunk required two engineers to implement, and we will add another one to maintain the solution.

The prices are complicated as we operate in a small third-world country.

We give support for VMware and other technologies. We purchased Splunk because our customers were asking for our services to take control of the implementation from another company.

If you are considering Splunk and you like what you are seeing; my advice would be to go for it.

I would rate Splunk an 8 out of 10.

There is improvement needed when importing from some types of data sources. Most of the time you have to do some customization for the data because not everything is working the way it should. Additionally, in other solutions, it is easier to build use cases.

I have been using this solution for approximately three years.

I have previously used Curator and it was much easier to use than this solution.

I have found the installation can be of medium difficulty to very complex depending on the use case. It is not easy for new customers. You need to have the experience to be able to do it.

When using this solution for Security Information Management(SIM), I highly recommend importing data sources from the whole cycle for the service security chain. Some people only use main inputs and not all of the data sources they have. They might not have some data sources, in this case, you can purchase one or there are free open-source ones available. You will then have this data source that can enrich your life because many correlations are done with this data. 

I rate Splunk an eight out of ten.

We are using it for security information and event management (SIEM). We have started to use Splunk recently, and we are in the implementation phase as of now.

The data analysis part is good in Splunk, which is something that I like the most. It is also quite easy to use. Its dashboards, visualizations, and analytics are good.

It currently has limited default rules and customizations. If they can concentrate more on the compliance part and the security information part, it would be helpful. The platform part is good, but it requires many features from the security aspect.

I have been using this solution for a couple of months.

It is absolutely stable.

It is scalable. We have approximately 25 users.

It was easy to install. Its configuration and development are the critical parts, and there are a limited number of people in the market with such a skill set. It takes some time to find people with the right skill set and get it implemented properly. It took approximately three months.

I have a team of a few Splunk consultants who are currently managing it for me. For a mid-sized organization, at least 15 persons are required to manage the entire Splunk instance.

I would recommend this solution to others. I would rate Splunk an eight out of ten.